Biological and medical

The overall aim of this study is to determine the most effective way to reduce the radiation dose to the breast during non-breast related CT scans, whilst still maintaining a suitable image quality. This study will attempt to compare the doses and noise of various protocols that can be used for dose reduction, including tube current modulation, bismuth breast shields and manual reduction of tube current.

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objectives: Evaluation of the immunogenicity of IVACFLU-A / H5N1 vaccine produced by the Institute of Vaccines and Medical Biologicals at a dose of 15mcg. Evaluation of the safety of IVACFLU-A / H5N1 vaccine produced by the Institute of Vaccines and Medical Biologicals at a dose of 15mcg.

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The meaning of the dissertation topic: This research contributes to complete the list and evaluate the diversity of medicinal plants in the coastal districts of Thai Binh province to serve local medical needs.

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Many biological C-H activation reactions exhibit nonclassical kinetic isotope effects (KIEs). These nonclassical KIEs are too large (kH/kD 7) and/or exhibit unusual temperature dependence such that the Arrhenius prefactor KIEs (AH/AD) fall outside of the semiclassical range near unity. The focus of this minireview is to discuss such KIEs within the context of the environmentally coupled hydrogen tunneling model.

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Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biology, University of Bari, Italy; 2Department of Zoology, Laboratory of Histology and Comparative Anatomy, University of Bari, Italy; 3Center for the Study of Mitochondria and Energy Metabolism (CNR) Bari, Italy Mitochondrial bioenergetic impairment has been found in the organelles isolated from rat liver during the prereplicative phase of liver regeneration.

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Laboratoire des Venins et Toxines, Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Tunisia; 2De´partement d’Inge´nierie et d’Etude des Prote´ines, CEA, Saclay, France; 3UMR 6560, Universite´ de la Me´diterrane´e, CNRS, Inge´nierie des Prote´ines, Laboratoire de Biochimie, IFR Jean-Roche, Faculte´ de Me´decine Nord, Marseille, France; 4Laboratoire de Neurophysiologie UPRES EA 2647, UFR Sciences, Angers, France BotXIV and LqhaIT are two structurally related long chain scorpion a-toxins that inhibit sodium current inactivation in excitable cells.

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Laboratory for Phytopathology and Plant Protection, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; 2Institut de Pharmacologie et ´ Biologie Structurale, Unite Mixte de Recherche Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique 5089, Toulouse, France; 3Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Halle, Germany; 4Laboratory of Developmental Physiology and Molecular Biology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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Departamento de Fisiologıa de la Nutricion, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutricion ‘Salvador Zubiran’, Mexico; ´ ´ ´ ´ ´ Departamento de Patologıa Experimental, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutricion ‘Salvador Zubiran’,Mexico; 3Department of Biochemistry, Wake Forest University Medical Center, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA Branched chain amino-acid aminotransferase (BCAT) activity is present in fetal liver but the developmental pattern of mitochondrial BCAT (BCATm) expression in rat liver has not been studied.

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The octadecaneuropeptide (ODN; QATVGDVNTDRPG LLDLK) and its C-terminal octapeptide (OP; RPGLLDLK), which exert anxiogenic activity, have been previously shown to increase intracellular calcium concentration ([Ca21]i) in cultured rat astrocytes through activation of a metabotropic receptor positively coupled to phospholipase C. It has also been found that the [D -Leu5]OP analog possesses a weak antagonistic activity. The aim of the present study was to synthesize and characterize cyclic analogs of OP and [D -Leu5]OP.

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The Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 2CREST of Japan Science and Technology Corporation; 3The Department of Nephrology and Endocrinology, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Japan We have cloned cDNA for leukotriene B4 12-hydroxydehydrogenase (LTB 4 12-HD)/15-ketoprostaglandin 13-reductase (PGR) from guinea-pig liver. LTB4 12-HD catalyzes the conversion of LTB4 into 12-keto-LTB4 in the presence of NADP1, and plays an important role in inactivating LTB4.

