The effects of the plant growth promoter gibberellic acid (GA3) and plant growth retardant chlormequat chloride (CCC) on biomass and quality of Angelica dahurica var. formosana plants were investigated employing physiological and biochemical methods. Plants were sprayed with GA3 or CCC at rosette stage and coumarin content was analyzed by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) after harv...

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) replication and persistence are sustained by a nuclear episome, the covalently closed circular (CCC) DNA, which serves as the transcriptional template for all viral RNAs. CCC DNA is converted from a relaxed circular (RC) DNA in the virion early during infection as well as from RC DNA in intracellular progeny nucleocapsids via an intracellular amplification pathway. Curre...

BACKGROUND Cholangiocarcinoma (CCC) is the second most common type of primary liver cancer, and is associated with a high rate of mortality due to the difficulty of early detection and resistance to chemotherapeutic agents. To evaluate the possibility for new therapeutic strategies, we examined the combined effect of gefitinib and gemcitabine on CCC. MATERIALS AND METHODS The effect of gefiti...

The calculation of the main circuit parameters is basic part engineering design for high voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission systems. Compared to conventional line commutated converter (LCC), application capacitor (CCC) can reduce probability commutation failures and shunt reactive compensation. This paper proposes a method CCC-based HVDC system. Firstly, topology CCC-HVDC system describ...

Networks have become ubiquitous in many real world applications and to cluster similar networks is an important problem. There are various properties of graphs such as clustering coefficient (CC), density, arboricity, etc. We introduce a measure, Clique Conversion Coefficient (CCC), which captures the clique forming tendency of nodes in an undirected graph. CCC could either be used as a weighte...

The elimination of viral covalently closed circular DNA (CCC DNA) from the nucleus of infected hepatocytes is an obstacle to achieving sustained viral clearance during antiviral therapy of chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection. The aim of our study was to determine whether treatment with adefovir, a new acyclic nucleoside phosphonate, the prodrug of which, adefovir dipivoxil, is in clinical...

Previous research points out high relevance of maximal strength measurement in the diagnostics different populations. However, there is inconsistency procedures maximum measurements. Thus, it must be questioned whether results from studies are actually comparable. Due to aforementioned problems standardization, aim this study was assess correlations between and reproducibility isometric dynamic...

Resistance of ovarian clear cell carcinoma (CCC) to platinum-based chemotherapy is associated with poor prognosis, and an effective treatment for advanced disease is urgently needed. HER2/neu is up-regulated more often in CCC than in other histologic types of epithelial ovarian cancer. The purpose of this study was to assess possible treatment for ovarian CCC with the anti-HER2 antibody trastuz...

OBJECTIVE Drug use and receipt of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) were assessed in HIV-infected persons from the Comprehensive Care Center (CCC; Nashville, TN) and Johns Hopkins University HIV Clinic (JHU; Baltimore, MD) between 1999 and 2005. METHODS Participants with and without injection drug use (IDU) history in the CCC and JHU cohorts were evaluated. Additional analysis of p...