Gene expression analysis in tomato fruit has drawn increasing attention nowadays. Quantitative real-time PCR (qPCR) is a routine technique for gene expression analysis. In qPCR operation, reliability of results largely depends on the choice of appropriate reference genes (RGs). Although tomato is a model for fruit biology study, few RGs for qPCR analysis in tomato fruit had yet been developed. ...

Mu-opioid receptors (MOR) are the therapeutic target for opiate analgesic drugs and also mediate many of the side-effects and addiction liability of these compounds. MOR is a seven-transmembrane domain receptor that couples to intracellular signaling molecules by activating heterotrimeric G proteins. However, the receptor and G protein do not function in isolation but their activities are moder...

Objective: In this paper we report in a larger series the use of radio-probe-guided surgery (RGS) in nonradioiodineavid, well-differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC). Design: Thirty-seven patients with locoregional recurrent, nonradioiodine avid DTC were studied with Tc-sestamibi directed RGS using a handheld gamma probe as an intraoperative detector. Outcome: Twenty-three women and 14 men were fol...

The Rehabilitation Gaming System (RGS) has been designed as a flexible, virtual-reality (VR)-based device for rehabilitation of neurological patients. Recently, training of visuomotor processing with the RGS was shown to effectively improve arm function in acute and chronic stroke patients. It is assumed that the VR-based training protocol related to RGS creates conditions that aid recovery by ...

BACKGROUND Regulators of G protein signaling (RGSs) accelerate GTP hydrolysis by Galpha subunits and profoundly inhibit signaling by G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). The distinct expression patterns and pathophysiologic regulation of RGS proteins suggest that inhibitors may have therapeutic potential. We recently described a focused one-bead, one-compound (OBOC) library screen to identify p...

Novel vesicles formed spontaneously from the micelle solution of DTAB, a single-tailed surfactant (STS), mediated by a rough glass surface (RGS) without any additives. The obtained STS vesicles displayed good stability upon long-term storage, exposure to high temperatures, and freeze-thawing after the removal of RGS.

the performance of the electric submersible pump (esp) significantly affected by gas void fraction (gvf). thus, using of a rotary gas separator (rgs) is a suitable solution for this issue. the performance of the rgs is function of different parameters such as geometry of impeller, rotating speed, boundary conditions, media viscosity and gvf. in this study, the influences of gvf, viscosity, and ...