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we developed an animal model of chronic allergic airway disease by repeatedly exposing nine sheep to tracheal instillation of ascaris antigen until stable increase in RL at three times control in six reactive sheep group c was obtained they were then compared to the three nonreactive sheep group b and a control group of eight sheep exposed to saline only group a in terms of pulmonary CF tests and bronchoalveolar lavage bal analyses RL was cm holsec in group a in group b and in group c trapping volume FRC by plethysmography and by helium rebreathing technique was l in group a in group b and in group c UP resistance at PF did not differ between any two CG but UP resistance near residual volume was cm holsec in a in b and in c in bal total cells were x ml in a in b and in c macrophages in bal were in a in b and in c neutrophils were in a in b in c eosinophils were in a in b and in c p less than group c versus group a total proteins albumin ALP phosphatase and fibronectin did not differ between groupsabstract truncated at words

pyogenic granulomas represent the aquisition of vasodilative granulation tissue in the skin or mucosa they are extremely rare in the alimentary tract other than in the oral cavity here we report a case of PG arising from the GM an yearold man was admitted to our hospital because of melena of more than months duration esophagogastroduodenoscopy egd revealed a mmdiameter semipedunculated lesion with an irregular surface in the fundus of the stomach during hospitalization the patients anemia worsened due to loss of blood from the lesion with the level of hemoglobin declining to gdl and a blood transfusion was required because radiological and endoscopic findings indicated the lesion was hypervascular transarterial embolization of the nutritional i.a. of the lesion was performed before ER of the lesion one week T3 the embolotherapy endoscopic mucosal resection was performed without any complications such as massive one histological studies of the resected specimen revealed many capillaries of various sizes lined with plump EC cells and accompanied by acute and chronic inflammatory infiltrates on the basis of these observations the lesion was diagnosed as a PG one year later the patient was asymptomatic and there was no evidence of RT recurrence on followup egd

the l immunotype lipopolysaccharide lps of neisseria meningitidis was subjected to Kd procedures which produced a number of different oligosaccharide fragments the high resolution h and c nmr spectroscopic analyses of these OS yielded structural information on a number of different regions of the lps for example from one oligosaccharide it was found that the endogenous sialylation of the meningococcal lps occurs at o of the terminal betadgalactopyranosyl residue of its lactonneotetraose antenna in the alphadconfiguration from another it was also established that the dominant structural feature responsible for l epitope specificity is the presence of a PE substituent at o of the penultimate heptopyranosyl residue of its other antenna in addition from information obtained with another oligosaccharide the structure of the deoxydmannooctulosonic acid disaccharide region of the l lps was also elucidated from all the above cumulative data plus some published data it was then possible to reconstruct the CR structure of the entire native l lps

inotropic reserve identified by dobutamine or dipyridamole SE is associated with a better outcome in patients with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy dcm although the relative prognostic value of each remains unsettled the purpose of the present study was to assess the relative prognostic value of dobutamine versus dipyridamole SE for the prediction of allcause death in patients with idiopathic dcm

pyridoxinedependent seizure is a rare autosomal recessive disorder that usually presents with neonatal intractable seizures this syndrome results from an inborn abnormality of the enzyme glu decarboxylase which results in reduced pyridazinedependent synthesis of the inhibitory neurotransmitter gamma amino butyric acid the full range of symptomatology is unknown but can be associated with autism breath holding and SMR bilious vomiting transient visual agnosia severe articulatory apraxia motor dyspraxia microcephaly and intrauterine seizures parenteral pyridine injection test is a highly ERP and reproducible test in confirming the diagnosis pyridoxine should be po as a diagnostic test in all cases of convulsive disorders of infancy in which no other diagnosis is evident epileptic seizure discharges subside within minutes T3 the i.v. of mg of pyridaoxine once the diagnosis is confirmed MT should be continued indefinitely and doses increased with age or intercurrent illnesses the MD of bg needed is still not clear there is a relatively wide range for the daily b dose necessary to control the seizure ie mgday

a total of PA isolates were collected from GA hospitals in japan from to of these isolates carbapenemresistant strains were subjected to dna hybridization analysis with the MBL gene blaimpspecific probe fifteen strains carrying the MBL gene were identified in five hospitals in different geographical Az three strains of p aeruginosa demonstrated highlevel imipenem resistance mic or microgramsml two strains exhibited lowlevel imipenem resistance mic or microgramsml and the rest of the strains were in between these results revealed that the acquisition of a MBL gene CT does not necessarily confer elevated resistance to carbapenems in several strains the MBL gene was carried by large plasmids and carbapenem resistance was transferred from p aeruginosa to escherichia coli by electroporation in association with the acquisition of the large plasmid southern hybridization analysis and genomic dna fingerprinting profiles revealed different genetic backgrounds for these isolates although considerable similarity was observed for the strains isolated from the same hospital these findings suggest that the metallobetalactamaseproducing p aeruginosa strains are not confined to a unique clonal lineage but proliferated multifocally by plasmidmediated dissemination of the MBL gene in strains of different genetic backgrounds thus further proliferation of metallobetalactamaseproducing strains with resistance to various betalactams may well be inevitable in the future which emphasizes the need for early recognition of metallobetalactamaseproducing strains rigorous IC and restricted clinical use of broadspectrum betalactams including carbapenems

while diminished ovarian reserve dor predicts decreased ovarian response to stimulation it does not necessarily foretell about the fecundity cycle according to bolognas criteria laid down by the european society of human reproduction and embryology old age abnormal ovarian reserve tests such as AFC afc and antimullerian hormone amh as well as prior suboptimal response to stimulation are the main AF representing dor unfavorable response to maximal stimulation on two previous occasions may also represent dor among the ovarian reserve tests amh and afc are the most predictive values for dor AF which may give rise to dor include environmental factors autoimmune or metabolic disorders infections genetic abnormalities and iatrogenic causes such as smoking chemotherapy radiation and gynecologic surgeries besides studies have proposed endometriosis as a key contributor to dor and hence emphasized on its proper management to prevent additional damages leading to compromised fertility in summary dor is found to be a clinical challenge in the practice of fertility care with controversial countermeasures to prevent or treat the condition nevertheless some promising measure such as oocyte embryo and tissue cryopreservation ovarian transplantation dietary supplementation and the transfer of mitochondria have offered hopes towards ameliorating the burden of dor this review attempts to discuss dor from different perspectives and summarize some existing hopes in clinical practice

we describe two cases of simple heterozygosity for the common beta degrees thal mutation beta ct both presenting with a TI phenotype in both cases synergic effect deriving from membrane defects or red cell enzyme deficiencies were excluded in one case a triplication of the alphaglobin genes was found which did not justify the severity of the transfusiondependent phenotype multiplex ligationdependent probe amplification mlpa analysis of the alphaglobin gene cluster revealed two new rearrangements consisting of a full duplication of the alphaglobin genes locus including the UP RII element in one case the duplication was in the presence of the common antialpha triplication in trans resulting in a total of AS alphaglobin genes in the other case the duplicated allele and the normal S2 in trans resulted into a total of active alphaglobin genes we report the clinical and hematological data and the molecular analysis and discuss the occurrence of alphaglobin genes duplication defects in cases of thal heterozygotes with TI phenotypes

by means of EC and quantitative histomorphometric methods the corrosion resistance and tissue biocompatibility of tini and tinixcux x were investigated it is discovered that the repassivation potential of tinixcux x alloys is about mv higher than that of tini alloy namely the addition of cu raises the repassivation potential of tini shape memory alloys and improves their corrosion resistance pitting potentials of tini and tinixcux x alloys increase with solution ph value but the repassivation potentials keep constant the adding of cu has no obvious influence on pitting potential epit of tini alloys meanwhile the corrosion potential and corrosion rate of tinixcux x alloys are irrelevant to its cu content and the values are almost the same as those of tini alloys the connective tissue layer covering the plates is statistically significantly thicker for tinicu plates p than that of tini tinicu tinicu plates T3 one month the numbers of connective tissue cells polynucleated cells macrophages and round cells are higher for tinicu plates than those of the other three types of plates but no statistically significant differences are detected there are no significant differences on tissue reaction parameters T3 two and three months among four alloys T3 one two and three months implantation no corrosion is observed on the plates surfaces a preliminary conclusion can be drawn that tinixcux x shape memory alloys have good biocompatibility

in the present study lithocholic acid lca metabolism was assessed by radiochromatography and gasliquid chromatographymass spectrometry and its relationship to cholestasis was investigated in addition the role of the perivenous zone in lcainduced cholestasis and lca biotransformation was examined by using BB bz a chemical that c and SP eye movements are described all drugs impaired both EM measures but the doses used were not clinically equivalent no available test is yet able to distinguish between benzodiazepines and neuroleptics

there exists considerable evidence to suggest that crh and Arg vasopressin avpsecreting parvocellular neurosecretory SN of the PVH pvn are CE integrators of negative FB effects evoked by circulating glucocorticoid hormones most evidence suggests that these SN may be receptive to circulating glucocorticoid levels either via glucocorticoid receptors indigenous to these cells andor via extrahypothalamic glucocorticoidreceptive neurons interacting with the pvn sec cell in an effort to address this issue we performed anterior ant posterior post and total tot deafferentations of the pvn region in male spraguedawley rats using microknives fashioned from narrowgauge spinal needles ERP knife cuts were verified IHC and deemed acceptable only if they avoided damage to the pvn proper and fibers of crh and avpcontaining neurons coursing through the hypothalamus en route to the median eminence while effectively eliminating neuronal input into the pvn region subsequent to surgery C2 of mrna encoding for crh and avp in the parvocellular and magnocellular pvn were assayed via semiquantitative in situ hybridization histochemistry results indicate that tot deafferentations resulted in significant increases in crh mrna expression in the pvn and a slight but noticeable induction of avp mrna in the medial parvocellular but not posterior MC divisions of the pvn ant lesions also produced an upregulation of crh and avp mrna relative to operated control rats post lesions did not produce a clear induction in either crh or avp mrna the data indicate that in the absence of neuronal input coming from anterior structures crh mrna expression is upregulated suggesting that local effects of GCs on the pvn neuron are ineffective in maintaining normal crh mrna expression these results support a role for neuronal FB in regulation of the crh neuron the limited upregulation compared with ADX of avp mrna in the tot group suggests that while neuronal input may have some control of avp mrna expression local glucocorticoid feedback is clearly able to restrict avp message to levels considerably less than those seen in steroiddeficient animals analysis of knifecut effects on plasma corticosterone and acth levels reveals that post and tot but not ant deafferentations prohibit the sec activity of the hypothalamopituitaryadrenocortical hpa axis seen pursuant to the anesthesiathoracotomy in lesion and operated control groupsabstract truncated at words

SS rbp prealbumin and zinc were evaluated in normal subjects and PC and chronic one a significant decrease of rpb was found in pancreatic CA patients compared with controls a concomitant reduction of Pr and zinc was also observed MRA suggested that the modification of rbp SS levels might be accounted for mainly by diminished Pr levels while the direct role of zinc is negligible

accidental i.v. of an EF can be fatal or cause complications such as sepsis acute respiratory and circulatory failure ARF hepatic insufficiency coagulation disorders and severe permanent neurological sequelae these wrong route PE are possible due to compatible connections between EF systems and intravascular infusion catheters

