... Application Contexts• Characterization Issue• Computation Issue• Duality• OrganizationCOMPUTATION PROBLEM• Iterative descent• Approximation• Role of convergence analysis• Role of rate of ... convergence of steep-est descentx0x1x2f(x) = c1f(x) = c3 < c2f(x) = c2 < c1...Quadratic Approximation of f at x0Quadratic Approximation of f at x1Fast convergence of New-ton’s ... Zero slope at a localminimum x∗∇f(x∗)=0• 2nd order condition: Nonnegative curvature at a local minimum x∗∇2f(x∗): Positive Semidefinite• There may exist points that satisfy the 1st and2nd...
... the suggestions of scientific literature on the advantages ofthe compactness, reliability, ease of use and affordability ofthe 980 nm Diode Lasers, we evaluated the efficacy and safety of ... for the treatment of pathological frenulum, keratoses, angiomas and telangiectases. 2. PATIENTS AND METHODS The treatment with the 980nm Diode Laser was proposed to a group of 15 patients ... during treatment or during the healing period. All the patients were followed up at 1, 4, and 8 weeks from the procedure. 3. RESULTS At the 4-week follow-up the cases of keratosis, had...
... connections. The present study aimed to detect the expression of Cx40 and Cx43 in the artery at early stage of high fat diet induced atherosclerosis and to investigate the effects of AT1 antagonist ... reduced by treatment. RT-PCR and Western blot assay showed that the mRNA and protein expression of Cx40 and Cx43 were elevated in the neointimal area atthe early stage of atherosclerosis. The mRNA ... involved in the injury or dis-ease induced activation of vessel wall cells. It is indi-cated that the expression of Cx43 in the smooth mus-cle cells was markedly elevated atthe early stage of coronary...
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... the charge, the lower is the anion concentration required to stabilize the A -state [11]. Subsequent studies have shown that the tertiary conformation ofthe A -state is modulatedby the type of ... 35% that ofthe native state, consistent with het-erogeneity ofthe A -state. On the basis of earlier data(relative to monovalent anions) [18], a mixture betweenMet80–Fe(III)–His18 coordinated ... progresscurve of Fig. 9B is expected to refer: (a) for the fastphase, to the sulfate-induced destabilization ofthe HSacid-denatured form, with further formation ofthe LS(IHH) A -state; (b) for the...
... affecting the ability of E1 to catalyse the reductive acetylation ofthe tethered lipoyldomain in the assembled PDH complex. It should be notedthat Tyr281 and Arg282 are located atthe mouth of the funnel-shaped ... site of E1, atthe bottom of which lies the ThDP cofactor some 20–25 A˚from the protein ÔsurfaceÕ[14]. Thus it may be that these mutations are affecting the efficacy ofthe recognition ofthe ... any ofthe mutations in E1a (Fig. 4).Therefore, any effects ofthe mutations on the catalyticactivities ofthe PDH complex must be due to direct effectson the reactions catalysed by E1. The...
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... following the change in ellipticity at 222 nm at a constant heating rate of 40 °CÆh)1. The midpoint ofthe transition (Tm) was deter-mined from the first derivative ofthe smoothed denatur-ation ... Mg2+), sat-urating amounts of Glc were used. In the case of the severely inactivating mutation T228M [9,20], an ATP con-centration of 10 mm was used. For determination of Hillcoefficients of WT ... hyper-insulinism of infancy [6–11]. Some ofthe mutationsgreatly reduce the binding affinity of MgATP2)[11,12], which is compatible with a direct interaction of these residues with the nucleotide at the...
... models, which indicatethat the approach may be applicable to the treatment of a wide range of human cancers. This minireview summarizes the available data on thesecompounds and the challenges posed ... senescence,and ultimately apoptosis. The catalytic subunit of telo-merase (hTERT in humans) has reverse transcriptaseenzymatic activity and synthesizes TTAGGG repeatson to the end ofthe 3¢ single-stranded ... quadruplexformation atthe single-strand overhang may itself be aDNA damage signal, producing responses analogousto those of other mediators of telomere damage [12]. The biological function of induced...
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... are situated at similar distancesfrom the hydroxyl ofthe docked substrate, they couldcooperate in facilitating the hydride transfer from sub-strate to FAD. The decrease of activity ofthe AAOH502A ... modulating the catalyticrate ofthe enzyme. Finaly, L315 affects the enzyme kcat, although it is notlocated in the near vicinity ofthe cofactor. The present study provides the first evidence for the ... glycoprotein of 70 kDa with dissociableflavin-adenine dinucleotide (FAD) as cofactor thatcatalyzes the oxidation of a variety of aromatic andaliphatic polyunsaturated alcohols to their corres-ponding...
... thiscoexpression of counteracting proteins, we investigated the role ofthe glutathione redox state in vitro because the oxi-dation stateof thiols is involved in the metal binding in Cd-Sor Zn-S clusters ... increased the cadmium release by nitric oxide. The decay occurs in the first 10 min after the addition of NO as observed bymonitoring the CD atthe maximum ofthe charge transferband at 260 nm ... to samples of 20 lMCd5Zn2-MT2 togive final ratios as indicated atthe bottom of Fig. 2. The normalized amounts of zinc and cadmium in the MT2fraction, taking into consideration the dilution...
... incubation.When the insulin-responsiveness ofthe cells wasexamined at different concentrations of insulin, wefound that insulin enhanced the phosphorylation of PKB at lower concentrations ... degree of phos-phorylation ofthe insulin receptor and IRS1 wasrequired to increase the phosphorylation of ERK1 ⁄ 2(Figs 1C and 5).Our findings indicate that the collagenase treatmentto isolate ... been the subject of intensive research for many years. Yet, wedon’t know the details ofthe molecular dysregulationin the target cells ofthe hormone. Studies of cells frompatients with the...