BACKGROUND Administration of a selective β1-blocker, such as esmolol, in human septic shock has demonstrated cardiovascular protective effects related to heart rate reduction. Certain experimental data also indicate that esmolol exerts systemic anti-inflammatory and beneficial effects on vascular tone. Thus, the present study aimed to determine whether a non-chronotropic dose of esmolol maintai...

Sepsis causes mitochondrial oxidative injury and swelling. Ethyl pyruvate (EP) is a cytoprotective agent, while aquaporin-8 (AQP8) is a mitochondrial water channel that can induce mitochondrial swelling. We assessed whether EP protects mitochondria during sepsis, and whether AQP8 contributes to the underlying mechanisms. A cecal ligation and puncture (CLP) sepsis model was established in Spragu...

Taurodontism and root dilaceration are developmental anomalies. Both taurodontism might be related with cleft lip palate (CLP). This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of dilaceration, in children CLP. Cone beam computed tomography images 200 (100 100 healthy) CLP were evaluated retrospectively. level was divided into three subtypes as hypertaurodont, mesotaurodont hypotaurodont. Root re...

Leukocyte cathepsin G (CLP) and elastase (ELP) from human blood were partially purified, and enzymatic properties of CLP and a2-macroglobulin-CLP complex (a2M-CLP) were studied in comparison with those of ELP and a2M-ELP. Furthermore, some synthetic substrates and synthetic reversible inhibitors for CLP were newly synthesized and specificities for CLP were compared with those of a-chymotrysin. ...

Construction labor productivity (CLP) is affected by various interconnected factors, such as crew motivation and working conditions. Improved CLP can benefit a construction project in many ways, shortened life cycle lowering cost. However, budget, time, resource restrictions force companies to select implement only limited number of improvement strategies. Therefore, research gap exists regardi...

Mammalian Glyco_18-domain-containing proteins include catalytically active chitinases and chitinase-like proteins with cytokine activity involved in host defense and Th2-type inflammatory reactions. Here, we describe a novel human Glyco_18-domain-containing protein, SI-CLP, as an interacting partner of the endocytic/sorting receptor stabilin-1. Similarly to the chitinase-like cytokines YKL-39, ...

BACKGROUND The mechanisms of sepsis mortality remain undefined. While there is some evidence of organ damage, it is not clear whether this damage alone is sufficient to cause death. Therefore, we aimed to examine contribution of organ injury/dysfunction to early deaths in the mouse abdominal sepsis. METHODS Female OF-1 mice underwent either medium-severity cecal ligation and puncture (CLP-Onl...

The ATP-dependent Clp protease of Escherichia coli contains two dissimilar components: the Clp A regulatory polypeptide, with two ATP binding sites and intrinsic ATPase activity, and the Clp P subunit, which contains the proteolytic active site. The DNA sequence of the clpP gene predicts a protein of 207 amino acids (Mr 21,679), which is in close agreement with the size determined by sodium dod...