... IFMR and Diviya Wahi, Shilpa Deshpande, and Anant Natu from ICICI Bank is gratefully acknowledged References Ananth, Bindu, Bastavee Barooah, Rupalee Ruchismita and Aparna Bhatnagar 2004 A Blueprint ... I N G PA R AG R A P H S it has been argued that there exist a set of market-based approaches that have the potential to address poverty on a scaled basis At the heart of this approach is building ... ASPs enables micro-banking operations to enjoy the same transaction quality and cost as is the case with a large bank Launch of MicroFinanceJobs.com to provide access tohuman resources to these...
... pigs and humans Some of these humanand avian influenza viruses might become adapted to pigs and circulate in that population The cocirculation of the viruses in swine, avian andhuman populations ... infected fowls as demonstrated by the government of China, Vietnam, and Thailand Ashuman populations continue to increase and interactions between animals and humans become more proximate, the emergence ... of the American Medical Association Influenza was not a reportable disease: the only evidence of the early occurrence was the registration of deaths reported as uncomplicated cases of pneumonia...
... thought, and try to be near if danger, whose name is Uncle, 12 The Lady and Sada San threatens the girl who has walked into my affections and made herself at home 13 The Lady and Sada San Later All the ... royal ranks and rights, for a nurse’s dress and kit Apparently delicate and shy they can be, if emergency demands, as grim as war or as tender as heaven It was a blithesome day and if it had ... little gaieties with me Their lives together had about as much real comradeship asa small brown hen anda big gray owl, 25 The Lady and Sada San and they had been married sixty years! They had toiled...
... see Aas, 1988) Oaks chosen from 30 different stands in and Poland (stands of pedunculate oak, sessile oak and mixed stands; the number of specimen trees per stand varied between and 20) The majority ... into two large (1 and 2) and one small group (3) (fig 1).In table I, the mean values are indicated for each of the groups, andthe F-values of the variance-analytical comparison of groups and (Welch-Test, ... considered are suitable for a clear dis- tinction A characteristic regarded as intermediate can always be assigned to at least one of the species and is thus not sufficient proof for hybrid origin The...
... These figures are similar to those in Datta, Iskandar-Datta, and Raman (2003) and Spies and Affleck-Graves (1995) Panel A of Table reports summary statistics of firm’s characteristics as of the ... amount of assets under their control as long asthe value for shareholders is monotonically weakly related tothe value of the assets of the firm I claim that there exists a Bayesian Separating Equilibrium ... negative abnormal returns In the former case managers will use cash to pay out bondholders, reducing the available resources at their disposal In the latter case managers can eliminate debt (and...
... oxidation was due tothea chains andthe slow phase was due tothe b chains Tsuruga et al found that the beta chain of the tetramer does not exhibit any proton-catalyzed auto-oxidation [22] These ... several studies Mansouri and Winterhalter [5] reported that the oxidation of thea chains of Hb A0 was 10 times faster than that of the beta chains and that the oxidation of the beta chains was ... coli was a lag phase of 10 minutes both in the presence and absence of EDTA The lag phase was followed by a very rapid second phase only in the absence of EDTA Significantly, this lag phase was not...
... release of neurotransmitters and neuromodulators that activate the receptors on microglia and astrocytes The glial cells are activated and release pro-inflammatory cytokines and other pain enhancing ... my days asa researcher Thank you both so much for all the fun and laughter you have brought to my days in the laboratory I am also very grateful to Ms Jeyapriya Raja Sundaram for her help and ... chronic pain Amino acids and prostaglandins are two such examples 1.2.1.1 Amino Acids Glutamate is the main excitatory amino acid in the mammalian CNS Its interaction with glutamate receptors mediates...
... OCT4 F: CGRGAAGCTGGAGGAGAAGGAGAAGCTG 55 oC R: AAGGGCCGCAGCTTACACATGTTC NANOG F: GGCAAACAACCCACTTCTGC 55 oC R: TGTTCCAGGCCTGATTGTTC β-ACTIN F: ACAGAGCCTCGCCTTTGCC 58 oC R: ACATGCCGGAGCCGTTGTC 2.1.5 ... study, taking hESCs differentiation towards osteogenic lineage as an example, we proposed a set of functional assays asa standard of hESCs asa model for drug discovery 29 One of the major areas ... dosage of purmorphamine (5, 10 and 20mM) was tested on the cell lines for hours following ISO 10993 standards DMSO was used as control MTS assay is a standard laboratory colorimetric assay that...
