Although it has showed that icaritin can apparently suppress growth of HCC by reducing the level of AFP, the intrinsic mechanism remains unclear. In this study, we explored the possible mechanism of miRNAs on post-transcriptional regulation of AFP gene, as well as the effects of HBV infection and icaritin in hepatoma cells. The results showed that miR-620, miR-1236 and miR-1270 could bind targe...

The present work investigates the Collision Induced Absorption (CIA) bands of oxygen that occur at 1065 and 1270 nm from solar occultation data obtained with the spaceborne spectrometer SCIAMACHY. The effort is motivated by the interest in these two strong CIA bands in atmospheric research and the paucity of data on them under realistic atmospheric conditions. The observing geometry provides lo...

The relation between climatic parameters (relative air humidity) and the water activity of the Urmia Sea water determines the possible maximum evaporation of the lake. Using the Pitzer thermodynamic approach, the activity of the Urmia Lake water during evaporation was calculated and compared to the present relative air humidity above the water. Present climatic conditions allow the Urmia Sea wa...

Abstract In the present work, form factors of $$B_{(s)}$$ B ( s ) to light P-wave tensor mesons ( $$a_2(1320)$$ a 2 1320 , $$K^*_2(1430)$$ K...

In this work, we investigated the mixing between strange axial vector mesons K1(1270) and K1(1400) by using QCD Sum Rules approach. Since these states couple to same interpolating currents, defined them in terms of orbital angular momentum eigen K1A K1B. By tensor currents which are almost purely coupling K1B, then employing orthogonality physical states, obtained an analytical expression for K...