Coating the surface of titanium implants or other bone graft substitute materials with calcium phosphate (Ca-P) crystals is an effective way to enhance the osteoconduction of the implants. Ca-P coating alone cannot confer pro-osteodifferentiation and antibacterial capabilities on implants; however, it can serve as a carrier for biological agents which could improve the performance of implants a...

OBJECTIVE Behavioral inhibition (BI) is an early developing trait associated with cautiousness and development of clinical depression and anxiety. Little is known about the neural basis of BI and its predictive importance concerning risk for internalizing disorders. We looked at functional connectivity of the default-mode network (DMN) and salience network (SN), given their respective roles in ...

c 2018 The Korean Society of Neurogastroenterology and Motility J Neurogastroenterol Motil, Vol. 24 No. 1 January, 2018 www.jnmjournal.org Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is characterized by reflux of stomach contents and causes unpleasant symptoms and complications. Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) are widely used to treat GERD and significantly reduce gastric acid secretion. However, desp...

The stacking mechanism of the 1H-4H proton transfer in 4-pyridone, 4-pyridinthione and p-aminopyridineare constructed. For quantitative description of this process by means of the quamtumchemicalmethod density functional theory (DFT) the activation energy (

BACKGROUND PDZK1 is a four PDZ-domain containing cytoplasmic protein that binds to a variety of membrane proteins via their C-termini and can influence the abundance, localization and/or function of its target proteins. One of these targets in hepatocytes in vivo is the HDL receptor SR-BI. Normal hepatic expression of SR-BI protein requires PDZK1 - <5% of normal hepatic SR-BI is seen in the liv...

Modern science of networks has brought significant advances to our understanding of complex systems biology. As a representative model of systems biology, Protein Interaction Networks (PINs) are characterized by a remarkable modular structures, reflecting functional associations between their components. Many methods were proposed to capture cohesive modules so that there is a higher density of...

Instabilities of a thin viscous film flowing down a uniformly heated plane are investigated in this study. The heating generates a surface tension gradient that induces thermocapillary stresses on the free surface. Thus, the film is not only influenced by gravity and mean surface tension but also the thermocapillary force is acting on the free surface. Moreover, the heat transfer at the free su...