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Mitochondria, oxidative stress and PARP-1 network: a new target for neuroprotective effects of tetra

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Mitochondria, oxidative stress and PARP-1 network: a new target for neuroprotective effects of tetracyclines? Mitochondria, oxidative stress and PARP-1 network: a new target for neuroprotective effects of tetracyclines? Orsucci D, Mancuso M, Siciliano G. Department of Neuroscience, Neurological Clinic, University of Pisa, Via Roma 67, ...

A technique for simultaneous measurement of Ca2+, FRET fluorescence, and force in intact mouse small

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

A technique for simultaneous measurement of Ca2+, FRET fluorescence, and force in intact mouse small arteries. FRET-based biosensor molecules are powerful tools to reveal specific molecular interactions in cells. Typically however, they are used in cultured cells that (inevitably) express different genes than their counterparts in ...

Contribution of pacemaker channels to autonomous electrical activity of differentiated embryonic ste

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Contribution of pacemaker channels to autonomous electrical activity of differentiated embryonic stem cells. Contribution of pacemaker channels to autonomous electrical activity of differentiated embryonic stem cells. Akhavan A. California Pacific Medical Center.

What do tachycardiomyopathy belong to? Reply.

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

What do tachycardiomyopathy belong to? Reply. Elliott P; and on behalf of the following co-authors:, Andersson B, Arbustini E, Bilinska Z, Cecchi F, Charron P, Dubourg O, Kühl U, Maisch B, McKenna WJ, Monserrat L, Pankuweit S, Rapezzi C, Seferovic P, Tavazzi L, Keren A. ...

What do tachycardiomyopathy belong to?

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

What do tachycardiomyopathy belong to? Santangeli P, Marzo F, Camporeale A, Bellocci F, Crea F, Pieroni M. Department of Cardiology, Catholic University, Largo A. Gemelli 8, 00168 Rome, Italy.

Parameters in Television Captioning for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Adults: Effects of Caption Rate Ver

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Parameters in Television Captioning for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Adults: Effects of Caption Rate Versus Text Reduction on Comprehension. Caption rate and text reduction are factors that appear to affect the comprehension of captions by people who are deaf or hard of hearing. These 2 factors are ...

Biochemical and Genetic Analysis of Carbohydrate Accumulation in Allium cepa L.

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Biochemical and Genetic Analysis of Carbohydrate Accumulation in Allium cepa L. Onion and shallot (Allium cepa L.) exhibit wide variation in bulb fructan content and the Frc locus on chromosome 8 conditions much of this variation. To understand the biochemical basis of Frc we conducted biochemical ...

An analysis of long-distance water transport in the soybean stem using H215O.

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

An analysis of long-distance water transport in the soybean stem using H215O. The lateral water movement in the intact stem of a transpiring soybean plant was analyzed quantitatively by a real-time measurement system utilizing labeled water, H(2)(15)O, and gamma ray detectors. A large volume of water ...

Nano Scale Proteomics Revealed the Presence of Regulatory Proteins Including Three FT-like proteins

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Nano Scale Proteomics Revealed the Presence of Regulatory Proteins Including Three FT-like proteins in Phloem and Xylem Saps from Rice. The main physiological roles of phloem and xylem in higher plants involve the transport of water, nutrients and metabolites. They are also involved, however, in whole ...

Spatial Attention Related SEP Amplitude Modulations Covary with BOLD Signal in S1–A Simultaneous EE

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Spatial Attention Related SEP Amplitude Modulations Covary with BOLD Signal in S1--A Simultaneous EEG--fMRI Study. Recent studies investigating the influence of spatial-selective attention on primary somatosensory processing have produced inconsistent results. The aim of this study was to explore the influence of tactile spatial-selective attention on ...

Human Amygdala Sensitivity to the Pupil Size of Others.

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Human Amygdala Sensitivity to the Pupil Size of Others. Stimulation of the amygdala produces pupil dilation in animal and human subjects. The present study examined whether the amygdala is sensitive to variations in the pupil size of others. Male subjects underwent event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging ...

Homeostatic Metaplasticity of the Motor Cortex is Altered during Headache-Free Intervals in Migraine

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Homeostatic Metaplasticity of the Motor Cortex is Altered during Headache-Free Intervals in Migraine with Aura. Preconditioning of the human primary motor cortex (M1) with transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) can shape the magnitude and direction of excitability changes induced by a subsequent session of repetitive transcranial ...

Neural Correlates of True Memory, False Memory, and Deception.

