Many polysaccharides isolated from plants have exhibited promising antitumor activities. The aim of this study is to investigate the antitumor activity of the novel polysaccharide named SPS from Sargassum integerrimum, elucidate the underlying anticancer mechanism in a human lung cancer cell line A549, and evaluate its anti-angiogenic activity both in vitro and in vivo. The results show that SP...

Sucrose phosphate synthase (SPS, EC 2.4.1.14) is a key enzyme that regulates sucrose biosynthesis in plants. SPS is encoded by different gene families which display differential expression patterns and functional divergence. Genome-wide identification and expression analyses of SPS gene families have been performed in Arabidopsis, rice, and sugarcane, but a comprehensive analysis of the SPS gen...

We investigated the effects of Shoyu polysaccharides (SPS) prepared from soy sauce on immune functions in mice. SPS enhanced the consumption of glucose by peritoneal macrophages in vitro. In addition, oral administration of SPS to 6-week-old male BALB/c mice for 2 weeks at a dose of 3.0 mg/day increased the capacity of peritoneal macrophages to consume glucose as compared to control mice. We ob...

The Sensor Planning Service (SPS) is service model to define the web service interface for requesting user driven acquisitions and observation. It’s defined by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) group to provide standardized interface for tasking sensors to allow to defining, checking, modifying and cancelling tasks of sensor and sensor data. The goal of Sensor Pla...

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety- and memory-based disorder. The hippocampus and amygdala are key areas in mood regulation. Fluoxetine was found to improve the anxiety-related symptoms of PTSD patients. However, little work has directly examined the effects of fluoxetine on the hippocampus and the amygdala. In the present study, male Wistar rats received fluoxetine or vehicle ...

During the past decade, research on the biological basis of sensory processing sensitivity (SPS)-a genetically based trait associated with greater sensitivity and responsivity to environmental and social stimuli-has burgeoned. As researchers try to characterize this trait, it is still unclear how SPS is distinct from seemingly related clinical disorders that have overlapping symptoms, such as s...

CMMI contains a collection of Process Areas (PAs), and each PA contains many Specific Practices (SPs). However, the CMMI specification does not provide any explicit recommendation about which individual SPs can or should be implemented before other SPs. In this paper we identify dependencies between CMMI SPs in PAs in maturity level 2, and also between those PAs. We analyzed the text of the CMM...

Emission spectra of the microplasma discharge in N2, NO and O2 gas mixture was analyzed. The diagnosis of microplasma discharge was performed in order to understand the processes of NOx removal. An experimental Marx Generator was used as a pulsed power supply. Emission spectra for N2 gas show N2 second positive band system (N2 SPS) and N2 first negative band system (N2 FNS). 1000 ppm NO in N2 e...

An architecturally singular parallel manipulator is a parallel manipulator with architectural singularities spanning the whole workspace. It should be abandoned in the design process. This paper deals with the generation of architecturally singular 6-SPS parallel manipulators with linearly related planar platforms. The forward displacement analysis of the 6-SPS parallel manipulator with linearl...

Serrated polyps (SPs) of the colorectum pose a novel challenge to practicing gastroenterologists. Previously thought benign and unimportant, there is now compelling evidence that SPs are responsible for a significant percentage of incident colorectal cancer worldwide. In contrast to conventional adenomas, which tend to be slow growing and polypoid, SPs have unique features that undermine curren...