Quercetin and phenylpropanoids are well known chemoprotective compounds identified in many plants. This study was aimed at determining their effects on activation of Nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor 2 (Nrf2) antioxidant response element (Nrf2-ARE) signalling pathway and expression of its important downstream effector phase II detoxification enzyme glutathione-S-transferase P1 (GSTP1) i...

PURPOSE Retrospective studies have shown that immunoassays measuring free light chains (FLC) in serum are useful for diagnosis and monitoring of multiple myeloma. This study prospectively evaluates the use of FLC assays and, for the first time, investigates the relationship between serum FLC concentrations and the presence and detectability of Bence Jones (BJ) proteins in the urine. PATIENTS ...

Air quality is strongly influenced by both local emissions and regional transport. Atmospheric chemical transport models can distinguish between sources in air pollutant concentrations. However, quantifying model inventories challenging due to emission changes caused the recent strict control measures taken Chinese government. In this study, we use NO2 column observations from Tropospheric Moni...

Using 24 million ψ′ ≡ ψ(2S) decays in CLEO-c, we have searched for higher multipole admixtures in electric-dipole-dominated radiative transitions in charmonia. We find good agreement between our data and theoretical predictions for magnetic quadrupole (M2) amplitudes in the transitions ψ′ → γχc1,c2 and χc1,c2 → γJ/ψ, in striking contrast to some previous measurements. Let b2 and a2 denote the n...

BACKGROUND Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) is the most important cause of epidemic encephalitis in most Asian regions. There is no specific treatment available for Japanese encephalitis, and vaccination is the only effective way to prevent JEV infection in humans and domestic animals. The purpose of this study is to establish a new mammalian cell line stably and efficiently expressing virus-l...

In this study, a Bjerknes stability (BJ) index, proposed by Jin et al. (2006), is adopted to assess the overall stability of El Niño and Southern Oscillation (ENSO) in state-of-the-art coupled models. The twentieth and twenty-first century simulations of 12 coupled models among the coupled model intercomparison project phase 3 models used in the intergovernmental panel on climate change forth a...

A subsequence principle is obtained, characterizing Banach spacescontaining co' in the spirit of the author's 1974 characterization of Banachspaces containing II . Defiaition. A sequence(bj )in a Banach space is called strongly summing (s.s.)if (bj ) is a weak-Cauchy basic sequence so that whenever scalars (cj ) satisfysUPn II E~=I cijll < 00, thenECj converges.A...

Euclidean n-component φ theories whose Hamiltonians areO(n) symmetric except for quadratic symmetry breaking boundary terms are studied in the film geometry R×[0, L]. The boundary terms imply the Robin boundary conditions ∂nφα = c̊ (j) α φα at the boundary planes Bj=1 at z = 0 and Bj=2 at z = L. Particular attention is paid to the cases in which mj of the n variables c̊ (j) α associated with plan...

We present progress results of a new survey for bright QSOs (V < 14.5, R < 15.4, BJ < 15.2) covering the whole sky at high galactic latitudes, |b| > 30. The surface density of QSOs brighter than BJ = 14.8 turns out to be 2.9 ± 0.8 · 10deg. The optical Luminosity Function at 0.04 < z ≤ 0.3 shows significant departures from the standard pure luminosity evolution, providing new insights in the mod...