BACKGROUND Small-for-size liver grafts have decreased survival compared to full-size grafts. This study investigated mechanisms of suppression of liver regeneration in small-for-size grafts. METHODS Rat liver explants were reduced in size to 50% and implanted into recipients of different body weights, resulting in graft weight/standard liver weights of approximately 50% (half-size) and approx...

Introdouction: Impacted and partially erupted third molars can cause various symptoms and pathologies. The aim of this study was to determine the association between commonly observed pathological conditions and the impaction depth of lower third molar teeth. Materials and methods: In this retrospective study, 370 panoramic radiographs including 724 lower third molars were evaluated to asses...

Coagulation factors VII (FVII), IX (FIX), X (FX), and protein C share the same domain organization but display very different plasma half-lives. It is plausible that the half-life is influenced by the activation peptide, differing in length and glycosylation and missing in FVII. To test this hypothesis, the influence of activation peptides on the plasma half-life of human FVII was studied by ad...

BACKGROUND In mammals, carnitine palmitoyltransferase (CPT) system is a pivotal component of energy metabolism through mitochondrial fatty acid oxidation. The majority of patients with fatal or handicapped influenza-associated encephalopathy exhibit thermolabile compound homo/heterozygous mutations of CPT II. OBJECTIVE Compound CPT II mutations, [c.647A>G (p.Q216R)], [c.1102G>A (p.V368I)], [c...

The Pockels effect in periodically poled lithium niobate made it possible to switch optical signals between two orthogonal optical linear polarizations of the vertical and horizontal polarization states. Based on this effect, we demonstrated polarization-based binary optical logic gates: AND, and OR gates. By combining these basic gates with other polarization-based optical logic gates such as ...

This work demonstrates two DNA-based logic circuits that behave as a half-adder and a half-subtractor. A half-adder is composed of an AND gate and an XOR gate, whereas a half-subtractor consists of an INH gate and an XOR gate. The proposed designs are inspired by molecular beacons.

Ecological character displacement (ECD), the evolutionary divergence of competing species, has oscillated wildly in scientific opinion. Initially thought to play a central role in community assembly and adaptive radiation, ECD recovered from a 1980s nadir to present-day prominence on the strength of many case studies compiled in several influential reviews. However, we reviewed recent studies a...