AIMS This study aimed to investigate the expression of EphA7 in human laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma (LSCC) tissues and disclose the potential roles and molecular mechanisms of EphA7 in LSCC. METHODS In the present study, we examined EphA7 expression and its function and mechanism in LSCC. EphA7 expression levels were investigated by quantitative real-time PCR (qRT-PCR), western blotting, ...

Description: Recently, there have been a great deal of research efforts on cross-layer design in wireless networks (see, e.g., [1, 2, 3] and references therein). Furthermore, the past decades gave birth to a large number of innovative techniques at the physical layer (PHY) to overcome the impact of wireless fading channels and to support the diverse quality-of-service (QoS) requirements for het...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether the correlation between the mean change in disease activity and the mean change in synovial sublining (sl) CD68 expression could be demonstrated across different academic centers. METHODS Synovial biopsies obtained at arthroscopy from patients with rheumatoid arthritis before and 160 days after rituximab therapy were selected and coded. Paired sections were proc...

The capability of hardware is constantly developing in capacity, speed and efficiency. This development has sparked industrial and academic interest in how best to utilise the increased capability. It is now possible to integrate many systems that in the past might have existed as different nodes, into the one consolidated architecture. This desire to centralise functionality leads to the poten...

BACKGROUND The presence of pericardial effusion (PE) is considered to be suggestive of inflammation in suspected myocarditis. However, the incremental value of assessing for PE in addition to comprehensive cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging remains unclear. METHODS In total, 132 patients with suspected acute (AMC) or chronic myocarditis (CMC) were included. All patients underwent endomy...

Adaptive modulation control (AMC) has been proposed as the next generation modulation method for increasing network performance in cellular networks. Adaptive modulation is a powerful technique to improve the spectral efficiency in wireless transmission over fading channels. Similarly, it is possible to apply the adaptive modulation technique to Call Admission Control (CAC) scheme in order to e...

The IEEE 802.16 technology (WiMAX) is a promising technology for providing last-mile connectivity by radio link due to its high speed data rates, low cost of deployment, and large coverage area. However, the maximum number of channels defined in the current system may cause a potential bottleneck and limit the overall system capacity. The aim of this paper is to compare the impact on system per...

Previous data from our laboratory have indicated that nitric oxide (NO) acting at the presynaptic level increases the amplitude of muscular contraction (AMC) of the phrenic-diaphragm preparations isolated from indirectly stimulated rats, but, by acting at the postsynaptic level, it reduces the AMC when the preparations are directly stimulated. In the present study we investigated the effects in...