Staphylococcus aureus is the most common bacterium present in upper respiratory tract, and the toxins it produced are involved in allergic inflammation pathogenesis. In this study, we investigated the clinical significance of IgE in association with staphylococcal superantigens in allergic asthma with rhinitis (BAwAR) and allergic rhinitis alone (AR). We recruited 100 patients with BAwAR (group...

Radiotherapy and chemotherapy are effective cancer treatments due to their ability to generate DNA damage. The major lethal lesion is the DNA double-strand break (DSB). Human cells predominantly repair DSBs by non-homologous end joining (NHEJ), which requires Ku70, Ku80, DNA-PKcs, DNA ligase IV and accessory proteins. Repair is initiated by the binding of the Ku heterodimer at the ends of the D...

conclusions light and temperature were both relevant factors that contributed to the growth and beta-carotene accumulation of the three d. salina strains, and nahco3 had significantly positive effects on growth. the degree of impact of the different factors on cell growth was temperature > nahco3 > light intensity > kno3 > co (nh2)2 > strains; the impact on beta-carotene accumulation was temper...

The aim of the article is to trigger debate and set theoretical basis for further research on a framework Polish paradiplomacy. It also an invitation discussion desirable vision local diplomacy, from perspective foreign policy. analysis focuses institutional dimension paradiplomacy, which was shaped into civic policy (LCD), in 2012. Sources consist mainly official documents communications. auth...

In this paper we develop methods for classifying Baker-Richter-Szymik's Azumaya algebras over a commutative ring spectrum, especially in the largely inaccessible case where is nonconnective. We give obstruction-theoretic tools, constructing and these their automorphisms with Goerss-Hopkins obstruction theory, descent-theoretic applying Lurie's work on $\infty$-categories to show that finite Gal...

Multiferroics Project (MF), ERATO, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), c/o Department of Applied Physics, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan Department of Applied Physics, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan Department of Physics, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan Institute of Mult...

To evaluate the clinical utility of a new method with dynamic single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and scatter and attenuation compensation to estimate both total and regional liver function quantitatively. Five controls, 20 patients with chronic liver disease, and 2 patients with Budd-Chiari syndrome were studied. Dynamic liver SPECT data were acquired during 20 minutes after inj...