Aim: To explore the effect of electroacupuncture (EA) on the expression of mdm2 following hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE). Method: The hypoxic-ischemic models were established by colligating bilateral common carotid artery in new-bore SD rats aged 7 days. All rats were randomly divided into sham-surgery, model, sham-EA, EA, antagonist and EA plus antagonist group which subdivided 1d, 3d, ...

PURPOSE Chromosomal instability, as assessed by many techniques, including DNA content aneuploidy, loss of heterozygosity, and comparative genomic hybridization, has consistently been reported to be common in cancer and rare in normal tissues. Recently, a panel of chromosome instability biomarkers, including loss of heterozygosity and DNA content, has been reported to identify patients at high ...

Polyphenols in fruits, vegetables (e.g., flavonols like quercetin) and tea (e.g., catechins such as epigallocatechin gallate) are good antioxidants with antimutagenic and anticarcinogenic properties. In the present study, the Salmonella typhimurium tester strain YG1024 was used in the plate-incorporation test to examine the antimutagenic effect of phenolic compounds, extracted from common beans...

We are studying the feasibility of using relativistically moving plasma waves as short wavelength undulators for possible FEL and Compton scattering applications at UCLA. The remarkable property of such waves is that the wiggler parameter aw eA/mc2 can be on the order 0.1 while their wavelength w can be submillimeter. Such waves can be excited by either an intense electron bunch going through a...

BACKGROUND Hyaluronidases have been found as the target enzymes in the development of osteoarthritis (OA) disease. While there is still no curative treatment for this disease, recent studies on the treatment of OA were focused on the effectiveness of natural products which are expected to improve the symptoms with minimal side effects. The aim of this study was to screen selected Malaysian plan...

At the time of current global energy crisis awareness education in school is increasingly important. Textbooks directly helping and influencing learning play an important role this, especially case natural sciences. Thus, aim this research was to show how science textbooks help educate (EA). Regarding 67 Hungarian were analysed using a quantitative textbook analysis from grade 1 12. When studyi...

BACKGROUND Correlations between Educational Attainment (EA) and measures of cognitive performance are as high as 0.8. This makes EA an attractive alternative phenotype for studies wishing to map genes affecting cognition due to the ease of collecting EA data compared to other cognitive phenotypes such as IQ. METHODOLOGY In an Australian family sample of 9538 individuals we performed a genome-...

This paper presents a new method for estimating the optical flow field using the MRF modeling. In the MRF framework, the estimation problem amounts to the minimization of an energy function. We propose an Evolutionary Algorithm (EA) method to solve this minimization problem. It is based on a divide-and-conquer strategy which adequately uses the markovian property. Experimental results show the ...