OBJECTIVE To study whether an injury-induced inflammation might be the mechanism underlying the favorable effect of endometrial biopsy on the implantation rate in in vitro fertilization (IVF) patients. DESIGN Controlled clinical study. SETTING A medical center IVF unit and a research institute. PATIENT(S) Women undergoing IVF who had previous failed treatment cycles. INTERVENTION(S) End...

Interleukin-15 (IL-15) is an anabolic cytokine that is produced in skeletal muscle and directly affects muscle anabolism in animal and in vitro models. The contribution of IL-15 variability in muscle responses to 10 wk of resistance exercise training in young men and women was examined by measuring acute and chronic changes in IL-15 protein in plasma and characterizing genetic variation in the ...

Since its discovery in 1994, IL-15 has been studied in the context of its structural cousin, IL-2 (1). Early biochemical and in vitro lymphocyte studies revealed many similarities between IL-15 and IL-2: (a) IL-2 and IL-15 constitute the only two members of a family of cytokines containing a four a helix bundle; (b) the heterotrimeric receptors for IL-2 and IL-15 share both the IL-2/15R b and I...

Hugo: ALOX15 Other names: 15-LOX; EC 1.13.11.33; arachidonate omega 6-lipoxygenase; LOG15 Location: 17p13.3 Local order: Genes flanking ALOX15 in centromere to telomere direction on 17p13 are: MYBBP1A 17p13.3 MYB binding protein (P160) 1a, GGT6 17p13.2 homolog of gammaglutamyltransferase 6, LOC124974 17p13.2, thioredoxin 1 pseudogene 4, SMTNL2 17p13.2 smoothelin-like 2, ALOX15 17p13.2 arachidon...

John Baez, Computations and the periodic table By now there is an extensive network of interlocking analogies between physics, topology, logic and computer science, which can be seen most easily by comparing the roles that symmetric monoidal closed categories play in each subject. However, symmetric monoidal categories are just the n = 1, k = 3 entry of a hypothesized ”periodic table” of k-tupl...