140 research outputs found
Актерское мастерство в китайском классическом театре
Des phénotypes enzymatiques (estérases et malate déshydrogénases) ont été utilisés pour la caractérisation de 90 populations de #Meloidogyne, 39 #M. javanica, six #M. arenaria, deux #M. exigua, huit #M. hapla, deux #M. graminicola et neuf #Meloidogyne spp. Parmi les espèces atypiques, #Meloidogyne sp. 1 ressemble à #M. javanica par la configuration périnéale et peut être différenciée en électrophorèse par l'absence d'une bande estérasique et sa capacité à se développer sur le poivron. #Meloidogyne sp. 2, le plus virulent parasite du caféier dans l'état du Parana, correspond à une espèce non encore décrite. Les profils enzymatiques ne donnent malheureusement aucune information sur les races de #M. incognita et #M. arenaria$. (Résumé d'auteur
Strain and slackness of achilles tendon during passive joint mobilization via imaging ultrasonography
Background: In vivo study of the mechanical behavior of tendons may bring advances in evaluating the impact of intervention programs for flexibility and strength, in clinical practice and sports. Objective: The aim of this study was to quantify the relative strain and slackness of achilles tendons during passive mobilization, for four ankle joint angles and two knee angles. Methods: The displacement of the muscle-tendon junction was quantified by means of ultrasound images acquired during passive ankle mobilization, with the aid of an electrogoniometer and an electromyograph to ensure the achievement of the required angles and muscle inactivity, respectively. Results: The strain values ranged from 4.28%±2.37 to -0.94%±1.58 for the fully extended knee, and from 2.38%±1.63 to -2.32%±2.16% for the flexed knee. Conclusions: The values found in this study confirm those in the literature and demonstrate how the Achilles tendon participates in length changes in the muscle-tendon unit during passive movement. These results suggest that the mechanical properties of tendinous tissues affect the relationship between the length of muscle fibers and the joint angle, even during this type of movement
An Essential Role for ECSIT in Mitochondrial Complex I Assembly and Mitophagy in Macrophages
ECSIT is a mitochondrial complex I (CI)-associated protein that has been shown to regulate the production of mitochondrial reactive oxygen species (mROS) following engagement of Toll-like receptors (TLRs). We have generated an Ecsit conditional knockout (CKO) mouse strain to study the in vivo role of ECSIT. ECSIT deletion results in profound alteration of macrophage metabolism, leading to a striking shift to reliance on glycolysis, complete disruption of CI activity, and loss of the CI holoenzyme and multiple subassemblies. An increase in constitutive mROS production in ECSIT-deleted macrophages prevents further TLR-induced mROS production. Surprisingly, ECSIT-deleted cells accumulate damaged mitochondria because of defective mitophagy. ECSIT associates with the mitophagy regulator PINK1 and exhibits Parkin-dependent ubiquitination. However, upon ECSIT deletion, we observed increased mitochondrial Parkin without the expected increase in mitophagy. Taken together, these results demonstrate a key role of ECSIT in CI function, mROS production, and mitophagy-dependent mitochondrial quality control
Cardy-Verlinde Formula and Achucarro-Ortiz Black Hole
In this paper it is shown that the entropy of the black hole horizon in the
Achucarro-Ortiz spacetime, which is the most general two-dimensional black hole
derived from the three-dimensional rotating BTZ black hole, can be described by
the Cardy-Verlinde formula. The latter is supposed to be an entropy formula of
conformal field theory in any dimension.Comment: 10 pages, LaTeX, v2: minor changes, references added, to appear in
Phys. Rev.
Bianchi Type-I Cosmological Models with Variable G and 4\Lambda$-Terms in General Relativity
Einstein's field equations with variable gravitational and cosmological
``constant'' are considered in presence of perfect fluid for Bianchi type-I
spacetime. Consequences of the four cases of the phenomenological decay of
have been discussed which are consistent with observations. The
physical significance of the cosmological models have also been discussed.Comment: 12 pages, no figur
Holographic \Lambda(t)CDM model in a non-flat universe
The holographic CDM model in a non-flat universe is studied in
this paper. In this model, to keep the form of the stress-energy of the vacuum
required by general covariance, the holographic vacuum is enforced to exchange
energy with dark matter. It is demonstrated that for the holographic model the
best choice for the IR cutoff of the effective quantum field theory is the
event horizon size of the universe. We derive the evolution equations of the
holographic CDM model in a non-flat universe. We constrain the
model by using the current observational data, including the 557 Union2 type Ia
supernovae data, the cosmic microwave background anisotropy data from the 7-yr
WMAP, and the baryon acoustic oscillation data from the SDSS. Our fit results
show that the holographic CDM model tends to favor a spatially
closed universe (the best-fit value of is -0.042), and the 95%
confidence level range for the spatial curvature is .
We show that the interaction between the holographic vacuum and dark matter
induces an energy flow of which the direction is first from vacuum to dark
matter and then from dark matter to vacuum. Thus, the holographic
CDM model is just a time-varying vacuum energy scenario in which
the interaction between vacuum and dark matter changes sign during the
expansion of the universe.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures. version for publication in EPJC. arXiv admin
note: text overlap with arXiv:1112.235
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