Podocyte loss was well known in type 2 diabetic nephropathy patients. The objective of the present study was to determine the number of podocytes and the degree of albuminuria in diabetic KK-A/Ta (KK-A) mice which had been reported as diabetic nephropathy model. Diabetic KK-A mice, diabetic KK/Ta mice and nondiabetic BALB/cA Jcl (BALB/cA) mice were studied. We analyzed glomerular lesions in all...

The squashed Kaluza-Klien (KK) black holes differ from the Schwarzschild black holes with asymptotic flatness or the black strings even at energies for which the KK modes are not excited yet, so that squashed KK black holes open a window in higher dimensions. Another important feature is that the squashed KK black holes are apparently stable and, thereby, let us avoid the Gregory-Laflamme insta...

This study was conducted to investigate the susceptibility of 4 strains (AKR, CF#l, C3H/He and KK) of inbred mice to infection with Schistosoma japonicum. The worm recovery was highest in KK strain (50%), followed by C3H/He (42%) , AKR (42%) and CF #1(38 %) respectively. The worm burden of the females of strain KK was significantly higher than that of the males. The worm maturity was highest in...

We study the classification of group actions on C*-algebras up to equivariant KK-equivalence. show that any action is equivariantly KK-equivalent an a simple, purely infinite C*-algebra. conjecture Izumi equivalent equivalence between cocycle conjugacy and KK-equivalence for torsion-free amenable groups Kirchberg algebras. Let G be cyclic prime order. describe its KK-equivalence, based previous...

Jonathan Schaffer (2010) has summoned a new sort of demon – which he calls the debasing demon – that apparently threatens all of our purported knowledge. We show that any debasing skeptical argument must attack the justification condition and can do so only if a plausible thesis about justification is false. Jonathan Schaffer (2010) has summoned a new sort of demon – what he calls the debasing ...

Nearly-quaternionic KK ahler manifolds of dimension at least 8 are shown to be quaternionic KK ahler. Restrictions on the covariant derivative of the fundamental four-form of a semi-quaternionic KK ahler are also found.

We study the ILC phenomenology of (1,0) Kaluza-Klein (KK) modes along two universal extra dimensions compactified on the chiral square. We compute production cross sections of various (1,0) particles at the ILC with √ s = 1 TeV, focusing on decays of KK-leptons and the KK partner of hypercharge gauge boson down to the " spinless photon " which is the lightest KK particle. We contrast this model...

Nearly-quaternionic KK ahler manifolds of dimension at least 8 are shown to be quaternionic KK ahler. Restrictions on the covariant derivative of the fundamental four-form of a semi-quaternionic KK ahler are also found.

Ca(2+)/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase kinase (CaM-KK) is a novel member of the CaM kinase family, which specifically phosphorylates and activates CaM kinase I and IV. In this study, we characterized the CaM-binding peptide of alphaCaM-KK (residues 438-463), which suppressed the activity of constitutively active CaM-KK (84-434) in the absence of Ca(2+)/CaM but competitively with ATP. Trunca...