... proliferation and invasion Choriocarcinoma is a malignant neoplasm that represents the early trophoblast of the attachment phase or as later invasive stage [46–48] Thus, in most cases, choriocarcinoma ... and represents the epithelial layer separating the maternal and fetal circulation [18] In thehuman placenta chorionic villi, a layer of syncytiotrophoblasts lies over the cytotrophoblasts, and ... counted The sum of cell-associated and degraded 125I-labeled HDL3 reflects holoparticle association For the [3H]CE-HDL3- Total RNA was isolated from choriocarcinoma andhuman liver tissues (used as a...
... b-Actin GAAGAAGGGCCAGACGC CCTTCGCTGAGTTCCTGC ACATCAGCGGATACTACAGAG TTTGAATGGGCGAGTGATTG CGGAAACGCCTTAAGTCCAG AATAAGCTTCCGACTCTAGCCGC AGCTGGTGCAGGAGGAAGTA CCGAGAACCGAACTTACCAA AGGAAGCACCCAGCAATACCA ... AGGAAGCACCCAGCAATACCA CACCTTGGATGGGTATTCCA CACAGCTCCCATTCATTCCA TCCTCCCTGGAGAAGAGCTA CTCCTGGGACACGATGC CTGCGGTGCTGTTGTGG CACCATCATAAGGGTAAACAT ACAGCAAAAAGGAGGCCAAA GCCACAATCCAGTCATTCCA GATAAGCTTGTGGAAGTCGCGT ... activation of caspase shown was calculated from the average of three experiments Each value is expressed as ratio of caspase activation level to untreated level, andthe untreated level was set to *versus...
... Angel Arrabal-Polo, Miguel Arrabal-Martin, Sergio Merino-Salas, Fernando López-Carmona Pintado, Salvador Arias-Santiago, Jacinto Orgaz-Molina, Maria Sierra Giron-Prieto, Santiago Melón, Mar a De ... Miguel Arrabal-Martin and Salvador Arias-Santiago Chapter Human Papillomavirus Infection and Penile Cancer: Past, Present and Future 221 João Paulo Oliveira-Costa, Giórgia Gobbi da Silveira, Danilo ... act asa transcription factor and can regulate the viral early promoter and control expression of the viral oncogenes (E6 and E7) At low levels, E2 acts asa transcriptional activator, whereas at...
... inhibitor cocktail (Roche, Laval, Canada) and 200 lm sodium orthovanadate (a phosphatase inhibitor; Sigma-Aldrich, Oakville, Canada) and centrifuged at 13 000 g for to remove suspended cells and ... specific band just above the major propeptide band represents the propeptide generated by the alternate signal peptidase cleavage following Ala28 instead of Ala30, as shown in the mass spectra previously ... Imgenex (San Diego, CA, USA) Secondary anti-mouse and anti- (rabbit HRP) IgG were from Amersham (Piscataway, NJ, USA) andthe secondary anti-(goat HRP) IgG was from Santa Cruz Biotechnology (Santa Cruz,...
... subcellular localization, or association with as yet undefined regulatory factors The most abundant nucleoside kinase in mammals, AK has emerged asa key enzyme in the regulation of interstitial Ado and ... PAGE (15% acrylamide) and PhosphorImager analysis To calculate reaction stoichiometries, radiolabeled reaction products and radioactive standards were quantitated using IMAGEQUANT software (Amersham ... in acetone was sprayed onto the plates to visualize the phosphoamino acid standards Samples were visualized by autoradiography Results Two isoforms of AK are expressed in mouse brain AK was cloned...
