Cyclic AMP-dependent expression of the steroidogenic acute regulatory (StAR) protein is thought to be the controlling step for steroid production, but the mechanisms through which external signals are translated into increased transcription of the StAR gene are unknown. We demonstrate that cyclic AMP-induced steroid synthesis is dependent upon the phosphorylation and activation of ERKs and that...

Increased intestinal chloride secretion through chloride channels, such as the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR), is one of the major molecular mechanisms underlying enterotoxigenic diarrhea. It has been demonstrated in the past that the intracellular energy sensing kinase, the AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK), can inhibit CFTR opening. We hypothesized that pharmacol...

This paper presents a new method for shift keying using the combination of scaling function and wavelet named scaling wavelet shift keying (SWSK). An algorithm for SWSK modulation is carried out where the scaling function and the wavelet are encoded to 1 and 0 in accordance with the binary input, respectively. Signal energy, correlation coefficient and error probability of SWSK are derived from...

This paper presents a modern method for implementing burst modems in GNU Radio. Since burst modems are widely used for multi-user channel access and sharing in non-broadcast radio systems, this capability is critical to the development of numerous waveforms in GNU Radio. We focus on making such systems easy to develop and adapt to wide classes of modems and computationally efficient at runtime....

En el presente trabajo se describe la implementación y ensayo de un demodulador FSK, en marco Re-Ingeniería modem para comunicaciones navales. El mismo desarrolló sobre una FPGA Spartan 6 XCSLX25 con su código VHDL. Para las pruebas realizaron modulaciones microcontrolador STM32F407 donde agregaron distintos niveles ruido poner a prueba sistema.

Pulmonary vascular remodeling due to overgrowth of pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells (PASMC) is a major cause for the elevated vascular resistance in patients with idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension (IPAH). Increased cytosolic Ca(2+) concentration, resulting from enhanced capacitative Ca(2+) entry (CCE) and upregulated transient receptor potential (TRP) channel expression, is involve...

In this paper, we proposed a method for radar modulation identification using power inequality in frequency domain. The four classes of radar signals are classified: unmodulated (UM), linear frequency modulation (LFM), non-linear frequency modulation (NLFM), and frequency shift keying (FSK). To measure the frequency inequality, Gini's coefficient was introduced and the maximum likelihood (ML) c...