ROLE OF NITRIC OXIDE ISOFORMS IN VASCULAR AND ALVEOLAR DEVELOPMENT AND LUNG INJURY IN VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR OVEREXPRESSING NEONATAL MICE LUNGS.

The role of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF)-induced 3 different nitric oxide synthase (NOS) isoforms in lung development and injury in the newborn (NB) lung are not known.We hypothesized that VEGF-induced specific NOS pathways are critical regulators of lung development and injury.We studied NB wild type (WT), lung epithelial cell-targete

Abstract Background Taro leaf blight, caused by a severely destructive oomycete fungus Phytophthora colocasiae, is responsible for threatening yield loss worldwide.The pathogen has the ability to germinate and spread rapidly to other plants during favorable conditions resulting in acute decline and even death, causing 100% crop loss.Farmers usually

This study mainly investigates the path planning Vegetable / Fruit Cutting Tools and collision avoidance problem of autonomous agricultural machineries in the complex rural road.First, the grid model is used to build the global map of machineries and the particle swarm optimisation algorithm is used to search the global path.A non-linear dynamic in

One virulence property of Borrelia burgdorferi is its resistance to innate immunity, in particular to complement-mediated killing.Serum-resistant B.burgdorferi express up to five distinct complement regulator-acquiring surface proteins (CRASP) which interact with complement regulator factor H (CFH) and charger factor H-like protein 1 (FHL1) or fact

Diversification of bacterial species and pathotypes is largely caused by lateral gene transfer (LGT) of diverse mobile DNA elements such as plasmids, phages, transposons and genomic islands.Thus, acquisition of new phenotypes by LGT is very important for bacterial evolution and relationship with hosts.This paper reports a 23 kb region containing fo