Clearance of apoptotic cells by macrophages induces regulatory phenotype and involves stimulation of cd36 and platelet-activating factor receptor [PDF]
, 2013 Phagocytosis of apoptotic cells (efferocytosis) induces macrophage differentiation towards a regulatory phenotype (IL-10high/IL-12p40low). CD36 is involved in the recognition of apoptotic cells (AC), and we have shown that the platelet-activating factor ...
Ferracini, M. +3 more
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The Infinite Hierarchical Factor Regression Model [PDF]
NIPS 2008, 2009 We propose a nonparametric Bayesian factor regression model that accounts for uncertainty in the number of factors, and the relationship between factors. To accomplish this, we propose a sparse variant of the Indian Buffet Process and couple this with a hierarchical model over factors, based on Kingman's coalescent. We apply this model to two problems (
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Variations in genes regulating neuronal migration predict reduced prefrontal cognition in schizophrenia and bipolar subjects from mediterranean Spain: A preliminary study [PDF]
, 2006 Both neural development and prefrontal cortex function are known to be abnormal in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. In order to test the hypothesis that these features may be related with genes that regulate neuronal migration, we analyzed two genomic
Balanza, Vicent +11 more
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New Pivot Selection for Sparse Symmetric Indefinite Factorization [PDF]
arXiv, 2016 We propose a new pivot selection technique for symmetric indefinite factorization of sparse matrices. Such factorization should maintain both sparsity and numerical stability of the factors, both of which depend solely on the choices of the pivots. Our method is based on the minimum degree algorithm and also considers the stability of the factors at ...
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Hemodialysis membrane-related neutrophil dysfunctions and pentoxifylline - a pilot study [PDF]
, 1990 Hemodialysis treatment is associated with activation of neutrophil granulocytes. Pentoxifylline has been shown to inhibit neutrophil activation in vitro and in vivo.
Hoffmann, H. +3 more
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Platelet-activating factor acetylhydrolase and haemophagocytosis in the sepsis syndrome. [PDF]
, 2000 Sepsis syndrome (SS) is associated with depressed PAF acetylhydrolase, the enzyme responsible for the degradation of platelet activating factor.
Besse, A +5 more
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A Schmid-Leiman based transformation resulting in perfect inter-correlations of three types of factor score predictors [PDF]
arXiv, 2015 Factor score predictors are to be computed when the individual scores on the factors are of interest. Conditions for a perfect inter-correlation of the regression/best linear factor score predictor, the best linear conditionally unbiased predictor, and the determinant best linear correlation-preserving predictor are presented. When these three types of
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Platelet activating factor and monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 in children with refractory epilepsy [PDF]
, 2014 Background: Epilepsy is an important common and diverse group of symptom complexes characterized by recurrent spontaneous seizures. It is estimated that about 5-10% of all cases of epilepsy eventually become refractory.
Abd El-Aziz, Sahar A +1 more
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On Pinsker factors for Rokhlin entropy [PDF]
arXiv, 2015 In this paper we will prove that any dynamical system posess the unique maximal factor of zero Rokhlin entropy, so-called Pinsker factor. It is proven also, that if the system is ergodic and this factor has no atoms then system is relatively weakly mixing extension of its Pinsker factor.
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Staphylococcus aureus lipoteichoic acid inhibits platelet activation and thrombus formation via the Paf receptor [PDF]
, 2013 Impaired healing is common in wounds infected with the major human pathogen Staphylococcus aureus, although the underlying mechanisms are poorly understood.
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