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Architecture of dermatophyte cell Walls: Electron microscopic and biochemical analysis
A review with 83 references on the cell wall structure of dermatophytes is presented. Topics discussed include separation and preparation of cell walls; microstructure of cell walls by electron microscopy; chemical composition of cell walls; structural model of cell walls; and morphological structure of cell walls
Rotation Curves of Spiral Galaxies and Large Scale Structure of Universe under Generalized Einstein Action
We consider an addition of the term which is a square of the scalar curvature
to the Einstein-Hilbert action. Under this generalized action, we attempt to
explain i) the flat rotation curves observed in spiral galaxies, which is
usually attributed to the existence of dark matter, and ii) the contradicting
observations of uniform cosmic microwave background and non-uniform galaxy
distributions against redshift. For the former, we attain the flatness of
velocities, although the magnitudes remain about half of the observations. For
the latter, we obtain a solution with oscillating Hubble parameter under
uniform mass distributions. This solution leads to several peaks of galaxy
number counts as a function of redshift with the first peak corresponding to
the Great Wall.Comment: 16 page
Magnetic-field effects on the in-plane electrical resistivity in the single-crystal LaBaCuO and LaNdSrCuO around : Relating to the field-induced stripe order
Temperature dependence of the in-plane electrical resistivity, , in various magnetic fields has been measured in the single-crystal
LaBaCuO with , 0.10, 0.11 and
LaNdSrCuO with . It has been found that the
superconducting transition curve shows a so-called fan-shape broadening in
magnetic fields for , while it shifts toward the low-temperature side
in parallel with increasing field for and 0.12 where the charge-spin
stripe order is formed at low temperatures. As for , the broadening is
observed in low fields and it changes to the parallel shift in high fields
above 9 T. Moreover, the normal-state value of at low
temperatures markedly increases with increasing field up to 15 T. It is
possible that these pronounced features of are understood in terms of
the magnetic-field-induced stabilization of the stripe order suggested from the
neutron-scattering measurements in the La-214 system. The in
the normal state at low temperatures has been found to be proportional to
ln(1/) for , 0.11 and 0.12. The ln(1/) dependence of is robust even in the stripe-ordered state.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures, ver. 2 has been accepted for publication in Phys.
Rev.
Low-temperature sintering of Z-type hexagonal ferrite by addition of fluorine containing glass powder
The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com.ArticleJOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE. 40(1): 165-170 (2005)journal articl
In vivo blockade of pemphigus vulgaris acantholysis by inhibition of intracellular signal transduction cascades
BACKGROUND: Pemphigus vulgaris (PV) is an autoimmune disease characterized by mucocutaneous intraepithelial blisters and pathogenic autoantibodies against desmoglein 3. The mechanism of blister formation in pemphigus has not been defined; however, in vitro data suggest a role for activation of intracellular signalling cascades. OBJECTIVES: To investigate the contribution of these signalling pathways to the mechanism of PV IgG-induced acantholysis in vivo. METHODS: We used the passive transfer mouse model. Mice were injected with IgG fractions of sera from a patient with PV, with or without pretreatment with inhibitors of proteins that mediate intracellular signalling cascades. RESULTS: Inhibitors of tyrosine kinases, phospholipase C, calmodulin and the serine/threonine kinase protein kinase C prevented PV IgG-induced acantholysis in vivo. CONCLUSIONS: These observations strongly support the role of intracellular signalling cascades in the molecular mechanism of PV IgG-induced acantholysis
Characterization of new L,D-endopeptidase gene product CwlK (previous YcdD) that hydrolyzes peptidoglycan in Bacillus subtilis
The original publication is available at www.springerlink.comArticleMOLECULAR GENETICS AND GENOMICS. 278(4): 371-383 (2007)journal articl
Fast-ion-induced secondary ion emission from submicron droplet surfaces studied using a new coincidence technique with forward-scattered projectiles
A mass spectrometric study of secondary ions emitted from droplet surfaces by MeV-energy heavy ion impact was performed to investigate fast-ion-induced molecular reaction processes on liquid surfaces. Herein, a new coincidence technique was developed between secondary ions and scattered projectile ions at a small forward angle. The advantages of this technique were demonstrated by measurement of the collision between 4-MeV C3+ and ethanol droplets. Secondary ion emission probabilities were obtained directly from the coincidence data. Notably, this technique enabled positive fragment ions that had not been identified in previous measurements to be observed by suppressing the strong background originating from gas-phase molecules more than 104-fold. H+, H3O+, C2H5+, and C2H5O+ were found to be produced as major positive fragment ions, in addition to minor fragments H2+, C2H3+, and CH2OH+. Production of these ions suggests that competition between rapid hydrogen ion emission from multiply ionized states and intermolecular proton transfer accompanied by fragmentation through protonated ethanol occurs after fast heavy-ion collisions. Clarification of the positive fragment ions also revealed the characteristic features of negative ions. Negative ions were realized to exhibit higher degrees of fragmentation and reactivity compared with positive ions. Furthermore, the energy loss by forward-scattered ions during droplet penetration was used to evaluate the target thickness at a submicron level. Variations in secondary ion yield, mass distribution, and kinetic energies depending on the penetration length were observed below 1 µm. These results highlight the unknown mechanism of these “submicron effects” observed in secondary ion emission processes as a new phenomenon
Positive and negative ion emission from microdroplets by MeV energy ions
XXIX International Conference on Photonic, Electronic, and Atomic Collisions (ICPEAC2015): 22–28 July 2015, Toledo, SpainWe have developed a new experimental setup that allowed us to study collision interactions between fast ion beams and liquid droplets under a vacuum condition. Droplets of water and ethanol are irradiated with 0.4-1.5 MeV H+ and 2.0 MeV C2+ ions. The droplet diameter is estimated from energy loss measurements of projectile ions penetrating through droplets. Time-of-flight mass spectra of positive and negative secondary ions exhibit a series of cluster ions generated via protonation and deprotonation
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