Reliable Multicast Protocol (RMP) is a communication protocol that provides an atomic, totally ordered, reliable multicast service on top of unreliable IP multicasting. In this report, we develop formal models for RMP using existing automated verification systems, and perform validation on the formal RMP specifications. The validation analysis help identifies some minor specification and design...

Many cell types have significant negative resting membrane potentials (RMPs) resulting from the activity of potassium-selective and chloride-selective ion channels. In excitable cells, such as neurones, rapid changes in membrane permeability underlie the generation of action potentials. Chondrocytes have less negative RMPs and the role of the RMP is not clear. Here we examine the basis of the c...

BACKGROUND Diabetic nephropathy (DN) is the most important complication of diabetes and the most common cause of end-stage renal disease (ESRD). AIMS A recent study established that the Ramulus mori polysaccharides (RMP) exert antioxidant effects on DN in rats. METHODS The diabetic rats which induced by high-fat diet and streptozotocin injection were orally administered RMP by doses of 250,...

A drug delivery system of quercetin (QU)-encapsulated liposomes (LS) grafted with RMP-7, a bradykinin analog, and lactoferrin (Lf) was developed to permeate the blood-brain barrier (BBB) and rescue degenerated neurons, acting as an Alzheimer's disease (AD) pharmacotherapy. This colloidal formulation of QU-encapsulated LS grafted with RMP-7 and Lf (RMP-7-Lf-QU-LS) was used to traverse human brai...

We propose Regularized Max Pooling (RMP) for image classification. RMP classifies an image (or an image region) by extracting feature vectors at multiple subwindows at multiple locations and scales. Unlike Spatial Pyramid Matching where the subwindows are defined purely based on geometric correspondence, RMP accounts for the deformation of discriminative parts. The amount of deformation and the...

BACKGROUND RPB5-Mediating protein (RMP) is associated with the RNA polymerase II subunit RPB5. This protein functionally counteracts the transcriptional activation of Hepatitis B Virus X protein (HBx) by competitively binding to the RPB5; however, the effects of RMP on Hepatitis B virus (HBV) transcription and replication remain unknown. OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to investigate...

The performance of the fully automated BACTEC MGIT 960 (M960) system for the testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis susceptibility to streptomycin (SM), isoniazid (INH), rifampin (RMP), ethambutol (EMB), and pyrazinamide (PZA) was evaluated with 100 clinical isolates and compared to that of the radiometric BACTEC 460TB (B460) system. The agar proportion method and the B460 system were used as re...

The reliability of the BACTEC MGIT 960 system, an automated version of the Mycobacteria Growth Indicator Tube (MGIT), for antimicrobial susceptibility testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis was evaluated on 78 clinical isolates. Rifampin (RMP), isoniazid (INH), streptomycin (SM), and ethambutol (EMB) were tested at the following concentrations: 1.0 microg/ml for RMP, 0.1 and 0.4 microg/ml for IN...

Multiple studies have recently demonstrated the oncogenic property of URI (or RMP, a member of the prefoldin family of molecular chaperones) during progression of hepatocellular carcinoma, ovarian cancer, and possibly prostate cancer. Most recently, we have shown that URI/RMP is up-regulated in cervical cancer, another reproductive system tumor beside ovarian and prostate cancers. To investigat...

We have been proposing the functional discrimination of two classes of macrophages (Mp), i.e. reductive macrophages (RMp) with a high intracellular content of glutathione and oxidative macrophages (OMp) with a reduced content. In this paper we will present the evidence that the T(h)1/T(h)2 balance is regulated by the balance between RMp and OMp due to the disparate production of IL-12 versus IL...