In 2001 there were remarkable developments in the research of sweet taste receptors of mammals and insects. In mammals, T1R2 and T1R3 are G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) with very long Nterminal extracellular domains, as shown in Figure 1. They have been shown to associate into a heterodimer and to function as a broadly tuned sweet receptor for various sugars, artificial sweeteners and D-am...

Is there a need to study behavioral and psychological signs and symptoms of dementia across cultures? Behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) include disorders of behavior, mood, thought content and perception (Foli and Shah, 2000). They cause distress to patients, relatives and carers, result in institutional care and long-term hospitalization, and lead to physical restraint a...

Luscher et al., 1999). This indicates that NSF maintains form a complex in the presence of ATP␥S. Similar a high level of synaptic AMPARs, either by preventing to SNARE complex disassembly, NSF ATPase activity their removal by endocytosis or facilitating their insertion disrupts PICK1-GluR2 interactions in this complex. ␣-by exocytosis. The same peptide treatment occludes and ␤-SNAP have differ...

Is there a need to study behavioral and psychological signs and symptoms of dementia across cultures? Behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) include disorders of behavior, mood, thought content and perception (Foli and Shah, 2000). They cause distress to patients, relatives and carers, result in institutional care and long-term hospitalization, and lead to physical restraint a...

Luscher et al., 1999). This indicates that NSF maintains form a complex in the presence of ATP␥S. Similar a high level of synaptic AMPARs, either by preventing to SNARE complex disassembly, NSF ATPase activity their removal by endocytosis or facilitating their insertion disrupts PICK1-GluR2 interactions in this complex. ␣-by exocytosis. The same peptide treatment occludes and ␤-SNAP have differ...

In the past decade, there have been some studies about control methods with the purpose of either reducing “bad” chaos or introducing “good” chaos [Chen & Dong, 1998]. Due to its great potential in nontraditional applications such as those found within the context of physical, chemical, mechanical, electrical, optical, and particularly, biological and medical systems [Chen et al., 2001; Schiff ...

References 1 Pap, T. et al. (2000) Fibroblast biology. Role of synovial fibroblasts in the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis. Arthritis Res. 2, 361–367 2 van der Laan, W.H. et al. (2000) Cartilage degradation and invasion by rheumatoid synovial fibroblasts is inhibited by gene transfer of a cellsurface-targeted plasmin inhibitor. Arthritis Rheum. 43, 1710–1718 3 Mountz, J.D. et al. (2001) Ap...

Levels of procalcitonin (PCT) are elevated in many conditions leading to systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS), as following bacterial infection (Assicot et al., 1993), pancreatitis (Rau et al., 1997), burns (Nylen et al., 1992) or polytrauma (Mimoz et al., 1998). However, the presence of PCT in cerebrospinal fluid is less well examined. A few studies focused on meningitis, where PCT i...

The success of assisted reproduction, although gradually increasing over the years, is still less than satisfactory. Many couples have benefited from this treatment; many have also been left frustrated following multiple failed attempts (Bulent Urman et al. 2005). Repeated implantation failure (RIF), defined as three or more failed IVF attempts or failure of IVF after cumula- Abstracts of the 5...

In the early 1990s, Iijima (1991) discovered a onedimensional (1D) nanostructure, the carbon nanotube (CNT), which sparked an entirely new avenue within nanoscience and nanotechnology. Nanowires (NWs) (Cui and Lieber 2001), nanorods (Li and Alivisatos 2003), nanotubes (Wang and Li 2003), and nanobelts (Pan et al. 2001) of various materials have been successfully synthesized shortly afterwards. ...