This study was designed to demonstrate the characteristic pattern of angiotensin II-induced JAK/STAT (indicating just another kinase/signal transducer and activator of transcription) activation in cultured rat cardiomyocytes by comparing it with leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF)-induced activation. Angiotensin II (10(-7) mol/L) induced rapid phosphorylation of JAK2 and Tyk2, but not JAK1, and ph...

Background: Moringa oleifera Lam. (Moringaceae) leaves are commonly used for diabetes in Mali. This pilot clinical study aimed to evaluate its effect on post-prandial blood glucose preparation a larger trial. Methods: Diabetic patients and non-diabetic healthy volunteers (35 each) were asked fast 13 hours three occasions. Blood was measured before after eating 100g of white bread (at 30, 60, 90...

We discuss three classes of x-ray transients to highlight three new types of transients found with the Wide Field Cameras onboard BeppoSAX. First there are the transients related to Low Mass X-ray Binaries in outburst, typically lasting weeks to months and reaching luminosities of the Eddington limit for a few solar masses. Recently another subclass of outbursts in such binaries has been discov...

Acetylation is a well-established process to improve dimensional properties of wood and resistance fungi attack. This study was carried out due limited studies on the effect acetylation mechanical properties, thermal stability, microstructural aspects wood. Wood blocks, (each 20×20×60 mm) Obeche were acetylated with acetic anhydride at 120 °C for 60, 120, 180, 240 300 minutes. The microstructur...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Localized head and neck cooling might be suited to induce therapeutic hypothermia in acute brain injury such as stroke. Safety issues of head and neck cooling are undetermined and may include cardiovascular autonomic side effects that were identified in this study. METHODS Ten healthy men (age 35±13 years) underwent 120 minutes of combined head and neck cooling (Sovika,...

BACKGROUND Lung ischemia-reperfusion injury occurs after lung transplantation and various clinical procedures. Recently, apoptosis was reported to be induced after ischemia-reperfusion. We investigated the effects of inhaled nitric oxide (NO) on lung ischemia-reperfusion and apoptosis after ischemia-reperfusion. METHODS As a control group, the left pulmonary hilum of Japanese white rabbits (n...

How often do bright optical transients occur on the sky but go unreported? To constrain the bright end of the astronomical transient function, a systematic search for transients that become bright enough to be noticed by the unaided eye was conducted using the all-sky monitors of the Night Sky Live network. Two fisheye continuous cameras (CONCAMs) operating over three years created a data base ...

INTRODUCTION The presence of anti-CCP is an important prognostic tool of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). But research is still ongoing on its relationship with disease activity and functional capacity. OBJECTIVES To study the relationship between anti-CCP and disease activity, functional capacity and structural damage indexes, by means of conventional radiography (CR) and magnetic resonance imagin...

OBJECTIVE This study described occupational therapy practitioners' perceptions about the content and method of training or education necessary for gaining theoretical and technical competence in the use of nine physical agent modalities (PAMs). METHOD A survey was developed and sent to 543 members of the Physical Disabilities Special Interest Section of the American Occupational Therapy Assoc...