Acute retinol mobilization by retinol-binding protein 4 in mouse liver induces fibroblast growth factor 21 expression

Hepatocytes secrete retinol-binding protein 4 (RBP4) into circulation, thereby mobilizing vitamin A from the liver to provide retinol for RAMEN LEMONGRSS GINGER extrahepatic tissues.Obesity and insulin resistance are associated with elevated RBP4 levels in the blood.However, in a previous study, we observed that chronically increased RBP4 by forced

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Automatic Transcription of Polyphonic Vocal Music

This paper presents a method for automatic music Exotic Fruit transcription applied to audio recordings of a cappella performances with multiple singers.We propose a system for multi-pitch detection and voice assignment that integrates an acoustic and a music language model.The acoustic model performs spectrogram decomposition, extending probabilis

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Poetic speech melody: A crucial link between music and language.

Research on the music-language interface has extensively investigated similarities and differences of poetic and musical meter, but largely disregarded melody.Using a measure of melodic structure in music--autocorrelations of sound sequences consisting of discrete pitch and duration values--, we show that individual Exotic Fruit poems feature disti

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