introduction reelin gene (reln) codes a large extracellular matrix glycoprotein with serine protease activity and is implicated in the modulation of neuronal signaling, synaptic transmission and plasticity. the reelin plays a fundamental and pivotal role in the development of laminar structures and may be one of the loci contributing to the positive linkage between chromosome 7q and autistic di...

traumatic central nervous system injuries lead to a severe and permanent neurological deficit. oligodendrocytes (olcs) are vulnerable to damage in a variety of neurologic diseases. although no effective therapeutic option is currently available, recent other studies have shown that cell therapeutic strategies hold promise to enhance functional recovery after injury. the aim of this study is to ...

the aim of this study was to determine the effect of marker density, level of heritability, number of qtls, and size of training set on the genomic accuracy over three generations. thereby, a trait was simulated with heritability of 0.10, 0.25 or 0.40. for each animal, a genome with 20 chromosomes, 1 morgan each, was simulated. different marker densities (2000, 4000 and 6000 markers) and 400 an...

background: treatment of cutaneous leishmaniasis (cl) is being faced with serious difficulties in fars province, due to emerging of resistance against meglumine antimonite (glucantime®). in this context, determining some biomarkers for drug sensitivity monitoring seems to be highly essential. different studies have been carried out to decipher the genes might be involved in antimony resistant p...

Background: A large-scale randomized trial of adjuvant interferon-a therapy for patients with osteosarcoma has been initiated as a joint protocol by the European and American Osteosarcoma Study Group. Because the expression of functional interferon-a/b receptor is necessary for interferon-a agents to interact with osteosarcoma cells, we examined the expression of interferon-a/b receptor in a se...

The registration of cross-sectional medical images with patient anatomy is an important problem in image-guided surgery. Current registration methods such as paired-point matching can be tedious and require large incisions. Improved methods of registration for percutaneous spine procedures could potentially improve the accuracy of minimally invasive spine procedures. In this poster, we will des...

It has been implicitly assumed in the generative literature that coordinate structures are base-generated. This paper argues, however, that coordinate structures can be derived, their formations involving movement. We demonstrate that comitative phrases in Japanese are in fact part of coordinate structures, and that these structures are formed in covert syntax. We show, adopting the Move-F theo...

17.6 Open Issues of ECG Based Biometrics Applications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323 17.6.1 Lack of Standardization of ECG Fiducial Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323 17.6.2 Time Variant Nature of ECG . . . . . . . . . 324 17.6.3 Pertinence of Random Abnormality in ECG. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325 17.6.4 Longer Duration for ECGWa...

In textile industry, marker planning is one of the main operations in the cutting fabric stage. Marker packing is usually used to maximize cloth exploitation and minimize its waste. In this research, a method is used based on new found meta-heuristic imperialist competitive algorithm (ICA) and Bottom-Left-Fill Algorithm (BLF) to achieve optimal marker packing. Function of the proposed method wa...