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The device is battery-powered with a > 1 week power independence and data acquisition is conveniently achieved by an internal logger. Results from both field and laboratory tests document that our sensors provide reproducible measurements of CO2 and O2 exchange fluxes under varying environmental conditions.

Public Health Announcements (PHAs) on television are a means of raising awareness about risk behaviors and chronic conditions. PHAs' scarce airtime puts stress on their target audience reach. We seek to help health campaigns select television shows for their PHAs about smoking, binge drinking, drug overdose, obesity, diabetes, STDs, and other conditions using available statistics.

Using Nielsen's TV viewership database for the entire US panel, we presented a novel show discovery methodology for PHAs that combined (i) pattern discovery from high-dimensional data (ii) nonparametric tests for validation, and (iii) online experiments on Facebook.

The nonparametric tests verified the robustness of the discovered associations between the popularity of certain shows and health conditions. Findings from fifty (independent) online experiments (where our awareness messages were seen by nearly 1.5 million American adults) empirically demonstrated the value of the methodology.

For 2016, the methodology identifiedonal television campaign. As simply a by-product, the initial investment also results in awareness messages that might reach millions of individuals.

Pseudohypoparathyroidism type 1B (PHP1B), also referred to as inactivating PTH/PTHrP Signaling Disorder (iPPSD), is characterized by proximal renal tubular resistance to parathyroid hormone (PTH) leading to hypocalcemia, hyperphosphatemia and elevated PTH values. Clofarabine molecular weight Autosomal dominant PHP1B (AD-PHP1B) with loss-of-methylation at the maternal GNAS A/BTSS-DMR (transcription start site-differentially methylated region) alone can be caused by maternal deletions involving STX16.

Characterize a previously not reported AD-PHP1B family with loss-of-methylation at GNAS A/BTSS-DMR, but without evidence for a STX16 deletion on the maternal allele and assess GNAS-AS2TSS-DMR methylation.

DNAs from 24 patients and 10 controls were investigated. AD-PHP1B patients without STX16 deletion from a single family (n=3), AD-PHP1B patients with STX16 deletion (n=9), sporPHP1B (n=10), unaffected controls (n=10), patUPD20 (n=1), and matUPD20 (n=1). Methylation and copy number analyses were performed by pyrosequencing, MS-MPLA, and nderlying genetic defects, which may provide novel insights into the mechanisms underlying GNAS methylation.This study aimed to verify the hypothesis that periodontal disease contributes to endothelial dysfunction in the coronary arteries of middle-aged rats. Besides we evaluated the effects of a prebiotic (β-glucan isolated from Saccharomyces cerevisiae) in preventing vascular dysfunction. The sample comprised young (sham and induced to periodontal disease) and middle-aged rats (sham, periodontal disease, sham-treated and periodontal disease-treated), at 12 and 57 weeks, respectively. The treated-groups received daily doses of β-glucan (50 mg/kg) orally (gavage) for four weeks, and periodontal disease was induced in the last two weeks by ligature. A myograph system assessed vascular reactivity. The expression of eNOS, COX-1, COX-2, p47 phox, gp91phox, NFKB-p65, p53, p21, p16 was quantified by Western blotting. Serum hydroperoxide production was measured by the FOX-2 method. IL-1β, IL-10, and TNF-α levels were evaluated by spectroscopic ultraviolet-visible analysis. Periodontal disease in middle-aged rats was associated with reduced acetylcholine-induced relaxations of coronary artery rings affecting the endothelium-dependent hyperpolarization (EDH)- and the nitric oxide (NO)-mediated relaxations. The endothelial dysfunction was related to eNOS downregulation, increased IL-1β, TNF-α pro-inflammatory cytokines and also upregulation of NADPH oxidase, and COXs, inducing cell cycle inhibitory pathways, including the p53/p21 and the p16. Treatment with β-glucan effectively reduced bone loss in periodontal disease and delayed endothelial dysfunction in the coronary artery. Our data show that yeast β-glucan ingestion prevented oxidative stress, pro-inflammatory markers synthesis, and prevented eNOS reduction induced by periodontal disease in middle-aged rats. These results suggest that β-glucan has a beneficial effect on the coronary vascular bed.

The fingerprinting and quantification of marker compounds from medicinal plants is a domain of herbal industry for quality/quantity control parameters.

The main objective of this study is application of insitu ReactIR technique for measuring the concentration of different components during the extraction process of different medicinal plants.

In this study we have performed the extraction of of two-marker compounds viz. piperine from P. nigrum, curcumin from C. longa plants using various solvents (dichloromethane and methanol) and progress of extraction was monitored using an in situ FTIR probe instrument and an automated reactor.

In this communication, using in situ ReactIR technique we developed a method which demonstrates the relative quantification of marker analytes, optimizes extraction time and type of solvents to be used for different analytes during the extraction process.

To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report for relative quantification and structural information of marker compounds during the process of extraction using in situ FTIR.

The present study highlights about the Real-time monitoring, insitu quantification and structural information of marker compounds during the process of extraction of medicinal plants using in situ FTIR.

The present study highlights about the Real-time monitoring, insitu quantification and structural information of marker compounds during the process of extraction of medicinal plants using in situ FTIR.Genomic imbalance caused by changing the dosage of individual chromosomes (aneuploidy) has a more detrimental effect than varying the dosage of complete sets of chromosomes (ploidy). We examined the impact of both increased and decreased dosage of 15 distal and 1 interstitial chromosomal regions via RNA-seq of maize (Zea mays) mature leaf tissue to reveal new aspects of genomic imbalance. The results indicate that significant changes in gene expression in aneuploids occur both on the varied chromosome (cis) and the remainder of the genome (trans), with a wider spread of modulation compared with the whole-ploidy series of haploid to tetraploid. In general, cis genes in aneuploids range from a gene-dosage effect to dosage compensation, whereas for trans genes the most common effect is an inverse correlation in that expression is modulated toward the opposite direction of the varied chromosomal dosage, although positive modulations also occur. Furthermore, this analysis revealed the existence of increased and decreased effects in which the expression of many genes under genome imbalance are modulated toward the same direction regardless of increased or decreased chromosomal dosage, which is predicted from kinetic considerations of multicomponent molecular interactions.