CSE1L/CAS, a microtubule-associated, cellular apoptosis susceptibility protein, is highly expressed in various cancers. Microtubules are the target of paclitaxel-induced apoptosis. We studied the effects of increased or reduced CAS expression on cancer cell apoptosis induced by chemotherapeutic drugs including paclitaxel. Our results showed that CAS overexpression enhanced apoptosis induced by ...

Evaporation-driven colloidal self-assembly is a promising family of routes to large-area, low-cost, if imperfect, photonic crystals. The simplest example occurs at the surface of a stagnant, evaporating colloidal suspension. For an evaporating colloidal suspension in which the interface falls faster than the particles sediment, particles will accumulate at the solvent-air interface. If neither ...

BACKGROUND Carotid artery stenting (CAS) and carotid endarterectomy (CEA) are alternative strategies for stroke prevention in patients with atherosclerotic carotid disease. Although randomized clinical trials are the gold standard for assessing the relative benefits of different treatments, observational research is necessary for determining "real-world" effectiveness. Current recommendations l...

The aim of this study was to compare the clinical outcomes of early versus delayed carotid artery stenting (CAS) for symptomatic cerebral watershed infarction (sCWI) patients due to stenosis of the proximal internal carotid artery. We retrospectively collected clinical data of those who underwent early or delayed CAS from March 2011 to April 2014. The time of early CAS and delayed CAS was withi...

The age-related imbalance between the increased bone resorption and decreased formation results in the bone loss and osteoporosis. Recently, as the functional role of the seven transmembrane spanning extracellular calcium sensing receptor (CaS) in bone cells has been discovered, the possibility that the bone CaS could potentially be targeted by antagonists to control the bone remodeling has bee...

solar cells, [ 4 ] and photonic crystals, [ 5 ] 2D hexagonal structures and 3D inverted opal (IO) structures have recently been intensively studied. In order to fabricate uniform IO structures consisting of regular arrangements of spherical void spaces surrounded by solid walls, 2D and 3D colloidal crystals consisting of a regular arrangement of uniform spherical particles are required. To date...

THÈSE dirigée par : M. Yan CHEN Professeur, ISTO, Université d’Orléans-CNRS, France M. Qingchen WANG Professeur, IGG, CAS, Chine RAPPORTEURS : M. Marc JOLIVET CR, CNRS, Géosciences Rennes, France M. Bihong FU Professeur, KLEDI, CAS, Chine JURY : M. Rixiang ZHU Professeur, IGG, CAS, Chine, Président de Jury M. Romain AUGIER MCF, ISTO, Université d’Orléans-CNRS, France M. Bihong FU Professeur, KL...

The previously proposed cunning ant system (cAS), a variant of the ACO algorithm, worked well on the TSP and the results showed that the cAS could be one of the most promising ACO algorithms. In this paper, we apply cAS to solving QAP. We focus our main attention on the effects of applying local search and parallelization of the cAS. Results show promising performance of cAS on QAP.

Determination of vitamin B12 in all forms of infant, adult, and/ or pediatric formula (powders, ready-to-feed liquids, and liquid concentrates). For the purpose of this SMPR, vitamin B12 is defined as cobalt-containing corrinoids with the biological activity of cyanocobalamin such as cyanocobalamin (CAS 68-19-9), aquocobalamin (CAS 13422-52-1), hydroxycobalamin (CAS 13422-51-0), methylcobalamin...

A prop-03 de la tetanie de l'cnfant: presentation de quelques cas, reYue de la. litterature.  Parmi les diverses etiologies de la tetanie in­fantile, le rachitisme et la malabsorption sont les causes les plus frequentes en Iran.  La tetanie s'observe plus volontiers au debut du rachitisme et dans des stades avances. Un seul cas de tetanie fut obse:rve chez un enfant de trois mo:is, ancien pre...