Aim. To study the effect and mechanism of traditional Chinese medicine Qinbai Qingfei concentrated pellet (QQCP) against Mycoplasma pneumoniae (MP). Methods. Rat airway smooth muscle (ASM) cells were used to examine the antimycoplasmal activity of QQCP via four drug-adding modes: pre- and postadding drugs, simultaneous-adding after drug and MP mixed, and simultaneous-adding drug and MP; taking ...

TGFβ signaling is known to drive metastasis in human cancer. Under physiologic conditions, the level of TGFβ activity is tightly controlled by a regulatory network involving multiple negative regulators. At metastasis, however, these inhibitory mechanisms are usually overridden so that oncogenic TGFβ signaling can be overactivated and sustained. To better understand how the TGFβ inhibitors are ...

Neutral lipid droplets (LDs) are dynamic lipid storage organelles found in all eukaryotic cells from yeast to mammals and higher plants. LDs are important to many physiological processes that include basic cellular maintenance, metabolism, and diverse medical pathologies. LD accumulation has been studied extensively by a range of methods, but particularly by microscopy with several fluorescent ...

1 Department of Oral Biochemistry, School of Dentistry &Wonkwang Research Institute for Food Industry, Wonkwang University, Iksan 570-749, Republic of Korea 2 Research & Development, Daily Manufacturing, Inc., Rockwell, NC 28138, USA 3Department of Oriental Medicinal Materials & Processing, College of Life Sciences, Kyung Hee University, Global Campus, Gyeonggi 446-701, Republic of Korea 4Cente...

IVAN MARUSIC, D. D. JOSEPH and KRISHNAN MAHESH Journal of Fluid Mechanics / Volume 570 / January 2007, pp 467 ­ 477 DOI: 10.1017/S0022112006003247, Published online: 03 January 2007 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0022112006003247 How to cite this article: IVAN MARUSIC, D. D. JOSEPH and KRISHNAN MAHESH (2007). Laminar and turbulent comparisons for channel flow and ...