The results show that following spinal cord contusion injury of the type induced in this study, the size of the primary injury shortly after it was made was of very low variance.
Regarding the effect of implant design on peri-implant microstrains induced in the present study, standard diameter implant showed the highest microstrain values regardless of other variables (3362.4 ± 757.4 μɛ).
Signaling through the Fas receptor is known to directly activate apoptosis by recruitment and activation of caspase enzymes [32] and was induced in the present study using Fas ligand/TNFSF6 (2 µg/ml) cross linked with anti-polyHistidine (10 µg/ml).
It was previously found that severe iron deficiency, similar to that induced in the present study, has no effect on the levels of enzymes of the mitochondrial fatty acid oxidation pathway or on non-iron containing enzymes of the citrate cycle [13].
Interferon-α and γ mRNA were induced ~2-4 fold, although only IFN-γ protein was induced in the current study (5.8 fold).
Similar to our previous study in which concentration-dependent up-regulation of CYP19A gene expression was observed after 7 days of FAD exposure (Villeneuve et al. 2006), CYP19A was also induced in the present study.
Interestingly, NLRC5 (CARD domain containing, NLR family, RCJMB04_18i2), an intracellular receptor, in HD11 cells treated with endotoxin for 4 hours (fold change, 1.4; q = 0.047) was induced in the present study.
Almost half of pregnancies were induced in this study; the majority had a medical indication and were therefore necessary despite the increased risk of caesarean section.
The thermal convection induced in this study was similar to the convection that is inferred for the well-known Earth's mantle convection/or Bernard cell convection.
