The activity of the endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) can be regulated independently of an increase in Ca(2+) by the phosphorylation of Ser(1177) but results only in a low nitric oxide (NO) output. In the present study, we assessed whether the agonist-induced (Ca(2+)-dependent, high-output) activation of eNOS is associated with changes in the phosphorylation of Thr(495) in the calmodulin...

Define a cubical complex to be a collection of integer-aligned unit cubes in d dimensions. Lebowitz and Mazel (1998) proved that there are between (C1d) and (C2d) complexes containing a fixed cube with connected boundary of (d − 1)volume n. In this paper we narrow these bounds to between (C3d) and (C4d). We also show that there are nn/(2d(d−1))+o(1) connected complexes containing a fixed cube w...

miR-495 serves as an oncogenic miRNA or a tumor suppressor in different types of cancer. However, its role in the drug resistance of small cell lung cancer (SCLC) remains unidentified. In this study, we investigated whether miR-495 regulates the chemoresistance of SCLC through the epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) via Epithelial and endothelial tyrosine kinase (Etk/BMX) using two drug-res...

Navigating an unexplored environment using simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) requires that the robot’s trajectory include revisit actions in order to produce loop-closure constraints; however, efficient area coverage requires that the robot’s trajectory be minimally redundant in its path. This paper reports on a next-best-view SLAM algorithm that balances the trade-off between explor...

In this paper we investigate some hereditary properties of amenability modulo an ideal of Banach algebras. We show that if $(e_alpha)_alpha$ is a bounded approximate identity modulo I of a Banach algebra A and X is a neo-unital modulo I, then $(e_alpha)_alpha$ is a bounded approximate identity for X. Moreover we show that amenability modulo an ideal of a Banach algebra A can be only considered ...