The influence of dietary vitamins on growth, survival, and morphogenesis was evaluated until day 38 of posthatching life in European sea bass larvae (Dicentrarchus labrax). A standard vitamin mix (VM), at double the concentration of the U.S. National Research Council's recommendations, was incorporated into larval feeds at 0.5%, 1.5%, 2.5%, 4.0%, and 8.0% to give treatments VM 0.5, VM 1.5, VM 2...

Hepatoblastoma (HB) is the most common type of pediatric liver malignancy, which predominantly occurs in young children (aged <5 years), and continues to be a therapeutic challenge in terms of metastasis and drug resistance. As a new pattern of tumor blood supply, vasculogenic mimicry (VM) is a channel structure lined by tumor cells rather than endothelial cells, which contribute to angiogenesi...

BACKGROUND When performing the Valsalva maneuver (VM), adults and preadolescents produce the same expiratory resistance values. OBJECTIVE To analyze heart rate (HR) in preadolescents performing VM, and propose a new method for selecting expiratory resistance. METHOD The maximal expiratory pressure (MEP) was measured in 45 sedentary children aged 9-12 years who subsequently performed VM for ...

In this work we have designed three algorithms, by doing amalgamation of heuristic method and migration control. Virtual Machine (VM) selection is the immediate step after the host overload is detected. Now decision needs to be made to choice the VM(s) to migrate. VM selection is an important task and the energy consumption depends on the selection. Three VM selection strategies have been propo...

Vasculogenic mimicry (VM) has offered a new horizon for understanding tumor angiogenesis, but the mechanisms of VM in glioma progression have not been studied explicitly until now. As a significant component of immune infiltration in tumor microenvironment, macrophages have been demonstrated to play an important role in tumor growth and angiogenesis. However, whether macrophages could play a po...

Vasculogenic minicry (VM), an alternative blood supply modality except to endothelial cells-mediated vascular network, is a potential therapeutic target for ovarian cancer due to VM correlated with poor prognosis in ovarian cancer patients. Accelerated extracellular matrix (ECM) degradation is prerequisite for VM formation induced by epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT). Previous reports dem...

Various VM instances in Cloud Infrastructure provide flexibility for user to meet their computation requirements. However, this condition leads to the complex infrastructure that require numerous resources and consumes massive electricity due to the flexibility of VM instances. This paper concern in evaluate VM selection policy in Dynamic VM Consolidation. The study would evaluate our proposed ...

BACKGROUND During the four steps of the Valsalva maneuver (VM), opposite changes can be observed in some physiologic parameters. Manifestations of the VM in the electrocardiogram (ECG) have been studied in detail, but there have been few reports comparing VM-related biochemical and hemodynamic changes with a focus on the strain phase of the VM. OBJECTIVES We studied strain-related ECG changes...

To evaluate the prognostic value of OCT4 expression and vasculogenic mimicry (VM) in human breast cancer, we examined OCT4 expression and VM formation using immunohistochemistry and CD31/PAS (periodic acid-schiff) double staining on 90 breast cancer specimens. All patients were followed up for five-149 months following surgery. Survival curves were generated using Kaplan-Meier method. Multivari...