Myasthenia gravis (MG) and experimental autoimmune MG (EAMG) are T-cell regulated, antibody-mediated diseases. Peptides p195-212 and p259-271 of the human acetylcholine receptor (AChR) alpha-subunit, were previously shown to be immunodominant T cell epitopes in MG patients as well as in SJL and BALB/c mice, respectively. A dual altered peptide ligand (APL) composed of the two single amino acid ...

Objectives: The aim of this study was to identify the role of attentional process in postural control using choice reaction time task while changing the visual and proprioceptive cues under difficult balance task (standing on one-leg). Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted by participating 20 young people (22.75±2.29). Each subject performed one-leg standing as balance task for e...

We construct recently introduced palatial NC twistors by considering the pair of conjugated (Born-dual) twist-deformed D=4 quantum inhomogeneous conformal Hopf algebras U?(su(2,2)?T4) and U?¯(su(2,2)?T¯4), where T4 describes complex twistor coordinates T¯4 dual momenta. The are suitably chosen as quantum-covariant modules (NC representations) Born-dual algebras. Subsequently, we introduce defor...

The objective of this study was to validate the use of bone mineral measurements of the calcaneus bone by dual X-ray and laser (DXL) in a cross-sectional study carried out in an osteoporosis clinic. Measurements of bone mineral density (BMD) at proximal femur and spine were obtained by dual-energy photon X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA). Osteoporosis was defined by a DEXA T-score <-2.5 at the femora...

Recently, the existence of T cells with dual T cell receptor (TCR) in the immune system is generally accepted, while it has been controversial whether signals through one TCR would affect the functions of the other. In this study T cells expressing two different TCR were obtained from cross-hybrids of LCMV and AND TCR transgenic mice specific for the gp33 and peptide fragment of PCC (fPCC), res...

Allelic exclusion at the T cell receptor et locus TCR-ot is incomplete, as demonstrated by the presence of a number of T lymphocyte clones carrying two expressed ot chain products. Such dual 0t chain T cells have been proposed to play a role in autoimmunity, for example, because of a second TCR-~x[3 pair having bypassed negative selection by virtue of low expression. We examined this hypothesis...

The supergravity dual of superconformal anomaly in a four-dimensional supersymmetric gauge theory is investigated. We consider a well-established dual correspondence between the N = 1 SU(N +M) × SU(N) supersymmetric gauge theory with two flavors of matter fields in the bifundamental representation of gauge group and type IIB superstring in the space-time background furnished by the Klebanov-Str...

(Dual-)promotion and (dual-)evacuation are bijections on SY T (λ) for any partition λ. Let cr denote the rectangular partition (c, . . . , c) of height r, and let sck (k > 2) denote the staircase partition (k, k−1, . . . , 1). We demonstrate a promotionand evacuation-preserving embedding of SY T (sck) into SY T (k k+1). We hope that this result, together with results by Rhoades on rectangular t...