Oxytocin (OXT) is a peptide hormone that binds the OXT receptor on myometrial cells, initiating an intracellular signaling cascade, resulting in accumulation of intracellular calcium and smooth muscle contraction. In other systems, an elevation of intracellular Ca(2+) stimulates nuclear translocation of the transcription factor, nuclear factor of activated T cells (NFAT), which is transcription...

B ackground. Each spring during the climatological peak of the severe weather season in the United States, the Experimental Forecast Program (EFP) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Hazardous Weather Testbed (HWT) conducts a multiagency collaborative forecasting experiment known as the HWT EFP Spring Experiment. Organized by the Storm Prediction Center (SPC) and Nat...

The recent financial crisis has raised several questions with respect to the financial institutions and banking industry. Hence, over the last decade the Iranian banking industry has undergone many substantial changes, such as liberalization, government regulation and technological advances. What impacts do these changes have on the policy instruments? We have answered this question in this stu...

BACKGROUND Most researches were focused on chemical constituents and bioactivities of Pedicularis. However, there were a few reports on simultaneous determination of the series phenylpropanoids compounds in Pedicularis by High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC). OBJECTIVE To establish an HPLC method for simultaneous determination of salidroside, verbascoside, iso-verbascoside, leucosept...

It is suggested that from an alternative point of view, the convex full effective potential (EFP) might also be useful. A convex EFP with spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) make the Higgs modes (elementary or effective) complicated in that the normal final states (experimentally identifiable) for Higgs modes could not be analytically defined. This observation might have some nontrivial consequ...

We present an OCL framework and tool for the description and verification of consistency rules of extra-functional properties (EFPs) in component and connector (C&C) models. The framework is based on our previously defined structure of EFP consistency rules using selection, aggregation, and comparison operators, and provides C&C specific OCL functions and configurations that allow engineers to ...

Ribosome profiling is a powerful method for globally assessing the activity of ribosomes in a cell. Despite its application in many organisms, ribosome profiling studies in bacteria have struggled to obtain the resolution necessary to precisely define translational pauses. Here, we report improvements that yield much higher resolution in E. coli profiling data, enabling us to more accurately as...

This article describes a unique, innovative, and effective method of psychotherapy using horses to aid in the therapeutic process (Equine-facilitated Psychotherapy or EFP). The remarkable elements of the horse--power, grace, vulnerability, and a willingness to bear another--combine to form a fertile stage for psychotherapeutic exploration. Therapeutic programs using horses to work with various ...

BACKGROUND Elevated early follicular phase (EFP) FSH is frequently observed in subfertile patients. In these women, temporary normalization of FSH concentrations is known to occur. We studied the complete endocrine cycle profile of subfertile young women with elevated basal FSH compared with controls. METHODS Daily bloodsampling and ultrasound monitoring in the follicular phase was performed in...

A DNA microarray technique was used to demonstrate global changes in the transcription pattern of translation-associated genes that encode fifty-four ribosomal proteins including a putative ribosomal gene, and eleven translation factors in sporulating B. subtilis. We found that the mRNA levels of nine genes involved in the translation system, which include the genes for three ribosomal proteins...