Surface modification on Mg alloys is highly promising for their application in the field of bone repair. In this study, a new metal-organic framework/MgF₂ (Mg-MOF-74/MgF₂) composite coating was prepared on the surface of AZ31B Mg alloy via pre-treatment of hydrofluoric acid and in situ hydrothermal synthesis methods. The surface topography of the composite coating is compact and homogeneous, an...

Known as one of the ten most important advances on Public Health in the 20th century, fluoridation of public water supply is a measure of wide population coverage, which is effective on caries control. The city of Araçatuba, in the Northwest region of the São Paulo state, Brazil, started public water supply fluoridation in 1972 and, based on the average annual highest temperature, has kept the ...

Thermal performance and phase-change dynamics in a channel having cavity equipped with heater material (PCM)-packed bed (PB) region are analyzed during nanoliquid convection under an inclined magnetic field. Curvature of the upper wall above PCM zone is also considered by using finite element method. Impacts curvature (between 0.01H 0.6H, H-channel height), strength field (MGF) (Hartmann number...

The discovery that IGF-I mRNAs encoding isoforms of the pro-IGF-I molecule are differentially regulated in response to mechanical stress in skeletal muscle has been the impetus for a number of studies designed to demonstrate that alternative splicing of IGF-I pre-mRNA involving exons 4, 5, and 6 gives rise to a unique peptide derived from pro-IGF-I that plays a novel role in myoblast proliferat...

Pluripotent hematopoietic stem cells (PHSC) are very rare cells whose functional capabilities can only be analyzed indirectly. For a better understanding and possible manipulation of mechanisms that regulate self-renewal and commitment to differentiation of PHSC, it is necessary to purify these cells and to develop assays for their growth in vitro. In the present study, a rapid and simple, wide...

When applied to wire ice-covering forecasting, the back propagation (BP) neural network is a lack of guidance for selecting the neural network initial connection weight and network structure, which contributes to the problem of a high degree of randomness and poses a difficulty for selecting an initial node with global properties. Combination traditional forecasting methods of Mean Generating F...

Catecholamine release from chromaffin granules, suspended in sucrose solutions of various osmotic strengths, was determined at different temperatures between 2 degrees and 44 degrees C. Dynamic measurements showed that steady state is achieved within 15 min of incubation at all temperatures. The effect of temperature on the release was established in terms of the median granular fragility (MGF)...

Diamond-Blackfan anemia (DBA) is a congenital hypoplastic anemia characterized by decreased erythroid progenitors in the marrow. Human DBA in some ways resembles the anemia of SI and Wmutant mice, which respectively result from defects of the genes encoding mast/stem cell growth factor (Mgf) and its tyrosine kinase receptor (Kit).’ However, we previously noted that humans with pathologic mutati...

Age-related muscle wasting and increased frailty are major socioeconomic as well as medical problems. In the quest to extend quality of life it is important to increase the strength of elderly people sufficiently so they can carry out everyday tasks and to prevent them falling and breaking bones that are brittle due to osteoporosis. Muscles generate the mechanical strain that contributes to the...

Clinoptilolite has been successfully used in growing media for containerized horticultural and floricultural production. However, limited data exist on the effects and interaction between particle size and organic nutrient enrichment of the clinoptilolite. One granular (1-3 mm) and micronized (<30 μm) clinoptilolite was added to quartz sand, an inert growing substrate, at two doses (0.1% and 3%...