Clonogenic assays are the gold standard for determining radiosensitivity, which governs tumor response to radiation therapy. Although multiple studies of clonogenic assays on cancer cell lines have been published, the robustness of this technique has not been examined by comparative analysis of data from different studies. To address this issue, we investigated the inter-assay precision of clon...

Enrichment from the easily accessible blood amino acid pool is commonly used as precursor enrichment to calculate rates of muscle protein fractional synthesis in relevant human studies in lieu of the less accessible muscle fluid amino acid pool. However, the accuracy of this approach depends largely on the extent to which there is low discrepancy in free amino acid enrichment between blood and ...

A sandwich framework of π-conjugated unsaturated hydrocarbon ligands was found to provide a unique coordination environment that facilitates unusual coupling d8 RhI and d10 M0 (M=Pd, Pt). The molecular orbital analysis showed the electron-accepting ability through back-donation allows formation dσ-type Rh-Pd bond in (d-d)18 electron system. More information can be Communication by S. Sakaki, T....

and Applied Analysis 3 The quasi-uniform space X,U will always be considered to be a topological space with the topology obtained by using as the family of all neighborhoods of a point x0 ∈ X all sets of the formU x0 {x ∈ X : x0, x ∈ U}, whereU runs overU. Such a topology is called topology of the quasi-uniformity. Note that each topology onX is induced by a quasi-uniformity see 8, 9 , the most...