There is compelling evidence that interstitial inflammation plays a central role in the loss of renal function in chronic renal disease. The combined effects of interstitial inflammation, oxidative stress and local angiotensin II activity result in the disruption of glomerulus-tubule continuity, the development of pathogenic hypoxia, the generation of myofibroblasts and fibrosis, and the impair...

Marina del Rey, CA 90292, USA {KNOBLOCK,ARENS}QISI.ED Abstract sources that are available to it. Given an information request, an agent identifies an appropriate set of With the vast number of information resources information sources, generates a plan to retrieve and available today, a critical problem is how to loprocess the data, uses knowledge about the data to recate, retrieve and process ...

BACKGROUND In patients with chronic spinal cord injury, imaging of the spinal cord and brain above the level of the lesion provides evidence of neural degeneration; however, the spatial and temporal patterns of progression and their relation to clinical outcomes are uncertain. New interventions targeting acute spinal cord injury have entered clinical trials but neuroimaging outcomes as responsi...

In the densely populated region of East Asia, it is important to know the mechanism, scale, and frequency of heavy precipitation brought about during the monsoons and typhoons. However, observational data, which cover only several decades, are insufficient to examine the long-term trend of extreme precipitation and its background mechanism. In humid areas, the transport flux of a suspended detr...

ABSTRAK Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui pengaruh kinerja manajemen, efisiensi, underwriting dan likuiditas terhadap profitabilitas perusahaan asuransi syariah di Indonesia periode 2015-2019 secara parsial simultan. menggunakan metode kuantitatif dengan teknik analisis regresi data panel mengambil 24 sampel jiwa maupun umum Indonesia, sumber diambil dari laporan keuangan masing-masing ...

The spatio-tem po ral na ture of fo cused ul tra sound-in duced blood-brain bar rier (BBB) open ing as a brain drug de liv ery method was in ves ti gated in Alz hei mer’s dis ease model mice. The left hip po cam pus of trans gen ic (APP/PS1, n = 3) and nontransgenic (n = 3) mice was sonicated (fre quency: 1.525 MHz, peak-neg a tive pres sure: 600 kPa, pulse length: 20 ms, duty cy cle: 20%, du r...

Genome size estimates and chromosome number information can be useful for studying the evolution or taxonomy of a group and also can be useful for plant breeders in predicting cross-compatibility. Callicarpa L. is a group of ’140 species with nearly worldwide distribution. There are no estimates of genome size in the literature and the information on chromosome numbers is limited. Genome size e...

Locomotion in Aplysia is mediated by a central program. We have found that this program is triggered by the biogenic amine, serotonin (5HT), and modulated by an endogenous source of neuropeptides, bag cell extract. In examining the triggering of locomotion, we found that injecting 5-HT into the bloodstream of quiescent animals elicited locomotion in both intact, freely moving animals and split-...

Open AccessEngineering NotesModel-Free Scheme for Angle-of-Attack and Angle-of-Sideslip EstimationAngelo Lerro, Alberto Brandl Piero GiliAngelo LerroPolytechnic University of Turin, 10129 Italy*Assistant Professor, Department Mechanical Aerospace Engineering, C.so Duca degli Abruzzi 24; .Search more papers by this author, BrandlPolytechnic Italy†Research Assistant, author GiliPolytechnic Italy‡...