When fused in-frame with a C-terminal propeptide of placental alkaline phosphatase (PLAP), rat alpha 2u-globulin (alpha GL), a nonglycosylated secretory protein, was expressed on the cell surface as a glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI)-linked chimaeric protein (alpha GL-PLAP). In contrast with the wild-type alpha GL-PLAP, a mutant, in which Asp at the cleavage/attachment site of GPI was replace...

We consider the waiting time distribution of the Gl/Gl /1 queue where customers are served in random order; inter-arrival and service times may have finite or infinite variance. Our main result shows that the waiting time in heavy traffic can be written as a product of two random variables. Our proof is based on the intuitively appealing fact that in heavy traffic, the queue length stays consta...

In this paper we obtain a closed form expression of the zeta function Z(X Γ , u) of a finite quotient X Γ = Γ\P GL 3 (F)/P GL 3 (O F) of the Bruhat-Tits building of P GL 3 over a nonar-chimedean local field F. Analogous to a graph zeta function, Z(X Γ , u) is a rational function and it satisfies the Riemann hypothesis if and only if X Γ is a Ramanujan complex.

BACKGROUND Previous epidemiological investigations of associations between dietary glycemic intake and insulin resistance have used average daily measures of glycemic index (GI) and glycemic load (GL). We explored multiple and novel measures of dietary glycemic intake to determine which was most predictive of an association with insulin resistance. METHODS Usual dietary intakes were assessed ...

This clinical investigation examined the effect of chlorhexidine, sanguinarine and saline as coolants during ultrasonic scaling on gingivitis in orthodontic patients. Eighteen females with gingivitis participated in this study. Plaque Index (PI), Gingival Index (Gl), Interdental Bleeding Index (Bl) and Probing Depth (PD) were recorded for the following teeth 16, 21, 25, 36, 41 and 45 at baselin...

The use of sprouts in the human diet is becoming more and more widespread because they are tasty and high in bioactive compounds and antioxidants, with related health benefits. In this work, we sprouted rapeseed under increasing salinity to investigate the effect on free and bound total phenolics (TP), non-flavonoids (NF), tannins (TAN), phenolic acids (PAs), and antioxidant activity. Seeds wer...

To determine the effects of lactic acidemia versus lactate on CBF, we infused lactic acid, either buffered with NaOH (L + NaOH) or with added NaCl (L + NaCl), to attain similar osmolalities in 18 piglets. CBF (microsphere technique), pH, blood gases, plasma osmolality, and cerebral arteriovenous differences of O2 content and lactic acid concentrations were measured prior to, at 30 min of a lact...

Relapsed or refractory Burkitt's lymphoma often has a poor prognosis in spite of intensive chemotherapy that induces apoptotic and/or necrotic death of lymphoma cells. Rapamycin (Rap) brings about autophagy, and could be another treatment. Further, anti-CD19-targeted liposomal delivery may enable Rap to kill lymphoma cells specifically. Rap was encapsulated by anionic liposome and conjugated wi...

Source: Proc. of the IASTED Intl. Conf. on Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications (EuroI;MSA 2005), Grindewald (Switzerland) (2005) Source URL: http://labredes.det.uvigo.es/gl/node/219 Links: [1] http://labredes.det.uvigo.es/gl/biblio/author/2 [2] http://labredes.det.uvigo.es/gl/biblio/author/16 [3] http://labredes.det.uvigo.es/gl/biblio/author/1 [4] http://labredes.det.uvigo.es/gl/bi...