We measured the relative positions between two pairs of compact extragalactic sources (CESs), J1925-2219 \& J1923-2104 (C1--C2) and J1928-2035 (C1--C3) on 2020 October 23--25 2021 February 5 (totaling four epochs), respectively, using Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) at 15 GHz. Accounting for deflection angle dominated by Jupiter, as well contributions from Sun, planets other than Earth, Moon Ga...

This article is concerned with characteristic Sturmian words of slope α and 1−α (denoted by cα and c1−α respectively), where α ∈ (0, 1) is an irrational number such that α = [0; 1 + d1, d2, . . . , dn] with dn ≥ d1 ≥ 1. It is known that both cα and c1−α are fixed points of non-trivial (standard) morphisms σ and σ̂, respectively, if and only if α has a continued fraction expansion as above. Accor...

Angiogenesis occurs during normal physiologic processes as well as under pathologic conditions such as tumor growth. Serial analysis of gene expression profiling revealed genes [tumor endothelial markers (TEM)] that are overexpressed in tumor endothelial cells compared with normal adult endothelial cells. Because blood vessel development of malignant tumors under certain conditions may include ...

OBJECTIVE Patients with cardiorenal syndrome (CRS) have high cardiovascular morbidity. Endothelial progenitor cells (EPC) constitute an endogenous vascular repairsystem, protecting against atherosclerosis development. Erythropoietin (EPO) treatment may have beneficial effects by mobilizing EPC from the bonemarrow. Our objective is to determine EPC levels and effects of EPO therapy on EPC levels...

Endothelial progenitor cell (EPC) dysfunction is an important mediator of vascular disease in diabetes. We aimed to elucidate the mechanism of adhesion of EPC to diabetic and non-diabetic arteries and to study the effect of the anti-diabetic drug pioglitazone. Peripheral blood mononuclear cells were isolated from healthy donors. Human internal mammary arteries (HIMA) were isolated from patients...

The culture of endothelial progenitor cells (EPC) provides an excellent tool to research on EPC biology and vascular regeneration and vasculogenesis. The use of different protocols to obtain EPC cultures makes it difficult to obtain comparable results in different groups. This work offers a systematic comparison of the main variables of most commonly used protocols for EPC isolation, culture an...

A newly introduced compound, EPC-K1, represents a phosphate diester linkage of vitamin E and vitamin C. The effect of EPC-K1 on the reperfusion injury was evaluated in a heterotopic cardiac transplantation model using syngenic combination rats. Prior to the warm ischemia, 12mg EPC-K1/kg was administered intravenously to donor rats. After 15 min of warm ischemic time, hearts were harvested and p...

Aging is associated with an increased risk for atherosclerosis. A possible cause is low numbers and dysfunction of endothelial progenitor cells (EPC) which insufficiently repair damaged vascular walls. We hypothesized that decreased levels of insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) during age contribute to dysfunctional EPC. We measured the effect of growth hormone (GH), which increases endogenous...

The relevance of the article is connected with rapid growth investor`s interest in project implementation renewable power plant construction, through conclusion so-called EPC-contracts because Ukrainian legislation can’t properly keep up to carry out legal regulation public relations, which forces business use foreign jurisdiction rules or standard contract forms developed by specialized intern...

EPC is a known coding scheme for RFID equipment. This paper suggest a scheme of an efficiently compression for EPC.