The relationship between Mg-protoporphyrin IX (Mg-Proto IX) signals and plant's tolerance to cold stress is investigated. Arabidopsis seedlings grown for 3 weeks were pretreated with 2 mM glutamate (Glu) and 2 mM MgCl2 for 48 h at room temperature to induce Mg-Proto IX accumulation. Then cold stress was performed at 4°C for additional 72 h. Glu + MgCl2 pre-treatments alleviated the subsequent c...

Ixabepilone (Ix) (BMS-247550) is a potent member of a new class of microtubule-stabilizing cytotoxic agents known as epothilones. In pre-clinical studies, Ix has shown anticancer activity against several cancer types, including paclitaxel-resistant models, both in vitro and in vivo. The major toxicities associated with Ix are myelosuppression, sensory neuropathy and neutropenia. Other minor sid...

PURPOSE Hypoxia in breast cancer is associated with poor prognosis and down-regulation of the estrogen receptor. Carbonic anhydrase IX (CA IX) is a hypoxia-inducible gene that has been associated with poor outcome in many epithelial cancers. Previous studies of CA IX in breast cancer have been carried out on mixed cohorts of premenopausal and postmenopausal patients with locally advanced diseas...

A persistent low-titer factor IX Inhibitor was discovered in a patIent with severe hemophllia B. The Inhibitor was very likely an immunoglobulin, since it was present in serum, was not dialyzable, retained its potency after heating to 56#{176}C, and was bound by staphylococcal protein A (SPA). When the hemophilia B patient with the inhibItor was given therapeutic infusions of factor Ix concentr...

Mouse primary skin fibroblasts were infected with a recombinant retrovirus containing human factor IX cDNA. Bulk infected cells capable of synthesizing and secreting biologically active human factor IX protein were embedded in collagen, and the implant was grafted under the epidermis. Sera from the transplanted mice contain human factor IX protein for at least 10-12 days. Loss of immunoreactive...

We describe the separation of protoporphyrin and related porphyrins by reversed-phase "high-performance" liquid chromatography, with fluorometric detection. We used the method to demonstrate that acid hydrolysis of the dimethyl ester of protoporphyrin IX is complete in 2 to 3 h and is followed by the acid-catalyzed conversion of protoporphyrin IX to a chemical species that chromatographic evide...

Theorem 1. Let A, S, I, and J be self-mappings of a complete metric space (X,d) such that the pairs (A,I) and (S,J) are commuting and A(X)⊂ J(X) and S(X)⊂ I(X) such [ 1+pd(Ax,Sy)]d(Ix,Jy) ≤ pmax{d(Ix,Ax)·d(Sy,Jy),d(Ix,Sy)·d(Jy,Ax)} +φ(d(Ax,Sy),d(Ix,Ax),d(Sy,Jy),d(Ix,Sy),d(Jy,Ax)), (1) for all x,y ∈ X where p ≥ 0 and φ ∈ Ψ . Then A, S, I, and J have a unique common fixed point provided one of th...

BACKGROUND Carbonic anhydrase IX has been linked to cancer development and progression. AIM To analyse carbonic anhydrase IX expression and anhydrase inhibition in pancreatic cancer and to correlate these findings with p53 expression and microvessel density. MATERIALS AND METHODS Seventy-seven pancreatic cancers were examined (43 males, 34 females; mean age, 64 years). The anti-carbonic anh...

In Xenopus laevis, the laryngeal motor nucleus (n. of cranial nerves IX-X) is part of a sexually differentiated, androgen sensitive neuromuscular system devoted to vocalization. Adult males have more n. IX-X neurons than females; however, during development of n. IX-X, the rate of neurogenesis does not appear to differ between the sexes. In this study, we explored the role of naturally occurrin...

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