BACKGROUND Child physical abuse is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in young children. The skeletal survey (SS) is considered a mandatory part of the evaluation for suspected physical abuse in young children. Literature suggests that a follow-up SS performed 10 to 21 days after the initial SS can provide important additional information, but previous studies evaluating the follow-u...

Several CGHC motif-containing disulfide isomerases support thrombosis. We here report that endoplasmic reticulum protein 72 (ERp72), with 3 CGHC redox-active sites (ao, a, and a'), supports thrombosis. We generated a new conditional knockout mouse model and found that Tie2-Cre/ERp72fl/fl mice with blood and endothelial cells lacking ERp72 had prolonged tail bleeding times and decreased platelet...

In the present paper, we rst modify the concepts of weakly fuzzy boundedness, strongly fuzzy boundedness, fuzzy continuity, strongly fuzzy continuity and weakly fuzzy continuity. Then, we try to nd some relations by making a comparative study of the fuzzy norms of linear operators.

To evaluate the clinical potential of high nitrogen nickel-free austenitic stainless steel (HNNF SS), we have compared the cellular and molecular responses of human umbilical artery smooth muscle cells (HUASMCs) to HNNF SS and 316L SS (nickel-containing austenitic 316L stainless steel). CCK-8 analysis and flow cytometric analysis were used to assess the cellular responses (proliferation, apopto...

Somatostatin (SS) and its analogs exert inhibitory effects on secretive and proliferative processes of various cells via high affinity SS receptors (SS-R). SS analogs bind with different affinity to the five cloned SS-R subtypes. Octreotide, an octapeptide SS analog, binds with high affinity to the SS-R subtype 2 (sst2). SS-R have been demonstrated in vivo and in vitro on cells from endocrine a...

FeS and NiS show first order phase transitions with a change in electronic structure at Ta = 415 K and Tt = 265 K respectively, the latter depending sensitively on non-stoichiometry in the form of nickel vacancies. Extensive experimental data on NiS is reviewed which shows that the low-temperature phase is a semimetallic itinerant-electron antiferromagnet and the high temperature phase a weakly...

‎in this paper some properties of weak regular injectivity for $s$-posets‎, ‎where $s$ is a pomonoid‎, ‎are studied‎. ‎the behaviour‎ ‎of different kinds of weak regular injectivity with products‎, ‎coproducts and direct sums is considered‎. ‎also‎, ‎some‎ ‎characterizations of pomonoids over which all $s$-posets are of‎ ‎some kind of weakly regular injective are obtained‎. ‎further‎, ‎we‎ ‎giv...

The stimulatory effect of potassium depolarization upon somatostatin (SS) mRNA levels in primary cultures of fetal cerebrocortical cells was analyzed. Depolarizing stimuli, such as 56 mM K+ exposure for 30 min, elicited an increase in immunoreactive somatostatin (IR-SS) release to the media and decreased SS mRNA levels. These were increased when exposure to depolarization stimuli was prolonged ...