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Platelet-derived growth factor Phorbol ester induces the expression of the B-chain but not of the A-chain in HEL cells
AbstractIt was shown previously [(1984) EMBO J. 3, 453-459] that after treatment of the human erythroleukemia cell line HEL with phorbol ester and dimethyl sulfoxide there was a marked increase in the amounts of megakaryotic markers, especially of platelet α-granule proteins and platelet glycoproteins. In order to investigate this differentiation process further we have studied the expression of the mRNA encoding PDGF-A and PDGF-B (c-sis). Upon addition of the phorbol ester to the culture medium the expression of the c-sis transcript was enhanced about 7-fold over a period of 4 days. With dimethyl sulfoxide there was no significant stimulation of the expression. Addition of cycloheximide to HEL cells treated for a short period with phorbol ester superinduced the expression of the c-sis gene. The HEL cells did not express the A-chain mRNA even in the presence of phorbol ester or dimethyl sulfoxide. This leads us to propose that synthesis of the PDGF-A chain and PDGF-B chain is differentially regulated in the megakaryocytic-like HEL cell line
Antiulcer, wound healing and hepatoprotective activities of the seaweeds Gracilaria crassa, Turbinaria ornata and Laurencia papillosa from the southeast coast of India
Energy loss due to defect formation from 206Pb recoils in SuperCDMS germanium detectors
The Super Cryogenic Dark Matter Search experiment at the Soudan Underground Laboratory studied energy loss associated with defect formation in germanium crystals at mK temperatures using in situ 210Pb sources. We examine the spectrum of 206Pb nuclear recoils near its expected 103âkeV endpoint energy and determine an energy loss of (6:08â±â0:18)%, which we attribute to defect formation. From this result and using TRIM simulations, we extract the first experimentally determined average displacement threshold energy of 19.7+0.6â0.5 eV for germanium. This has implications for the analysis thresholds of future germanium-based dark matter searches
Highly-parallelized simulation of a pixelated LArTPC on a GPU
The rapid development of general-purpose computing on graphics processing units (GPGPU) is allowing the implementation of highly-parallelized Monte Carlo simulation chains for particle physics experiments. This technique is particularly suitable for the simulation of a pixelated charge readout for time projection chambers, given the large number of channels that this technology employs. Here we present the first implementation of a full microphysical simulator of a liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) equipped with light readout and pixelated charge readout, developed for the DUNE Near Detector. The software is implemented with an end-to-end set of GPU-optimized algorithms. The algorithms have been written in Python and translated into CUDA kernels using Numba, a just-in-time compiler for a subset of Python and NumPy instructions. The GPU implementation achieves a speed up of four orders of magnitude compared with the equivalent CPU version. The simulation of the current induced on 10^3 pixels takes around 1 ms on the GPU, compared with approximately 10 s on the CPU. The results of the simulation are compared against data from a pixel-readout LArTPC prototype
The detailed structure of tandem G-A mismatched base-pair motifs in RNA duplexes is context dependent
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Sequential Backbone Assignment of Uniformly C-13-Labeled Rnas by a 2-Dimensional P(Cc)H-Tocsy Triple-Resonance Nmr Experiment
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Basiskomponenten fuer ein Magnetokardiographiesystem aus Hoch-Tc-Supraleitern Abschlussbericht
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