Endothelial cells (EC) are the main target for Orientia tsutsugamushi infection and EC dysfunction is a hallmark of severe scrub typhus in patients. However, the molecular basis of EC dysfunction and its impact on infection outcome are poorly understood. We found that C57BL/6 mice that received a lethal dose of O. tsutsugamushi Karp strain had a significant increase in the expression of IL-33 a...

BACKGROUND IL-25, IL-33 and TSLP are produced predominantly by epithelial cells and are known to induce Th2-type cytokines. Th2-type cytokines are involved not only in host defense against nematodes, but also in the development of Th2-type allergic diseases. TSLP was reported to be crucial for development of allergic airway inflammation in mice after inhalation of allergens to which they had be...

Assessment of combining ability in okra (Abelmoschus esculentus (L.) Moench) was done the current investigation using a line x tester mating design. From 11 female lines and 3 testers, 33 cross combinations were made LxT design, enough F1 seeds produced summer 2021. The planted kharif 2021 to evaluate effectiveness various crosses with three checks. experiment conducted at Breeder Seed Producti...

Oestrogen secretion was determined by oestrogen conjugate (EC) analysis of urine in three groups of pregnant mares: Group I (N = 6), animals ovariectomized on Day 18-19 of gestation with pregnancy maintained by daily administration of an oral progestagen, altrenogest; Group II (N = 9), untreated, pregnant mares; Group III (N = 5) intact, pregnant mares treated daily with altrenogest. The mean E...

A field experiment was conducted at the Pulse Research Centre of Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute, Ishurdi, Pabna during Kharif-II season of 2010 to evaluate the efficacy of five herbicides for controlling weeds associated with mungbean (BARI Mung-6). The five herbicides such were: Paraxon (27.6% WV Paraquat dichloride salt), M-clor 5G (Butaclor), Topstar 40 WP (40% Oxadiargyl), Hamme...

p. 21 1. Function and Dysfunction of the Entorhinal cortex p. 23 1.1 Anatomy and Organisation of the EC p. 23 1.1.1 Subdivisions of the EC p. 23 1.1.2 Lamination and Cytoarchitecture p. 25 1.1.3 Differences and Similarities in Lamination between the LEC and MEC p. 27 1.1.4 Entorhinal-Hippocampal Connections p. 28 1.1.5 Entorhinal-Cortical and Entorhinal-Subcortical Connections p. 30 1.1.5.1 Ent...

Oxidative stress is important in the pathogenesis of allergic asthma. Extracellular superoxide dismutase (EC-SOD; SOD3) is the major antioxidant in lungs, but its role in allergic asthma is unknown. Here we report that asthmatics have increased SOD3 transcript levels in sputum and that a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in SOD3 (R213G; rs1799895) changes lung distribution of EC-SOD, and dec...

Itai and Rodeh [IR] have proved thal for any 2-conncctcd graph G and any vertex S E G there are two spanning trees such that the paths from any othcr vcrtex to s on the trees are disjoint. In this p,aper the result is generalized to 3-connected graphs. T ec hn io n C om pu te r Sc ie nc e D ep ar tm en t T eh ni ca l R ep or t C S0 46 2 19 87 -1

Climate-induced changes in regional precipitation could have important implications for the carbon, water, and nutrient cycles of forest ecosystems. However, few studies have examined the response of deciduous forests to increases or decreases in precipitation. Therefore, the throughfall displacement experiment (TDE) was established in 1993 near Oak Ridge, Tennessee to examine the sensitivity o...

Endothelial cells (EC) metabolize L-arginine mainly by arginase, which exists as two distinct isoforms, arginase I and II. To understand the roles of arginase isoforms in EC arginine metabolism, bovine coronary venular EC were stably transfected with the Escherichia coli lacZ gene (lacZ-EC, control), rat arginase I cDNA (AI-EC), or mouse arginase II cDNA (AII-EC). Western blots and enzymatic as...