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Chapter and Conference Paper
Resonance excitation: A possible interpretation of the 3-KPC arm
A minor oval distortion or an uneven distribution of mass in the central region of the Galaxy may excite an outgoing spiral wave that closely resembles the observed 3-kpc arm. The wave is generated by a resona...
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Short-term and imminent anomalies of earthquake of load and unload response ratio of the well level to earth tides
In this paper, through the nonlinear response of rock strain and stress, we have analized the physical mechanism of loading and unloading response ratio of the well level to the earth tides, the respouse of an...
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Sequence analysis of a soilborne wheat mosaic virus isolate from Italy shows that it is the same virus asEuropean wheat mosaic virus andSoilborne rye mosaic virus
The complete sequence of the two RNAs of a furovirus isolate from durum wheat in Italy was determined. Sequence comparisons and phylogenetic analysis were done to compare the Italian virus withSoilborne wheat mos...
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Synthesis and characterization of a three-ring bent-core compound
To investigate the vacuum-deposited films of the banana-shaped mesogens, we prepared a three-ring bent-core (that is, banana-shaped) compound m- bis(4- p- octoxysryrenyl)benzene (m-OSB) and used it as a prototype...
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Spectral features of soil organic matter
The study on soil spectral reflectance features is the physical basis for soil remote sensing. Soil organic matter content influences the soil spectral reflectance dramatically. This paper studied the spectral...
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Chapter
E-Commerce Comparison-Shop** Model of Neural Network Based on Ant Colony Optimization
A new model of comparison-shop** and key contents is discussed in the paper to solve the problem of the user bias’ filtering and learning. On the basis of traditional comparison shop** method, trains the B...
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Article
A Highly Efficient Method for Construction of Rice Artificial MicroRNA Vectors
Artificial microRNA (amiRNA) has become a powerful tool for gene silencing in plants. A new method for easy and rapid construction of rice artificial miRNA vector is described. The procedure involved modificat...
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Open AccessMyostatin genotype regulates muscle-specific miRNA expression in mouse pectoralis muscle
Loss of functional Myostatin results in a dramatic increase in skeletal muscle mass. It is unknown what role miRNAs play in Myostatin mediated repression of skeletal muscle mass. We hypothesized that Myostatin...
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Evaluation of High-Resolution Melting for Gene Map** in Rice
In this study, high-resolution melting (HRM) analysis was evaluated for gene map** in rice with sequence-tagged site (STS) and simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers. A total of 103 out of 353 normal STS and S...
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Two-step method for constructing Arabidopsis artificial microRNA vectors
Artificial microRNA (amiRNA) technology is used for gene silencing in Arabidopsis. We describe a method for constructing amiRNA vectors that requires only one PCR and one ligation reaction. Vectors produced by th...
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Anti-arthritic effects of crocin in interleukin-1β-treated articular chondrocytes and cartilage in a rabbit osteoarthritic model
Interleukin-1β-mediated production of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) plays a pivotal role in the process of osteoarthritis. Crocin, a pharmacologically active component of Crocus sativus L. (saffron), has been ...
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Open AccessEnhanced transgene expression in rice following selection controlled by weak promoters
Techniques that enable high levels of transgene expression in plants are attractive for the commercial production of plant-made recombinant pharmaceutical proteins or other gene transfer related strategies. Th...
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Characterization of a Novel NBS-LRR Gene Involved in Bacterial Blight Resistance in Rice
Nucleotide-binding site leucine-rich repeat (NB-LRR) genes play important roles in plant disease resistance. Due to its similarity to Rp1 in maize (Zea mays), a novel NB-LRR gene was isolated from rice and design...
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Universal vectors for constructing artificial microRNAs in plants
Universal amiRNA vectors (pUAs) for constructing plant amiRNAs in Arabidopsis and rice have been developed. By using type IIg restriction enzyme, BaeI, a single amiRNA construct can be produced using only one PCR...
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Open AccessBody composition and gene expression QTL map** in mice reveals imprinting and interaction effects
Shifts in body composition, such as accumulation of body fat, can be a symptom of many chronic human diseases; hence, efforts have been made to investigate the genetic mechanisms that underlie body composition...
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Inhibition of matrix metalloproteinases and inducible nitric oxide synthase by andrographolide in human osteoarthritic chondrocytes
The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of andrographolide on matrix metalloproteinases (MMP) 1, 3, and 13 and inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) in human articular chondrocytes from osteoarth...
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Optic canal (OC) and internal carotid artery (ICA) in sellar region
OC and ICA are important structures in sellar region, the injury of ICA and optic nerve can be the severe complications in the operations related to sellar region such as the transsphenoidal surgery and extend...
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Silver-catalysed direct amination of unactivated C–H bonds of functionalized molecules
Carbon–nitrogen bond formation from inert C–H bonds is an ideal organic transformation and a highly desirable method for the synthesis of N-containing molecules due to its high efficiency and atom economy. In ...
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Open AccessAn efficient Potato virus X -based microRNA silencing in Nicotiana benthamiana
Plant microRNAs (miRNAs) play pivotal roles in many biological processes. Although many miRNAs have been identified in various plant species, the functions of these miRNAs remain largely unknown due to the sho...
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Anatomical study of pterygoid canal (PC) and palatovaginal canal (PVC) in endoscopic trans-sphenoidal approach
The primary purpose of our work was to make anatomical measurements of pterygoid canal (PC) and palatovaginal canal (PVC). The secondary goal was to locate the two structures based on the landmarks in the tran...
