In atopic dermatitis (AD), skin infiltrating leukocytes are mainly Type 2 lymphocytes that produce IL-4 and IL-13, thus AD is classified as a disease; however, in the actual inflammation, 1 3 cells, well lymphocytes, intermingle inflamed lesions. Here, using mouse model of which caspase-1 was specifically amplified under keratin 14 induction, we analyzed sequential changes 1, 2, inflammatory cy...

We have made surface plasmon resonance (SPR) measurements of yeast iso-1-cytochrome c (Cyt c) on a gold surface. Angle-resolved SPR curves are recorded as a function of urea concentration before and after self-assembly of the Cyt c. Exposure to a urea solution causes denaturation of Cyt c, which shifts the minimum in the SPR curve to a larger angle and decreases the signal amplitude. The Gibbs ...

Ever increasing computational power along with ever more sophisticated statistical computing techniques is making it possible to fit ever more complex statistical models. Among the popular, computationally intensive methods, the Gibbs sampler (Geman and Geman, 1984) has been spotlighted because of its simplicity and power to effectively generate samples from a high-dimensional probability distr...

Given a countable graph G and a finite graph H, we consider Hom(G ,H) the set of graph homomorphisms from G to H and we study Gibbs measures supported on Hom(G ,H). We develop some sufficient and other necessary conditions on Hom(G ,H) for the existence of Gibbs specifications satisfying strong spatial mixing (with exponential decay rate). We relate this with previous work of Brightwell and Win...