Expression and pathogenesis of insulin-like growth factor-1 and insulin-like growth factor binding protein 3 in a mouse model of ulcerative colitis.

Background And Aim: Insulin-like growth factor-1 may be involved in the epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition process. It can mitigate adverse effects when interacting with insulin-like growth factor binding protein 3. This study aimed to explore alterations in the expression of these two factors in the colonic tissue of mice with ulcerative colitis.

Tricritical-point phase diagram in PrCuSn.

Tricritical phenomenon appearing in multiple phases is a fundamental and attractive issue in condensed-matter physics. In this work, a field-modulated tricritical phenomenon is realized in single-crystal PrCuSn. The magnetization under variable directions of field indicates strong magnetic anisotropy in PrCuSn, which reveals ferromagnetic coupling for//.

An ERF-type transcription factor is involved in the regulation of the dehydrin gene in wheat.

As stress-inducible proteins, dehydrins exert functional protective role by alleviating the cell damage when plants are suffering from the stresses. However, the upstream regulatory mechanism of these proteins is not very clear. To unravel the regulatory mechanism of dehydrin, a screen of wheat cDNA library from cold and PEG-treated wheat seedlings was performed and a transcription factor TaERF4a (GenBank NO.

Fire Control System Operation Status Assessment Based on Information Fusion: Case Study.

In traditional fault diagnosis strategies, massive and disordered data cannot be utilized effectively. Furthermore, just a single parameter is used for fault diagnosis of a weapons fire control system, which might lead to uncertainty in the results. This paper proposes an information fusion method in which rough set theory (RST) is combined with an improved Dempster-Shafer (DS) evidence theory to identify various system operation states.

Quantitative trait loci analysis and genome-wide comparison for silique related traits in Brassica napus.

Background: Yield of rapeseed is determined by three components: silique number, seed number per silique and thousand seed weight. Seed number per silique and thousand seed weight are influenced by silique length, seed density, silique breadth, silique thickness and silique volume. Some QTLs for silique traits have been reported in B.

Lactobacillus reuteri I5007 modulates tight junction protein expression in IPEC-J2 cells with LPS stimulation and in newborn piglets under normal conditions.

Background: Tight junctions (TJs) maintain the intestinal mucosal barrier, dysfunction of which plays a vital role in the pathophysiology of a variety of gastrointestinal disorders. Previously, we have shown that L. reuteri I5007 maintained the gut epithelial barrier in newborn piglets.

Effects of magnesium on the performance of sows and their piglets.

The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of supplemental magnesium (Mg) on the performance of gilts and parity 3 sows and their piglets. Fifty-six gilts (Trial 1) and 56 sows (Trial 2) were assigned to one of 4 treatments according to their mating weight, respectively. The treatments comprised corn-soybean meal based gestation and lactation diets (0.

Characterization of three novel SINE families with unusual features in Helicoverpa armigera.

Although more than 120 families of short interspersed nuclear elements (SINEs) have been isolated from the eukaryotic genomes, little is known about SINEs in insects. Here, we characterize three novel SINEs from the cotton bollworm, Helicoverpa armigera. Two of them, HaSE1 and HaSE2, share similar 5' -structure including a tRNA-related region immediately followed by conserved central domain.

Influence of Lactobacillus fermentum I5007 on the intestinal and systemic immune responses of healthy and E. coli challenged piglets.

The effect of feeding Lactobacillus fermentum I5007 on the immune system of weaned pigs with or without E. coli challenge was determined. Twenty-four weaned barrows (6.