BACKGROUND HIV exposed seronegative (HESN) women represent the population most in need of a prophylactic antiviral strategy. Mucosal cationic polypeptides can potentially be regulated for this purpose and we here aimed to determine their endogenous expression and HIV neutralizing activity in genital secretions of women at risk of HIV infection. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS Cervicovaginal se...

Background: Atopic dermatitis is a chronic, recurrent inflammation of the skin, accompanied by severe pruritus. Immune system dysregulation and skin barrier defects are associated with the abnormalities in atopic dermatitis. Myriad pieces of evidence have pointed to the major roles of LL-37 and interleukin-31 (IL31)in atopic dermatitis. The studies on atopic dermatitis are still limited i...

A plant functional trait study was conducted to know the existing relationship between important leaf traits namely, specific area (SLA), dry matter content (LDMC), and life span (LL) in tropical evergreen forest (TDEFs) of Peninsular India. Widely accepted methodologies were employed record traits. The relationships SLA LDMC, LDMC LL, LL measured. Pearson’s coefficient correlation showed a sig...

Metabolism of very low density lipoproteins (VLDL) has been compared in fat (FL) and lean (LL) lines of chicken. When refed after fasting, plasma triglyceride concentration reached a significantly higher plateau in FL, although their feed consumption was lower than in LL. Newly synthesized VLDL were studied using anti-lipoprotein lipase antibodies. VLDL triglyceride (TG) concentrations were inc...

in this paper, new features of satellite configuration, such as ip network  based infrastructure and separated signaling and media  are considered to propose a variety of satellite configurations in different orbits. because of their  different altitude in space such as low earth orbit(leo) and geostationary orbit (geo). a test bed used to test call setup delay in a one space link to process th...

We compared the management and housing of dairy heifers from calf to calving in herds that were very successful versus less preventing mastitis early lactation primiparous cows. This retrospective observational study included 170 Swedish herds. Eligible identified official milk recording scheme (SOMRS). Each herd had at least 60 cows per year, production data 3 consecutive years, 10 year with t...

In sparse Cholesky factorization, nding elimination orderings that produce small ll-in is very important and various heuristics have been proposed. For parallel computations, good orderings should produce elimination trees of low height. Finding optimal ll-in orderings and nding optimal height orderings are NP-hard problems. A class of Nested Dissection orderings with minimal separators, has be...

Data on LL hypernuclei provide a unique method to learn details about the strangeness S 22 sector of the baryon-baryon interaction. From the free space Bonn-Jülich potentials, determined from data on baryon-baryon scattering in the S 0,21 channels, we construct an interaction in the S 22 sector to describe the experimentally known LL hypernuclei. After including short-range (Jastrow) and RPA co...

A longitudinal study of the urinary excretion of prostaglandins (PGs) E and F alpha was performed in simultaneously selected hypertensive (LH), normotensive (LN), and low blood pressure (LL) female rats of the Lyon strains aged from 5 to 45 weeks. The urinary excretion of PGE did not significantly differ between LL and LN rats whereas in LH rats it was found to be significantly lower than that ...

The FY-3E/HIRAS-II (Hyperspectral Infrared Atmospheric Sounder-II), as an infrared hyperspectral instrument onboard the world’s first early morning polar-orbiting satellite, plays a major role in improving accuracy and timeliness of global numerical weather predictions. In order to assess its observation quality, geometrically, temporally, spatially matched scene homogeneous HIRAS-II observatio...