During part of its life cycle, the protozoan parasite Plasmodium falciparum lives within the human red blood cell and modifies both the structural and functional properties of the red cell. It does this by synthesizing a number of polypeptides that it transports into the red cell cytoplasm and to the red cell membrane. One of these transported proteins, MESA (mature parasite-infected erythrocyt...

Geo-textual data are ubiquitous these days. Recent study on spatial keyword search focused on the processing of queries which retrieve objects that match certain keywords within a spatial region. To ensure effective data retrieval, various extensions were done including the tolerance of errors in keyword matching and the search-as-you-type feature using prefix matching. We present MESA, a map a...

BACKGROUND Herb-partitioned moxibustion (HPM) at Tianshu (ST25) and Qihai (RN6) has been used to treat Crohn's disease (CD). Injury to intestinal epithelial tight junctions (TJs) is the leading cause of CD onset with under expression of TJ-related proteins such as occludin, claudin-1, and zonula occludens protein-1 (ZO-1). This study aimed to investigate whether HPM can change the permeability ...

M. Balakrishnan, M. B. J. Diemeer, A. Driessen, Integrated Optical Microsystems, MESA Institute for Nanotechnology, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands. M. Faccini, W. Verboom, D. N. Reinhoudt Laboratory of Supramolecular Chemistry and Technology, MESA Institute for Nanotechnology, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands. A. Leinse LioniX BV, P.O. Box 456, 7500 AH Enschede, ...

The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) is the first large-scale multi-ethnic population study in the U.S. to use advanced cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging. MESA participants were free of cardiovascular disease at baseline between 2000 and 2002, and were followed up between 2009 and 2011 with repeated CMR examinations as part of MESA. CMR allows the clinician to visualiz...

Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Baltimore, MD 21250, U. S. A. Boston University, Boston University Marine Program, 7 MBL Street, Woods Hole, MA 02543, U. S. A. *Corresponding author (Contact information: Department of Life Sciences, Mesa Community College, 7110 E. McKellips Rd., Mesa AZ 85207; email: [email protected]; phone: 480654-7303; fax: 480-65...

Introduction: Tunnel field effect transistors (TFET) have gained interest recently owing to their potential in achieving sub-kT/q steep switching slope, thus promising low Vcc operation[1-5]. Steep switching slope has already been demonstrated in Silicon TFET [2]. However, it has been theoretically shown and experimentally proved that Si or SixGe1-x based homo-junction or hetero-junction TFETs ...