... a grinding organ with glands in the fundus and body that produce mucus (surface and neck cells), pepsinogen (chief cells), and acid and intrinsic factor (parietal cells) Intrinsic factor binds ... dead and dying cells with compacted keratin) Specialized structures of the skin include hair follicles (found only in thin skin), nails, and sweat glands and ducts Nonkeratinocyte epidermal cells ... apparatus are involved in packaging and routing proteins for export or delivery to other organelles, including lysosomes and peroxisomes Lysosomes degrade intracellular and imported debris, and peroxisomes...
... cell line have revealed roles for DP9 incell adhesion, inin vitro wound healing, incell migration, andin proliferation and apoptosis, and roles for DP8 have been found in wound healing, in ... gastrointestinal tract, skin, lymph node, spleen, liver and lung, as well as in pancreatic acinar cells, adrenal gland, spermatogonia and spermatids of testis, andin Purkinje cells andin the ... and is also upregulated in activated B cells [34,129,130] CD26 overexpression in a B -cell line enhances p38 phosphorylation, suggesting that as in T cells, CD26 in B cells could be involved in...
... C-terminal domain binds to cytoskeletal proteins such as spectrin and tubulin, while its N-terminal 89-kDa ankyrin-repeat domain binds to integral membrane proteins, such as ion channels andcell ... iPLAefl in INS-1 cells, an insulinoma cell line (119) We found that iPLA2floverexpressing INS-1 cells exhibit increased secretory responses to insulin seeretagogues compared to parent IN S-1 cells ... results indicate that iPLA.2~ contains eonsensns phosphorylation sites for calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II, protein kinase A, protein kinase C, protein kinase G, and casein kinase...
... tract infections (RTI) Two studies have examined the effect in adults of a combined multi-strain probiotic and multivitamin/mineral supplement containing L gasseri, B longum and B bifidum on the incidence, ... help in influencing the growth of a favourable intestinal ecosystem, decreasing the quote of Clostridium, Bacillus and Bacteroides Fragilis and increasing the rate of bifidobacteria, also improving ... can alter the intestinal microflora and reduce the growth of pathogenic microorganisms in the intestines of preterm infants, decreasing the incidence of necrotizing enterocolitis and sepsis Moreover,...
... tract infections (RTI) Two studies have examined the effect in adults of a combined multi-strain probiotic and multivitamin/mineral supplement containing L gasseri, B longum and B bifidum on the incidence, ... important being cell proliferation, migration and turnover regulated by apoptosis Probiotics can increase number of cells in intestinal mucosa and affect the migration of Preface cells in crypt ... the extrinsic and intrinsic innervations Moreover, they had concentrated on the reflex part of swallowing involving both the afferent and efferent pathways The afferent signals apparent during the...
... collecting new contributions in this area of research and science The scien tific production in the field is, in fact, rapidly growing and updating, mainly on the fronts of new and original applications ... titanium-bone cell interface in vitro: the role of the surface in promoting osteoin tegration In: Brunette DM, Tengvall P, Textor M, Thomsen P, editors Titanium in Medicine Berlin: Springer; (2001) ... (-TCP, alumina and composites) The sintering temperature of the initial powder began at about 900C and at about 1400C for the -TCP and alumina (Figure 4a-b and Table 2) The sintering temperature...
... health and wellbeing of those who live or work or receive care there It involves integrating health promotion into all aspects of the setting and including within its remit all those who come into ... broader understanding of the Complexity and the Health Promoting School different agents involved inand across schools (although in my experience of schools in England the involvement of ‘broader’ ... adopted in evaluating health promoting school initiatives In Finland, a clear commitment was adopted to a collaborative model both in developing and evaluating the impact of innovation in schools –...
... degrees in International Economics & Finance (BA and MSc) and International Business (MSc) His research interests are corporate finance, venture capital financing and initial public offerings and ... ADVANCESIN CORPORATE FINANCE AND ASSET PRICING i This page intentionally left blank ii ADVANCESIN CORPORATE FINANCE AND ASSET PRICING EDITED BY L RENNEBOOG Department of Finance and CentER, ... reputation in fighting inflation, inflationary pressures first show up in asset-price Introduction: Corporate Restructuring and Governance, Valuation and Asset Pricing 11 inflation and increase...
