<正>Earthquake damage of property and loss and injury of human life *** many laboratories worldwide have increased their abilities to mitigate the hazards of these reoccurring natural *** paper presents new experime...
<正>Earthquake damage of property and loss and injury of human life *** many laboratories worldwide have increased their abilities to mitigate the hazards of these reoccurring natural *** paper presents new experimental techniques and applications from five laboratories,one in Canada,and four in the United *** new techniques and technologies range from combining computational analyses with structural testing with strong wall and strong floor at the University of California at Berkelely, a new technique for increasing the capability of a medium size uniaxial shaking table at Ecole Polytechnique,a description of the world’s highest capacity outdoor shaking table at the University of California at San Diego,testing with multiple biaxial shaking tables at the University of Reno,Nevada,and finally,the combination of strong wall dynamic structural actuators with a shaking table and real time computational sub-structuring computations at the University at Buffalo(SUNY).These new capabilities allow the researcher to increase the size of the specimens of interest,allowing much better results to study nonlinear behaviors and failure mechanisms.
The current standard interferon-alpha(IFN-α)-based therapy for chronic hepatitis C virus(HCV) infection is only effective in approximately half of the patients,prompting the need for alternative *** interference(RNAi...
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The current standard interferon-alpha(IFN-α)-based therapy for chronic hepatitis C virus(HCV) infection is only effective in approximately half of the patients,prompting the need for alternative *** interference(RNAi)represents novel approach to combat HCV by sequence-specific targeting of viral or host factors involved in *** of RNAi,however,may lead to therapeutic resistance by mutational escape of the ***,we proposed that combining lentiviral vector-mediated RNAi and IFN-a could be more effective and avoid therapeutic *** this study,we found that IFN-α treatment did not interfere with RNAi-mediated gene *** and IFN-α act independently on HCV replication showing combined antiviral activity when used simultaneously or *** ofmouse hepatocytes in vivo and in vitro was not effected by IFN-α *** conclusion,RNAi and IFN-a can be effectively combined without crossinterference and may represent a promising combinational strategy for the treatment of hepatitis C.
The current standard interferon-alpha(IFN-α)-based therapy for chronic hepatitis C virus(HCV) infection is only effective in approximately half of the patients, prompting the need for alternative treatments. RNA inte...
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The current standard interferon-alpha(IFN-α)-based therapy for chronic hepatitis C virus(HCV) infection is only effective in approximately half of the patients, prompting the need for alternative treatments. RNA interference(RNAi) represents novel approach to combat HCV by sequence-specific targeting of viral or host factors involved in infection. Monotherapy of RNAi, however, may lead to therapeutic resistance by mutational escape of the virus. Here, we proposed that combining lentiviral vector-mediated RNAi and IFN-α could be more effective and avoid therapeutic resistance. In this study, we found that IFN-α treatment did not interfere with RNAi-mediated gene silencing. RNAi and IFN-α act independently on HCV replication showing combined antiviral activity when used simultaneously or sequentially. Transduction ofmouse hepatocytes in vivo and in vitro was not effected by IFN-α treatment. In conclusion, RNAi and IFN-α can be effectively combined without crossinterference and may represent a promising combinational strategy for the treatment of hepatitis c.
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