Background: Telomerase activity (TA) is considered as the biomarker for cardiovascular aging and cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). Recent studies suggest a link between statins and telomere biology that may be explained by anti-inflammatory actions of statins and their positive effect on TA. Until now, this effect has not been investigated in prospective randomized studies. We hypothesized that 1...

OBJECTIVES To assess the accuracy of a new noninvasive temporal artery (TA) thermometer in infants; to compare the accuracy of the TA thermometer with that of a tympanic thermometer, using rectal thermometry as the criterion standard; and to compare the tolerability of the TA thermometer with that of the tympanic and rectal thermometers. DESIGN Prospective evaluation of the accuracy of TA and...

Telescope Array (TA) is the largest ultrahigh energy cosmic-ray (UHECR) observatory in Northern Hemisphere. It explores origin of UHECRs by measuring their spectrum, arrival-direction distribution, and mass composition using a surface detector (SD) array covering approximately 700 km2 fluorescence (FD) stations. TA has found evidence for cluster cosmic rays with energies greater than 57 EeV. In...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the ability of α-tocopherol acetate (TA) and α-tocopherol (T), widely used ingredients in cosmetics, to cross the epidermal barrier using the neonatal rat as a model. MATERIALS AND METHODS The content of T and TA in four marketed products (A-D) and two experimental formulations (F1, F2) was investigated by HPLC. An in vitro permeation study was performed in neonatal r...

Bladder cancer is a highly heterogeneous neoplasm. We examined the gene expression profile in 3 bladder cancer stages (Ta, T1, T2) using expression microarray analysis of 40 bladder tumors. Differentially expressed genes were found by the t-test, with <0.005 as the significance threshold. KEGG pathway-enrichment analysis was used to study the signaling pathways of the genes. We found 36 genes t...

TAS loci in plant genomes encode transacting small interfering RNAs (ta-siRNAs) that regulate expression of a number of genes. The function of TAS3 precursor in Arabidopsis thaliana is controlled by two miR390 target sites flanking two ta-siARF sequences targeting mRNAs of ARF transcription factors. Cleavage of the 3'-miR390-site initiates ta-siRNAs biogenesis. Here we describe the new method f...

Time Petri Nets (TPN) and Timed Automata (TA) are widely-used formalisms for the modeling and analysis of timed systems. A recently-developed approach for the analysis of TPNs concerns their translation to TAs, at which point efficient analysis tools for TAs can then be applied. One feature of much of this previous work has been the use of timed reachability analysis on the TPN in order to cons...

The Ta (transcribed, subset a) subfamily of L1 LINEs (long interspersed elements) is characterized by a 3-bp ACA sequence in the 3' untranslated region and contains approximately 520 members in the human genome. Here, we have extracted 468 Ta L1Hs (L1 human specific) elements from the draft human genomic sequence and screened individual elements using polymerase-chain-reaction (PCR) assays to d...

山麦冬属( Li r io p e Lour .)植物系百合科植物 , 中国分布有 8 种(变种) 1 ] ,分别为山麦冬( Li r io p e s p ica ta Lour .) 、湖 北 山 麦 冬 ( Li r io pe sp icata Lour . var . prol i f e ra Y . T . Ma) 、短葶山麦冬 [ Li r io p e musacar li (Decne .) Bailey] 、阔叶山麦冬 ( Li r io p e p lat y phy l la Wang et Tang) 、甘肃山麦冬 [ Li r io p e kansuensi s (Batal .) C . H . Wright] 、禾 叶山麦冬[ Li r io pe g ram ini f olia (L .) Baker]和矮 小山麦冬[ Li r io p e ...

The stock market is an example of a complex system where process of decision-making involves great difficulties, since numerous inherent factors and a high level of noisiness influence the stock indexes. Technical analysis (TA) is one of the most popular methods widely used by stock traders (Dempster and Jones, 2001). TA proposes a set of numerous investment rules to the investor. The use of in...