A Retraction of the Original Research article “Curcumin Improves Palmitate-Induced Insulin Resistance in Human Umbilical Vein Endothelial Cells by Maintaining Proteostasis Endoplasmic Reticulum”Ye M, Qiu H, Cao Y, Zhang Mi Yu J, Wang C. Curcumin Reticulum. Front Pharmacol. 2017 Mar 21;8:148. doi: 10.3389/fphar.2017.00148.Following publication, concerns were raised regarding integrity images pub...

congenital generalized lipodystrophies (cgls) are very rare autosomal recessive disorders which have four types.of the four cgl types, bscl2 (berardinelli–seip congenital lipodystrophy type 2) is the result of mutations in the bscl2/seipingene.bscl2 which is the most severe lipodystrophic phenotype is characterized by generalized lipodystrophy, overgrowth,acanthosisnigricans, hepatomegaly, insu...

Techniques for fertilizing golden hamster eggs in vitro have recently been developed (4, 14). Consequently, sperm entry into the egg can be followed with the phase-contrast microscope, and after semination eggs can be fixed at desired intervals for subsequent examination with the electron microscope. The probability of obtaining thin sections that demonstrate sperm penetration of an egg is enha...

The impact of aging on cell loss in the human retina was examined in foveal and temporal equatorial regions in eyes from 35 donors with ages spanning a 78-yr period from the second to the ninth decade of life. Equatorial cones and retinal pigment epithelial cells (RPE) decreased at uniform rates from the second to the ninth decade, 16 and 14 cells/mm/yr, respectively. Equatorial rods and cells ...

Several investigations have been carried out to identify the factors that are responsible for the day-to-day variability in the occurrence of equatorial spread-F (ESF). But the precise forecasting of ESF on a day-to-day basis is still far from reality. The nonlinear development and the sustenance of ESF/plasma bubbles is decided by the background ionospheric conditions, such as the base height ...

The unexpected and prolonged persistence of warm conditions over the tropical Pacific during the early 1990s can be attributed to an interdecadal climate fluctuation that involves changes in the properties of the equatorial thermocline arising as a result of an influx of water with anomalous temperatures from higher latitudes. The influx affects equatorial sea-surface temperatures and hence the...

In this paper we show that there is no local equatorial characterization of zonoids in odd dimensions. This gives a negative answer to the conjecture posed by W. Weil in 1977 and shows that the local equatorial characterization of zonoids may be given only in even dimensions. In addition we prove a similar result for intersection bodies and show that there is no local characterization of these ...