CPPs cpps and antimicrobial MMP amps share certain physicochemical parameters such as amphipathicity hydrophobicity cationicity and pi due to which these two groups of peptides also exhibit overlapping functional characteristics in our current work we have evaluated antimicrobial properties of cellpenetrating MMP derived from latarcin latarcin derived peptide ldp exhibited antimicrobial activity against representative microorganisms tested and bactericidal effect against methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus mrsa which was used as MM organism of T0 in the present work however ldp exhibited cytotoxicity against hela cells further nuclear localization CS nls was fused to ldp and interestingly ldpnls showed antimicrobial effect against bacteria showed bactericidal effect against mrsa and also did not exhibit cytotoxicity in hela cells till the highest concentrations tested thus our results inferred that fusion of nls to ldp significantly reduced cytotoxicity of ldp against hela cells ponnappan and chugh and exhibited significantly higher cellpenetrating activity in mrsa in comparison to ldp CT consolidated results of uptake assays timekill assays and pi membrane damage assays show that ldp killed mrsa mainly by membrane damage where as ldpnls might have intracellular targets owing to its cellpenetrating activity in hela cells and antimicrobial activity against mrsa ldpnls efficiently inhibited intracellular infection of mrsa in hela cells as observed in invasion assays hence our results suggest that ldpnls is a dual action peptide with amp and cpp activity and could be potential candidate as peptide antibiotic and drug delivery vector in both mammalian and bacterial cells

in patients with diabetes mellitus ABD ultrasonography is the AGA diagnostic technique to detect and to followup secondary and accompanying diseases of the liver the kidneys the pancreas the gastrointestinal tract and of abdominal vessels moreover pancreatic and hepatic diseases may be realized which are of etiological importance for diabetes mellitus based on a systematic survey of the published literature this review in parts will describe the value of ABD ultrasonography in DM part deals with the diagnostic relevance and particular findings of ultrasonographic methods in hepatic manifestations and complications of diabetes mellitus

immunoglobulins from bovine and human colostrum and milk and LTF ltf from HM were investigated for bacteriostatic activity against escherichia coli growing in a TC medium when tested separately ltf or secretory immunoglobulin a siga from pooled HM showed only slight bacteriostatic activity against human commensal or EPEC strains of e coli together they had a considerable bacteriostatic effect but only against strains of EPEC serotype this activity of the siga from pooled human milk was consistent for all EPEC serotypes tested but siga isola exogenous fat TC FC acylcarnitine betahydroxybutyrate free fatty acid and triglyceride PC were measured in parenterally alimented appropriateforgestationalage premature infants before and at the end of a fourhour infusion of intralipid gmkg body weight there was an increase in plasma C2 of ac bob ffa and tg but a decrease of fc tc was unaffected by the infusion but strongly correlated with calculated carnitine intake at the end of the fat infusion ac and bob were positively correlated and ffa negatively correlated with tc the results demonstrate the proportion of ac to fc to be an additional indicator of HFA utilization and suggest that decreased carnitine intake in premature infants may impair HFA oxidation and ketogenesis

CC is one of the top three cancers in the world in terms of incidence colonoscopy which many regard as the gold standard in diagnosis of Tc polyps and neoplasm is costly invasive and labourintensive and deemed an unsuitable populationwide index screening tool alternative modalities including guaiac and immunohistochemical FOB tests CTC colon capsule endoscopy flexible sigmoidoscopy and doublecontrast BE are available the procedures test characteristics and their implications are reviewed immunohistochemical FOB testing appears to be the most suitable populationwide screening test for an averagerisk population with flexible sigmoidoscopy as an alternative more evidence is needed to determine the role of CTC and colon CE in CC screening

to evaluate whether heidelberg retinal tomograph hrt is a valid test for diagnosing congenital ONH conh compared to the ratio of the distance between the centre of the optic disc and the centre of the macula and the mean NVD diameter dmdd ratio furthermore to determine the optimal cutoff value of hrt disc area to differentiate a hypoplastic disc from a normal NVD

objectives FeLV felv a gamma retrovirus causes diseases of the feline haematopoietic system that are invariably fatal rapid and accurate testing at the pointofneed pon supports prevention of virus spread and management of clinical disease this T0 evaluated the performance of an insulated isothermal pcr iipcr that detects proviral dna and a reverse transcription rtiipcr that detects both viral rna and proviral dna for felv PCD at the pon methods mycoplasma haemofelis feline coronavirus FHV feline calicivirus and feline immunodeficiency virus were used to test analytical specificity in vitro transcribed rna artificial plasmid felv strain american type culture collection vr and a clinical felv isolate were used in the analytical sensitivity assays a retrospective study including clinical plasma and SS samples that had been tested with virus isolation RT pcr and elisa and a prospective study including clinical plasma and SS samples were implemented to evaluate the clinical performances of the iipcrbased methods for felv detection results ninetyfive percent CA limit of PCD was calculated to be rna and five dna copies for the rtiipcr and six dna copies for the iipcr both reactions had analytical sensitivity comparable to a reference RT pcr qpcr and did not detect five nontarget feline pathogens the clinical performance of the rtiipcr and iipcr had agreement kappaκ and agreement κ respectively with the qpcr n the agreement between an automatic nucleic extractionrtiipcr system and virus isolation to detect felv in plasma or SS was κ and κ in a retrospective n and a prospective n study respectively conclusions and relevance these results suggested that both rtiipcr and iipcr assays can serve as reliable tools for pon felv detection

a mouse strain lacking smp can be regarded as a CS showing ultimate decrease of the smp molecule after three months of age smpko mice had an increased MR compared with the smpwt mice all of which remained alive electron microscopic observation of the HCs from monthold smpko mice revealed many empty vacuoles presumably lipid droplets abnormally enlarged mitochondria with indistinct cristae and exceptionally C1 lysosomes filled with electrondense bodies the total hepatic TG of smpko mice was approximately fold higher than that of the agematched wild type similarly the total hepatic cholesterol of smpko mice reached an approximate fold greater value than that of the comparative group total hepatic phospholipids of smpko mice achieved an approximately fold higher level compared with that of the WT the cells from smpko mice were CS to apoptotic reagents those results supported the idea that smp has an Bcl-2 CF with wide spectrum these findings indicate that smpko mice are highly susceptible to various harmful reagents this strain might be a useful tool for aging and biological monitoring

at present the management of obesity includes integration of therapeutic strategies such as diet PT behaviour therapy and pharmacologic therapy an increased number of selected patients with morbid obesity where medical therapy was ineffective have been surgically treated in the last years due to less invasive surgical techniques such as LS main operations include gastroplasty adjustable GB gastric bypass BPD a less invasive procedure is intragastric balloon ie a temporary device which is removed T3 few months surgery shows efficacy to induce weight loss and duration in time all obese patients cant be treated by the same operation available surgical techniques are different and have to be chosen in each case according to the patients clinical conditions

exposure to gestational diabetes gd in rats leads to dysplasia of the ventromedial hypothalamic nucleus vmn decisively involved into the regulation of body weight and metabolism recently we have shown here that vmn malformation is absent in adult F1 of gd mothers treated by PIT during gestation we therefore now investigated whether vmn malformation and its prevention are already present at the early postnatal end of the critical hypothalamic differentiation period already at weaning the total number of vmn neurons the volume of the vmn relative to total BB volume and the numerical density of neurons in the anterior subnucleus of the vmn were reduced in offspring of shamtransplanted mothers all p but did not differ between offspring of islettransplanted mothers and controls no morphometric alterations occurred in the PVH Thy nucleus in conclusion prevention of vmn malformation in offspring of islettransplanted IDDM is a direct consequence of normalized maternal metabolism during critical perinatal OD

we present the rare case of a yearold caucasian male patient presenting with intermittent leftside ABD pain he underwent a kidneys ureters and bladder computed tomography scan on which an incidental mm giant aneurysm of the LAD i.a. was discovered along with mm rightsided and mm leftsided CIA aneurysms and a mm benign renal oncocytoma he underwent onpump CABG of the LAD left circumflex and right CAs using IM artery and RSV grafts he subsequently underwent simultaneous open left nephrectomy and BL common iliac aneurysm repair using a bifurcated tube VG he made a full REC postoperatively giant coronary artery aneurysms are rare in the pediatric population they are predominantly secondary to kawasaki disease in adults atheromatous disease is the leading cause the coexistence of giant coronary artery aneurysms with extracoronary i.a. aneurysms is extremely unusual we propose that the identification of giant PD aneurysms necessitates further imaging investigations to identify the presence of extracoronary aneurysms to our knowledge this is the first description of such a case in the literature

thromboembolic adverse reactions reported after transfusion of sdplasma in the united states us prompted us to perform a comparative T0 with sdplasma from the us and the EU eu market in sdplasma from us residual TBP was found and citrate concentrations were lower than in euplasma except for substantial losses of fv fviii and AP found for all sdplasmas clotting factor MICs were mainly retained however for sdplasma from us markedly elevated concentrations of lipoprotein a lpa fibrin monomer and a particularly high degree of complement activation ca desarg were observed furthermore pronounced differences were found for protein s although sdplasma pools from us contained nearly normal concentrations of free and bound protein s antigen protein s MICs were almost completely absent in contrast to this sdplasma from eu showed a moderate loss of both protein s activity and free antigen antitrypsin inhibitor MICs were much more diminished in sdplasma from us than from eu in view of a possible thrombogenicity of sdplasma from us the loss of protein s and elevated lpa concentrations could be of significance the very high C2 of ca desarg in us plasma could possibly have an additional effect through priming platelet activation after transfusion

LF lf has been implicated in normal regulation of myeloid blood cell production in vitro and in vivo and abnormalities in lfcell interactions have been associated with progression of leukemia and other hematopoietic disorders lf may be clinically useful and for this reason we studied selected PSA characteristics of lf purified HM lf was saturated with iron from solution and analyzed by gel PACE ionexchange and gel filtration chromatography the metalloprotein was found to contain several molecular weight species on polyacrylamide gels high resolution IEC demonstrated the IB of lf to both anionic and cationic media under MZ conditions indicating a bipolar charge distribution GF studies revealed a tetramerized form of lf the formation and stability of which was dependent on the ionic strength of the solution

