Abstract The overall properties of a binary elastic periodic fiber-reinforced composite, with transversely isotropic constituents in an anti-plane-strain deformation state, are studied here for a cell periodicity of square type. This analysis considers four different or...

Abstract JM-20 (3-ethoxycarbonyl-2-methyl-4-(2-nitrophenyl)-4,11-dihydro-1H-pyrido[2,3-b][1,5]benzodiazepine) is a novel benzodiazepine dihydropyridine hybrid molecule, which has been shown to be a neuroprotective agent in brain disorders involving glutamate receptors. ...

Abstract Oxidative stress and mitochondrial impairment are essential in the ischemic stroke cascade and eventually lead to tissue injury. C-Phycocyanin (C-PC) has previously been shown to have strong antioxidant and neuroprotective actions. In the present study, we asse...

In this contribution, effective elastic moduli are obtained by means of the asymptotic homogenization method, for oblique two-phase fibrous periodic composites with non-uniform imperfect contact conditions at the interface. This work is an extension of previous reported...

AbstractWe consider complex Jacobi matrices G which can be decomposed in the form G=J+C, where J is a real Jacobi matrix and C is a complex Jacobi matrix whose entries are uniformly bounded. We prove that the determinacy of the operator defined by G is equivalent to tha...

Summary Tumor growth is associated with a profound alteration in myelopoiesis, leading to recruitment of immunosuppressive cells known as myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs). We showed that among factors produced by various experimental tumors, the cytokines GM-CSF...

Peptide toxins isolated from marine cnidarians are considered as useful tools for studying ionic channels and promising drugs for therapeutics. Hemolytic and cardiotoxic activities have been described in Physalia physalis venom, and two toxins with anticholinergic and a...

9 pages, no figures.-- MSC2000 codes: 41A21, 65D15. MR#: MR1690593 (2000f:41020) Zbl#: Zbl 0943.41007 The block structure of the Padé table associated with a formal power series is well known. We study the analytic properties of the given power series in the case that a...

Sticholysin I and II (St I and St II), two basic cytolysins purified from the Caribbean sea anemone Stichodactyla helianthus, efficiently permeabilize lipid vesicles by forming pores in their membranes. A general characteristic of these toxins is their preference for me...