Modeling of Fourier amplitude spectra (FAS) seismic motions has gained much attention in engineering seismology. In the past few years, several ground motion prediction equations (GMPEs) and inter-frequency correlation structure FAS have been established. Due to many preferable characteristics FAS, probabilistic hazard/risk analysis is rapidly changing from ergodic, spectrum acceleration Sa ( T...

objective(s):to investigate the effects of local mild hypothermia on the expression of fas, fasl and mmp-3 after cerebral ischemia-reperfusion in rats. materials and methods:male wistar rats were divided into sham-operated group (sham), normothermia group (nt), and hypothermia group (ht). mcao/r model was established by longa’s method, and reperfusion was allowed after 2 hr occlusion. mild hypo...

background: glaucoma is one of the most common causes of blindness and is usually associated with elevated intraocular pressure. in patients with primary open angle glau-coma the number of trabecular meshwork cells is decreased. death of the trabecular meshwork cells may be a result of apoptosis. objective: to investigate the aqueous humor levels of soluble fas (sfas) and fas-ligand (sfasl) in ...

We describe a concise and reliable protocol for the precisely controlled tetradeuteration of straight-chain fatty acids (FAs) at α- β-positions that is generally applicable to variety FAs, including trans-FAs, polyunsaturated FAs (PUFAs), their oxidized derivatives. The introduction four deuterium atoms into enables persistent quantitative tracking by LC-MS/MS analysis based on molecular struct...

we have previously shown that the proliferative response of t cells to antigenic or mitogenic stimulus decreased with age and that caloric resection (cr) attenuated the age-related decline in proliferation and il-2 expression. because activation-induced apoptosis is known to regulate cell proliferation and eliminate the high number of activated cells during an immune response, it was of interes...

apoptosis, or active cell death, is a specific mode of cell death, which is characterized by morphological changes such as chromatin condensation, fragmentation of the nucleus, cytoplasmic retraction and appearance of apoptotic bodies' containing apparently intact organelles. apoptosis occurs in physiological conditions as a regulatory mechanism of tissue growth, where cell proliferation is bal...