CCS is a unique soft tissue tumor with distinct microscopic features that include a nested or fascicular DP of spindle cells accompanied by larger wreathlike giant cells scattered throughout it harbors a unique ewsratf gene fusion secondary to a tqq translocation recently it was reported that CCS can occur in the skin and mimic a broad spectrum of entities including spindle cell melanoma here we describe new cases of CCS of the skin all of which were confirmed molecularly the patients a yearold boy a yearold woman and a yearold man had cutaneous lesions on the thigh dorsum of foot and sole respectively all lesions were originally considered suspicious of spindle cell melanoma microscopically the lesions featured nodular proliferation centered in the dermis that consisted of discrete fascicles of spindle cell enmeshed by thin fibrous strands wreathlike cells were present in all cases tumor cells were positive for s protein of cases melan a of cases hmb of cases although a junctional melanocytic proliferation was seen in case SN biopsy was negative in patients followup was uneventful in patients whereas the other patient developed a lymph node metastasis months after primary tumor excision this T0 confirms that malignant dermal tumors that mimic but do not exactly replicate spindle cell melanoma should raise suspicion for cutaneous CC sarcoma and prompt the investigation for the confirmatory gene fusion t

cirrhosis is the usual endresult of chronic active AIH different immunological abnormalities divide chronic AS SH into subgroups type i with antismooth muscle antibody type ii with antiliverkidney microsome antibody type antilkm antibody and type iii with an antibody directed against a soluble hepatic antigen three quarters of the patients are young women the MLD is often diagnosed at the stage of chronic AS SH during evaluation of the subjects GA condition or during investigations for an episode of jaundice it is seldom diagnosed at the stage of constituted or decompensated cirrhosis fulminant forms are rare extrahepatic autoimmune manifestations are frequently encountered treatment relies on immunosuppressants in practice corticosteroids corticosteroid therapy significantly prolongs the patients life but it does not prevent the passage to cirrhosis in the long term these patients are exposed to all the complications of cirrhosis notably the occurrence of hepatocellular carcinoma

dealing with AS has become an important issue in HE in community settings with increasing demands and changes in the daily lives of families helping children to deal with AS has become increasingly more significant in CHN nurses who want to mediate effects of AS in children need more information about AS buffers in the daily lives of children this study attempted to identify and describe AS buffers as actually experienced by schoolage children qualitative data were drawn from well children aged through years by completion of daily semistructured journals over a period of weeks diaries produced AS buffer responses all data were subjected to content analysis sixteen categories among four GA themes of intrapsychic comfort physicalsocial MICs social support and PCS comfort emerged beginning a taxonomy of AS buffers as perceived by children interesting differences between boys and girls were identified with implications for research and community nursing practice

a patient with SA developed MCD presenting as the nephrotic syndrome we believe this to be the first reported case of MCD associated with SA

this study analyzed repeated measurement data to clarify the longitudinal associations between hyperuricemia and the risk factors for the development of hypertension ie increased arterial stiffness renal dysfunction and inflammation and then examined whether these risk factors show longitudinal associations with the development of hypertension in japanese men without hypertension the brachialankle pulse wave velocity blood pressure estimated glomerular filtration rate and SUA and crp creactive protein levels were measured annually over an year period of these subjects developed hypertension by the end of the T0 period mixed model linear SRA revealed a significant longitudinal association of hyperuricemia with increase of the baPWV estimate p decrease of the estimated glomerular filtration rate estimate p and elevation of the crp estimate×

ACP acp is well recognised as an important component of palliative care however there is still a need to explore ways in which it can become a part of routine practice ensuring a timely and personcentred discussion

liver sinusoid ls EC cells lsecs support HCs in resting livers and proliferate during LR to revascularize regenerated liver parenchyma we report that recombination signalbinding proteinjkappa rbpj the critical transcription factor mediating notch signaling regulates both resting and reg lsecs conditional deletion of rbpj resulted in lsec proliferation and a venoocclusive diseaselike phenotype in the liver as manifested by CL congestion deposition of fibrinlike materials in lss edema in the space of disse and increased apoptosis of HCs regeneration of liver was remarkably impaired with reduced lsec proliferation and destroyed sinusoidal structure lsec degeneration was obvious in the reg liver of rbpjdeficient mice with some lsecs losing cytoplasm and organelles protruding into the remnant plasmamembrane of lss to hamper the microcirculation and intensify venoocclusive disease during CL regeneration HCs were also degenerative as shown by dilated endoplasmic reticulum decreased proliferation and increased apoptosis during LR molecular analyses revealed that the dynamic expression of several related moleculessuch as V1 endothelial growth factor vascular endothelial growth factor receptors and interleukin and hepatocyte growth factorwas disturbed

during the last few years the GA aging of the population and the growing knowledge about male hormonal changes in older age have lead the scientific community to focus on the clinical aspects of AA hypogonadism in aging males this syndrome is well defined by the term lateonset hypogonadism loh although the pathophysiology and the diagnostic aspects have been studied and deetween PCS effort SRT and choice reaction time in fencers and nonfencer subjects

smart waste collection strategies have been developed to replace conventional fixed routes with dynamic systems that respond to the actual filllevel of waste bins the variation in waste generation patterns which is the main driver for the profit of smart systems is exacerbated in the UAE uae due to a high expatriate ratio this leads to significant changes in waste generation during breaks and seasonal occasions the present study aimed to evaluate a geographic NIS gisbased smart collection system scs compared to conventional practices in terms of time pollution and cost different scenarios were tested on a local residential district based on VL bin filling rates the input data were obtained from a field survey on different types of households a knowledgebased decisionmaking algorithm was developed to select the bins that require collection based on historical data the simulation included a regular scs scenario based on actual filling rates as well as subscenarios to T0 the impact of reducing the waste generation rates an operation cost reduction of was achieved with scs compared to the conventional scenario moreover scs outperformed the conventional system by lowering carbondioxide emissions by between and for various scenarios the operation costs were nonlinearly reduced with the incremental drops in waste generation furthermore the smart system was validated using actual waste generation data of the T0 area and it lowered collection trip times by to compared to the conventional service the present T0 proposes an integrated scs architecture and explores critical considerations of smart systems

fMRI fmri generally employs gradientecho EPI imaging geepi to measure blood oxygen leveldependent bold signal changes that result from changes in tissue relaxation time t between activation and rest since t strongly varies across the BB and bold contrast is maximal only where the echo time te equals the local t imaging at a single te is a compromise in terms of overall sensitivity furthermore the long echo train makes epi very sensitive to main field inhomogeneities causing strong image distortion a method is presented that uses accelerated parallel imaging to reduce image artifacts and acquire images at multiple tes following a single excitation with no need to increase tr sensitivity gains from the broadened t coverage are optimized by pixelwise weighted echo summation based on local t or C/N ratio cnr measurements the method was evaluated using an RPA that allows differential bold cnr to be calculated without stimulation as well as with a stroop experiment results obtained at t showed that bold sensitivity improved by or more in all brain regions with larger gains in areas typically affected by strong susceptibility artifacts the use of parallel imaging markedly reduces image distortion and hence the method should find widespread application in functional BB imaging

a highresolution xray crystallographic investigation of the complex between carboxypeptidase a cpa peptidyllaminoacid hydrolase ec and the slowly hydrolyzed substrate glycylltyrosine was done at degrees c although this ES complex has been the subject of earlier crystallographic investigation a higher resolution electrondensity map of the complex with greater occupancy of the substrate was desired all crystal chemistry ie crystal soaking and xray data collection was performed on a diffractometermounted flow cell in which the crystal was immobilized the xray data to a resolution have yielded a wellresolved structure in which the zinc ion of the AS site is fivecoordinate three enzyme residues glu histidine and histidine and the carbonyl oxygen and amino terminus of glycylltyrosine CR the coordination polyhedron of the metal these results confirm that this ATP may be bound in a nonproductive manner because the hydrolytically important zincbound water has been displaced and excluded from the AS site it is likely that all dipeptide substrates of CP a that carry an unprotected amino terminus are poor substrates because of such favorable bidentate coordination to the metal ion of the active site

selenium is an essential trace PE and has been shown to protect the rats against dietary CL CN this T0 was designed to evaluate the effects of Se supplementation on different biochemical parameters in thioacetamide induced cirrhotic rats for this purpose male albino WR were divided into four CG n GI remained healthy control rats group ii received thioacetamide at a dose of mgkg bw ip for weeks twice a week in first phase and saline in second phase group iii received thioacetamide mgkg bw ip for weeks twice a week in first phase and sodium selenite mgkg bw ip for weeks three times a week in second phase and group iv received sodium selenite mgkg bw ip for weeks three times a week in first phase and saline in second phase PSA analysis was evaluated by total and DB liver TPS enzymes and antioxidant enzymes marked increase in total and direct bilirubin and alt activity was the indicative markers of liver cirrhosis while reduced antioxidant activity sod and gsh and increased mda and catalase C2 were observed in cirrhotic group sodium selenite supplementation markedly reduced total bilirubin and alt activity and restored the antioxidant enzymes sod and gsh and mda and catalase activity these results indicate that sodium selenite successively attenuates the thioacetamide induced LC

depression in later life poses a serious threat to MH and wellbeing of older persons burdened with medical illnesses comorbid medical conditions independently as well as through interactions may influence the degree of DS manifested by the elderly insight into the role medical comorbidity plays in the manifestation of depression may help to better address both physical and MH care needs of the depressed elderly

the superior colliculus sc is an essential structure for the control of eye movements in rodents the sc is also considered to play an important role in whisking behavior in which animals actively move their vibrissae mechanosensors to gather tactile information about the space around them during exploration we investigated how the sc contributes to vibrissal movement control we found that when the sc was unilaterally lesioned the resting position of the vibrissae shifted backward on the side CL to the lesion the unilateral sc lesion also induced an increase in the whisking amplitude on the CL side to explore the anatomical basis for sc involvement in vibrissal movement control we then quantitatively evaluated axonal projections from the sc to the brainstem using neuronal labeling with a virus vector SN of the sc mainly sent axons to the CL side in the lower brainstem we found that the FN received input directly from the sc and that the descending projections from the sc also reached the intermediate Rt formation and prebötzinger complex which are both considered to contain neural oscillators generating rhythmic movements of the vibrissae together these results indicate the existence of a neural circuit in which the sc modulates vibrissal movements mainly on the contralateral side via direct connections to motoneurons and via indirect connections including the CPGs

a female patient with small cell lung cancer and extensive bone marrow metastases achieved a CR response T3 combination chemotherapy including etoposide during maintenance therapy MC was diagnosed after intravenous administration of teniposide she improved dramatically during months

we report a method of creating electrostatically induced quantum dots by thermal DWI of interstitial mn ions out of a ptype gamnas layer into the vicinity of a gaas quantum well this approach creates deep approximately circular and strongly confined dotlike potential minima in a large microm mesa diode structure without need for T3 lithography or electrostatic gating magnetotunneling spectroscopy of an individual dot reveals the symmetry of its electronic eigenfunctions and a rich SE level spectrum of fockdarwinlike states with an orbital angular momentum component lz from to

