BACKGROUND Although systemic inflammation is believed to cause upregulation of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAchRs) in muscle, chronic infections such as Chagas' disease occasionally are complicated by myasthenia gravis. The authors investigated how a nonlethal cecal ligation and puncture (CLP) peritonitis model in rats could affect muscle nAchR. METHODS On day 1, 4, 7, 14, or 21 after ...

Uncoupling protein 2 (UCP2) may be critical for intestinal barrier function which may play a key role in the development of sepsis, and insulin has been reported to have anti-inflammatory effects. Male Sprague-Dawley rats were randomly allocated into five groups: control group, cecal ligation and puncture (CLP) group, sham surgery group, CLP plus glucose-insulin-potassium (GIK) group, and CLP p...

abstract- in this study, effect of deficit irrigation with different salinity levels and planting methods (in-furrow and on-ridge) on nutrient and toxic ions uptake by rapeseed was investigated in a two-year experiment. the experiment was conducted at research station, located in the college of agriculture, shiraz university, i.r. of iran. results indicated that an increase in water stress leve...

We show that Constraint Logic Programming CLP can serve as a conceptual basis and as a practical implementation platform for the model checking of in nite state systems Our contributions are a semantics preserving translation of concurrent systems into CLP programs a method for verifying safety and liveness properties on the CLP programs produced by the translation We have implemented the metho...

The caseinolytic peptidase (Clp) core proteins are essential for plant growth and development, especially for chloroplast function. Antisense or overexpression of ClpP4, which is one of the Clp core subunits, causes chlorotic phenotypes in Arabidopsis. An E3 ligase gene, AtCHIP, has previously been found to ubiquitylate ClpP4 in vitro. ClpP4 antisense and overexpressing plants that also overexp...

Cell loss probability (clp) is one of the most important measures of quality of service in an ATM network. In this paper we present two routing algorithms for ATM networks that meet the clp requirements of bursty ON-OFF sources that request connection while ensuring that the clp requirements of the existing calls are not compromised. The rst algorithm checks the entire set of feasible routes wh...

The antioxidant effect of curry leaf powder (CLP) was determined by assessing the formation of lipid peroxides, free fatty acids (FFA) and thiobarbituric acid substances (TBARS) in raw ground and cooked goat meat patties during refrigerated storage. pH, water holding capacity and cooking loss per cent were not affected by curry leaf powder when added in raw ground goat meat. Fresh goat meat wit...

OBJECTIVE To compare craniofacial differences between twins discordant for surgically repaired unilateral cleft lip and palate (CLP) during the developmental ages and to test the effect of zygosity on the shape and size of the craniofacial skeleton of the same twins by means of thin plate spline (TPS) analysis. MATERIALS AND METHODS Lateral and posteroanterior (PA) cephalometric films from 19...

The aim of the present study was to identify the potential target biomarkers associated with burn sepsis using microarray. GSE1781 was downloaded from Gene Expression Omnibus and included a collective of three biological replicates for each of the three conditions: Sham‑Sham, Sham‑cecal ligation and puncture (CLP) and Burn‑CLP. Subsequently, limma was applied to screen the differentially expres...

This paper addresses two questions about voice disorders in patients with cleft lip and palate (CLP): 1. What is the actual prevalence of voice disorders in CLP and is this prevalence higher than in the non-cleft population? 2. Is there an interaction between hypernasality and phonatory dysfunction which can be assessed in terms of signal perturbation quotients? In the first study, 154 CLP pati...