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Corrosion of selected metal alloys in Utah geothermal waters
A potentiodynamic polarization technique has been applied to characterize the corrosion behavior of AISl 316L stainless steel, an iron-based alloy (9Cr-1Mo), a nickel-based alloy (INCONEL® alloy 625),* and mil...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Enhanced development and differentiation of protoplasts and spores of green and red seaweeds by a Pterocladia agar from New Zealand
Enhanced growth of macroalgae was observed on High Purity Agar, a product of Coast Biologicals Limited of Auckland New Zealand. Increases in rates of cell divisions and tissue differentiation occurred in green...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Diffuse Axonal Injury: Changes of Cerebral Blood Flow, Intracranial Pressure and Evoked Potentials
There are various types of diffuse brain damage as a consequence of nonmissile head injury, but it is likely that widespread tearing of nerve fibers occurs at the moment of injury in most of these patients. A ...
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Enhanced development and differentiation of protoplasts and spores of green and red seaweeds by a Pterocladia agar from New Zealand
Enhanced growth of macroalgae was observed on High Purity Agar, a product of Coast Biologicals Limited of Auckland New Zealand. Increases in rates of cell divisions and tissue differentiation occurred in green...
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Antiviral compounds in extracts of Korean seaweeds: Evidence for multiple activities
Extracts of 13 Korean seaweeds, previously shown to contain antiviral activity, were investigated in more detail in order to learn the nature of the antiviral compounds and their mechanisms of action. One extr...
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Reactive extraction of succinic acid with tripropylamine (TPA) in various diluents
Succinic acid is of interest as the raw material of polysuccinate which is a biodegradable polymer. The tripropylamine (TPA) was used as the extraction agent for the reactive extraction of succinic acid in va...
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The Use of High-Resolution Computed Tomography in the Evaluation of Pulmonary Hemodynamics in Patients with Congenital Heart Disease: In Pulmonary Vessels Larger Than 1 mm in Diameter
High-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) was carried out in 36 patients with congenital left-to-right shunt disease and 10 normal control subjects to assess the feasibility of CT in the evaluation of pulmon...
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Extraction of succinic acid with 1-octanol/n-heptane solutions of mixed tertiary amine
The reactive extraction of succinic acid was carried out by mixed tertiary amine which consisted of tripropylamine (TPA) and trioctylamine (TOA) as the extraction agent in 1-octanol/n-heptane diluent. Maximum di...
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Open AccessInhibition of breast cancer growth in vivo by antiangiogenesis gene therapy with adenovirus-mediated antisense-VEGF
Increased expression of VEGF in several types of tumours has been shown to correlate with poor prognosis. We used a replication-deficient adenoviral vector containing antisense VEGF cDNA (Ad5CMV-αVEGF) to down...
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Double pendeo-epitaxial growth of GaN films with low density of threading dislocation
A double pendeo-epitaxy technique for growing uniformly GaN films with low defect density over the entire surface of a substrate has been achieved by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition(MOCVD). The structur...
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Evidence for the Existence of an Unfolding Intermediate of Thyroglobulin during Denaturation by Guanidine Hydrochloride
The unfolding of bovine thyroglobulin (Tg) in guanidine hydrochloride (GuHCl) solution was studied by following the fluorescence and circular dichroism. With increasing GuHCl concentrations, the emission maxim...
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Use of Pi5(t) markers in marker-assisted selection to screen for cultivars with resistance to Magnaporthe grisea
Identification of the PCR markers tightly linked to genes that encode important agronomic traits is useful for marker-assisted selection (MAS). The rice Pi5(t) locus confers broad-spectrum resistance to Magnaport...
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Epidural hematoma mimicking transverse myelitis in a patient with primary antiphospholipid syndrome
Antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) is an autoimmune disease, and its most critical pathologic process is thrombosis, which may explain most of the clinical features. Acute management of thrombosis involves immedi...
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Massive gastrointestinal bleeding due to the rupture of arterial aneurysm in Behçet’s disease: case report and literature review
Massive gastrointestinal bleeding is a very rare manifestation of gastrointestinal Behçet’s disease, mainly from the gastrointestinal mucosal lesions. We report herein the case of a 50-year-old man with intest...
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CMOS-based Spin-Transfer Torque Magnetic Random Access Memory (ST–MRAM)
Recently it has been demonstrated that the vortex core magnetization can be switched by applying a short (<100 ps) magnetic field pulse. This is an important step towards utilizing the two stable states of the...
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Properties of InGaN/GaN Quantum Wells Grown by Metalorganic Chemical Vapor Deposition
Optical and structural properties of InGaN/GaN quantum wells having growth interruption were investigated using high-resolution x-ray diffraction, photoluminescence and transmission microscopy. InxGa1−xN/GaN (x>0...
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Open AccessInterleukin-8 and its receptor CXCR2 in the tumour microenvironment promote colon cancer growth, progression and metastasis
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a leading cause of death in the United States. Increased level of interleukin-8 (IL-8) and CXCR2 on tumours and in the tumour microenvironment has been associated with CRC growth, pr...
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ATRX induction by mutant huntingtin via Cdx2 modulates heterochromatin condensation and pathology in Huntington's disease
Aberrant chromatin remodeling is involved in the pathogenesis of Huntington's disease (HD) but the mechanism is not known. Herein, we report that mutant huntingtin (mtHtt) induces the transcription of alpha th...
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Transcriptome-guided resolution of tumor microenvironment interactions in pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma subtypes
Pheochromocytomas and paragangliomas (PCPG) are rare catecholamine-secreting endocrine tumors deriving from chromaffin cells of the embryonic neural crest. Although distinct molecular PCPG subtypes have been e...
