Bone is one of the leading sites of metastasis for frequently diagnosed malignancies, including those arising in the breast, prostate and lung. Although these cancers develop unnoticed and are painless in their primary sites, bone metastases result in debilitating pain. Deeper investigation of this pain may reveal etiology and lead to early cancer detection. Cancer-induced bone pain (CIBP) is i...

surface oxidized carbon vulcane xc-72 is prepared as catalyst support and platinumnanoparticles are chemically anchored onto the modified surface. the nanoparticles of pt weresynthesized by reduction of h2ptcl6 with sodium borohydride in a 5.5 m buffer solution ofsodium citrate; the complexation of citrate with metal ions is beneficial to the formation ofnanoparticles. the electro-oxidation of ...

BACKGROUND The assessment of arterial stiffness is increasingly used for evaluating patients with different cardiovascular diseases as the mechanical properties of major arteries are often altered. Aortic stiffness can be noninvasively estimated by measuring pulse wave velocity (PWV). Several methods have been proposed for measuring PWV using velocity-encoded cardiovascular magnetic resonance (...

UNLABELLED Glutathione is the predominant endogenous cellular antioxidant, playing a critical role in the cellular defensive response to oxidative stress by neutralizing free radicals and reactive oxygen species. With cysteine as the rate-limiting substrate in glutathione biosynthesis, the cystine/glutamate transporter (system xc(-)) represents a potentially attractive PET biomarker to enable i...

Introduction: The assessment of arterial stiffness is increasingly used for evaluating patients with a wide range of cardiovascular diseases. Arterial stiffness can be noninvasively estimated by measuring pulse wave velocity (PWV), which is directly related to vessel wall elasticity. Several methods have been proposed for measuring PWV using velocity-encoded MRI, including transit-time (TT) [1]...

This work presents the mathematical modeling of conveyor-belt dryer with tangential flow operating in co-current, which has advantage improving preservation organoleptic and nutritional qualities dried food. On one hand, it is a more cumbersome than perforated cross belt but, on other low air temperature final section where product moisture content and, therefore, heat sensitive. The results al...

The Xilinx FPGA architecture is very regular and gatearray-like, but it is not a simple sea-of-gates. An understanding of the architecture and the resources it provides can make designs become more efficient in both speed and density. This Application Note focuses on the features of the XC4000 architecture and its supporting software that improve design efficiency. It also describes advanced de...

Each Bers slice is a holomorphically embedded copy of Teichmüller space within XC(S). While it follows that BY can be locally described as the common zero locus of finitely many analytic functions on XC(S), it is known that the Bers slice is not a locally algebraic set [DK]—this is used to show that W. Thurston’s skinning map is not a constant function [DK]. We prove a stronger result about the...