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Its conquest by the forces of Count Afonso Henriques in 1147 was considered a pivotal triumph in the Reconquest of Portugal.
If Starr hems and haws (or refuses to address the pivotal question of Bennett), we'll know that he and Bennett are not willing to put their denials to the test.
In this study we investigated which one of these three processes (transfection, transcription, translation) is pivotal for the strain difference in transgene expression.
Anti-Semitism, despite its pivotal place in Hitler's "world view," was of only secondary importance in cementing the bonds between Fuhrer and people which provided the Third Reich with its popular legitimation and basis of plebiscitary acclamation.
While there is extensive crosstalk between the caspases, the two most common initiator pathways are the Fas/Fas ligand pathway, involving caspase 8 and caspase 10, and the mitochondrial pathway, triggering caspase 9 [ 24 25 ] . Caspase 3, a pivotal downstream protease, functions in virtually every caspase pathway and serves as an executioner in the cells by cleavage of downstream targets which lead to irreversible chromosomal degradation.