OBJECTIVES To investigate the effects of adenovirus-mediated inducible nitric oxide synthase gene transfection on bladder transitional cell carcinoma T24 cells, and to provide novel insights and approaches to clinical therapies against bladder transitional cell carcinoma. METHODS Firstly, construct recombinant adenovirus vector pAd-iNOS of iNOS, followed by transfection of pAd-iNOS into HECK2...

INFERRING PHYLOGENETIC RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN CLOSELY RELATED TAXA CAN BE HINDERED BY THREE FACTORS: (1) the lack of informative molecular variation at short evolutionary timescale; (2) the lack of established markers in poorly studied taxa; and (3) the potential phylogenetic conflicts among different genomic regions due to incomplete lineage sorting or introgression. In this context, Restrictio...

Let G be a 3-edge-connected graph of order n and radius rad(G). Then the inequality rad(G) ≤ 1 3 n+ 17 3 is proved. Moreover, graphs are constructed to show that the bound is asymptotically sharp.

Cultures of Entamoeba histolytica were subjected to pure gamma radiation from a cobalt-60 source. No effect upon population growth was noticed following dosages below 100,000 RAD. A noticeable increase in lag phase was observed following exposure to about 100,000 RAD. A dose of more than 195,300 RAD resulted in death as indicated by failure of cultures to grow. The relation between increasing l...

INTRODUCTION Human enteroviruses represent the most common etiological agents of aseptic meningitis. Rapid diagnosis of aseptic meningitis affects the management of patients. OBJECTIVE The aim of this work was to assess the efficacy of rapid antigen detection (RAD) assay for the confirmation of human enteroviruses in comparison to that of the conventional cell culture (CCC), and to identify t...

The aim of the present study was to evaluate the potential antidiabetic effects of two-component drug Subetta and its components (release-active dilutions of antibodies to β -subunit insulin receptor (RAD of Abs to β -InsR) and to endothelial nitric oxide synthase (RAD of Abs to eNOS)) in Goto-Kakizaki (Paris colony) (GK/Par) diabetic rats. Subetta was administered orally for 28 days once daily...

Speckle-tracking echocardiography (STE) uses a two-dimensional echocardiographic image to estimate two orthogonal strain components. The aim of this study was to assess sensitivity of circumferential (S(circ)) and radial (S(rad)) strains to infarct-induced left ventricular (LV) remodeling and scarring of the LV in a rat. To assess the relationship among S(circ), S(rad), and scar size, two-dimen...

Broadcasting is an elementary operation in wireless multihop networks. Flooding is a simple broadcast protocol but it frequently causes serious redundancy, contention and collisions. Probability based methods are promising because they can reduce broadcast messages without additional hardware and control packets. In this paper, the counterbased scheme which is one of the probability based metho...

Pulmonary fibrosis is characterized by excessive deposition of extracellular matrix proteins within the pulmonary interstitium. The new macrolide immunosuppressant SDZ RAD, a rapamycin analogue, inhibits growth-factor dependent proliferation of mesenchymal cells and might therefore be of therapeutic interest for the treatment of fibrotic lung disease. In this study the effect of SDZ RAD on lung...

Modelling business processes using BPMN has been emerging as the preferred choice for organisations seeking to enact their business processes in service-oriented environments. However, a number of organisations have their business processes modelled using Role Activity Diagramming, RAD. In this research, we introduce a new approach to translating RAD business process models to their respective ...