potential relationships between amino acid motifs in the antigen binding groove of various alleles of the bovine major histocompatibility complex dr (bola-dr) molecule and peripheral blood mononuclear cell (pbmc) proliferation, in response to s. aureus and phytohemaglutinin, were investigated. the animals included in the study were approximately of the same age and comprised of pure holstein-fr...

Delocalized lipophilic cations (DLCs) penetrate plasma and mitochondrial membranes and accumulate in mitochondria. The higher mitochondrial membrane potentials of neoplastic vs normal cells, in general, account for greater uptake and may be a way to selectively target these cells since. Dequalinium (DQA) is a DLC and so our goal is to evaluate the therapeutic potential of DQA in cancer, namely ...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of classical and non-classical major histocompatibility complex (MHC) on the reproduction in the dairy cow. Nine pairs of MHC-I genes were chosen according to their homology and possible function, and their transcription levels in maternal peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) from all three trimesters and transcription levels in fetal tissu...

The BolA-like protein is present in all eukaryotes, and it is able to form complex with monothiol glutaredoxin of the same subcellular compartments, suggesting that the BolA-like protein has essential function in eukaryotes, and that the function is associated with its partner glutaredoxin. Some studies have indicated a role for BolA proteins in Fe-S cluster synthesis or in redox homeostasis. H...

Delivery quality assurance (DQA) of tomotherapy plans is routinely performed with silver halide film which has a limited range due to the effects of saturation. DQA plans with dose values exceeding this limit require the dose of the entire plan to be scaled downward if film is used, to evaluate the dose distribution in two dimensions. The potential loss of fidelity between scaled and unscaled D...

BACKGROUND Vascular access surveillance by ultrasound dilution blood flow rate (Qa) measurement is widely recommended; however, optimal criteria for detecting stenosis and predicting thrombosis in arteriovenous fistulae (AVFs) are still not clearly defined. METHODS In a blinded trial, we evaluated the accuracy of single Qa measurement, Qa adjusted for mean arterial pressure (Qa/MAP), and decr...

Diabatic quantum annealing (DQA) is an alternative algorithm to adiabatic (AQA) that can be used circumvent the exponential slowdown caused by small minima in energy spectrum. We present locally suppressed transverse-field (LSTF) protocol, a heuristic method for making stoquastic optimization problems compatible with DQA. show that, provided problem intrinsically has magnetic frustration due in...

The dosimetric characteristics of MobiusFX, which uses the treatment machine log file to calculate the dose inside the patient body, were analyzed for use in the RapidArc delivery quality assurance (DQA) process. The accuracy and usefulness of MobiusFX in clinical cases was evaluated by comparing the dose calculated by MobiusFX with that calculated by the conventional measurement dose based pro...

In this work, we present an energy-efficient distributed learning framework using low-resolution ADCs and coarsely quantized signals for Internet of Things (IoT) networks. particular, develop a quantization-aware least-mean square (DQA-LMS) algorithm that can learn parameters in fashion with few bits while requiring low computational cost. We also carry out statistical analysis the proposed DQA...