Nowadays diabetic nephropathy (DN) is the most common cause of end-stage renal disease (ESRD). Recent studies have demonstrated that the myosin, heavy chain 9, non-muscle (MYH9) gene is associated with ESRD in African Americans. In this study, we tested the hypothesis that a common single nucleotide polymorphism rs16996677 in the MYH9 gene may contribute to the etiology of DN in type 2 diabetes...

Diabetic nephropathy (DN) is one of the microvascular complications of both type 1 and type 2 diabetes, which is also associated with a poor life expectancy of diabetic patients. However, the pathogenesis of DN is still unclear. Thus, it is of great use to establish appropriate animal models of DN for doing research on pathogenesis and developing novel therapeutic strategies. Although a large n...

I. THE SETUP At time t, let V (t) be the event {the DN is empty at time t}. If V̄ (t), let C∗(t) be the oldest customer in the DN, let W∗(t) be the time C∗(t) has spent in the DN, and let I∗(t) be the queue in the DN which C∗(t) goes through. For n ≥ 0, let E(t, s, n) = {at least n customers arrived at the DN on the interval (t− s, t], out of which at least n have left the DN by t}. Let the size...

Stable isotopes of nitrogen are potentially a valuable tool for regional assessments of nitrogen saturation because they provide an integrated measure of the past nitrogen cycling history of a site. We measured dN of soil and litter, as well as net nitrification potential, at three sites across a nitrate-loss gradient in the White Mountains, New Hampshire to test the hypotheses: (1) that dN in ...

We use Khovanov homology to define families of LDPC quantum error-correcting codes: unknot codes with asymptotical parameters 32`+1 √ 8π` ; 1; 2 ; unlink codes with asymptotical parameters √ 3 2π`6 ; 2; 2 and (2, `)–torus link codes with asymptotical parameters ~n; 1; dn where dn > √ n 1.62 .

Holstein steers in metabolism stalls were utilized to determine apparent digestibility of N (DN), N retention (NR) expressed as a percentage of total N consumed, and Mcal/kg digestible energy (DE) when diets of seven different classes of forages were fed. The best predictive equation for digestibility of N in the 153 forages studied was DN(%) = -98.1065 + 11.4724 (%CP) + 41.4475 (DE) - .1498 (%...

We examined the correlation between gene polymorphisms in hypoxia-inducible factor-1α (HIF-1α) Pro582Ser and type 2 diabetic nephropathy (DN). A total of 244 subjects with type 2 diabetes were recruited. The 1285-bp locus polymorphism of HIF-1α exon was detected using polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism. C/T single nucleotide polymorphisms were detected at the sit...

conclusions it was found that the isolated bacteria produced biosurfactants that had a great potential for different industries. results the 3 isolates from cheese, yoghurt and silage were effective against isolated e.coli and could produce biosurfactants. phylogenic relationships of the 3 potential candidates were determined comparing the 16sr dna gene sequences, they were found to be as 3 iso...

BACKGROUND Little is known about the recurrence/persistence rates of dysplastic nevi (DN) after biopsy, and whether incompletely removed DN should be re-excised to prevent recurrence. OBJECTIVE Our purpose was to determine the recurrence rates of previously biopsied DN, and to assess whether biopsy method, margin involvement, congenital features, epidermal location, and degree of dysplasia ar...

Abstract. Let Xn be the number of cuts needed to isolate the root in a random recursive tree with n vertices. We provide a weak convergence result for Xn. The basic observation for its proof is that the probability distributions of {Xn : n = 2, 3, . . .} are recursively defined by Xn d = Xn−Dn + 1, n = 2, 3, . . ., X1 = 0, where Dn is a discrete random variable with P{Dn = k} = 1 k(k+1) n n−1 ,...