The films were ERK inhibitor effective in reducing the microbial concentration in the liquid culture for all bacteria tested. The effectiveness was found to dependent on the bacterial strain and TiNTs content. (C) 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci 116: 3503-3515, 2010″
“This study reports reversible and unipolar

resistive switching in oxide bilayer structure due to the conversion of rectifying CuInO2-CuO semiconductor heterojunction to metal-semiconductor CuInO2-Cu Ohmic contact. High resolution transmission electron microscopy and conducting atomic force microscopy studies establish that switching occurs due to formation of conducting Cu filaments in CuO layer with CuInO2 layer remaining unaffected. The bilayer structure, with CuO layer acting as the switching element and CuInO2 layer as the resistance controlling element, exhibits improved switching parameters in comparison to single CuO layer. (C) 2010 American Institute of Physics. [doi:10.1063/1.3369436]“
“The EULAR Executive Committee MK-8931 defined eight overall objectives for EULAR to achieve by 2012. The first of these objectives is to strengthen activities in areas that are currently less prioritized, such as non-inflammatory and orphan diseases. This study aims to increase awareness of rheumatologists towards rare hereditary musculoskeletal disorders, by describing their genetics, pathogenesis,

and typical clinical and radiological features. We analyzed patient charts from the recent 5 years from the Rheumatology Outpatient Department of

the University Erlangen-Nuremberg and of two rheumatologic practices, all joined in a regional network (“”Rheumazentrum Erlangen”") retrospectively for hereditary musculoskeletal disorders other than hemochromatosis, autoinflammatory syndromes, lysosomal storage diseases, and hypermobility syndromes. We were able to identify four patients with trichorhinophalangeal syndrome type I, multiple exostoses, Kirner’s deformity, and osteopoikilosis. In addition, a PubMed and OMIM (“”Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man”") database search was carried out using these as key words and all relevant articles were reviewed for each of these diseases. Our findings show that rare hereditary musculoskeletal HIF-1 cancer disorders occur in a routine rheumatological setting and that rheumatologists should know the clinical and radiological features of these diseases in order to adequately counsel the patient.”
“A novel thermoviscosifying water-soluble polymer was synthesized by direct free radical copolymerization of acrylamide with a newly-prepared macromonomer, and its aqueous solution viscosity behavior at different temperatures was preliminarily examined in both pure water and KCl brine in comparison with its homopolyacrylamide counterpart.