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Dual effect of the novel peptide antagonist K-14585 on Proteinase-Activated Receptor-2 (PAR2)-mediated signalling
No full textHere we have examined the effects of the novel peptide antagonist N-[1-(2,6-dichlorophenyl)methyl]-3-(1-pyrrolidinylmethyl)-1H-indol-5-yl]aminocarbonyl}-glycinyl-L-lysinyl-L-phenylalanyl-N-benzhydrylamide (K-14585) on proteinase-activated receptor (PAR)2-mediated intracellular signalling events. Using NCTC2544 cells expressing PAR2, we assessed the effects of K-14585 on PAR2-mediated [3H] inositol phosphate accumulation, MAP kinase activation, p65 NFκB phosphorylation and DNA binding and IL-8 production. Pretreatment with K-14585 (5 µM) inhibited [3H] inositol phosphate levels stimulated by PAR2-activating peptide Ser-Leu-Ile-Gly-Lys-Val (SLIGKV-OH) in PAR2-expressing NCTC2544 cells. K-14585 pretreatment did not influence PAR2-mediated extracellular regulated kinase activation but inhibited p38 MAP kinase phosphorylation. At a higher concentration (30 µM), K-14585 alone stimulated p38 MAP kinase activation. These effects were replicated in EAhy926 cells, endogenously expressing PAR2, but not in parental or PAR4-expressing NCTC2544 cells, suggesting these effects were PAR2-dependent. SLIGKV-mediated stimulation of p38 MAP kinase phosphorylation was substantially reduced by the Gq/11 inhibitor YM-254890, without affecting K-14585-mediated phosphorylation. Pretreatment with K-14585 inhibited PAR2-mediated p65 NFκB phosphorylation and NFκB-DNA binding. K-14585 (30 µM) alone stimulated comparable NFκB reporter activity to SLIGKV-OH. K-14585 inhibited SLIGKV-stimulated IL-8 production, but given alone increased IL-8. While SLIGKV-induced IL-8 formation was reduced by both SB203580 and YM-254890, the response to K-14585 was sensitive to SB203580 but not YM-254890. These data reveal that K-14585 has a duality of action functioning both as an antagonist and agonist due to either partial agonist actions or possible agonist-directed signalling. The data also suggest two modes of p38 MAP kinase activation emanating from PAR2, one Gq/11-dependent and the other Gq/11-independent
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Habilidades sociales y autoestima en los estudiantes del quinto ciclo de primaria de la Institución Educativa N°14585 Huarmaca 2018
Get PDFLa presente investigación titulada “Habilidades sociales y autoestima en los
estudiantes del quinto ciclo de primaria de la institución educativa N°14585
Huarmaca 2018”. Tuvo como objetivo presentar problemática de dos variables
importes en el sistema educativo como son la autoestima y las habilidades sociales
y a la vez determinar la relación que existe entre ellas en estudiantes del Quinto
Ciclo de Educación Primaria de la Institución Educativa No 14585” Luis Alberto
Sánchez” del Distrito de Huarmaca Año 2018, en el cual se demostró en los
resultados que existía dicha relación; el presente trabajo es de vital importancia y
de mucha trascendencia ya que ha permitido utilizar instrumentos ya
estandarizados y evaluar dichas variables para su posterior solución.
La presente investigación es tipo descriptiva correlacional ya que en el estudio se
describe la problemática de las variables y se establece posteriormente su
correlación. La población consta de 20 estudiantes del Quinto y Sexto grado de
primaria de la institución educativa N°14585 Huarmaca 2018 y la muestra se tomo
el mismo numero de la población por ser pequeña. Todos los estudiantes fueron
informados de los cuestionarios aplicados. Como parte de los criterios éticos
establecidos por la Institución para el proyecto, a cada estudiante se le aplico la
encuesta con su propia autorización y aceptación
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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