Acute kidney injury (AKI) is the most common side effect of cisplatin, a widely used chemotherapy drug. Although AKI occurs in up to one third of cancer patients receiving cisplatin, effective renal protective strategies are lacking. Cisplatin targets renal proximal tubular epithelial cells leading to inflammation, reactive oxygen species, tubular cell injury, and eventually cell death. The cho...

Frege’s definitions of zero, predecession, and natural number will be explained below. As for second-order Dedekind-Peano arithmetic, the axiomatization most convenient for our purposes is the following: (1) N0 (2) Nx∧Pxy→ Ny (3) ∀x∀y∀z(Nx∧Pxy∧Pxz→ y = z) (4) ∀x∀y∀z(Nx∧Ny∧Pxz∧Pyz→ x = y) (5) ¬∃x(Nx∧Px0) (6) ∀x(Nx→∃y(Pxy)) (7) ∀F(F0∧∀x∀y(Nx∧Fx∧Pxy→ Fy)→∀x(Nx→ Fx) If (slightly non-standardly) we ...

This work introduces the class of generalized tempered stable processes which encompass variations on tempered stable processes that have been introduced in the field, including “modified tempered stable processes [8],” “layered stable processes [6],” and “Lamperti stable processes [3].” Short and long time behavior of GTS Lévy processes is characterized and the absolute continuity of GTS proce...

Gilles de la Tourette syndrome (GTS) is a neuropsychiatric disorder with childhood onset presenting with multiple fluctuating motor tics and one or more phonic tics. A significant proportion of people suffering from GTS are still symptomatic in adulthood and present other emotional and cognitive difficulties, along with motor problems that often accompany these comorbid conditions. The nature o...

BACKGROUND Gilles de la Tourette syndrome (GTS) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by motor and vocal tics. Hyperactivity of dopaminergic transmission is considered a prime abnormality in the pathophysiology of tics. There are reciprocal antagonistic interactions between adenosine and dopamine transmission. The aim of the study was to analyze the association of two polymorphisms, rs...

IEEE 802.15.4 standard specifies the Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical (PHY) layer for wireless sensor networks (WSN) applications with limited power and low data rate. This standard supports time critical applications by allowing TDMA based access in beacon enabled networks. In these networks, the PAN coordinator exchanges data with the end devices through guaranteed time slots (GTS). T...

Copyright: © 2013 Sun XL. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Glycoconjugates, existing as glycoproteins, glycolipids and proteoglycans on cell surface, are involved in many biological processes, s...

To test the hypothesis that normal volume expansion during pregnancy is impaired during chronic renal failure, we evaluated the effects of 5/6 nephrectomy (Nx) in Sprague-Dawley rats. Partial Nx was produced by ligation of 2/3 renal arteries and contralateral Nx. Control rats had a sham operation. Four weeks later, rats were assigned to nonpregnant (n=6/each) or pregnant groups (n=11 to 12/each...

BACKGROUND Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome (GTS) is a complex neuropsychiatric disorder, characterized by chronic motor and vocal tics, associated in 50-90% of cases with psychiatric comorbidities. Patients with moderate and severe clinical picture are treated with psychotherapy and pharmacological therapy. Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is reserved for pharmacological refractory GTS patients. As ...

Many mobile computing applications can proot from process groups and reliable multicast communication to maintain replicated data, but most operating systems available today fail in providing the primitive operations needed by such applications. In this paper we describe a highly conngurable, Generic Multicast Transport Service (GTS), which supports the implementation of group-based application...