... TGTAAAG TGTAAAG + ) + )95 )1100 )1470 ACACacG ACACttG ACACaaG + + + + ) ) ) ) ) )140 )1100 )1596 )1632 )140 )1100 )1596 )1632 )1874 CAaaTG CAagTG CAaaTG CAaaTG CAaaTG CActTG CAttTG CAgtTG TGAGTCA ... putative signal peptide was constructed as follows The DNA fragment was amplified from GmPDIM cDNA by PCR using the primers 5¢-GACGACGACAAGATGC ACGCACTCTATGGAGC-3¢ and 5¢-GAGGAGAAGC CCGGTTCATAGCTCATCCTTGCTTGAAG-3¢ ... soybean cotyledons during maturation (A) GmPDIM mRNA was quantified by real time RT-PCR Each value was standardized by dividing the value by that for actin mRNA Values are calculated asa percentage...
... with a b-galactosidase assay Each plasmid purified from the positive colony was cotransfected with the bait plasmid into the yeast to confirm the specific interaction DNA sequencing and comparison ... luciferase assay Luciferase activity was measured by the Luciferase Assay System (Promega, Madison, WI) as described previously [26] Transfection efficiency was monitored by Renilla luciferase activity ... between the N-terminal region of RHA andthe C-terminal GIR of p65 Asthe TA1-like and TA1 domains of p65 themselves recruit CBP/ p300 coactivators, RHA appears to further facilitate the coactivator...
... of an N-terminal b-sandwich, a core (which contains a transamidation site anda Ca2+-binding site, and has a helices and b sheets in equal amounts), and two C-terminal b-barrel domains It has ... Esposito and I Caputo 132 Akagi A, Tajima S, Ishibashi A, Matsubara Y, Takehana M, Kobayashi S & Yamaguchi, N (2002) Type XVI collagen is expressed in factor XIIIa+ monocyte-derived dermal dendrocytes ... intracellular signalling and apoptosis, as well as in neurodegenerative and autoimmune diseases Consequently, its function may depend on its subcellular and cellular localization and on access to proteins...
... FA, Ventura JL, Casas M, Casas H, Pages T, Rama R, Ricart A, Palacios L, Viscor G: Erythropoietin acute reaction and haematological adaptations to short, intermittent hypobaric hypoxia Eur J Appl ... and/ or assembly of data, data analysis and interpretation, manuscript writing; GMH: collection and/ or assembly of data, data analysis and interpretation, manuscript writing; CA: collection and/ or ... and/ or assembly of data, data analysis and interpretation, manuscript writing; RS: data analysis and interpretation, manuscript writing All authors read and approved the final manuscript Additional...
... Tamura Y, Aketa K, Nabeta C, Nakanishi K, Kamiguchi K, Mano Y, Kitamura H, Kobayashi J, Tsukahara T, Shijubo N, Sato N: Aberrant expression and potency asa cancer immunotherapy target of inhibitor ... Takeda Pharmaceutical Co (Osaka, Japan), Ono Pharmaceutical Co (Osaka, Japan) and Novartis Pharmaceutical (Basel, Switzerland), respectively Human recombinant IL-7 was purchased from Invitrogen ... prostate cancer patients (cases 3, and 5) with AMACR peptides exerted cytotoxic activity against LNCaPA*2402 and DU145 -A* 2402 cells but not against LNCaP and DU145 cells These data implied that the...
... contracts and payment due to administrative delays One problem was that the promised 52% salary top-up was not translated into a 52% increase in take-home pay because of changes tothe tax and allowance ... sector and CHAM staff through a 52% salary topup for 11 professional and technical cadres, coupled with a major initiative to recruit and re-engage qualified Malawian staff The Emergency Human ... DM and BM drafted the paper on the basis of two separate papers they had individually authored VM made significant contributions tothe original draft with particular reference tothe Malawi case...
... enacted, the statutes require that the measure be analyzed by the Office of the Auditor asto its probable effects Health insurance analyses examine bills that propose to mandate certain health ... in the final report and believe our audit report presents a balanced and accurate analysis of the department’s financial operations Marion M Higa State Auditor State of Hawai‘i Office of the Auditor ... the Auditor with broad powers to examine all books, records, files, papers, and documents and all financial affairs of every agency The Auditor also has the authority to summon persons to produce...