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Alterations of expression levels of the oxidative phosphorylation system (OXPHOS) in breast cancer cell mitochondria
No full textMitochondria are dynamic intracellular organelles playing a central role in cell metabolism by generating ATP, through the oxidative phosphorylation system (OXPHOS). Altered mitochondrial functions have been identified as causative or contributing factors in some degenerative diseases and are becoming crucial to understanding cancer mechanisms. We report on distinct expression differences between mitochondria of normal and breast-infiltrating ductal carcinoma (IDC) cells. Mitochondria isolated from HMC (human mammary carcinoma) and HMEC (human mammary epithelial cell) cultures were assayed for expression levels of the multi-protein OXPHOS complexes using Western blot and densitometric analyses. Depressed expression levels were detected for all HMC OXPHOS complexes. Drastic signal reduction was observed for the succinate-dehydrogenase complex II iron-sulphur protein SDH-B (3.38%), while decreasing was reported for the NADH-ubiquinone oxidoreductase complex I Fe-S protein 3 NDUFS3 (32.78%) and the ubiquinol-cytochrome c reductase complex III protein 2 UQCRC2 (50.34%). A significant signal dropping was detected for the ATP-synthase complex V F(1)beta subunit (18.07%). For the cytochrome-oxidase complex IV (CO), near-depletion of the mitochondrial-encoded COI (4.37%) and no apparent variation of the COIV (97.26%) subunits were observed. CO and ATP-synthase were also assayed by cryo-immunoelectron microscopy (CIEM) on unfractionated HMC and HEMC cell mitochondria. COI and F(1)beta differential expression, invariance of COIV levels were corroborated, while HMC mitochondria morphology deterioration was highlighted. MitoTracker Red and fluorescence immunolabelling merging confirmed CIEM data. MitoTracker Red and Green co-staining showed mitochondria membrane property modulation. These data describe bioenergetic and phenotypic alterations of IDC cell mitochondria, possibly providing new cancer hallmarks
Lack of association between oxidative stress-related gene polymorphisms and chronic migraine in an Italian population
No full textMigraine patients present increased risks of vascular diseases such as high blood pressure, insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, stroke and coronary heart disease. Oxidative stress (OS) is increasingly being studied in relation to the pathophysiology of migraine, stimulated by the described association with the most frequent migraine comorbidities. Because many of the gene-encoded players of the OS balance are characterized by functional polymorphisms, it is supposed that the individual genomic profile could affect susceptibility to OS and to related pathophysiological conditions. This study aimed to characterize a panel of 10 polymorphisms in 8 OS-related genes in a chronic migraine (CM) population and healthy controls, to recognize a genetic risk in the process of migraine chronification. The sample consisted of 45 healthy women and 96 women diagnosed with CM. No deviations from the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium were detected, or in the overall population, or in the CM group or in the control group
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Variations on the Author
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Full text linkWe 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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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