... acting insulin, intermediate acting insulin, and long acting insulin Choosing the correct type of insulin differs from person to person and often depends on their daily activities, their willingness ... studying the effects of an enterotoxin of E coli and how it protects the islet cells in rats The enterotoxin does this by inhibiting the immune system and not letting it attack the insulin producing ... given food bars containing L-arginine and antioxidant vitamins (Vitamin A, C, and E are all antioxidants) The second group was given bars containing just the vitamin supplements and the third group...
... be obtained by installing corrosion spools in the pipeline itself These spools can be installed, for example, before and after inhibitor injection points 22 Advancesin Corrosion Control and Materials ... it also involves higher operating costs (because of inhibition, inspection, monitoring and staffing), and additional risks This summarises the main issues to be considered in the design and operation ... serious in oil and gas environment Nevertheless, galvanic corrosion between a tubing string and the carbon steel casing has resulted in failure in a cold worked duplex stainless steel in the past and...
... types: single-ringed pyrimidines and double-ringed purines The purines are adenine (A) and guanine (G) The pyrimidines are cytosine (C), thymine (T), and uracil (U) Thymine is found primarily in DNA ... the leading strand The opposite DNA strand is synthesized in a discontinuous manner away from the replication fork and is referred to as the lagging strand The leading and lagging strands are ... Use 2 MOLECULAR ANDCELLBIOLOGY ences draw upon knowledge from several scientific disciplines, including biochemistry, cytology, genetics, microbiology, embryology, and evolution Cellular Organization...
... finger posture" summarizes the authors' recent work toward developing ways to record fine motor control tasks involving manipulation of objects requiring fine motor control of the hand and fingers ... Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation on the topic of wearable technology in physical medicine and rehabilitation has the objective of describing recent advancesin wearable sensor technology ... years They range from simple monitoring of daily activities, for the purpose of assessing mobility and level of independence in individuals, to integrating miniature sensors to enhance the function...
... research in theory and engineering development in practice, and as a messenger between the technical pioneers and the researchers who followed in their footstep This book, titled Recent Advancesin ... Kao-Peng Chou and Jia-Chin Lin Chapter Synchronization for OFDM-Based Systems 23 Yu-Ting Sun and Jia-Chin Lin Chapter ICI Reduction Methods in OFDM Systems 41 Nadieh M Moghaddam and Mohammad Mohebbi ... practicing and knowledgeable communication X Preface engineers to beginning or professional researchers All interested readers can easily find noteworthy materials in much greater detail than in...
... classified into two categories: continuous and discontinuous as shown in Fig 10 These two categories can be subdivided into three types: intraband contiguous, intraband discontinuous and interband A ... eliminate intersymbol interference and intercarrier interference In general, the symbol timing offset may vary in an interval that is equal to the guard time and does not cause intersymbol interference ... which results in time-varying phase changes Intercarrier interference comes into being another attached problem Because an error in the sampling frequency means an error in the FFT interval duration,...
... of combining schemes, including selection combining, switch combining, EGC, and MRC, in the following 2.1.1 Selection combining Selection combining is a simple receive diversity combining scheme ... Equal gain combining Equal gain combing is a suboptimal combining scheme, as compared with the MRC scheme Instead of requiring both the amplitude and phase knowledge of channel state information, ... transmitting multiple data streams without additional bandwidth or power expenditure Several basic receiver architectures for handling inter-antenna interference, including zero-forcing (ZF), minimum...
... null-steering and the optimal beamforming schemes Although the nullsteering beamforming scheme can form deep nulls in the directions of the interfering sources, the performance of filtering out the interference ... be mainly determined by the groups and classes whose matrices Gg,c = Gmin g,c min Tg,c Rmin Tg,c g H (42) have the smallest common rank, denoted by min ˜ Dmin = rank(Gmin ) = rank Tg,c Rmin Tg,c ... Recent Advancesin Wireless Communications and Networks 4.1 Linear array and signal model Fig 16 depicts a linear array with L omni-directional and equi-spaced antennas, and the antenna spacing...