This report focuses on studying generation and/or evolution of sea-salt aerosols (SSA) on basis of measurements in the Northwest Pacific Ocean (NWPO), the marginal seas of China, at sea-beach sites and a semi-urban coastal site in 2012-2015. From measurements in the NWPO, we obtained the smallest generation function of the super-micron SSA mass ([MSSA]) by the local wind comparing to those prev...

BACKGROUND AND STUDY AIMS Sessile serrated adenoma/polyps (SSA/Ps) are considered precursors of colorectal cancers with microsatellite instability. However, it is still difficult to differentiate SSA/Ps from hyperplastic polyps endoscopically; therefore, the prevalence of SSA/Ps remains uncertain in clinical practice. This study aimed to clarify the proportion of SSA/Ps in endoscopically diagno...

Normal and tumoral pituitary corticotropic cells express sst(2) and sst(5), of which sst(5) is the predominantly expressed receptor subtype. Somatostatin (SS) inhibits pituitary adrenocorticotropin hormone (ACTH) secretion in vitro, but the sensitivity to SS is strongly regulated by glucocorticoids. In pathological conditions of a low endogenous cortisol level, i.e. in patients with adrenal ins...

BACKGROUND Sessile serrated adenomas/polyps (SSA/Ps) may account for 20-30% of colon cancers. Although large SSA/Ps are generally recognized phenotypically, small (<1 cm) or dysplastic SSA/Ps are difficult to differentiate from hyperplastic or small adenomatous polyps by endoscopy and histopathology. Our aim was to define the comprehensive gene expression phenotype of SSA/Ps to better define th...

Complexes of yttrium(III) formed with 5-sulphosalicylic acid, 5-SSA (H3L), and 5-nitrosalicylic acid, 5-NSA (H2L), were investigated in 0.1 mol.dm −3 sodium perchlorate ionic medium at 25.0 ± 0.1 ◦C potentiometrically for various molar ratios of Y(III) to these salicylic acid, SA (H2L), derivatives. Y(III) forms YL and YL3− 2 type complexes with 5-SSA that have rather high stabilities (log β1= ...

L-band electromagnetic scattering from two-dimensional random rough sea surfaces are calculated by first- and second-order Small-Slope Approximation (SSA1, 2) methods. Both analytical and numerical computations are utilized to calculate incoherent normalized radar cross-section (NRCS) in mono- and bi-static cases. For evaluating inverse Fourier transform, inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) i...