báo cáo khoa học:" Predictors of mortality and short-term physical and cognitive dependence in critically ill persons 75 years and older: a prospective cohort study" ppt

... the clinicalimpact of an ICU stay on physical and cognitive depen-dence and subjective health status in survivors.Materials and methodsSetting and PatientsThis prospective observational cohort ... 70 years and older with abdominal pathologies and in mixed medical-surgical populations 80 years and older admitted to theICU. In contrast, dialysis was not associated with mor-tality in olde ... obtained was 100 and thebest 0. The aggregate sum varied between 600 (maxi-mum handicap) and 0 (no handicap). When a patientcould not answer, the NPH score was not evaluated.Statistical AnalysisQuantitative...

Báo cáo khoa học: "Protection of chicken against very virulent IBDV provided by in ovo priming with DNA vaccine and boosting with killed vaccine and the adjuvant effects of plasmid-encoded chicken interleukin-2 and interferon-g" doc

... several studies have investigated the efficacy of INF-γ as an adjuvant against pathogens [10,22, 32]. Duck INF-γ used as an adjuvant increased the protective efficacy of a DNA vaccine against ... Weining KC, Staeheli P, Zhu JJ. Adjuvant effects of IL-1beta, IL-2, IL-8, IL-15, IFN-alpha, IFN-gamma TGF-beta4 and lymphotactin on DNA vaccination against Eimeria acervulina. Vaccine 2001, 20, ... and 3). Eggs given the vaccine and control eggs both had a hatchability rate of above 95%, indicating that the DNA vaccine did not affect embryo hatchability. The clinical signs of IBD (anorexia,...

Báo cáo khoa hoc:" Effects of bone marrow cell transplant on thyroid function in an I131-induced low T4 and elevated TSH rat model" docx

... 5'-caccttcCCTTTCCCACAGATAAGAAGG5G'-3'Reverse Sequence: 5'-CAATGGGCTGGGAAGAATTAACA-3'. The PCR product size was 66 bp.Histological cutsOne lobe of the thyroid gland of each rat was obtained and ... DNA extrac-tion. NAC: carried out organ extraction and participated in the DNA extraction and in the real time PCR. AD: per-formed the statistical analysis and participated in the writ-ing of ... Kumita S, Kitamura Y, Nagahama M, Kitagawa W, AkasuH, Oshina T, Kumasaki T, Tanaka S: Trial of autotransplantation of cryopreserved thyroid tissue for postoperative hypothy-roidism in patients...

Báo cáo y học: "Performance of N-terminal-pro-B-type natriuretic peptide in critically ill patients: a prospective observational cohort study" pps

... concept and design, acquisition of data, analysis and interpretation of data, drafting of the manu-script, and critical revision of the manuscript for importantintellectual content and had full access ... to all of the data in thestudy and takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis. J-PQ participated in studyconcept and design, acquisition of data, ... acquisition of data, and critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual con-tent. J-MD, M Degrés, and PG participated in acquisition of data. M Darmon participated in analysis and interpretation...

Báo cáo y học: "Impact of emergency intubation on central venous oxygen saturation in critically ill patients: a multicenter observational study" potx

... -ScvO2)/SaO2, where SaO2 is arterial oxygen saturation.The clinical characteristics of the patients, demographic varia-bles, cause of intubation, use of vasoactive drugs, and severityscores (Acute ... participated in its design and coor-dination and helped to draft the manuscript. RC (Ricardo Cas-tro) conceived of the study, and participated in its design and coordination and helped to draft the manuscript. ... statistical analysis. JR, HP, JLN, and IA recruitedpatients. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.AcknowledgementsThe study was funded by an institutional grant of the Departmento...

Báo cáo khoa học: Cause of mortality in insects under severe stress Hitoshi Matsumoto, Kohjiro Tanaka, Hirofumi Noguchi and Yoichi Hayakawa pdf

... neurilemma of MPLI-injected larva isthinner (indicated with bars shown in A and B) and less dense (indicated with stars asshown in C and D) than that of control BSA-injected larva. Further, a gap ... timesmore abundant than that observed in control larvae.Structural changes in MPLI-treated larval brainsThe dopamine in ux into the MPLI-injected larval brainsuggested that brains in the larvae may ... externally damagedsheath. At the same time, apoptosis of brain cells wasobserved in the test larvae.Materials and methodsAnimalsP. separata larvae were reared on an artiﬁcial diet at25...

báo cáo khoa học: " Predictors of HIV infection and prevalence for syphilis infection among injection drug users in China: Community-based surveys along major drug trafficking routes" pps

... tests, and were an active part of the preparation of the manuscript.SHV provided input with guidance on the data analysis and interpretation, and co-wrote the manuscript. Allauthors read and approved ... in mainland China, as well as Hong Kong, Macao, and Tai-wan, had reported cases of HIV/AIDS among drug usersfrom 1989 to 2004. Yunnan reported the highest number of annual HIV/AIDS cases in mainland ... needle and/ or syringe in the last sixmonths, always carried a needle and syringe when out, and how many times a needle and syringe was used beforetrashing it; and (3) sexual behaviors, e.g., living...

báo cáo khoa học:" Predictors of health status do not change over three-year periods and exacerbation makes difference in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease" ppsx

... study. Statistical analysis All data were analyzed using SigmaStat 3.2 (Inc, Chicago, IL, USA) and STATA 10.0 (Stata Corp, Texas, USA). Mean ± SD or median interquartile range (25- 75% ) was used ... variable. This analysis was done separately for all patients evaluated at baseline and for those followed during three years. After three years, we included the final values of the same variables with ... classes 1 and 2, classes 1 and 3 and classes 1 and 4 after three years. 26 Table 3. Multiple linear regression model to evaluate predictors for baseline total SGRQ and after three years...

Báo cáo khoa học: Structure of the atrial natriuretic peptide receptor extracellular domain in the unbound and hormone-bound states by single-particle electron microscopy ppt

... transmembrane domain, and an intracellular domain consisting of an ATP-bindingregulatory domain and a GCase catalytic domain [8].ANP binding to the ECD stimulates the intracellularGCase domain, ... possesses intrinsicguanylate cyclase (GCase) activity. The ANP receptoroccurs as a homodimer of a single-transmembranepolypeptide, each containing an extracellular ANP-binding domain (ECD), a transmembrane ... presentation of the movement of the juxta-membrane domains in response to ANP binding. Looking down-wards toward the cell membrane, ANP binding causes a translation of the juxtamembrane domains...

Báo cáo khoa học: Analyses of co-operative transitions inPlasmodium falciparumb-ketoacyl acyl carrier protein reductase upon co-factor and acyl carrier protein binding pdf

... were 5¢-CATGCCATGGGAAAAGTTGCTTTAGTAACAGGTGCAGGA-3¢ (NcoI site underlined) and 5¢-CCGCTCGAGAGGTGATAGTCCACCGTCTATTACGAAAACTCG-3¢ (XhoI site underlined) using PlatinumÒ PfxDNA polymerase (Invitrogen, ... drugs, such as chloroquine,is growing at an alarming rate and the increasing bur-den of malaria caused by drug-resistant parasites hasled investigators to seek novel antimalarial drug targets[3].There ... SA, Surgey EG & Cadwgan AM (2002) Malariavaccines: where are we and where are we going? LancetInfect Dis 2, 737–743.3 Asindi AA, Ekanem EE, Ibia EO & Nwangwa MA(1993) Upsurge of malaria-related...

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