a compound may be developmentally neurotoxic because it interferes with a metabolic step exclusively or preferentially expressed during OD in a particular class of neural cells the initial metabolic specificity is often complicated by secondary responses in the affected cells involvement of other functionallyrelated cell types and the presence of compensatory andor regenerative responses in this context we study tellurium which systemically blocks cholesterol biosynthesis at the SE step because of the high demand in developing IP nerves for newly synthesized cholesterol required for myelin assembly this metabolic block leads to demyelination of the sciatic nerve this insult is confounded by the fact that the myelinforming SCs do not upregulate their cholesterol biosynthetic pathway this is contrary to expectations CL the main source of cholesterol for many tissues outside the nervous system upregulates synthesis of cholesterol and overcomes the metabolic block the shortage of cholesterol in schwann cells results in an immediate secondary response downregulation of steadystate mrna C2 for specific myelin proteins remyelination occurs after cessation of tellurium exposure this model of primary demyelination allows T0 of schwanncell specific responses during the processes of myelin breakdown and subsequent steps leading to remyelination without the complications of axonal degeneration and regeneration because tellurium specifically blocks the synthesis of a major required membrane component it is also well suited for examining the coordinate control of membrane synthesis and assembly at the genomic level

a composite profile of empathic individuals was developed from adjectives checked on gough and heilbruns ACL by undergraduate students enrolled in a course on counseling individuals were nominated as empathic by the students who also completed the checklist the composite profile was consistent with the rogerian definition of empathy and factor sociability of the check list the profiles for the nominated sample and for the students did not differ significantly on of the scales but both differed significantly from the composite profile on scales

nmda receptor nrab subunits have pdzbinding domains on their extreme ctermini that are known to interact with the psd family and other pdz proteins we explore the interactions between psd family proteins and the nrab cytoplasmic tails and the consequences of these interactions from the endoplasmic reticulum er through delivery to the synapse in primary rat hippocampal and cortical cultured neurons we find that the nrab cytoplasmic tails cluster very early in the sec pathway and interact serially with sap beginning at the IC and then psd we further establish that colocalization of the distal cterminus of nrb and psd begins at the transgolgi network tgn formation of nrbpsdsap complexes is dependent on the pdz IB domain of nrb subunits but association with sap and psd plays no distinguishable role in cluster preformation or initial targeting to the vicinity of the synapse instead the pdz IB domain plays a role in restricting cellsurface clusters to postsynaptic targets

dna polymerase beta is required in mammalian cells for the predominant pathway of BER involving single nucleotide gap filling dna synthesis here we examine the relationship between oxidative stress cellular levels of dna polymerase beta and BER capacity in vitro using mouse monocytes and either wildtype mouse fibroblasts or those deleted of the dna polymerase beta gene treatment with an oxidative stressinducing agent such as hydrogen peroxide morpholinosydnonimine xanthinexanthine oxidase or lipopolysaccharide was found to increase the level of dna polymerase beta in both monocytes and fibroblasts BER capacity in vitro as measured in crude cell extracts was also increased by lipopolysaccharide treatment in both cell types in monocytes lipopolysaccharidemediated upregulation of the BER system correlated with increased resistance to the monofunctional dna alkylating agent MMS by making use of a quantitative pcr CA to detect lesions in genomic dna we show that lipopolysaccharide treatment of FB cells reduces the incidence of spontaneous dna lesions this effect may be due to the enhanced dna polymerase betadependent base excision repair capacity of the cells because a similar decrease in dna lesions was not observed in cells deficient in BER by virtue of dna polymerase beta gene deletion similarly fibroblasts treated with lipopolysaccharide were more resistant to MMS than UT cells this effect was not observed in cells deleted of the dna polymerase beta gene these results suggest that the dna polymerase betadependent base excision repair pathway can be upregulated by oxidative stressinducing agents in mouse cell lines

the purpose of this study was to describe the structure of the oral health program in a universityaffiliated hospital evaluate staffs knowledge and attitudes toward oral health and propose ways to strengthen the incorporation of oral health prevention for children into clinical medical education qualitative methods were used to evaluate the program structured interviews with seventeen medical center personnel were conducted and clinic utilization reports provided icd diagnostic frequency and visits clinic staff pediatric residents dental and pediatric faculty hospital administrators and clinic directors were interviewed the themes identified during these interviews were motivation roles operational and organizational issues and integration into the larger medical care system integration of an ECC prevention program into the clinical medical education curriculum can be accomplished after implementation of the oral health program described in this paper dental caries became the eleventh most common diagnosis seen in the clinic when previously it did not appear in the top forty however institutional and organizational barriers are significant barriers identified were lack of clarity in defining leadership and roles regarding oral health time and work overload in a busy pediatric clinic a tracking system was not available to quickly determine which children needed caries prevention procedures and education and billing and medical record form changes could not be fully established prior to starting the program

surface electromyogram potentials were recorded from the APB abductor digiti minimi and extensor digitorum brevis muscles in response to finely graded nerve stimuli successive potentials were subtracted to obtain intermediate potentials and of the maximal compound muscle action potential mcmap the average RL of the onset and negative and positive peaks and the average duration of the negative phase and whole potential were similar for all degrees of fractionation although smaller fractionation was associated with increasing variability an initial positivity occurred with some of the smaller fractions of the cmap particularly those with the lowest CS- threshold submaximal cmaps closely resembled the mcmap once their amplitude was greater than of the mcmap our results support the common practice of expressing hreflex amplitudes as a percentage of the m wave and may partly explain why reflexes scale in response to tonic activation

a pot experiment was conducted using a soil contaminated with mg x kg cd to T0 the effect of the variety of the soil bulk density on the zncd uptake by the hyperaccumulator thlaspi caerulescens and the removal of cd and zn from the soil the contaminated soil received of soil conditioner and the plants were harvested T3 days the results showed that soil amendment with the soil NRC eb a significantly decreased the soil bulk density compared to the control the bulk density value decreased from g x cm to g x cm at the level of soil conditioner the increased biomass of shoot and root was observed at the treatment of eb a amendment the total root length root hair length and rootshoot ratio were all significantly enhanced p by the addition of eb a the significant positive relationships between the total root length and the removed cdzn from soil were determined p compared with the controlthe total root length was increased by folds at the addition of soil conditioner the cd concentration and removal of cd from soil were significantly elevated by and respectively the phytoextraction efficiency of cd was improved from to however the zn concentration and removal of zn were not significantly elevated by the addition of soil conditioner the present results demonstrate that the decreased soil bulk density may improve the root system of t caerulescens and enhance the phytoextraction efficiency of cd

we previously showed that paternal cocaine exposure reduced the reinforcing tau of cocaine in male F1 here we sought to determine whether paternal cocaine experience could also influence anxiety C2 in offspring male rats were allowed to selfadminister cocaine controls received saline passively for days and then were bred with naïve females measures of anxiety and cocaineinduced anxiogenic effects were assessed in the AD offspring cocainesired male F1 exhibited increased anxietylike behaviors as measured using the noveltyinduced hypophagia and defensive burying tasks relative to salinesired males in contrast sire cocaine experience had no effect on anxietylike behaviors in female F1 when challenged with an anxiogenic but not anorectic dose of cocaine mgkg ip anxietylike SMB was enhanced in all animals to an equal degree regardless of sire drug experience since anxiety and depression are often comorbid we also assessed measures of depressivelike SMB sire cocaine experience had no effect on depressionlike behaviors as measured by the forced swim task among male F1 in a separate group of naïve littermates select neuronal correlates of anxiety were measured male offspring of cocaineexperienced sires showed increased mrna and protein expression of CRF-R in the hippocampus together these results indicate that cocaineexperienced sires produce male progeny that have increased baseline anxiety which is unaltered by subsequent cocaine exposure

a series of novel azacyency of NBS among children with primary microcephaly was not known early correct diagnosis of the syndrome is crucial for appropriate preventive care and therapy we tested czech patients of different ages with simple microcephaly for the presence of the most common mutation in the nbs gene three new nijmegen breakage syndrome cases were detected in this cohort representing of the cohort all these newly diagnosed NBS patients were younger than months at the time of diagnosis they were all born within a year period twentythree of the children in the cohort were born within this year period representing a incidence of nijmegen breakage syndrome frequency of NBS heterozygotes among infants in the czech republic is and the birth rate is per year therefore in the time span of years three new NBS homozygotes are expected to be born therefore we assume that by dna testing of czech primary microcephalic children it is possible to detect all NBS patients to be expected the age at correct diagnosis was lowered from years at the time before dna testing to well under year of age all new NBS patients could receive AGA preventive care which should significantly improve their life expectancy and prognosis

naturally occurring phenolics protocatechuic and tannic acids have been reported to be inhibitors of chemical mutagenesis and carcinogenesis in experimental models here we have studied the effect of pretreatment with these compounds on mcinduced cytochrome p and phase ii enzymes in rats the male wistar rats were treated intraperitoneally with PCA and tannic acid in the dose of mgkg every days for weeks mc was administered at the th day of phenolics treatment the activities of erod cypa mrod cypa prod cypb pnph cype gst udpgt nqo were measured in the liver and kidney PCA treatment minimally reduced the mcinduced erod and mrod but the observed differences were statistically significant this compound was also a weak inhibitor of hepatic pnph moreover western blot analysis with cypaa and cypespecific antibodies showed the same effect in the C2 of hepatic cypaa and cype minimal decrease of renal constitutive by and more significant reduction of induced form by of pnph was found as result of treatment with protone response has become more widely recognized one of the most important cell components of the innate response is neutrophils and it is therefore important to elucidate their function during aging with aging there is an alteration of the receptordriven functions of human neutrophils such as superoxide anion production chemotaxis and apoptosis one of the alterations underlying these functional changes is a decrease in signalling elicited by TPS receptors alterations were also found in the neutrophil membrane lipid rafts these alterations in neutrophil functions and ST that occur during aging might contribute to the significant increase in infections in old age

a highly efficient synthesis of planar chiral ferrocenes by enantioselective pdcatalyzed direct ch arylation from readily available starting materials under mild reaction conditions was developed up to yield ee the products can be easily transformed to the highly efficient planar Fc ligands which have demonstrated high efficiency in pdcatalyzed asymmetric allylic alkylation and amination reactions

the aim of this study was to investigate the protective effects of phospholipase a pla from BV against acetaminopheninduced hepatotoxicity through cdcdfoxp TA treg in mice acetaminophen apap is a widely used antipyretic and analgesic but an acute or cumulative overdose of acetaminophen can cause severe hepatic failure tregs have been reported to possess protective effects in various liver diseases and kidney toxicity we previously found that BV strongly increased the treg population in splenocytes and subsequently suppressed immune disorders more recently we found that the effective component of bee venom is pla thus we hypothesized that pla could protect against CL injury induced by acetaminophen to evaluate the hepatoprotective effects of pla B6 mice or interleukindeficient il mice were injected with pla QD for five days and sacrificed h h after acetaminophen injection the blood sera were collected and h after acetaminophen i.t. for the analysis of AST aminotransferase ast and alanine aminotransferase alt plainjected mice showed reduced levels of serum ast alt proinflammatory cytokines and nitric oxide no compared with the pbsinjected control mice however il was significantly incrltrathin organic photodetector devices with performance comparable to that of the stateoftheart sibased inorganic photodetectors

this work tested the hypothesis that the content of spontaneous micronuclei in lymphocytes in an apparently healthy normal human subject who exhibited an unusually high MN frequency was nonrandom several dna probes were used in fluorescent insitu hybridization fish beginning with a probe generated from the subjects micronuclei micronuclei obtained from peripheral BL by microdissection were subjected to RAPD rapdpcr and a unique pcr product was then used to isolate a cosmid clone from a human genomic library this clone hybridized to chromosome subsequently commercial probes were included in fish analyses of micronuclei from the subject and age and sexmatched controls no significant differences were found between subject and controls in the percentages of micronuclei hybridizing with a centromere probe for the x chromosome or a painting probe for chromosome however the subject had a very highly significant increase p in chromosome in micronuclei over a level that might be expected to be present by chance characterization of micronuclei may be a promising tool in studies of mechanisms of inherited or induced CIN the strength of the strategy employed in this T0 is that by characterizing the chromosomes present in micronuclei this work has T3 from an observation of chromosomal instability to a foundation for T0 of the mechanism underlying the observation

