Luteolin (Lut) is a common dietary flavonoid present in Chinese herbal medicines that has been reported to have important anti-inflammatory properties. The purposes of this study were to observe the inhibition of lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced inflammatory responses in bone marrow macrophages (BMM) by Lut, and to examine whether this inhibition involves p38/MK2/TTP-mediated mRNA stability. Lu...

This paper compares two types of lookup table (LUT) structures useful for delay optimization in programmable devices. Realistic assumptions about the input-to-output delays in a LUT and the delays of routable and nonroutable connections are used. The conclusion is that the cluster LUT structure results in better delays compared to the cascade structure. This LUT structure leads to mapped networ...

In this paper we have proposed a look-up-table (LUT) based structure for high-throughput implementation of multilevel lifting DWT. The proposed structure can process one block of samples to achieve high-throughput rate. Compared with the best of the similar existing structure, it does not involves any multipliers but it requires more adders and 21504 extra ROM words for J=3; its offers less cri...

Complex organization of CNS and PNS pathways is necessary for the coordinated and reciprocal functions of the urinary bladder, urethra and urethral sphincters. Injury, inflammation, psychogenic stress or diseases that affect these nerve pathways and target organs can produce lower urinary tract (LUT) dysfunction. Numerous neuropeptide/receptor systems are expressed in the neural pathways of the...

In this paper we propose look-up table (LUT) based methods for inverse halftoning of images. The LUT for inverse halftoning is obtained from the histogram gathered from a few sample halftone images and corresponding original images. The method is extremely fast (no filtering is required) and the PSNR and visual image quality achieved is comparable to the best methods known for inverse halftonin...

kalateh ahani is located 27 km southeast of gonabad within the khorasan razavi province. the area is part of lut block. sub-volcanic monzonitic rocks intruded regional metamorphosed shemshak formation (jurassic age). magnetic susceptibility of less altered monzonitic rocks is 0.6%., as, pb and zn > 1%, au up to 150 ppb and sn = 133 ppm. the sn content of vein in the northern part of kalateh aha...

We previously found that luteolin (Lut) appeared to improve the contractility of cardiomyocytes during ischemia/reperfusion in rats. The enhancement was associated with the alteration in sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+-ATPase 2a (SERCA2a). This finding prompted us to consider if the mechanism worked in heart failure (HF). We studied the regulation of SERCA2a by Lut in failing cardiomyocytes and int...

The equivalence of arbitrary dimensional bipartite states under local unitary transformations (LUT) is studied. A set of invariants and ancillary invariants under LUT is presented. We show that two states are equivalent under LUT if and only if they have the same values for all of these invariants. PACS numbers: 03.67.-a, 02.20.Hj, 03.65.-w MSC numbers: 94A15, 62B10