AIM To investigate the role of arachidonic acid derived chemotactic factor, LTB(4), in the development of endotoxin induced uveitis (EIU), using mice deficient in the BLT1 gene which encodes the high affinity LTB(4) receptor. METHODS BLT1 gene deficient and wild type BALB/c mice were injected intravitreally with Escherichia coli 055:B5 lipopolysaccharide (250 ng/2 microl). Number of leukocyte...

Associations between self-blame and anxiety and depression symptoms in a sample of 76 women with breast cancer were investigated. At diagnosis, behavioral self-blame was associated with increased distress; at 3 months postdiagnosis, characterological self-blame was positively associated with affective symptoms and behavioral self-blame approached significance (p = .07); and at 6 months, behavio...

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This paper estimates the standard and tax-adjusted market risk premiums in New Zealand using historical data between 1931-2002 and a variant of the Siegel (1992) methodology. Similar to Siegel we present evidence that real bond yields in New Zealand were low over the period 1931-2002 and this may bias upwards an Ibbotsontype estimate of the market risk premium. Using an estimate for the histori...

Investigation of transcription factors (TFs) and their downstream regulated genes (targets) is a significant issue in post-genome era, which can provide a brand new vision for some vital biological process. However, information of TFs and their targets in mammalian is far from sufficient. Here, we developed an integrated TF platform (ITFP), which included abundant TFs and their targets of mamma...

Cellulases are a complex of enzymes necessary for the complete solubilization cellulose in sugars, thus playing key role natural carbon cycle through hydrolysis lignocellulosic structures. The aim this study was to evaluate increase capacity Talaromyces amestolkiae CMIAT 055 produce cellulases by optimizing components culture medium containing banana pseudostem as an inducer, well different agi...