LC is primarily a th century phenomenon its epidemiology is reviewed and the usefulness of epidemiological studies in providing clues to etiology is evaluated internationally lung cancer accounts for up to of all deaths in age CG above years it is a disease characterized by C1 international variations in incidence in addition urbanrural differences occur in many countries malefemale ratios are high to but T3 a rise during the first half of the century these ratios are now declining in a number of countries neither racial CSD nor migrant studies indicate that genetic AF play any important role in the etiology of lung CA the only possible indication of their playing such a role is the high incidence of LC among chinese primarily cantonese women a genetic determination of individual susceptibility has been suggested but racial differences remain to be demonstrated the increase in lung CA that started during the first decades of the th century in europe and north america is consistent with the introduction of a carcinogen into the environment at the turn of the century both spatial and temporal trends of lung CA support the hypothesis that CS is the L1 etiological factor this is further supported by numerous specific investigations of the problem a decrease in LC incidence in certain age groups in a number of countries may reflect changing smoking habits and the diminishing tar content of modern cigarettes thus indicating ways of prevention current knowledge of GA air pollution seems to ascribe it a secondary role as an etiological factor the risk of lung cancer is greater in certain occupations often because of an interaction between industrial air pollution and smoking it may be concluded that LC is largely a problem of modern society and that the epidemiological results are consistent with an etiological role of preventable environmental AF

to formally assess changes in language affected ue movement and motor PET activation changes via fMRI fmri following participation in motor therapy without any accompanying language intervention prepost case series five subjects with stroke exhibiting chronic SD ue hemiparesis the upper extremity section of the fuglmeyer fm the western aphasia battery wab and PET magnetic resonance imaging fmri po during performance of an affected ue motor task all subjects were po six weeks of repetitive task specific training rtp performed for approximately hours per day split into two sessions for the first four weeks of the MI period rtp was po every weekday whereas for the subsequent two weeks rtp was po daysweek EPI cortical stimulation was coadministered with the rtp via an electrode array and implanted pulse generator for all sessions one subject worked with a single therapist four weeks before and four weeks T3 the MI period all subjects were po the fm wab and fmri three of the subjects exhibited clinically significant language changes on the wab these individuals exhibited the largest motor changes as measured by the fm functional mri revealed distinct motor activation patterns in these subjects characterized by more strongly RA lateralized focal bold activity or a shift in activation toward the RA hemisphere language changes appear to cooccur with motor changes T3 ue rtp understanding the underlying mechanisms of these findings may lead to more efficient and synergistic rehabilitative therapy delivery

farnesyl CPS fps plays an essential role in organ OD in plants however fps has not previously been identified as a key RII enzyme in triterpene biosynthesis to elucidate the functions of fps in triterpene biosynthesis c asiatica was transformed with a construct harboring PG fps pgfpsencoding cdna coupled to the cauliflower mosaic virus s promoter higher C2 of cadds c asiatica dammarenediol synthase and cacys c asiatica cycloartenol synthase mrna were detected in all hairy root lines overexpressing when compared with the controls however no differences were detected in any expression of the casqs c asiatica squalene synthase gene in particular the upregulation of cadds transcripts suggests that fps may result in alterations in triterpene biosynthesis capacity squalene contents in the t t and t lines were increased to and fold those in the controls respectively the total sterol contents in the t line were approximately three times higher than those of the controls therefore these results indicated that fps performs a RII function in phytosterol biosynthesis to evaluate the contribution of fps to triterpene biosynthesis we applied methyl JA as an elicitor of hairy roots expressing pgfps the results of hplc analysis revealed that the content of madecassoside and asiaticoside in the t line was transiently increased by fold after days of mj treatment this result may indicate that fps performs a role not only in phytosterol regulation but also in triterpene biosynthesis

a yearold man ingested ml of dexol industries weed and grass killer concentrate torrance ca which contains diquat dibromide a herbicide structurally similar to paraquat he remained asymptomatic for hours and then a sore throat and vomiting developed twenty hours after ingestion esophagitis mucositis epiglottitis and ARF developed from which he slowly recovered this is the first report of systemic DQ toxicity from ingestion of a diluted diquat solution

we have reported that acute cardiac allograft rejection is associated with increased numbers of donorreactive Th htl in the IP blood of patients further increased frequencies of circulating donorreactive htl may predict allograft AAR episodes diagnosed by endomyocardial biopsy the present study evaluates the relationship between donorreactive htl and allograft acceptance in cardiac Tx bearing longterm allografts year patients were categorized as either longterm acceptors or persistent rejecters based on the number of RE and the ability to withdraw steroid therapy limiting dilution analysis for ilproducing htl was utilized with CD splenocytes as a source of donor alloantigens donorreactive htl frequencies were determined from IP blood samples obtained before SPK and at month and year T3 transplant individuals who accommodated their allografts and were withdrawn from steroid therapy had reduced numbers of donorreactive htl at year after transplant as compared with earlier time points further pbmc obtained from these individuals at year after SPK responded weakly to donor alloantigens in a mixed lymphocyte response mlr this relationship between donorreactive htl and allograft accommodation was exemplified in a cardiacliver SPK patient who was diagnosed with progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy and removed from all immunosuppression no subsequent rejection episodes were diagnosed donorreactive htl were not detectable and this individual failed to mount an mlr to donor alloantigens however a vigorous donorreactive response was observed when mlr cultures were supplemented with exogenous il therefore nonresponsiveness to the allograft appeared to be due to a deficit in il production in contrast patients who experienced persistent RE and required continued steroid therapy maintained large numbers of donorreactive htl at year after transplant pbmc from these individuals responded vigorously to donor alloantigens in an mlr hence monitoring donorreactive htl may identify individuals who have accommodated their graft and may tolerate a reduction in immunosuppression

patients who had undergone gastrectomy for stomach cancer were placed on adjuvant chemotherapy two weeks T3 surgery they were divided into three groups according to the following regimen in order to compare the year survival rate in the first group administration of FT was carried out for consecutive months and followed by administration of psk for consecutive months this course was repeated for more than courses administration of futraful in the second group was repeated for consecutive months with months of withdrawal and repeated for more than courses the third group received SA when all the patients of each group were compared there was no difference in year survival rate but the group receiving alternating therapy with futraful and psk showed a significantly high survival rate for the first year only further among patients having stage iii carcinoma those with n n or poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma had a remarkably high survival rate

a total of half disarticulated PS coronary stents were implanted in patients procedural success rate was elective stenting was performed in five patients the others received half stents for bailout situations including short dissections relapsing stenoses dissections not adequately covered by a full stent ostial stenoses and thrombus containing lesions seventeen patients received no anticoagulation except aspirin complications included one procedural death three acute occlusions resulting in one q and two nonq wave myocardial infarctions and one nonq wave infarction related to side branch closure stenting with the half plamazschatz coronary stent is an ERP technique it allows stenting in situations where a full stent may not be ideally suited use of only half a stent reduces thrombogenicity and halves costs

functional disability was evaluated in a crosssection sample of persons aged or years attending the local health ECU of borgo san dalmazzo cuneo italy by the oecd organization for economic cooperation and OD questionnaire the unidimensionality of the item set and grading order of severity were studied by MCA cumulativeness was examined by guttman scaleanalysis the oecd set measured two dimensions of disability PCS and sensorial by excluding the six items that caused the greatest loss of homogeneity a reduced set of ten items was obtained that was cumulative reproducibility coefficient and scalability coefficient and also produced a simpler score points scale based on this score of the subjects presented no disability in running metres the most difficult task and males were less disabled than females p the level of PET disability was slightly decreased in males and nearly uniform in females up to years T3 which a clear decrease appeared p the more disabled aged state a need for a higher number of CHS i.t. and PT nursing hospital nursing home physician but knowledge and use of these services are not clearly related to PF based on our results the choice of scaling appears irrelevant if the homogeneity of the item set is checked if the cumulative criterion is identified the use of a simplified cumulative score can be proposed as a CS measure of disability and indirectly the amount of personal assistance needed

removal of up to of the sialic acid from aggregates of day chick embryo HR cells during incubation in a highly purified preparation of neuraminidase resulted in hyperpolarization of the MDP reduction in the Mw of diastolic depolarization leading to slowing of beating negative shifts of threshold potential and the Vc at which upstroke velocity was maximal and an initial increase in the action potential OS these effects were opposite to those induced by phospholipase c a possible contaminant the modification of electrical properties by neuraminidase is suggested to result from an enhanced influx of calcium ions that might screen or bind specifically to internal negative fixed charges and thereby shift the voltage dependence of conductance and kinetic parameters to more negative potentials this hypothesis is supported by the results above and by greater uptake of ca following PR of sialic acid augmentation of enzymeinduced changes in elevated ca and the similarity of effects produced by a and inophore which also increased ca uptake however other mechanisms cannot be ruled out at the present time

