The confluent hypergeometric beta distribution due to Gordy has been known since the 1990s, but not much of is in terms its mathematical properties. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive treatment properties distribution. We derive shape probability density function and expressions for cumulative function, hazard rate reversed moment generating characteristic moments, conditional entropies,...

We generalize the tree-confluent graphs to a broader class of graphs called ∆-confluent graphs. This class of graphs and distancehereditary graphs, a well-known class of graphs, coincide. Some results about the visualization of ∆-confluent graphs are also given.

We retrospectively studied 42 liver biopsy specimens from 39 patients who met serologic and histologic criteria of autoimmune liver diseases. We found 10 cases of overlap syndrome (OLS), 10 autoimmune cholangitis (AIC), 10 primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC), and 9 autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) type 1. The following results were obtained: (1) Granulomas and biliary duct lesions were more prominent in ...

BACKGROUND Nitric oxide synthase activity is increased in the stomach in association with Helicobacter pylori infection and portal hypertension, but the mechanism by which nitric oxide contributes to mucosal damage remains unclear. AIM To examine whether nitric oxide injures gastric mucosal cells and whether cellular glutathione affects nitric oxide-induced cytotoxicity. METHODS A confluent...

: Annually about 2 million people suffer from various modes of burn injuries worldwide whom more than a lakh die. In India 60,000 burns annually, 50,000 are treated in hospitals and 10,000 succumb to thermal injury. The primary importance present study is have better understanding changes occurring this vital organ relation survival period victims, emphasis that hepatic dysfunction also an impo...

A novel gene, factor for adipocyte differentiation 24 (fad24), promotes adipogenesis by controlling DNA replication early on during a stage referred to as mitotic clonal expansion (MCE). MCE is considered distinct from the proliferation of pre-confluent cells, so we investigated the role of fad24 in the process. First, the expression of fad24 was examined in pre-confluent and post-confluent 3T3...

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether endothelial monolayer permeability changes induced by inflammatory mediators are affected by the extracellular matrix protein used for cell seeding. METHODS Human umbilical venular endothelial cells (HUVEC) were grown to confluent monolayers on membranes coated with either collagen, fibronectin or gelatin. The permeability to albumin and dextran was then asses...

BACKGROUND Despite numerous in vivo evidences that Tumor Necrosis Factor Receptor-Associated Factor 4 (TRAF4) plays a key biological function, how it works at the cellular and molecular level remains elusive. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS In the present study, we show using immunofluorescence and immuohistochemistry that TRAF4 is a novel player at the tight junctions (TJs). TRAF4 is connecte...

We investigate the rewrite relation over graphs induced by constructor-based weakly orthogonal graph rewriting systems. It is well known that this relation is not confluent in general whereas it is confluent in the case of weakly orthogonal term rewriting systems. We show, however, that the considered relation is always confluent, as well as confluent modulo bisimilarity, for a large class of g...