Soil destruction by abiotic environmental conditions, such as high salinity, has resulted in dramatic losses of arable land, giving rise to the need of studying mechanisms of plant adaptation to salt stress aimed at creating salt-tolerant plants. Recently, it has been reported that cytokinins (CKs) regulate plant environmental stress responses through two-component systems. A decrease in endoge...

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between science teacher knowledge and changes in student content knowledge after students experienced microcomputer-based laboratory (MBL) instruction about heat energy and temperature. Investigation of teacher knowledge included evaluation of content knowledge and pedagogical content knowledge. The teachers' MBL instruction was describe...

BACKGROUND Since image based diagnostic tools fail to detect early metastasis in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) it is crucial to develop minimal invasive diagnostic methods. A promising approach is to identify and characterize circulating tumor cells (CTC) in the peripheral blood of HNSCC patients. In this pilot study, we assessed which non-hematopoietic cell types are identifiab...

UNLABELLED Metastasis is a complex, multistep process that begins with the epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT). Circulating tumor cells (CTC) are believed to have undergone EMT and thus lack or express low levels of epithelial markers commonly used for enrichment and/or detection of such cells. However, most current CTC detection methods target only EpCAM and/or cytokeratin (CK) to enrich e...

Appropriate fertilizer application is an important management practice to improve soil fertility and quality in the red soil regions of China. In the present study, we examined the effects of five fertilization treatments [these were: no fertilizer (CK), rice straw return (SR), chemical fertilizer (NPK), organic manure (OM) and green manure (GM)] on soil pH, soil organic carbon (SOC), total nit...

We aim to explore the influence of Guizhi decoction(GD) on inflammatory response in myocardial ischemia models. 45 New Zealand rabbits were divided into three groups randomly: sham control group, group and + decoction treatment group. The treated with or saline for 20 days. After that, model was created by left anterior descending coronary artery ligation. Color Doppler Echocardiography compute...

While much of a company’s knowledge can be found in text repositories, current content management systems have limited capabilities for structuring and interpreting documents. In the emerging Semantic Web, search, interpretation and aggregation can be addressed by ontology-based s a t ©

BACKGROUND As an important intermediate filament protein within liver cells, cytokeratin-18 (CK-18) has been confirmed as a potential indicator in various hepatitis progressions. OBJECTIVES We sought to clarify the connection between serum CK-18 levels and hepatitis pathogenesis in the present meta-analysis. MATERIALS AND METHODS With the application of various computerized databases, inclu...

Organizations have long had the need to record and protect the knowledge that is their intellectual capital. However, the primary burden for knowledge management has been borne by individuals. Technological changes make such informal methods inadequate and necessitate the development of knowledge management systems that alleviate the reliance on individuals. In this paper, we describe the Knowl...