PF the main AS component of the peony plant exerts various pharmacological effects recently research on the effect of paeoniflorin on the nervous system has gained more attention the aim of the present T0 was to determine whether paeoniflorin exerts a protective effect that improves alzheimers disease ad via inflammation and apoptosis in the cerebral cortex of a TGM MM of ad transgenic mice were used to construct the MM of ad and were treated with PF the morris WM test was used to analyze cognitive CF in ad mice the protein expression levels of nuclear factor‑κb tumor necrosis factor‑α interleukin il‑β il‑ and caspase‑ were examined with commercial kits expression C2 of b‑cell lymphoma bcl‑ bcl‑‑associated x protein bax phosphorylated p‑akt and p‑p mitogen‑activated protein kinase p‑p mapk in ad were evaluated by wes in rats treated with gen possibly by reducing oxidative stress and it seems that mt can enhance the beneficial effects of ato

lower motoneuron CA have been extensively documented in the mu MM of familial ALS whereas information on corticospinal neurons in these mice is very limited we investigated mrna C2 of inflammationrelated molecules in the deep layers in which CSN reside CSN labeled from tracer i.v. in the corticospinal tract at the C2 level axonal damage revealed by betaamyloid precursor protein accumulation and glial cell activation in the sensorimotor cortex of presymptomatic and endstage superoxide dismutase sod ga mice we demonstrated induction of inflammatory gene transcripts in the deep layers early and progressive shrinkage of CS cell bodies and activation of surrounding astrocytes and microglia with upregulation of MHC-I antigen accumulation of betaamyloid F0 protein in PT axonal swellings indicating ai was also evident at the terminal stage in the motor SC and internal capsule glial and axon changes were not observed elsewhere in the cortex these data reveal that the entire motor circuit is affected in this murine amyotrophic lateral sclerosis MM as it is in human amyotrophic lateral sclerosis sensorimotor cortical inflammation and progressive CS cell body and fiber damage may reflect transsynaptic signaling of damage from lower motoneurons

cd an adhesion molecule expressed by EC cells WBCs and platelets is used in surgical pathology as a marker of normal and neoplastic vascularization during the assessment of angiogenesis in breast carcinomas cd expression was observed in a single case of large cm diameter high NG ductal carcinoma in situ hgdcis associated with poorly differentiated invasive ductal carcinoma gidc expression was limited to the cell membrane this study focused on hgdcis or cm either pure or associated with idc cancer cells werecd in cases double staining using anticd monoclonal antibody mab and anticd mab the antihyaluronate receptor showed that foci of cd and cd tumour cells could be traced throughout the glandular tree marking the intraductal DWI of tumour up to pagets cells at the nipple the associated gidc and their lymph node metastases were instead cd and cd cd tumours were oestrogen receptor er frequently p and cerbb and infiltrated by cd t lymphocytes normal and hyperplastic epithelia were constantly cd other endothelial markers eg factor viiira and cd were not expressed by carcinoma cells as was cd the cd ligand in conclusion cd expression is a feature acquired by breast CA cells in the dcis MM cd expression mainly correlates with tumour cells spreading within the ductal system finally the invasive phenotype requires the coexpression of cd and cd

this study reported a family with primary hyperparathyroidism due to parathyroid carcinoma and investigated the pathological and genetic features of family members three members of the family had clinical manifestation of primary HP and tumors in the neck all three patients underwent parathyroidectomy thyroidectomy and levelvi ND and were definitively diagnosed based on pathology the index case was a patient that was found to have parathyroid carcinoma on the right side and parathyroid adenoma on the left side the other two patients had local RT recurrence and metastasis to distant organs a germline mutation in the hrpt gene argpro was identified in all of the patienent the lychi ccr monocytes have been shown to contribute to acute injury i.c. hemorrhage the other mu monocyte subset expresses cxcr and lower lyc C2 and contributes to repair in other disease models we hypothesized that the lyclo cxcr monocytes would contribute to recovery T3 IC hemorrhage intracerebral hemorrhage was modeled by blood injection in wt and cxcrnull bone marrow chimeras neurological outcomes and leukocyte recruitment were quantified at various time points PET outcomes were equal at and days i.c. hemorrhage in both genotypes no differences were observed in leukocyte recruitment between genotypes on either or days i.c. hemorrhage a few hundred lyclo monocytes were found in the ipsilateral hemisphere in each genotype and they did not change over time peripherally derived cxcr monocytes were observed in the perihematomal brain and days i.c. hemorrhage our data suggests cxcr signaling on monocytes does not play an influential role in acute injury or functional REC after intracerebral hemorrhage and therefore cxcr is not a therapeutic target to improve outcome after intracerebral hemorrhage

this paper describes a new method to measure the EE of individual lipid vesicles single vesicles were first optically trapped with a cw ndyag laser at nm and then photolyzed with a single ns uv laser PP from a n laser at nm to release the molecules encapsulated within the vesicle confocal detection with singlemolecule sensitivity laser excitation at nm from a cw ar laser was used to measure the number of released molecules by placing the confocal probe volume a few micrometers from the vesicle and by monitoring the transit times and the number of released molecules that crossed this probe volume we could calculate the total number of molecules released from the vesicle using a threedimensional DWI equation unlike traditional definitions of encapsulation efficiencies based on bulk assays because we can measure the contents of and PR from individual LDV we can define the EE by dividing the concentration of molecules encapsulated in each vesicle over the original concentration of the molecules present in the loading solution we characterized the EE of carboxyfluorescein for vesicles prepared by rotary evaporation and found oligolamellar LDV have an encapsulation efficiency of while MLV vesicles have an EE of

the ICM compartment syndrome is thought to develop following an unphysiological pressure increase in one of the numerous muscular compartments of the extremities confined by bone surface and strong fascia pressureinduced ischemia may cause partial or total CN of the vulnerable structures in the compartment this ICM compression syndrome was found in the deep extensor compartment of the distal forearm in a young female patient following osteotomy of the ulna the syndrome at this rather unusual site was not diagnosed and treated in the acute phase resection of fibrotic contracted musculature extensor indicis proprius EPL and brevis and APL and tendon transfer were performed to restore useful function

to examine the relation between gender history of CRT therapy crt and facial expression recognition fer skill in survivors of pediatric BT

the CSD of ventilation NV vavol in the lung is often studied using the multibreath n washout test most approaches have focused on the determination of a single vavol distribution consisting of from two compartments to a continuum compatible with the data but because the potential number of lung units greatly exceeds the number of breaths measured many distributions are usually compatible with a given set of washout data interpretation of single distributions therefore requires evaluation of the variability among all such compatible distributions the technique of linear programing is well suited to evaluation of these compatible distributions and its application to the n washout is explained twelve examples of washout data are analyzed in this way the results indicate that using the first or so breaths of the washout narrow distributions of vavol are well specified distributions with up to four distinct modes are also well specified but for broad distributions the shape cannot be adequately defined good resolution in the region of high vavol is found to be critically dependent on measuring the first few breaths of the washout

in many renal diseases transforming growth factor β tgfβstimulated canonical smad and noncanonical mechanistic TOR mtor promote increased protein synthesis and MC hypertrophy the cellular underpinnings involving these signaling molecules to regulate MC hypertrophy are not fully understood deptor has recently been identified as an mtor HIP and functions as an endogenous inhibitor of the kinase activity for both torc and torc prolonged incubation of mesangial cells with tgfβ reduced the levels of deptor concomitant with an increase in torc and torc activity sustained tgfβ activation was required to inhibit association of deptor with mtor whereas rapid activation had no effect using the mtor inhibitor pp we found that tgfβinduced both early and sustained activation of torc and torc was necessary for deptor suppression ppinduced reversal of deptor suppression by tgfβ was associated with a significant inhibition of tgfβstimulated protein synthesis and hypertrophy interestingly expression of sirna against smad or smad which blocks tgfβ receptorspecific smad signaling prevented tgfβinduced suppression of deptor abundance and torc activities furthermore overexpression of smad decreased deptor expression similar to tgfβ stimulation concomitant with increased torc and torc MICs finally knockdown of deptor reversed smad mediated inhibition of protein synthesis and MC hypertrophy induced by tgfβ these data reveal the requirement of both early and VLA of mtor for tgfβinduced protein synthesis our results support that tgfβstimulated smad acts as a key node to instill a feedback loop between deptor downregulation and torc activation in driving MC hypertrophy

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urocortins ucns injected peripherally decrease FI and GE through peripheral crf receptors in rodents however whether ucns influence circulating levels of the orexigenic and prokinetic hormone ghrelin has been little investigated we examined plasma C2 of ghrelin and blood glucose after intravenous iv injection of ucn the CRF-R AT1 involved and underlying mechanisms in AL fed rats equipped with a chronic iv cannula ucn μgkg iv induced a rapid ON and long lasting increase in ghrelin levels reaching and at and h post i.t. respectively and a h hyperglycemic response the selective crf agonist ucn μgkg iv increased fasting acyl h and desacyl ghrelin levels h compared to vehicle while the preferential crf agonist crf μgkg iv had no effect ucn s stimulatory actions were blocked by the selective crf antagonist astressinb μgkg iv hexamethonium mgkg sc prevented ucn induced rise in total ghrelin C2 while not altering the hyperglycemic response these data indicate that SVR i.t. of ucns induces a crfmediated increase in circulating ghrelin levels likely via indirect actions on gastric ghrelin cells that involves a nicotinic pathway independently from the hyperglycemic response

two insulinlike growth factor igf receptors the type i and type ii igf receptors have been described while substantial evidence indicates that the type i receptor is involved in the regulation of cell division it is uncertain if the RII also mediates this response similarly the role of the insulin receptor in mediating dna synthesis remains controversial to address these questions we used a monoclonal antibody alpha ir to specifically inhibit type i igf receptor activity and examined the effects of this inhibition on igf and insulinstimulated dna synthesis in human fibroblasts wi HEL fibroblasts have both type i and type ii igf receptors as determined by crosslinking i igfi and iigfii to monolayers of these cells in SFM both igfi and igfii stimulate dna synthesis in wi fibroblasts with halfmaximal effects occurring at sd and nm respectively at maximally ERP concentrations however both hormones stimulate dna synthesis to equal C2 alpha ir binds to the type i but not the type ii igf receptor on wi cells it also inhibits igf binding to the IL-1RI on these cells alpha ir competitively inhibited both igfi and igfiistimulated dna synthesis in wi cells but had no effect on either epidermal growth factor or plateletderived growth factorstimulated dna synthesis these results indicate that in wi fibroblasts the mitogenic effects of both igfi and igfii are mediated through the IL-1RI and that the type ii igf receptor is not directly involved in this response to define the role of the insulin receptor in mediating dna synthesis we compared the effects of alpha ir on insulinstimulated dna synthesis in a variety of human cell lines under MZ experimental conditions with wi and hel another HEL FB cell L1 alpha ir competitively inhibited the mitogenic effect of insulin however in two other fibroblast cell lines gm and hes and an osteogenic sarcoma cell L1 mg alpha ir inhibited igf but not insulinstimulated dna synthesis these results indicate that human cell lines differ in the receptor type through which insulin stimulates dna synthesis and that these differences are intrinsic properties of the cell lines and are not artifacts resulting from differences in experimental conditions

the present study investigated in vitro the effects of sulphated heterorhamnan go iotanucarrageenans gd and ehwi and arabinogalactan aragal PSs on macrophage activation and inhibition of intracellular amastigotes of leishmania l amazonensis all the sulphated PSs go gd and ehwi promoted increased nitric oxide production varying from to the leishmanicidal activity of all compounds was compared to the inhibition effect of MA at μgml ∼ used as positive control inhibition of leishmania l amazonensis growth was with μgml of go and to gd and ehwi respectively at μgml and with μgml of aragal the superoxide anion scavenging activity for the sulphated PSs varied from approximately at μgml in conclusion the results of the present study indicate the promising potential of these polysaccharides for the development of new alternative therapeutic agents against leishmaniasis

varicellazoster virus can to modulate the expression of MHC mhc molecules mhc class i expression is downregulated in vzvinfected TA as well as in fibroblasts vzvinfected cells do not respond to SE to interferongamma ifngamma by upregulation of mhc class ii expression however mhc class ii expression is induced when cells are treated with Th1 before vzv infection these effects on mhc class i and class ii expression can be expected to interfere transiently with adaptive immune responses of the host mediated by cd and cd TA ensuring that the virus has sufficient opportunity for transmission to susceptible contracts

