Inflammatory processes and tissue scarring are characteristic features of chronic allograft nephropathy. Hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) has beneficial effects on renal fibrosis and it also ameliorates renal interstitial inflammation as it has been recently described. Contrarily to protein administration, intramuscular gene electrotransfer allows sustained release of HGF. So, here we hypothesize...

Chinese hamster ovary cells were pulse-labeled with 125I-iododeoxyuridine during early S phase, and cell samples were harvested 30 min or 5 h after labeling. The samples were frozen (with or without 25 mM cysteamine) and stored at -196 degrees C for accumulation of 125I decays. X-ray control experiments were performed at 37 degrees C and -196 degrees C. Aliquots of cells were plated for evaluat...

The accumulated damage of the surrounding rocks induced by existing coal mining activities (such as excavation and extraction) is initial mechanical background rock for further operations. An energy-based Cumulative Initial Damage (CID) variable was proposed to account such damage. With MTS815 electro-hydraulic servo-controlled system, samples with different CID value were prepared cyclic pre-l...

Butyrate inhibits the proliferation of cancer cells, but the early molecular events initiated by butyrate have not been fully identified. Herein, butyrate is shown to affect the growth arrest and DNA damage-inducible gene 153 (GADD153) in HCT-116 human colon adenocarcinoma cells. Despite absence of any detectable cellular DNA damage, the expression of GADD153 was upregulated before several feat...

Because death after acute systemic vasculitis is now uncommon, alternative measures of outcome are required. A significant component of patient morbidity is disease-related damage, which can be quantified by the Vasculitis Damage Index (64 items in 11 organ-based systems). We investigated serially the time-course of damage in 120 patients with systemic vasculitis, to determine the earliest indi...

in this paper, some results of singh, gopalakrishna and kulkarni (1970s) have been extended to higher order derivatives. it has been shown that, if $sumlimits_{a}theta(a, f)=2$ holds for a meromorphic function $f(z)$ of finite order, then for any positive integer $k,$ $t(r, f)sim t(r, f^{(k)}), rrightarrowinfty$ if $theta(infty, f)=1$ and $t(r, f)sim (k+1)t(r, f^{(k)}), rrightarrowinfty$ if $th...

this paper uses the tsuji’s characteristic to investigate the uniqueness of transcen- dental meromorphic function with shared values in an angular domain dealing with the multiple values which improve a result of j. zheng.

While five-factor models of personality are widespread, there is still not universal agreement on this as a structural framework. Part of the reason for the lingering debate is its dependence on factor analysis. In particular, derivation or refutation of the model via other statistical means is a worthwhile project. In this paper we use the methodology of spectral clustering to articulate the s...

Introduction. Let F be a field and let V be a finite dimensional vector space over F which is also a module over the ring F[a]. Here a may lie in any extension ring of F. We do not assume, as yet, that V is a faithful module, so that a need not be a linear transformation on V. It is known that by means of a decomposition of V into cyclic F[a]-modules we may obtain a definition of the characteri...

These are lecture notes for a series of five lectures I gave to other graduate students about characteristic classes through UT Austin’s summer minicourse program (see https://www.ma.utexas.edu/users/ richard.wong/Minicourses.html for more details). Beware of potential typos. In these notes I cover the basic theory of Stiefel-Whitney, Wu, Chern, Pontrjagin, and Euler classes, introducing some i...