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Department of Medical Chemistry, Kochi Medical School, Nankoku, Japan; 2Department of Biochemistry, School of Pharmacy, Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Science, Japan; 3Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Kochi Medical School, Nankoku, Japan We previously generated mice lacking aromatase activity by targeted disruption of Cyp19 (ArKO mice), and reported phenotypes of the female mice, showing hemorrhage formation and follicular depletion in the ovary, diminution in uterine size, and bone loss...

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Protein refolding is currently a fundamental problem in biophysics and molecular biology. We have studied the refolding process of frutalin, a tetrameric lectin that presents structural homology with jacalin but shows a more marked biological activity. The initial state in our refolding puzzle was that proteins were unfolded after thermal denaturation or denaturation induced by guanidine hydrochloride, and under both conditions, frutalin was refolded.

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Human interleukin-11 (hIL-11) is a pleiotropic cytokine that is involved in numerous biological activities such as hematopoiesis, osteoclastogenesis, neurogenesis and female fertility. IL-11 is obviously a key reagent to study the IL-11 receptors. However, conventional radio-iodination techni-ques lead to a loss of IL-11 bioactivity. Here, we report the construction and the production of a new recombinant human IL-11 (FPDIL-11). In this molecule, a speci®c phosphorylation site (RRASVA) has been introduced at the N-terminus of rhIL-11. ...

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In order to study the pressure-induced changes of biological membrane, hydrostatic pressures of from 0.1 to 400 MPa were applied to membrane-bound Na + /K + -ATPase from pigkidneyas amodel systemof proteinand lipidmembrane. The activity showed at least a three-step change induced by pressures of 0.1±100 MPa, 100±220 MPa, and 220 MPa or higher.

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The heterodimeric cytokine composed of the soluble ciliary neurotrophic factor receptor (sCNTFR) and the IL-6 family member cardiotrophin-like cytokine (CLC) was recently identi®ed as a new ligand for gp130±leukemia inhibitory factor receptor (LIFR) complex [Plun-Favreau, H., Elson, G., Chabbert, M., Froger, J., deLapeyriere, O., Lelievre, E., Guillet, C., Hermann, J., Gauchat, J. F., Gascan, H. & Chevalier, S. (2001)EMBO J.20, 1692± 1703]. This heterodimer shows overlapping biological properties with LIF....

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The structure–activity relations of a series of synthetic phenoxazone drugs with aminoalkyl side chains of variable length and different terminal groups were investigated by examining their biological activity and DNA complexation affinity. Biological activitywas determined fromtheir ability to induce apoptosis and cell cycle perturbations (activation of cell cycle checkpoints) using the human malignant MOLT-3 cell line. The thermodynamic parameters of drug– DNA complexation were determined by differential scan-ning calorimetry....

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Recombinant, bacterially expressed apoptin protein induces apoptosis inhuman tumour cell lines but not innormal cells, mimicking the behaviour of ectopically expressed apoptin. Recombinant apoptin is isolated exclusively as a highly stablemultimeric complex of 30–40monomers, with little, if any,a-helical and b-sheet structure. Despite its apparent disorder, multimeric apoptin is biologically active. Here, we present evidence thatmost of the apoptinmoietieswithin the complex may well share a similar conformation.

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The currently accepted model of moult control in crusta-ceans relies entirely on the hypothesis that moult-inhibiting hormone (MIH) and crustacean hyperglycaemic hormone (CHH) repress ecdysteroid synthesis of the target tissue (Y-organ) only during intermoult, and that changes in syn-thesis and/or release of these neurohormones are central to moult control.

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The targeting of proteins to particular subcellular sites is an important principle of the functional organization of cells at themolecular level. In turn, knowledge about the subcellular localizationof aprotein is acharacteristic thatmayprovidea hint as to the function of the protein.

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Crotamine is a component of the venom of the snakeCro-talus durissus terrificusand it belongs to the myotoxin pro-tein family. It is a 42 amino acid toxin cross-linked by three disulfide bridges and characterized by a mild toxicity (LD50¼820lg per 25 g body weight, i.p. injection) when compared to other members of the same family. Nonethe-less, it possesses a wide spectrum of biological functions.

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