Lp has been shown to possess multiple genetic loci that play roles in its ability to survive within host cells the mil macrophagespecific infectivity loci mutants of l pneumophila exhibit a spectrum of defects in intracellular survival in and cytopathogenicity to macrophages and AM epithelial cells this study characterizes one of the mil mutants gb intracellular growth of gb in macrophages was approximately to fold less than that of aa the parental CS at and h postinfection this defect in turn corresponded to a defect in cytopathogenicity sequence analysis of the affected gb open reading frame orf revealed it to encode a putative transport protein and the orf was designated mila the phenotypic defect of the mila mutant was complemented with a pcr fragment containing only mila indicating that the defect in gb was due to the disruption of mila intracellular trafficking of the mutant was examined by laser scanning confocal microscopy the data showed that of the gb phagosomes colocalized with the late endosomallysosomal marker lamp and h postinfection while less than of the aa phagosomes colocalized with this marker on the other hand over of the gb phagosomes were similar to the aa phagosome in that they were devoid of lamp and cat d and they were colocalized with the endoplasmic reticulum er marker bip however the number of gb phagosomes that colocalized with bip decreased to h postinfection compared to that of aa which remained constant colocalization thus compared to aa the mila mutation caused a defect in intracellular replication which was associated with colocalization of the phagosome with lamp and bip while colocalization with lamp and cathepsin d was not affected

rosaidorfman disease rdd also known as SH with massive lymphadenopathy is a rare disease of unknown etiology that typically presents as nodal disease in young children however it also can present in various extranodal sites and can be difficult to recognize if not considered in the differential diagnosis here we report a case of appendix involvement by extranodal rdd which occurred in a yearold woman with a long duration of years for intermittent RA lower quadrant pain the patient underwent a right hemicolectomy for a clinical diagnosis of appendiceal CA a mixed inflammatory infiltration of mature lymphocytes plasma cells and histiocytes exhibiting emperipolesis were indentified other Az had storiform fibrosis and sclerosis admixed with numerous plasma cells these histologic features combination with immunoreactivity for cd and s protein were indicative of a diagnosis of extranodal rdd we discuss the clinical pathologic findings as well as differential diagnoses and consideration of a possible relationship of this entity to iggrelated lesion

folliclestimulating hormone fsh a glycoprotein produced by the anterior PIT gland plays an important role in the regulation of fertility in both men and women fsh is used clinically to treat women with anovulatory infertility for controlled ovarian stimulation in women being treated with ARTs art and in the treatment of male hypogonadotrophic hypogonadism urinederived gonadotropin S9 containing VL amounts of fsh together with urinary proteins have been available for many years more recently fsh S9 produced using recombinant dna technology have become available recombinant fsh has a high specific activity high purity and guaranteed consistency among batches two recombinant fsh preparations have been available for clinical use for some years follitropinalpha and follitropinbeta the continuing OD of rFSH has recently resulted in a new presentation follitropinalpha filled by mass fbm this product can be filled by mass microg with an activity iu reflecting exceptional consistency as a result of refinement and improvement in the manufacturing process allowing the clinician to deliver a guaranteed dose of fsh experience with recombinant fsh in the treatment of male hypogonadotrophic hypogonadism is limited but the available data suggest that recombinant fsh has a similar efficacy to urinederived S9 urofollitropin in patients with who group i anovulatory infertility the use of recombinant fsh to stimulate follicular development is effective and well tolerated in patients with who group ii anovulation protocols based on recombinant fsh are more ERP than conventional protocols using urofollitropin comparative studies and a metaanalysis have shown that rFSH is more effective than urofollitropin for COS in women undergoing art pharmacoeconomic modeling indicates that follitropinalpha is more cost effective than urofollitropin in a range of different healthcare systems the available evidence from comparative studies of the two recombinant fsh preparations suggests that follitropinalpha may have an advantage over follitropinbeta in terms of tau follitropinalpha is superior to follitropinbeta in terms of local tolerability recent preliminary studies suggest an tau advantage for follitropinalpha fbm compared with standard follitropinalpha the fbm presentation appears to represent an advance on standard preparations of recombinant fsh in terms of consistency and clinical efficacy

this investigation was motivated by physician reports that patient compliments often raise red flags for them raising questions about whether compliments are being used in the service of achieving some kind of advantage our goal was to understand physician discomfort with patient compliments through analyses of audiotaped surgeonpatient encounters using CA we demonstrate that both the placement and design of compliments are consequential for how surgeons hear and respond to them the compliments offered after treatment recommendations are neither designed nor positioned to pursue institutional agendas and are responded to in ways that are largely consistent with compliment responses in everyday interaction but include modifications that preserve surgeons expertise in contrast some compliments offered before treatment recommendations pursue specific treatments and engender surgeons resistance other compliments offered before treatment recommendations do not overtly pursue institutionallyrelevant agendasfor example compliments offered in the opening phase of the visit we show how these compliments may but need not foreshadow a patients upcoming agenda this work extends our understanding of the interactional functions of compliments and of the resources patients use to pursue desired outcomes in encounters with healthcare professionals

oral thyrotrophinreleasing hormone trh and lithium were given to patients on followup for WDTC to see their effect on SS thyrotrophin level tsh and radioiodine i uptake raiu the study was randomised and doubledblinded and consisted of a total of patients in groups group received placebo and trh group received lithium and PL and group received lithium and trh SS tsh and raiu at hours were measured before and after treatment with trh lithium andor PL in group mean sem tsh increased from mul to mul p in group the NC of mul to mul in tsh was not statistically significant and in group tsh increased from mul to mul p however despite the significant NC in tsh there was no significant increase in i uptake in any group to to and to in groups and respectively p we conclude that while oral trh will increase endogenous serum tsh significantly there is no significant increase in i uptake lithium was not an useful adjunct in increasing SS tsh or i uptake in these patients

an increase in preb cell proliferation and b lymphocyte production in mouse bone marrow has previously been shown to follow the administration of various foreign agents in vivo the responses of early precursor B1 before the expression of mu chains prob cells have now been examined using double immunofluorescence labeling for terminal deoxynucleotidyl GOT tdt and b glycoprotein as detected by monoclonal antibody a single injection of sheep red blood cells srbc was followed by an increase in the number of cells in three defined populations of early precursor b cells lacking mu chains tdt cells tdt cells and mu cells as well as cytoplasmic mubearing preb cells and surface mubearing b lymphocytes an accompanying increase in proliferative activity was indicated by the numbers of mu cells and preb cells which accumulated in metaphase T3 inducing MI arrest with vincristine these effects were all abrogated either by treating mice with Si to depress macrophage function or by splenectomy in mice given multiple injections of srbc for weeks the elevated levels of early F0 b cell production and b cell genesis were sustained the work demonstrates that the in vivo production of early F0 b cells putatively including those at the stage of ig heavy chain gene rearrangement can be stimulated by SE to external agents acting indirectly by a silicasensitive spleendependent mechanism the findings suggest that the level of prob cell proliferation and primary b cell genesis normally taking place in mouse bone marrow may reflect the level of exposure to potential stimulants in the external environment mediated by activation of splenic macrophages the possibility that abnormally high levels of macrophage activation could predispose to dysregulations onipolar depression and panic disorder but not in patients with obsessivecompulsive disorder the impaired thermic and NE responses are associated with increased basal cortisol secretion in depressed patients but not in patients with PD chronic treatment with the selective ht reuptake inhibitor fluoxetine decreases hta receptormediated responses in patients with obsessivecompulsive disorder while longterm treatment with the tricyclic antidepressant amitriptyline further decreases hypothermia following IPS but has no effect on acthcortisol PR alteration of the hta receptor andor its ST pathways may play a role in the pathophysiology and treatment of anxiety disorders and depression

for successful gene delivery plasmid dna must be able to access the nucleus in order to be transcribed numerous studies have shown that gene delivery occurs more readily in dividing cells which is attributed to increased nuclear access when the nuclear envelope disassembles during mitosis however nonviral carriers continue to have low transfection efficiencies and require C1 quantities of dna per cell to achieve reasonable gene transfer even in dividing cells therefore we hypothesized that using histonederived NLSs nlss to target polyplexes might enhance nuclear delivery by facilitating interactions with histone effectors that mediate nuclear partitioning and retention during mitosis we discovered a novel interaction between polyplexes linked to histone h NT tail peptides and the histone nuclear import protein importin as evidenced by strong spatial colocalization as well as significantly decreased transfection when importin expression was reduced a fraction of the histonetargeted polyplexes was also found to colocalize with the retrotranslocon of the endoplasmic reticulum sec super resolution microscopy demonstrated a high level of polyplex binding to chromatin postmitosis and there also was a significant decrease in the amount of chromatin binding following importin knockdown these results provide evidence that NK histone effectors mediate both nuclear entry and deposition on chromatin by histonetargeted polyplexes and a translocation event from the endoplasmic reticulum into the cytosol may occur before mitial populations stay healthy and safe on wilderness adventures the pubmed and sportdiscus databases were searched in using both mesh terms and text words and include peerreviewed english language articles from to additional information was accessed from webbased sources to produce this narrative review on preparticipation evaluation for special populations undertaking wilderness adventures key words include children adolescent pediatric seniors elderly disabled special needs female athlete preparticipiation examination wilderness medicine and sports

a nested polymerase chain reaction pcr assay was investigated for detection of pneumocystis carinii in RT specimens from children of whom were immunocompetent but with chronic lung disorders cld eight had aids and p carinii pneumonia pcp had aids but no respiratory symptoms and were healthy immunocompetent children GMS stain gms and indirect immunofluorescence assay ifa were performed in parallel of specimens from children with cld were p carinii pcrpositive compared to positive by gmsifa of eight specimens from children with aids and pcp seven were p cariniipositive by pcr and six by gmsifa and of specimens from hivpositive children without respiratory symptoms two were positive by pcr and none by gmsifa p carinii dna was also detected by pcr in blood samples from four children with p cariniipositive NP aspirates specimens from HC were negative for p carinii by both pcr and gmsifa of the seven children with cld who were p cariniipositive two had clinical and microbiological improvement with cotrimoxazole treatment two improved initially but relapsed and one had p carinii cysts persistently in followup specimens despite cotrimoxazole treatment these results suggest an association between p carinii and exacerbations of cld in childhood in the absence of hiv infection or other immunodeficiency syndromes

luciferases are widely used to monitor biological processes here we describe the naturally secreted gaussia princeps luciferase gluc as a highly sensitive reporter for quantitative assessment of cells in vivo by measuring its concentration in blood the gluc blood assay complements in BLI which has the ability to localize the signal and provides a multifaceted assessment of cell viability proliferation and location in experimental disease and therapy models

