... the costs of the whole treatment. The costs of the initial
hospital stay itself are mainly influenced by the use of
MARS. The pure intervention costs of MARS are certainly
high (nearly 15000 EUR ... purification system for bioartificial liver support. Artif
Organs 1999, 23(4):319-330.
7. Steiner C, Mitzner S: Experiences with MARS liver support
therapy in...
... model
didnotfitthedataverywell;alsotheRMSEAwas
above the cutoff (.159). Especially the insight scale
showed a bad fit (see Table 1). Running the CFA with-
out the items of the insight scale only marginally
improved ... [13], for instance, examined the role
of working alliance in the treatment of delinquent boys
focusing on clarifying the relation between therapeutic...
... in the year following the assessment [10]. The
second study showed that unmet needs in domains
affecting the ability to live independently were associated
with met needs in these domains at the ... 4-5 years after baseline.
However, in the within-patient comparison, patients
seem to be worse off in the later years. A likely reason is
the selection of the most...
... atrophy of the intrinsic foot muscles, including AbdH,
secondary to peripheral motor neuropathy [9]. Atrophy of
the intrinsic foot muscle, which is a close representative of
the level of motor dysfunction, ... adopt in the clinical setting.
In the current study, the ultrasonographer was not
blinded to the identity of the subjects examined, but ran-
domising the...
... LSTAT in a routine
postoperative setting
Nursing staff received a 45-minute training seminar in the use
of the LSTAT, in which the system was placed on a modified
wheel system (Stryker Medical, ... to the next phase of the study, in which the LSTAT
would be used in a clinical setting. Furthermore, volunteer
clinicians reported through their surveys that they were...
... selection of patients that are equally d istributed
among the health states at baseline are provided in
Table 7.
Sensitivity Analysis
The results of the sensitivity analysis of the effects of
key model ... lipoatrophy in the NNRTI-arm of the study. It is
not the cost of treating lipoatrophy that appears to be
the most important factor in the model. When w...
... double
blind, clinical trial.
The magnitude of the therapeutic effects of these micronu-
trient supplementation in reducing either the duration or
the severity of diarrhea could compare favorably with
other ... days was estimated based on the results of the Indian
community-based study of zinc supplementation, which
indicated that the reduction in the duration...
... contrast to the in silico mod-
eling with the intrinsic cluster, these highly linked markers were not characterized by an
increased mean of the correlation coefficients in the biological system.
Discussion
The ... affect many physiological responses. Because of marked anti-inflammatory
effects their local application remains the therapy of choice for many diseases o...
... obtain a recombinant protein
containing the C-myc epitope followed by six histidines at
the C-terminus. A plasmid containing the wild type version
of CCR5 was constructed by introducing the coding
sequence ... glycosaminoglycans [37].
As the myc-his tag of the protein was present at the
C-terminus of the receptor which is located on the inside
of the cell, we then...
... that the induction of the anaerobic
proteins is the result of a n increased mRNA level. Maize
(Zea mays L.) responds to anaerobic stress by redirect-
ing t he synthetic machinery towards the synthesis ... 3-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-1,1-
dimethylurea (D CMU)-insensitive and requires only pho-
tosystem I activity [22]. The role of the hydrogenase in green
algae growing under pho...