This study was conducted to determine the effects of argon plasma on the growth of soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] sprouts and investigate the regulation mechanism of energy metabolism. The germination and growth characteristics were modified by argon plasma at different potentials and exposure durations. Upon investigation, plasma treatment at 22.1 kV for 12 s maximized the germination and se...

The possibility that the antigen-presenting "macrophages" interacting with helper cells either directly or via the intermediary action of a soluble factor consisting of Ia antigen and a fragment of immunogen, termed GRG (genetically related factor), are a site of Ir gene action was investigated by using the synthetic polypeptide antigen (T,G)-A--L. It was found that T cells from (responder x no...

Ground reaction force (GRF) parameters have been used to predict tibial shock in rearfoot strike patterns (Hennig & Lafortune, 1991). However, forefoot strike (FFS) runners have significantly different GRF parameters when compared to rearfoot strike (RFS) runners (Williams, D.S., et al., in press). A typical FFS running pattern results in significantly lower vertical GRF loading rates (ZLR) and...

Gelatin-resorcin-formalin (GRF) glue was developed by Braunwald and Tatooles in 1964. Initially, it was mainly used as a hemostatic agent by gastrointestinal surgeons and urologists. In 1977, Bachet et al. used GRF glue as an adhesive and hemostatic material for aortic surgery and reported that it was very useful. The use of GRF glue dramatically improved the outcomes of surgery for Stanford ty...

Human pancreatic growth hormone releasing factor (GRF (1-44)) is the parent molecule of several peptides recently extracted from pancreatic tumours associated with acromegaly. A study was conducted to examine its effects on the release of growth hormone in normal volunteers and in patients with hypopituitarism and acromegaly. GRF (1-44) dose dependently stimulated the release of growth hormone ...

Separated-occurrence inequalities are variants for dependent lattice models of the van den Berg-Kesten inequality for independent models. They take the form P (A◦rB) ≤ (1 + ce−ǫr)P (A)P (B), where A ◦r B is the event that A and B occur at separation r in a configuration ω, that is, there exist two random sets of bonds or sites separated by at least distance r, one set responsible for the occurr...

In rodents, the Ras-specific guanine-nucleotide exchange factor (Ras-GRF) is expressed in different areas of the brain and, at a reduced level, also in the spinal cord. No expression of the 140 kDa Ras-GRF was detected in dorsal root ganglia and all other tissues tested. Analysis of primary cultures derived from brain reveals that this exchange factor is only present in neurons of the central n...

Recent literature supports the importance of horizontal ground reaction force (GRF) production for sprint acceleration performance. Modeling and clinical studies have shown that the hip extensors are very likely contributors to sprint acceleration performance. We experimentally tested the role of the hip extensors in horizontal GRF production during short, maximal, treadmill sprint acceleration...

Wearable sensors for gait analysis are attracting wide interest. In this paper, a wearable ground reaction force (GRF) sensor system and its application to measure extrinsic gait variability are presented. To validate the GRF and centre of pressure (CoP) measurements of the sensor system and examine the effectiveness of the proposed method for gait analysis, we conducted an experimental study o...