Introduction: Many factors contribute to the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD), an umbrella term for several different heart diseases, including inflammation. Macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) is an important immune modulator that has been shown to be involved in the pathogenesis of different heart diseases, so understanding pathogenic variants of the gene is important for risk stratification. We therefore conducted a meta-analysis to investigate whether the -173G/C (rs755622) polymorphism is associated with CVD.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThrough this paper, the authors propose using the quantum cluster equilibrium (QCE) theory to reinvestigate ammonia clusters in the liquid phase. The ammonia clusters from size monomer to hexadecamer were considered to simulate the liquid ammonia in this approach. The clusterset used to model the liquid ammonia is an ensemble of different structures of ammonia clusters.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn this paper, we study the nonlinear dynamics of the MARCKS protein between cytosol and cytoplasmic membrane through the modulational instability phenomenon. The reaction-diffusion generic model used here is firstly transformed into a cubic complex Ginzburg-Landau equation. Then, modulational instability (MI) is carried out in order to derive the MI criteria.
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