Abstract Introduction: MMP3 plays a crucial role in the process of bone erosion in the pathomechanism of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). It acts by removing the outer osteoid layer, which allows the osteoclasts to tightly connect and carry out the subsequent damage to the underlying bone. MMP3 can trigger the production of other MMPs like MMP-1, MMP-7, and MMP-9, it plays a pivotal role in the remodeling of connective tissues. Aim of the study: to assess the influence of MMP-3 serum levels and single-nucleotide polymorphisms of rs679620 in the rheumatoid arthritis patients' group in comparison to the control group. Subjects: eighty eight samples, 45 rheumatoid arthritis patients after being referred by their treating physician for regular RA

The reactions of ozone with 2,3-Dimethyl-2-Butene (CH3)2C=C(CH3)2 and 1,3-Butadiene CH2=CHCH=CH2 have been investigated under atmospheric conditions at 298±3K in air using both relative and absolute rate techniques, and the measured rate coefficients are found to be in good agreement in both techniques used. The obtained results show the addition of ozone to the double bond in these compounds and how it acts as function of the methyl group substituent situated on the double bond. The yields of all the main products have been determined using FTIR and GC-FID and the product studies of these reactions establish a very good idea for the decomposition pathways for the primary formed compounds (ozonides) and give a good information for the effe

The purpose of this paper is to prove the following result : Let R be a 2-torsion free prime *-ring , U a square closed *-Lie ideal, and let T: RR be an additive mapping. Suppose that 3T(xyx) = T(x) y*x* + x*T(y)x* + x*y*T(x) and x*T(xy+yx)x* = x*T(y)x*2 + x*2T(y)x* holds for all pairs x, y  U , and T(u) U, for all uU, then T is a reverse *-centralizer.

Background: Recently with improvement of dental implantology science, osseointegrated implants show a considerable durability, however; failures are not completely avoidable. Matrix metalloproteinase-2 (MMP-2) expression is disturbed in many pathological conditions such as peri-implantitis and periodontitis. This study was carried out to investigate the tissue expression of MMP-2 in the extracellular matrix of osseointegrated and diseased implants. Subjects and methods: Gingival biopsies were collected from six patients having osseointegrated or working implants and twenty with diseased or non osseointegrated implants and (6) controls having no implants. In situ hybridization technique was used to analyze the changes in immunoreactivity of

Let R be a ring with identity and let M be a left R-module. M is called µ-lifting modulei f for every sub module A of M, There exists a direct summand D of M such that M = D D', for some sub module D' of M such that A≤D and A D'<<_µ D'. The aim of this paper is to introduce properties of µ-lifting modules. Especially, we give characterizations of µ-lifting modules. On the other hand, the notion of amply µ-supplemented iis studied as a generalization of amply supplemented modules, we show that if M is amply µ-supplemented such that every µ-supplement sub module of M

Let  R be an associative ring with identity and let M be a left R-module . As a generalization of µ-semiregular modules, we introduce an F-µ-semiregular module. Let F be a submodule of M and x∊M. x is called F-µ-semiregular element in M , if there exists a decomposition M=A⨁B, such that A is a projective submodule of  and . M is called  F-µ-semiregular if x is F-µ-semiregular element for each x∊M. A condition under which the module µ-semiregular is F-µ-semiregular module was given. The basic properties and some characterizations of the F-µ-semiregular module were provided.

        The set of all (n×n) non-singular matrices over the field F. And this set forms a group under the operation of matrix multiplication. This group is called the general linear group of dimension  over the field F, denoted by . The determinant of these matrices is a homomorphism from  into F* and the kernel of this homomorphism was the special linear group and denoted by  Thus  is the subgroup of  which contains all matrices of determinant one.

The rationally valued characters of the rational representations are written as a linear combination of the induced characters for the groups discussed in this paper. We find the Artin indicator for this group after studying the rationally valued characters of the rational