background and objective: the management of apoptotic cell death has been considered as a putative therapeutic strategy for cancer treatment. in the present study we investigated the putative pro-apoptotic effect of allicin, the main garlic organosulfur component with repeatedly claimed chemopreventive potency, on the human adenocarcinoma cell line ht29 as an apoptosis resistant cell line, in v...

We study wave scattering by multi-layer metal-dielectric structures of a finite extent characterized by a hyperbolic-like dispersion. We find the regimes of wave propagation when substantial compensation of losses becomes possible with the use of a gain medium with realistic parameters. We discuss the Purcell effect in these structures and its possible implications on the performance of the los...

In this study we investigate the compensation of outage area utmost. It introduces the self optimization of the neighbors of the outage cells with antenna tilts for the generation of the most suitable configuration settings for the network with base stations/eNodeBs positional information. All the neighbors of the outage cell increase their coverage area and thus contribute to cell outage compe...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS ERECTA has been identified as a pleiotropic regulator of developmental and physiological processes in Arabidopsis thaliana. Previous work demonstrated a role for ERECTA in the control of compensation between epidermal cell expansion and division in leaves. METHODS In this work, spatial and temporal analyses of epidermal cell division and expansion were performed on success...

The premature ageing Werner syndrome (WS) is characterized by the early onset of many age related phenotypes, including graying of hair, cataracts, atherosclerosis, cancer and type 2 diabetes. Type 2 diabetes (DM2) is the loss of blood glucose homeostastis, due to insulin resistance and a failure of acute glucose-stimulated insulin secretion (GSIS) by pancreatic cells. Early compensation for in...

The regulation of organ size in higher organisms is a fundamental issue in developmental biology. In flowering plants, a phenomenon called "compensation" has been observed where a cell proliferation defect in developing leaf primordia triggers excessive cell expansion. As a result, final leaf size is not significantly reduced compared to that expected from the reduction in leaf cell numbers. Re...

Abstract: Active Power Filter (APF) is capable of changing the size and frequency of harmonics as well as changes in reactive power compensation. It is important to control the stability of the DC-link capacitor voltage stability for it. For DC voltage controls of APF, there are two important achievements. First, it is indicated that the control of DC voltage directly affects the compensation p...