<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.
Several factors, such as cold exposure, aging, the number of experiences and viral infection, have been shown to affect learning ability in different organisms. Wol- bachia has been found worldwide as an arthropod par...
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Several factors, such as cold exposure, aging, the number of experiences and viral infection, have been shown to affect learning ability in different organisms. Wol- bachia has been found worldwide as an arthropod parasite/mutualist symbiont in a wide range of species, including insects. Differing effects have been identified on physiology and behavior by Wolbachia. However, the effect of Wolbachia infection on the learning ability of their host had never previously been studied. The current study carried out to compare learning ability and memory duration in 2 strains of the parasitoid Trichogramma brassicae: 1 uninfected and I infected by Wolbachia. Both strains were able to associate the novel odors with the reward of an oviposition into a host egg. However, the percentage of females that responded to the experimental design and displayed an ability to learn in these conditions was higher in the uninfected strain. Memory duration was longer in uninfected wasps (23.8 and 21.4 h after conditioning with peppermint and lemon, respectively) than in infected wasps (18.9 and 16.2 h after conditioning with peppermint and lemon, respec- tively). Memory retention increased in response to the number of conditioning sessions in both strains, but memory retention was always shorter in the infected wasps than in the uninfected ones. Wolbachia infection may select for reduced memory retention because shorter memory induces infected wasps to disperse in new environments and avoid compe- tition with uninfected wasps by forgetting cues related to previously visited environments, thus increasing transmission of Wolbachia in new environments.
This paper reports the first case of a patient with hepatocellular carcinoma with lymph node metastasis treated by sorafenib combined with gemcitabine plus oxaliplatin,with a partial response and normalization of α f...
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This paper reports the first case of a patient with hepatocellular carcinoma with lymph node metastasis treated by sorafenib combined with gemcitabine plus oxaliplatin,with a partial response and normalization of α fetoprotein,which allowed curative *** potential synergy between these three drugs needs to be confirmed,and is currently being investigated in a randomized phase Ⅱ trial.
The ability of CD4 T cells to differentiate into various effector or regulatory T cell subsets explains the successful adaptation of immune responses to different types of infectious pathogens. Immune responses in the...
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The ability of CD4 T cells to differentiate into various effector or regulatory T cell subsets explains the successful adaptation of immune responses to different types of infectious pathogens. Immune responses in the context of cancer are also shaped by CD4 T cells, which can directly affect cancer prognosis in patients. While the proinflammatory mediator interleukin(IL)-1β was initially shown to enhance Th2 cell responses, recent findings support a predominant role of two other members of the IL-1 family, IL-18 and IL-33, on the production of Th1 and Th2-derived cytokines. In addition, IL-1β was found to profoundly affect the biology of two recently identified CD4 T cell subsets, Th17 and Th9 cells. IL-1β is critical for Th17 cell differentiation and it enhances the production of IL-9 and IL-21 by Th9 cells, thus increasing their anticancer properties. We will here review the mechanisms accounting for the ability of IL-1 cytokines to affect the differentiation of CD4 effector T cells with a focus on Th17 and Th9 cells. The physiopathological relevance of IL-1-driven effects on CD4 T cells will also be discussed.
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