Recent research suggested a metabolic implication of osteocalcin (OCN) in e.g. insulin sensitivity or steroid production. We used an untargeted metabolomics approach by analyzing plasma and urine samples of 931 participants using mass spectrometry to reveal further metabolic actions of OCN. Several detected relations between OCN and metabolites were strongly linked to renal function, however, a...

I 4 ¯ -carbon was first proposed by Zhang et al., this paper will report regarding this phase of carbon. The present paper reports the structural and elastic properties of the three-dimensional carbon allotrope I 4 ¯ -carbon using first-principles density functional theory. The related enthalpy, elastic constants, and phonon spectra confirm that the newly-predicted I 4 ¯ -carbon is thermodynami...

Vol. 27, No. 6, 2015 787 Received August 11, 2014, Revised January 10, 2015, Accepted for publication February 26, 2015 Corresponding author: Myoung Shin Kim, Department of Dermatology, Sanggye Paik Hospital, 1342 Dongil-ro, Nowon-gu, Seoul 01757, Korea. Tel: 82-2-950-1131, Fax: 82-2-931-8720, E-mail: etihwevol@ naver.com This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creativ...

Toshiaki Shimizu* and Naokuni Takeda Laboratory of Applied Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Fuchu, Tokyo 183, Japan Department of Biomedical Science, COSMO Research Institute, Gongendo, Satte, Saitama, 340-01, Japan Z. Naturforsch. 53c, 927-931 (1998); received May 14/June 12, 1998 Melatonin, Mamestra brassicae, Testis, HPLC-ECD, Metabolic Path...

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Recent investigations by Bender and Boettcher (Phys. Rev. Lett 80, 5243 (1998)) and Mezincescu ( J. Phys. A. 33, 4911 (2000)) have argued that the discrete spectrum of the non-hermitian potential V (x) = −ix3 should be real. We give further evidence for this through a novel formulation which transforms the general one dimensional Schrodinger equation (with complex potential) into a fourth order...

Trophos, Parc Scientifique de Luminy case 931, 13288 Marseille cedex 9, France (T.B., B.B., M.M., C.D., P.G., P.D., E.S., D.M., M.D., R.M.P.) ; Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO, USA (N.P.A., A.S.E., D.F.C.); U773 Inserm, Centre de Recherche Biologique Bichat Beaujeon (CRB3), Université Paris 7, Faculté de Médecine Bichat, 16 rue Henri Huchard, BP 416, 75018 Paris, Franc...

The authors investigated the relationship between asbestos exposure and respiratory cancer mortality among maintenance workers and other blue-collar workers at an Italian oil refinery. The cohort contained 931 men, 29,511 person-years, and 489 deaths. Poisson regression analysis using white-collar workers as an internal referent group provided relative risk estimates (RRs) for main causes of de...

A 23-kD pathogenesis-related protein (P23) is induced in tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill, cv Rutgers) plants when infected with citrus exocortis viroid. This protein is homologous to the salt-induced tomato NP24 protein (I. Rodrigo, P. Vera, R. Frank, V. Conejero [1991] Plant Mol Biol 16: 931-934). Further characterization of P23 has shown that this protein accumulates in vacuoles in assoc...

Nucleotide Polymorphism Typing with Double Restriction Mutagenesis Primer PCR, Mario Berger, Silke Zschemisch, Berthold Hocher, Detlev Mönks, Torsten Slowinski, Horst Halle, 4 Christoph Wanner, Ulrich Walter, 5 and Tom H. Lindner ( Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, University Clinic, Würzburg, Germany; 2 Center for Cardiovascular Research/Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, ...