Background Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis is the most devastating diffuse fibrosing lung disease which remains refractory to therapy. Protease activated receptor (PAR)-2 is an important mediator of fibrosis and PAR-2 deficiency limits bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis. Here, we addressed whether PAR-2 deficiency persistently reduces bleomycininduced pulmonary fibrosis or merely delays disease...

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As alternatives to conventional metals, new plasmonic materials offer many advantages in the rapidly growing fields of plasmonics and metamaterials. These advantages include low intrinsic loss, semiconductor-based design, compatibility with standard nanofabrication processes, tunability, and others. Transparent conducting oxides such as Al:ZnO, Ga:ZnO and indium-tin-oxide (ITO) enable many high...

notions of sovereignty and structural protections than on actual outcomes. This has manifested itself both in the recent movement away from Garcia and in the underlying Garcia analysis itself. One of the formalistic rubrics employed by the Court has been the notion of a sphere of state activity inviolate from federal interference. Originated in National League of Cities, this concept resurfaced...

Data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth is used to empirically estimate the impact on the earnings capacities of young female dropouts if they were to return to complete either a regular high school education or a General Educational Development (GED) degree. To reduce the potential upward bias on these estimated rates of return, dropouts are allowed to have lower levels of innate a...

Lycopene in tomatoes and tomato products is routinely determined by extraction into organic solvents and spectrophotometric quantification. The direct determination of lycopene, by measuring the color or other optical properties of a tomato homogenate, would be an attractive alternative. We have evaluated two instruments for this purpose. The color of tomatoes and tomato products is routinely d...

653. Spencer, A., Prince, H.M., Roberts, A.W., Prosser,I.W., Bradstock, K.F., Coyle, L., Gill, D.S.,Horvath, N., Reynolds, J. & Kennedy, N. (2009)Consolidation therapy with low-dose thalido-mide and prednisolone prolongs the survival of multiple myeloma patients undergoing a singleautologous stem-cell transplantation procedure. Journal of Clinical Oncology, 27, 1788–1793. Sr...

introduction population growth and immigration are major causes of the most social changes in rural areas. accordingly, political change in a country is inevitable. so, this issue of iran’s rural settlements adopted and evolves. the rural habitations with population changes, the intensity of the positive effects of decentralization are receiving. your changes have been noted as being the basis ...

The one-dimensional nonlinear diffusion equation is solved by a perturbation technique. It is assumed that the diffusivity varies as a nonnegative power of the concentration, while the concentration at the supply surface varies as another power of time. The resulting similarity solution that has been derived via a perturbation scheme remains valid for all times and all distances. Explicit serie...

A new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 emerged at the start of 2020 with rapid worldwide spread. It is causative agent Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). The resulting pandemic has been challenging for centres undertaking autologous and allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplants (HSCT). One main risks in HSCT infection susceptibility, including viral infections, which are often more severe life-th...