We reported pearl oyster Pinctada fucata cDNA and genomic characterization of a new homeobox-containing protein, PfMSX. The PfMSX gene encodes a transcription factor that was localized to the nucleus. Analyses of PfMSX mRNA in tissues and developmental stages showed high expressions in mantle or D-shaped larvae. In electrophoretic mobility shift assays (EMSAs) PfMSX binded to MSX consensus bind...

Eley HL, Russell ST, Baxter JH, Mukerji P, Tisdale MJ. Signaling pathways initiated by -hydroxy-methylbutyrate to attenuate the depression of protein synthesis in skeletal muscle in response to cachectic stimuli. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 293: E923–E931, 2007. First published July 3, 2007; doi:10.1152/ajpendo.00314.2007.—To investigate the mechanism by which -hydroxy-methylbutyrate (HMB) at...

The aerodynamic particle size distribution (APSD) and dose emission characteristics of indacaterol Breezhaler have been measured using ex-vivo methodology altering original COPD inhalation manoeuvre profiles to investigate the influence inspiratory parameters namely, peak flow (PIF), acceleration rate (ACIM) inhaled volume (Vin) by keeping two fixed varying other one. All had an impact on emiss...

Recent calls for an expanded perspective on medical education and training include focusing on complexities of professional identity formation (PIF). Medical educators are challenged to facilitate the active constructive, integrative developmental process of PIF within standardized and personalized and/or formal and informal curricular approaches. How can we best support the complex iterative P...

Dermcidin is a candidate oncogene capable of increasing the number of cultured neuronal, breast cancer and prostate cancer cells and improving the survival of hepatic cells. The dermcidin gene encodes the proteolysis-inducing factor core peptide (PIF-CP) and the skin antimicrobial peptide DCD-1. The peptide responsible for inducing proliferation of cells and the mechanisms involved are unknown....

When using interval analysis, the bounds of an inclusion function are often non-tight due to dependency effects. The benefit of Taylor Models (TMs) or Verified Taylor Series (VTSs) is the use of higher order derivatives terms, significantly reducing the dependency effect. In this paper, it is assumed that the required information to derive these inclusion functions is obtained using automatic d...

We call language L 1 intensionally more expressive than L 2 if there are functions which can be computed faster in L 1 than in L 2. We study the intensional expressive-ness of several languages: the Berry-Curien programming language of sequential algorithms, CDS0, a de-terministic parallel extension to it, named CDSP, and various parallel extensions to the functional programming language PCF. T...

Pif Gadget est un des journaux de bande dessinée français majeurs années 1970. Organe presse communiste, il se diffuse vers l’Europe l’Est, mais aussi, manière moins connue (et idéologique), le Québec. À partir dépouillements la numérisée québécoise, d’échanges fans sur forums et d’entretiens semi-directifs avec d’anciens lecteurs, cet article revient les transferts ses bandes dessinées au Il n...

Microscopic polyangiitis (MPA) is one of the vasculitides that is included in the pulmonary renal syndromes. Pathologically, MPA has been defined as necrotizing vasculitis with few or no immune deposits, primarily affecting small vessels including arterioles, venules, or capillaries. Pulmonary interstitial fibrosis (PIF) as an accompanying manifestation in MPA has not been widely appreciated. I...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Rehabilitation of the bilaterally paralyzed human larynx remains a complex clinical problem. Conventional treatment generally involves surgical enlargement of the compromised airway, but often with resultant dysphonia and risk of aspiration. In this retrospective study, we compared one such treatment, posterior cordotomy, with unilateral laryngeal pacing: reanimation of vocal fo...