Plants are sessile organisms which have evolved a wide range of strategies to adjust to their environment. As an example, many species of flowering plants need to be pollinated by an insect. To attract pollinators and seed dispersers and thus to ensure their reproductive and evolutionary success, they release diverse blends of volatile compounds from their flowers. The bewildering array of stru...

Background and Purpose—The sequelae of intracerebral hemorrhage involve multiple organ damage including electrocardiographic alteration, although the mechanism(s) behind myocardial dysfunction is unknown. The aim of this study was to examine the impact of intracerebral hemorrhage on cardiomyocyte contractile function, intracellular Ca handling, Ca cycling proteins, I kappa B beta protein (I B) ...

The segmentations by human, TPS method, and SPM method are given in Figure 3. The summary table for all the coefficients and indices is given in Table 1, which shows that the performance of TPS is similar to that of SPM by comparing against manual segmentation. Also, the TPS segmentations tend to have smaller variances than the SPM segmentations. The subpixel property of TPS method is shown in ...

PURPOSE To investigate the performances of two commercial treatment planning systems (TPS) for Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy (VMAT) optimization regarding prostate cancer. The TPS were compared in terms of dose distributions, treatment delivery parameters and quality control results. MATERIALS AND METHODS For ten patients, two VMAT plans were generated: one with Monaco TPS (Elekta) and one...

Therapeutic peptides (TPs) are a class of peptide-based agents capable of eliciting a therapeutic response by modulation of targets within or on the surface of cells. TPs are advantageous because they are amenable to rational design, they have high specificity for their targets and can be made to target almost any protein of interest, including proteins for which we have no small-molecule drugs...

background: the present work aims to study the out-of-field photon calculation accuracy of a commercial treatment planning system (tps), oncentra, for three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy (3d-crt) and intensity modulated radiation therapy (imrt) treatment techniques from elekta synergy medical linear accelerator. materials and methods: accuracy of individual out-of-field dose components was...

Based on 3 generations transcriptome sequencing technology-PacBio SMRT single-molecule real-time method, supplemented with 2 generation a complete and accurate unigene library was constructed. After comparing closely related species, the cellulose synthase gene ( CesA )  4 ,  7 9  gene sequences of  Miscanthus lutarioriparius  were spliced named as  MlCesA4 Ml...

BACKGROUND Adolescents who live in tobacco producing regions may not respond favourably to anti-industry ads. OBJECTIVE To examine whether state level involvement in tobacco production appears to limit the effectiveness of anti-industry ads to prevent tobacco use among adolescents in the USA. DESIGN Time trend analyses were done using repeated cross sectional data from six waves of the Lega...

Linear chromosomes and linear plasmids of Streptomyces possess covalently bound terminal proteins (TPs) at the 5' ends of their telomeres. These TPs are proposed to act as primers for DNA synthesis that patches the single-stranded gaps at the 3' ends during replication. Most ('archetypal') Streptomyces TPs (designated Tpg) are highly conserved in size and sequence. In addition, there are a numb...