Fourier transform spectroscopy and interference microscopy are combined to provide the world's first multi-wavelength optical fiber refractive index profile (RIP) measurements. The RIP and its spectral dependence are obtained with submicron spatial resolution across an octave stretching from about 500 nm to the 1 micron operating band of Yb-doped fiber lasers and amplifiers. In contrast to comm...

The generation of nuclear signaling proteins by regulated intramembrane proteolysis (RIP) is a new paradigm of signal transduction. Mammalian proteins that are processed by RIP include SREBP-1, Notch-1, amyloid precursor protein (APP), and ErbB-4. Intramembranous gamma-secretase cleavage of APP plays a central role in Alzheimer's disease by generating the amyloid beta protein. An intriguing pos...

The essence of the preconditioning effect is activation urgent defense mechanisms adaptation as a result short episode weak, non-damaging hypoxic or ischemic exposure, which contributes to an increase in tolerance subsequent delayed, more severe exposure hypoxia ischemia. Aim study was assess literature data on possibility using method remote (RIP) non-pharmacological for correcting physical per...

According to a popular quip, fittingly though incorrectly attributed to the great dyspeptic metaphysicist Arthur Schopenhauer, all truth passes through three stages: first, it is ridiculed; second, it is violently opposed; third, it is accepted as self-evident (1). In the iconoclastic world of biomedical research, however, that is so eager to challenge the old and propose novel paradigms, the e...

We examine nonrelativistic particles that decay into relativistic products in big rip, little and pseudorip models for the future evolution of Universe. In contrast to decays occur standard $\mathrm{\ensuremath{\Lambda}}\mathrm{CDM}$, ratio $r$ energy density initially decaying can decrease with time all these models. rip models, always goes zero asymptotically, while this evolves infinity or a...

Compressive Sampling (CS) describes a method for reconstructing high-dimensional sparse signals from a small number of linear measurements. Fundamental to the success of CS is the existence of special measurement matrices which satisfy the so-called Restricted Isometry Property (RIP). In essence, a matrix satisfying RIP is such that the lengths of all sufficiently sparse vectors are approximate...

BACKGROUND We are reporting a case of granulomatous panuveitis in the right eye following penetrating injury to the left eye. FINDINGS A 34-year-old female was diagnosed to have sympathetic ophthalmia on treatment with systemic steroids. Vision did not improve in spite of aggressive systemic steroid therapy. On examination, patient had large retinal pigment epithelial rip nasal to the disc wi...

To compare the effects of a potent rat renin inhibitor peptide (RIP) and angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor on the intrarenal and plasma renin-angiotensin systems, anesthetized Sprague-Dawley rats were treated with an infusion of vehicle, ramipril or graded doses of the rat RIP (acetyl-His-Pro-Phe-Val-statine-Leu-he-NH2) for 30 min. Kidney and plasma samples were processed rapidly, a...

In the filamentous fungus Neurospora crassa, phospholipase C may play a role in hyphal extension at the growing tips as part of a growth-sensing mechanism that activates calcium release from internal stores to mediate continued expansion of the hyphal tip. One candidate for a tip-localized phospholipase C is PLC-1. We characterized morphology and growth characteristics of a knockout mutant (KO ...

Recent advances in human islet transplantation have highlighted the need for expanding the pool of beta-cells available for transplantation. We have developed three transgenic models in which growth factors (hepatocyte growth factor [HGF], placental lactogen, or parathyroid hormone-related protein) have been targeted to the beta-cell using rat insulin promoter (RIP). Each displays an increase i...