OBJECTIVE The term "receptor-associated prorenin system" (RAPS) refers to the pathogenic mechanisms whereby prorenin binding to its receptor dually activates the tissue renin-angiotensin system (RAS) and RAS-independent intracellular signaling via the receptor. The aim of the present study was to define the association of the RAPS with diabetes-induced retinal inflammation. RESEARCH DESIGN AN...

the 13c chemical shifts for a series of compounds which includes carboxylic acids, aldehydes, ethers, ketones and hydrocarbons were simulated by using the parametric techniques. the observed chemical shifts were related to numerically encoded structural parametes called descriptors. two new electronic descriptors were added to the previous descriptors. ploting of experimental versus calculated ...

the fact that the properties of a molecule are tightly connected to its structural  characteristics  is one of the fundamental concepts in chemistry. in this connection,  graph theory has been successfully applied in developing some relationships between topological indices and some thermodynamic properties. so ,  a novel method for computing the new descriptors to construct a quantitative rela...

The rat recombinant renin/prorenin receptor (AB188298 in DDJB), which conjugated with FLAG epitope in its N-terminus, was expressed in a baculovirus expression system. The recombinant receptor, prepared from the cytoplasmic fraction of the insect cells, was identified by Western blotting using anti-FLAG antibody. Prorenin as well as renin bound to the receptor with different binding affinities....

This paper first presents a new oRGB-SIFT descriptor, and then integrates it with other color SIFT features to produce the novel Color SIFT Fusion (CSF) and the Color Grayscale SIFT Fusion (CGSF) descriptors for image classification with special applications to biometrics. Classification is implemented using a novel EFM-KNN classifier, which combines the Enhanced Fisher Model (EFM) and the K Ne...

Aims: Moral distress elicits some responses from nurses. Identifying these responses can lead into developing effective strategies which assist nurses with facing them. The present study tries to elicit responses of ICU nurses to moral

We previously generated transgenic mice carrying a large P1 artificial chromosome (PAC160) encompassing a 160-kb segment containing the human renin gene, two upstream genes, and one downstream gene. We also previously generated mutant PAC160 constructs lacking the distal enhancer and concluded it is required to maintain baseline expression of human renin, but is not required for tissue-specific...