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REGULATION OF T CELLS AND TISSUE INFLAMMATION BY SHORT CHAIN FATTY ACIDS
Intestinal microbiota regulate various biological processes in the host. Intestinal microbiota produce short chain fatty acids (SCFAs) via dietary fiber fermentation. SCFAs have profound effects on the immune system. We investigated the roles of SCFAs in regulating T cell differentiation and tissue inflammation. We found that SCFAs regulate T cell differentiation and T cell-mediated immunity. SCFAs enhanced both IL-10+ T cell and Th1/Th17 effector T cell differentiation. SCFAs inhibited histone deacetylase (HDAC) activity and upregulated acetylation of p70 S6 kinase and mTOR activation in T cells. We also found that prolonged exposure to high concentration of SCFA cause ureteral obstruction and hydronephrosis. SCFAs activated mTOR signaling in renal T cells and developed T cell-mediated inflammation in the ureter and kidneys. In sum, SCFAs promote immunity but can also regulate inflammatory diseases
The structure of gauge-invariant ideals of labelled graph -algebras
In this paper, we consider the gauge-invariant ideal structure of a
-algebra associated to a set-finite,
receiver set-finite and weakly left-resolving labelled space
, where is a labelling map assigning
an alphabet to each edge of the directed graph with no sinks. Under the
assumption that an accommodating set is closed under taking
relative complement, it is obtained that there is a one to one correspondence
between the set of all hereditary saturated subsets of and the
gauge-invariant ideals of . For this, we
introduce a quotient labelled space arising
from an equivalence relation on and show the existence
of the -algebra generated by a
universal representation of . Also the
gauge-invariant uniqueness theorem for is
obtained.
For simple labelled graph -algebras
, where is the
smallest accommodating set containing all the generalized vertices, it is
observed that if for each vertex of , a generalized vertex is
finite for some , then is simple if
and only if is strongly cofinal and
disagreeable. This is done by examining the merged labelled graph
of and the common properties that
and
share
A note on the factorization method of Niederreiter
AbstractIn this paper, we explicitly obtain the coefficient matrix arising from a linearization of Niederreiter's factorization algorithm and analyze the complexity of setting it up. It turns out that its setup cost is linear both in the degree of a polynomial to be factored and in the size of the base field
Interactive media server with media synchronized raid storage system
We propose an efficient placement algorithm and per-disk prefetching method to effectively support interactive operations in the media server. Our placement policy is incorporated with an encoder having a special bitcount control scheme that repeatedly tunes quantization parameters to adjust the bitcounts of video frames. This encoder can generate coded frames whose sizes are synchronized with the RAID stripe size, so that when various fast-forward levels are accessed we can reduce the seek and rotational latency and enhance the disk throughput of each disk in the RAID system. In the experimental results, the proposed placement policy and bitrate control scheme can significantly improve the average service time, which can enlarge the capacity of the interactive media server
Nucleotide sequence and expression of the ncr nickel and cobalt resistance in Hafnia alvei 5-5
The structural genes for the nickel and cobalt resistance of the conjugative plasmid pEJH 501 of Hafnia alvei 5-5, contained on a SalI-EcoRI fragment of 4.8 kb, were cloned and sequenced. The DNA sequence included five genes in the following order: ncrA, ncrB, ncrC, ncrY, and ncrX. The predicted amino acid sequences of ncrA were homologous to the amino acid sequences of nreB of Achromobacter xylosoxidans 31A. Expression of ncr with the T7 RNA polymerase-promoter system allowed Escherichia coli BL21 (DE3) to overexpress NcrA, NcrB, and NcrC but not NcrY, and NcrX. The apparent molecular masses of NcrA, NcrB, and NcrC were 30, 33, and 17 kDa, respectively. Primer-extension analysis showed that ncr mRNA started at nucleotide position 23 upstream from ncrA. The promoter region of the ncr operon possessed a strong, putative –35 element of σ32-type promoter sequence, and transcriptional 'lacZ fusion studies indicated that the –35 element influenced σ32-specific transcription. [Int Microbiol 2004; 7(1):27–34
Synergistic Effect between Cryptotanshinone and Antibiotics against Clinic Methicillin and Vancomycin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Cryptotanshinone (CT), a major tanshinone of medicinal plant Salvia miltiorrhiza Bunge, demonstrated strong antibacterial activity against clinic isolated methicillin and vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA and VRSA) in this experiment. The CT was determined against clinic isolated MRSA 1–16 with MIC and MBC values ranging from 4 to 32 and 8 to 128 μg/mL; for MSSA 1-2 from 16 to 32 μg/mL and 64 to 128 μg/mL; for VRSA 1-2 from 2 to 4 μg/mL and 4 to 16 μg/mL, respectively. The range of MIC50 and MIC90 of CT was 0.5–8 μg/mL and 4–64 μg/mL, respectively. The combination effects of CT with antibiotics were synergistic (FIC index <0.5) against most of tested clinic isolated MRSA, MSSA, and VRSA except additive, MRSA 4 and 16 in oxacillin, MRSA 6, 12, and 15 in ampicillin, and MRSA 6, 11, and 15 in vancomycin (FIC index < 0.75–1.0). Furthermore, a time-kill study showed that the growth of the tested bacteria was completely attenuated after 2–6 h of treatment with the 1/2 MIC of CT, regardless of whether it was administered alone or with ampicillin, oxacillin, or vancomycin. The results suggest that CT could be employed as a natural antibacterial agent against multidrug-resistant pathogens infection
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