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Neural Correlates of True Memory, False Memory, and Deception. We used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to determine whether neural activity can differentiate between true memory, false memory, and deception. Subjects heard a series of semantically related words and were later asked to make a recognition ...

Locus Coeruleus {alpha}-Adrenergic-Mediated Activation of Cortical Astrocytes In Vivo.

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Locus Coeruleus {alpha}-Adrenergic-Mediated Activation of Cortical Astrocytes In Vivo. The locus coeruleus (LC) provides the sole source of norepinephrine (NE) to the cortex for modulation of cortical synaptic activity in response to salient sensory information. NE has been shown to improve signal-to-noise ratios, sharpen receptive fields ...

Functional Lateralization of Face, Hand, and Trunk Representation in Anatomically Defined Human Soma

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Functional Lateralization of Face, Hand, and Trunk Representation in Anatomically Defined Human Somatosensory Areas. We used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and cytoarchitectonic probability maps to investigate the responsiveness of individual areas in the human primary and secondary somatosensory cortices to hand, face, or trunk stimulation ...

A review of algorithmic techniques for disulfide-bond determination.

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

A review of algorithmic techniques for disulfide-bond determination. Disulfide bonds play an important role in understanding protein folding, evolution, and in studies related to determining structural and functional properties of specific proteins. At the state-of-the-art, a large number of computational techniques have been proposed for determining ...

Proteomics in Caenorhabditis elegans.

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Proteomics in Caenorhabditis elegans. Proteomic approaches are increasingly being used to complement genetic and RNA interference-based studies of gene function in Caenorhabditis elegans. Several strategies to isolate protein complexes from whole worms and individual differentiated cell types have been described. In vivo labelling methods have also ...

Analysis of Pro12Ala PPAR gamma polymorphism and Helicobacter pylori infection in gastric adenocarci

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Analysis of Pro12Ala PPAR gamma polymorphism and Helicobacter pylori infection in gastric adenocarcinoma and peptic ulcer disease. BACKGROUND: Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPARgamma) is a ligand-dependent transcription factor involved in various disease processes including inflammation and carcinogenesis. We investigated the association of Pro12Ala PPARgamma polymorphism and ...

Insulin-like growth factor (IGF) 1 and 2 help to predict disease outcome in GIST patients.

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Insulin-like growth factor (IGF) 1 and 2 help to predict disease outcome in GIST patients. BACKGROUND: The expression of the insulin-like growth factor (IGF) system has never been studied in gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs). PATIENTS AND METHODS: We studied the immunohistochemical expression of IGF1 receptor (IGFR-I), ...

Proton MR spectroscopy for monitoring early treatment response of breast cancer to neo-adjuvant chem

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Proton MR spectroscopy for monitoring early treatment response of breast cancer to neo-adjuvant chemotherapy. Baek HM, Chen JH, Nalcioglu O, Su MY. John Tu and Thomas Yuen Center for Functional Onco-Imaging, University of California, Irvine Hall 164, Irvine, CA 92697-5020, USA.

Protein biotinylation visualized by a complex structure of biotin protein ligase with a substrate.

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Protein biotinylation visualized by a complex structure of biotin protein ligase with a substrate. Biotin protein ligase (BPL) catalyzes the biotinylation of the biotin carboxyl carrier protein (BCCP) only at a special lysine residue. Here we report the first structure of BPL:BCCP complex crystals which are ...

Papillary muscle realignment and mitral annuloplasty in patients with severe ischemic mitral regurgi

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Papillary muscle realignment and mitral annuloplasty in patients with severe ischemic mitral regurgitation and dilated heart. Chronic ischemic mitral regurgitation (IMR) is one of the leading causes of congestive heart failure and death. It is controversial whether mitral annuloplasty (MAP) per se can improve the long-term ...

To the editor.

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

To the editor. de Miranda PA, Reiter PD. Novo Nordisk Health Care AG Andreasstr 15 CH-8050 Zurich Switzerland.

A dynamic comparative study concerning the effects of Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors and a

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

A dynamic comparative study concerning the effects of Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors and aldosterone receptor blockers on the fibrinolytic system. The renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS) plays a central role in fibrinolysis. Activation of the RAAS stimulates the expression of plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1), which can be directly implicated ...

The safety profile of yasmin is similar to other combined oral contraceptives.

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

The safety profile of yasmin is similar to other combined oral contraceptives. Cronin M, Korner P. Bayer Schering Pharma AG, Berlin, Germany.

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