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Mouse model of Schistosomiasis: infection with Schistosoma mansoni in CD-1 mice
Schistosomiasis is a parasitic disease that affects almost 240 million worldwide. CD1 mice were infected with cercariae of S. mansoni, after which infection developed for 8 weeks. Tissues were processed
to immuno-histological techniques. It was performed H&E staining for overall analyses, Sirius Red for fibrosis and immunohistochemistry for inflammation biomarkers. The most infected organ was the
liver, fibrosis decreased with egg development and Galectin-3 (Gal3) and Interleukin 6 (IL-6) were expressed inside granulomasThis work was also supported by FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (REF UID/BIM/04293/2013) and by the project NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000012 and by a scholarship to Carla LuÃs with the reference SAICT2016/FEDER/BIO4DIA/BTI under the supervision of Dr. Rúben Fernandes.N/
Numerical solution of open string field theory in Schnabl gauge
Using traditional Virasoro level-truncation computations, we evaluate
the open bosonic string field theory action up to level . Extremizing
this level-truncated potential, we construct a numerical solution for tachyon
condensation in Schnabl gauge. We find that the energy associated to the
numerical solution overshoots the expected value at level .
Extrapolating the level-truncation data for to estimate the vacuum
energies for , we predict that the energy reaches a minimum value at , and then turns back to approach asymptotically as . Furthermore, we analyze the tachyon vacuum expectation value (vev),
for which by extrapolating its corresponding level-truncation data, we predict
that the tachyon vev reaches a minimum value at , and then turns
back to approach the expected analytical result as .Comment: 37 pages, 9 figures, some typos correcte
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