Sperm immobilizing (SIF) and sperm agglutinating factor (SAF) (already isolated in our laboratory) from Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli, respectively, have shown 100 % infertility in female mice. These microbial factors neither induce any abnormalities in the vaginal cell morphology nor do they affect structural integrity of vaginal epithelium. Therefore, the present study was carrie...

Yih Huang and Philip K. McKinley Department of Computer Science Michigan State University East Lansing, Michigan 48824 fhuangyih, [email protected] Abstract In this paper, we continue our previous work on SwitchAided Flooding (SAF) for use in ATM networks. SAF-based protocols take advantage of hardware-supported cell relay and cell duplication in order to reduce the time needed to dissemina...

Purpose To analyze the association between skin autofluorescence (sAF), estimating tissue accumulation of advanced glycation end-products (AGEs), and open angle glaucoma (OAG) in an elderly population. Methods The Antioxydants, Lipides Essentiels, Nutrition and maladies OculaiRes (ALIENOR) study is an on-going epidemiologic population-based study on age-related eye diseases. In 2009 to 2010, ...

Based on epidemiological and pathological studies, it is becoming increasingly clear that matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) play an important role in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis by participating in vascular remodeling, smooth muscle cell migration, and plaque disruption. MMP-14, because of its unique ability to cause pericellular degradation, its broad substrate specificity, its synthesi...

To compensate for the inability of the SAF to eliminate noise in diffuse noise fields, we have proposed a hybrid system integrating the SAF system and Wiener filtering (called SAFWF here), and have examined its performance in an isolated nonreverberant sound room [4]. Based on the promising results obtained, we further evaluate the performance of the SAFWF system in real-life mobile and vehicul...

AIMS The aim of this study was to investigate the role of gap junctions in atrial fibrillation (AF) by analysing the effects of a gap junction enhancer and blocker on AF vulnerability and electrophysiological properties of isolated hearts. METHODS AND RESULTS The acute atrial stretch model of AF in the isolated rabbit heart was used. Sustained AF (SAF) was induced by a burst of high-frequency...

Perpendicularly magnetized tunnel junctions (p-MTJs) that contain synthetic antiferromagnetic (SAF) frames show promise as reliable building blocks to meet the demands of perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA)-based spintronic devices. In particular, Co/Pd multilayer-based SAFs have been widely employed due to their outstanding PMA features. However, the widespread utilization of Co/Pd multila...

DEK is an abundant chromatin protein in metazoans reaching copy numbers of several millions/nucleus. Previous work has shown that human DEK, a protein of 375 amino acids, has two functional DNA-binding domains, of which one resides in a central part of the molecule and contains sequences corresponding to the scaffold attachment factor-box (SAF-box) domain as found in a growing number of nuclear...

This paper describes data related to a research article titled, "Fas-antisense long noncoding RNA is differentially expressed during maturation of human erythrocytes and confers resistance to Fas-mediated cell death" [1]. Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) are increasingly appreciated for their capacity to regulate many steps of gene expression. While recent studies suggest that many lncRNAs are fun...