Background: Numerous pieces of evidence support that oxidative stress is a key factor in the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases, like Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). Suppression of oxidative stress is an attractive strategy and flavonoids as potent natural antioxidants are extremely noticeable.  Objectives: In this study, the effects of Kaempferol (KMP) were evaluated on passive avoidance me...

DST/NRF Centre of Excellence in Strong M School of Chemistry, University of the Wi South Africa. E-mail: [email protected] DST/NRF Centre of Excellence in Strong M Institute, School of Physics, University Johannesburg, South Africa Materials Science and Engineering, Rutgers New Jersey 08854, USA † Current address: Renewable Energy and of Namibia, 13 Storch Street, Private bag Cite this: Na...

The authors acknowledge the funding of UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Plastic Electronics Doctoral Training Centre (EP/L016702/1) KP Technology Ltd for EPSRC CASE studentships. This research was also supported by ATIP Programme Grant (EP/T028513/1) Global Laboratory Program National Foundation (NRF) funded Ministry Science, ICT & Future Planning (NRF-2017K1A1A2 01...

We tested the agreement between classifications of the weight status of patients on peritoneal dialysis (PD) by body mass index (BMI) and by body fat (BF) content (BF/W, where W = actual weight), when BF was computed as BF = W - V/0.73 from the Sahlgrenska, Watson, or Hume anthropometric formulas estimating body water (V) in 933 patients on PD and 7,737 outpatients without hydration disorders. ...

RATIONALE The function of Nox4, a source of vascular H(2)O(2), is unknown. Other Nox proteins were identified as mediators of endothelial dysfunction. OBJECTIVE We determined the function of Nox4 in situations of increased stress induced by ischemia or angiotensin II with global and tamoxifen-inducible Nox4(-/-) mice. METHODS AND RESULTS Nox4 was highly expressed in the endothelium and cont...

An algorithm is described for the nonnegative rank factorization (NRF) of some completely positive (CP) matrices whose rank is equal to their CP-rank. The algorithm can compute the symmetric NRF of any nonnegative symmetric rank-r matrix that contains a diagonal principal submatrix of that rank and size with leading cost O(rm) operations in the dense case. The algorithm is based on geometric co...

Supported by grants to T.J.R. from the South African National Research Foundation (NRF; GUN 2053812) and the Wellcome Trust (to T.J.R. and M.A.F.-S.). The work was conducted while V.T. was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Stellenbosch. His support from the NRF, the University of Stellenbosch and the Russian Fund of Basic Research and Grant 01-2163 from the International Association fo...

There are errors in the Funding section. The correct funding information is as follows: This work was supported by the National Research Foundation (NRF) funded by the Korean Government (NRF-2010-0026438), PLSI supercomputing resources of Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI), and a grant from the Integrative Aging Research Center of Gwangju Institute of Science and Tech...

Exendin-4, a glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist, demonstrated cytoprotective actions beyond glycemic control in recent studies. The aims of the present study were to investigate the effects of exendin-4 on high glucose (HG)-induced cardiomyocyte apoptosis and the possible mechanisms. Rat cardiomyocytes were divided into 3 groups: normal glucose group (NG group), HG group and HG +exendin-4...