The biological ramifications of phosphorylation of the androgen receptor (AR) are largely unknown. To examine the phosphorylation of AR at serine 213, a putative substrate for Akt, a phosphorylation site-specific antibody was generated. The use of this antibody indicated that AR Ser-213 is phosphorylated in vivo and that phosphorylation is tightly regulated in a cell type-specific manner. Furth...

Th is study provides a timely update of some empirical fi ndings of ecotourism experience in relation to Chinese tourists’ post-trip behaviors. Based on a qualitative research approach through in-depth interview with 28 Chinese domestic tourists, the authors show that Chinese tourists explicitly or implicitly have adapted environmentally friendly lifestyles after their ecotourism travel, althou...

The BEDT-TFF molecules with monovalent anions or iodine complexes form conducting salts, which are less onedimensional (1D) than the compounds of the TTF-TCNQ or (TMTSF)2X families. For example in the c~and 13 modifications of (BEDTTTF)213, abreviated ct, [3 (ET)213, the side by side interaction of the ET molecules is comparable to the face to face interaction [1]. The room tempe-rature conduct...

The existence of doubly near resolvable (v, 2, 1)-BIBDs was established by Mullin and Wallis in 1975. For doubly near resolvable (v, 3, 2)-BIBDs, the existence problem was investigated by Lamken in 1994, and completed by Abel, Lamken and Wang in 2007. In this paper, we look at doubly near resolvable (v, 4, 3)-BIBDs; we establish that these exist whenever v ≡ 1 (mod 4) except for v = 9 and possi...

The jth Rademacher function rj on [0, 1), j = 0, 1, 2, . . . , is defined as follows: r0 = 1, r1 = 1 on [0, 1/2) and r1 = −1 on [1/2, 1), r2 = 1 on [0, 1/4) ∪ [1/2, 3/4) and r2 = −1 on [1/4, 1/2) ∪ [3/4, 1), etc. The following is a classical result that can be found in Zygmund [10] (page 213): For every subset E of [0, 1] and every λ > 1, there is a positive integer N such that for all complex-...

associated symptoms in patients with nephritis (5). Variability in these findings can be explained by the different ethnic background of the studied sample. We have studied associated symptoms in 71 patients with lupus nephritis and 142 SLE patients without renal involvement. This sample includes all lupus patients with nephritis followed in the last five years in our service, with biopsy prove...

High-sensitivity and visible-blind ultraviolet (UV) photoconductive detectors based on SrTiO(3) single crystal with interdigitated electrodes are reported. The responsivities of photovoltage and photocurrent can reach 2.13x10(5) V/W and 213 mA/W, respectively, at 330 nm at ambient temperature, and the corresponding quantum efficiency eta reaches 80.2%. The dark current is lower than 50 pA at 10...

The antitumor agent VP-16-213 is oxidatively O-demethylated by rat liver microsomes and purified rat liver microsomal cytochrome P-450. 3-Methylcholanthrene can quantitatively induce O-demethylation of VP-16-213. The Km and Vmax values for O-demethylation by noninduced, phenobarbital-, and 3-methylcholanthrene-induced rat liver microsomes were found to be 130, 600, and 160 microM and 8.5, 11.8,...

Newly replicated Plasmodium falciparum parasites escape from host erythrocytes through a tightly regulated process that is mediated by multiple classes of proteolytic enzymes. However, the identification of specific proteases has been challenging. We describe here a forward chemical genetic screen using a highly focused library of more than 1,200 covalent serine and cysteine protease inhibitors...

1. CNR-Istituto Nanoscienze, Centro S3, Via G Campi 213/a, I-41125 Modena, Italy 2. CNR-IMEM, Parco delle Scienze 37a, I-43100 Parma, Italy. 3. Department of Physics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5, Canada 4. CNR-IMM Bologna, Via P. Gobetti 101, 40129 Bologna, Italy 5. Dipartimento FIM, Universitá di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Via G. Campi 213/a, 41125 Modena, Italy 6. Institute of ...