CE hemodynamic and mediumsize molecular intoxication parameters have been determined in patients with AI ai it has been found that maximum indexes were characteristic of patients with low cardiac index and high IP V1 resistance it has been proved that neuroleptanalgesia in patients with ai is accompanied by an increase in mediumsize molecule level which in its turn depends on the initial volumic disturbances

with the introduction of highly active ART haart an impressive improvement in patient survival and quality of life has bee observed however the optimal timing of initial haart is still under consideration

this study aimed to evaluate the feasibility and safety of intracorporeal anastomosis with Bi BII or RY reconstructions in totally laparoscopic distal gastrectomy

objective the goal of this paper was to investigate surgical and hardware complications in a longitudinal retrospective T0 methods the authors of this registry T0 analyzed the surgical and hardware complications in patients who underwent the implantation of a VNS vns device between and the mean followup time was years results in total procedures were performed for primary vns implantations complications related to surgery occurred in of all implantation procedures that were performed the respective rate for hardware complications was surgical complications included postoperative hematoma in infection in vocal cord palsy in lower facial weakness in pain and sensoryrelated complications in aseptic reaction in cable discomfort in surgical cable break in oversized stimulator pocket in and battery displacement in of patients hardwarerelated complications included lead fracturemalfunction in spontaneous vns turnon in and lead disconnection in of patients conclusions vns implantation is a relatively safe procedure but it still involves certain risks the most common complications are postoperative hematoma infection and vocal cord palsy although their occurrence rates are rather low at about these complications may cause L1 suffering and even be life threatening to reduce complications it is important to have a LT perspective the years of followup of this study is of great strength considering that vns can be a lifelong treatment for many patients thus it is important to include repeated surgeries such as battery and lead replacements given that complications also may occur with these surgeries

research findings that link personality AF to functioning and PS in schizophrenia are inconsistent and further studies are needed within the area the purpose of this T0 was to investigate how personality as measured by the TCI tci was related to demographic AF subtypes of diagnoses level of functioning and aspects of psychological health including sense of coherence perceived control and SE among people with schizophrenia subjects were individuals aged years in psychiatric OP care the results indicated that personality was not related to subtypes of diagnoses or demographic characteristics of the respondents but to level of functioning and all aspects of psychological health especially selfdirectedness distinguished three groups of SF-36 and was highly correlated with the different aspects of psychological health the article discusses how knowledge of schizophrenic patients personality structure might be used for tailoring psychiatric treatments

zincdeficiency was induced in mice by FF a zndeficient basal diet zd dietary group containing lipid corn oil CLO for wk thereafter the corn oil was withdrawn from the basal diet and a subset of zndeficient animals zdlr group was fed this modified LF diet for another wk alkaline phosphatase activity in intestine and liver was compared in these mice and in those allowed ad libitum access to the lipidadequate znsupplemented diet zs group in those pairfed the znsupplemented diet pf group and in those fed the lipidadequate zndeficient diet AL zd group the CEA in both intestine and liver of the zdlr group was greater than in those of the zd group and greater than or equal to those of the zs and pf diet groups the results of this study suggest that the reduction in alkaline phosphatase in zndefi data because of epitope variations between RV strains serotyping with several monoclonal antibodies directed at different epitopes may increase the sensitivity of the method

although hedgehog hh signaling is essential for morphogenesis of the drosophila eye its exact link to the network of tissuespecific genes that regulate retinal determination has remained elusive in this report we demonstrate that the retinal determination gene eyes absent eya is the crucial link between the Hh signaling pathway and photoreceptor differentiation specifically we show that the mechanism by which hh signaling controls initiation of photoreceptor differentiation is to alleviate repression of eya and dpp dpp expression by the zincfinger transcription factor cubitus interruptus cirep furthermore our results suggest that stabilized full length ci ciact plays little or no role in drosophila eye development moreover while the effects of hh are primarily concentration dependent in other tissues hh signaling in the eye acts as a binary switch to initiate retinal morphogenesis by inducing expression of the tissuespecific factor eya

path hosted the inaugural vaccines against shigella and ETEC vase conference in washington dc in june bringing together experts from around the world for a highly collaborative forum to discuss progress in the development of new enteric vaccines diarrheal disease and LT sequelae caused by infections with the bacterial pathogens shigella and ETEC etec pose a significant public health burden in lowincome communities there are currently no licensed vaccines against these pathogens and the global health community has recently prioritized their development the vase conference aimed to accelerate communication and progress among those working in the enteric vaccine field to make shigella and etec vaccines a reality as quickly as possible research presented in oral and poster presentations at the vase conference covered a range of topics including the global burden of disease and public health case for shigella and etec vaccines current vaccine candidates in development immunology and host responses to the pathogens and the rationale for and status of combined shigellaetec vaccine candidates this article reviews key points and highlighted research presented in each of the plenary conference sessions and poster presentations at the conference planning for the vase conference is underway and will likely provide an important platform for sharing the latest updates on shigella and etec vaccine research efforts and maintaining the momentum for accelerating this work it is also expected that the vase conference will continue to provide a unique opportunity for those in the enteric vaccine field to share ideas make connections and create workable plans to make shigella and etec vaccines a reality updates available at wwwvaseconferenceorg

methotrexate mtx and cytarabine have been widely used for the treatment of acute leukemias and lymphomas for over years however the optimal schedule of this combination is yet to be determined and a variety of schedules of the combination has been used we studied the cytotoxic effects of mtx and Ara-C in combination against human leukemia cell lines at various schedules in vitro the effects of the combinations at the concentration of drug that produced cell growth inhibition ic were analyzed using the isobologram method of steel and peckham simultaneous SE to mtx and Ara-C for days produced antagonistic effects in human t cell leukemia molt and ccrfcem BCL1 ball burkitts lymphoma daudi PML hl and philadelphia chromosomepositive one k cells simultaneous exposure to mtx and Ara-C for h produced antagonistic effects sequential SE to mtx for h followed by cytarabine for h produced synergistic effects and the reverse sequence produced additive effects in both ccrfcem and hl cells sequential SE to mtx for h followed by cytarabine for days also produced synergistic effects in molt cells cell cycle analysis supported these observations our findings suggest that the simultaneous administration of mtx and cytarabine is not appropriate and the sequential administration of mtx followed by Ara-C may be the optimal schedule of this combination

rats were subjected to chronic hypoxia o or hypoxia and hypercapnia o co for weeks and their CBs twentythree from twenty rats were compared with those of littermate controls both chronic exposures which simulated high altitude or CLD caused a fold increase in carotid body volume the larger increases were attributed to higher fixationperfusion pressures the organs were fixed by perfusion with glutaraldehyde semithin micron sections for LM and ultrathin sections for electron microscopy were cut at regular intervals and were examined by stereological techniques to determine the nature of the enlargement the proportion occupied by blood vessels was much increased in both CH and hypoxia plus hypercapnia the EC appeared stretched with conspicuous fenestrations there were increased numbers of endothelial cells which suggested new growth as well as stretching of EC and the mean transectional area of the vessels was increased the mean surface area of blood vessels per unit area of carotid body was unaltered but the total surface area of blood vessels in the whole carotid body was greatly increased both the type cell nucleus and cytoplasm were increased in size the proportion nucleuscytoplasm was unaltered in hypoxia but reduced in hypoxia plus hypercapnia there were fewer type cell nuclei per unit area but the estimated total number of type cell nuclei per carotid body was increased fold this was interpreted as type cell PH some of the densecored vesicles in type cells were enlarged with eccentric dense cores but their number per unit area of cytoplasm was decreased their mean size was not significantly altered however the total number of LDV per carotid body was presumed to be increased because their decreased density in the cell was offset by a greater increase in total type cell volume the harmonic and arithmetic mean distances between EC and the boundary of glomus tissue were significantly reduced the harmonic mean distance is an indication of the DWI distance for gases to and from blood and glomus tissue the AM distance is a measure of the amount of tissue in between the significance of the V1 enlargement and PH and the type SCH cannot be assessed at present we do not know if enlargement is associated with the same greater or lesser activity of the organ for a given stimulus

multielectrode array mea technology has been extensively used for field potential recordings from excitable cells however its application for action potential ap measurements has not been harnessed here we report a novel platform for highresolution intracellular ap recordings from induced CFU-S stem cellcardiomyocyte constructs derived from human CFs to gain intracellular access microgold meas were used to electroporate multiple constructs simultaneously highthroughput ap measurements were obtained from multicellular constructs repeated electroporations of the same cells did not affect the signal stability our MM has the capability to distinguish subtle differences in ap morphology to characterize the network profile furthermore we confirm the reliability of the system by recapitulating known druginduced physiological and arrhythmogenic responses overall the model provides a unique cardioelectronic interface for noninvasive measurements of ap dynamics for drug screening and disease modeling this technology opens the door for identifying novel cardiofactors to enhance EP maturation

this article concerns the identification of gene pairs or combinations of gene pairs associated with biological phenotype or clinical outcome allowing for building predictive models that are not only robust to normalization but also easily validated and measured by qpcr techniques however given a small number ode ALT longitudinal changes climate ground reflection and geographic directions the most important factor affecting uvr reaching the earths surface is solar elevation currently people do not have great concern over eye protection the methods of protection against uvr include avoiding direct sunlight exposure using uvrblocking eyewear sunglasses or contact lenses and wearing hats hence by identifying uvr intensity AF eye PFs and public education especially in travelers methods for safe traveling can be identified

cyclindependent kinases cdks are regulatory enzymes with temporal and spatial selectivity for their protein substrates that are governed by cell cycleregulated cyclin subunits TPS cyclincdk complexes bind to and phosphorylate target proteins coupling their activity to cell cycle states the ID of specific cyclincdk substrates is challenging and so far has largely been achieved through indirect correlation or use of in vitro techniques here we use a proteinfragment complementation assay based on the optimized yeast CD to systematically identify candidate substrates of budding yeast saccharomyces cerevisiae cdk and show dependency on one or more regulatory cyclins we identified known and candidate cyclin dependencies for many predicted protein kinase cdk targets and showed elusory clbcdkspecific phosphorylation of γtubulin thus establishing the timing of this event in controlling assembly of the mitotic spindle our strategy can be generally applied to identify substrates and accessory subunits of multisubunit protein complexes

the role of oxygen radicals in exsanguinationinduced bronchoconstriction eib was investigated using IT of antioxidants in series guinea pigs g were employed in the PET study these animals were divided into seven groups control superoxide dismutase sod catalase cat erythrocytes rbcs noxoimidazolindinylethylnphenylurea edu ruthenium red rr and systemic CAP pretreatment sod cat rbcs and edu are antioxidants whereas rr is a blocker of TM ca fluxes all agents except capsaicin were administered by IT min before exsanguination each animal of the last group received a day subcutaneous CAP pretreatment all animals were anesthetized sternotomized and exsanguinated before as well as min T3 exsanguination the maximal expiratory flow maneuver was performed and the minimal volume was obtained in the control group exsanguination caused gradual decreases in the maximal expiratory flow at baseline total lung capacity forced expiratory volume at s and TLC as well as a gradual increase in the minimal volume indicating that eib becomes more severe with time eib was significantly ameliorated by IT of sod cat rbcs edu and rr and it was almost abolished by systemic CAP pretreatment in series however inactivated cat did not significantly affect eib we determined tracheal NEP nep activity in animals thirty minutes after exsanguination there was a significant decrease in nep activity in the control but not the cat group these results indicate that eib is modulated by oxygen radicals which inactivate nepabstract truncated at words