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Astrophysics and Astronomy

University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

1996

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Macrophage-Mediated 15-Lipoxygenase Expression Protects Against Atherosclerosis Development, Jianhe Shen, Ed Herderick, J. Fredrick Cornhill, Eva Zsigmond, Han Seob Kim, Hartmut Kühn, Natalia V. Guevara, Lawrence Chan Nov 1996

Macrophage-Mediated 15-Lipoxygenase Expression Protects Against Atherosclerosis Development, Jianhe Shen, Ed Herderick, J. Fredrick Cornhill, Eva Zsigmond, Han Seob Kim, Hartmut Kühn, Natalia V. Guevara, Lawrence Chan

Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications and Presentations

Oxidative modification of LDL increases its atherogenicity, and 15- lipoxygenase (15-LO) has been implicated in the process. To address this issue, we generated transgenic rabbits that expressed 15-LO in a macrophage- specific manner and studied their susceptibility to atherosclerosis development when they were fed a high-fat, high-cholesterol (HFHC) diet (Teklad 0533 rabbit diet 7009 with 10% corn oil and 0.25% cholesterol) for 13.5 wk. Transgenic and nontransgenic rabbits developed similar degrees of hypercholesterolemia and had similar levels of triglyceride, VLDL, LDL, and HDL. Quantitative morphometric analysis of the aortic atherosclerosis indicated that the transgenic animals (n = 19) had significantly …


Hierarchical Search Strategy For The Detection Of Gravitational Waves From Coalescing Binaries, Soumya Mohanty, S. Dhurandhar Jan 1996

Hierarchical Search Strategy For The Detection Of Gravitational Waves From Coalescing Binaries, Soumya Mohanty, S. Dhurandhar

Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications and Presentations

The detection of gravitational waves from coalescing compact binaries would be a computationally intensive process if a single bank of template wave forms (i.e., a one-step search) is used. We present, in this paper, a method which leads to a large reduction in the computational power required as compared to a one-step search. This method is a hierarchical search strategy involving two template banks. We show that the computational power required by such a two-step search, for an on-line detection of the one-parameter family of Newtonian signals, is 18 of that required when an on-line one-step search is used. This …


Polymers Interacting With Spherical And Rodlike Particles, E. Eisenriegler, Andreas Hanke, S. Dietrich Jan 1996

Polymers Interacting With Spherical And Rodlike Particles, E. Eisenriegler, Andreas Hanke, S. Dietrich

Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications and Presentations

The interaction of a long flexible polymer chain with mesoscopic particles of spherical or elongated cylindrical shape is investigated by field-theoretic methods using the polymer-magnet analogy. In the case that these particles are immersed in a dilute polymer solution and exhibit purely repulsive surfaces we study density profiles for monomers and chain ends near such a particle, the change of configurational entropy by immersing a particle into the solution, and the depletion interaction between a particle and a distant planar wall. Both ideal chains and chains with an excluded-volume interaction are considered. We also analyze particle surfaces with a short-ranged …


A Survey For Millisecond Pulsars, P. S. Ray, S. E. Thorsett, F. A. Jenet, M. H. Van Kerkwuk, S. R. Kulkarni, T. A. Prince, J. S. Sandhu, D. J. Nice Jan 1996

A Survey For Millisecond Pulsars, P. S. Ray, S. E. Thorsett, F. A. Jenet, M. H. Van Kerkwuk, S. R. Kulkarni, T. A. Prince, J. S. Sandhu, D. J. Nice

Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications and Presentations

We have searched 960 square degrees of sky for radio pulsars, using the 305 m telescope at Arecibo, Puerto Rico. The 430 MHz survey reached a limiting sensitivity for slow pulsars of 0.7 mJy using a dual-polarization, 32 channel filter bank over 8 MHz of bandwidth. We have detected one new millisecond pulsar, 11 new slow pulsars, one previously known millisecond pulsar, and eight previously known slow pulsars. The new millisecond pulsar, PSR J2033 + 17, with a period of 5.9 ms, has been found to be in a binary system. The Keplerian circular orbital solution has a period of …