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... slightly lower mean rates of carbon uptake before and during the first day of cold acclimation After days of cold exposure, the mean rate of carbon uptake was significantly lower for C24 than for Rsch ... T, Sawodny O, Ederer M & Heyer AG (2010) Mathematical modelling of the central carbohydrate metabolism in Arabidopsis thaliana reveals a substantial regulatory influence of vacuolar invertase ... Experimental procedures, the rate of assimilate export from photosynthetically active source organs to consuming sink organs or metabolic pathways other than carbohydrate pathways was calculated as the...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 22:20

... Critical Care Vol 10 No Garnacho-Montero and Amaya-Villar Van de Woude et al [1] propose a clinical algorithm based on the criteria defined by an international conference on the diagnosis of aspergillosis ... of bronchoalveolar lavage was not positive [13], a criterion not universally accepted Moreover, a high resolution CT scan is nowadays mandatory and a normal portable chest X-ray may lead to an ... Garnacho-Montero J, Amaya-Villar R, Ortiz-Leyba C, León C, Álvarez-Lerma F, Nolla-Salas J, Iruretagoyena JR, Barcenilla F: Isolation of Aspergillus spp from the respiratory tract in critically...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:22

... on the array, the geometric mean of the measured fluorescence intensities was calculated for both the experimental and control and the ratio of these was used as a scaling factor to adjust the ... on the average of the intensity across the array set was then obtained A ratio greater than indicates that there was hybridization to a specific gene 2-fold above the background intensity across ... University was supported by a grant from the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health (NIAID/NIH) to Fatah Kashanchi Fatah Kashanchi and Steve Jacobson share...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:20

... without fixation Immediately before FACS analysis µg/ml 7-ADD was added as viability indicator The dot plots shown the total cells in the floating fractions with the CD83+, 7-AAD- and CD83+, 7-AAD+ ... from the original DC donor were also used as stimulators as a control The average cpm and standard deviation of triplicate cultures are shown for each stimulator type static flasks In both cases, ... surface area used during the loading process in the bottles allows the monocytes to roll along and stay in close contact with the surface and then eventually attach This is akin to the attachment...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 10:23

... Figure of Schema the abdominal wall Schema of the abdominal wall (A) The normal abdominal wall (B) Left: postoperative conditions after bilateral TRAMflap Right: abdominal bulge that developed in the ... and assisted in providing a critical appraisal and review of the manuscript JO prepared the images, advised on the format and design and assisted in providing a critical appraisal of the manuscript ... sac was partly resected, leaving sufficient material to facilitate a peritoneal closure of the abdominal cavity In order to reach an adaptation of both lateralized anterior rectus sheaths, a...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 23:21

... well-formed Also exemplary of the division of duty between the morphophonological parser and the syntactic parser is the dual status of subcategorization in Warlpiri For example, the ergative case ... Ngarrka-ngku.ka marlu marna-kurra luwa.rnu ngarni.nja-kurra (man-ergative-aux kangaroo grass-obj shoot-past eat-infmitive-obj) 'The man is shooting the kangaroo while it is eating grass.' This example ... like analyz.iti.able would then be detected early as ill-formed In Figure we give an illustration of the behavior of the morphological and syntactic parsers on a more complicated example: Ngarrka-ngku.ka...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 18:20

... Celiac David Branski Disease Diagnosis Carlo Catassi Steffen Husby Sibylle Koletzko Ilma Korbonay-Szabo Luisa Mearin Markku Maki Alan Phillips Carmen Ribes Luca Ronfani Raanan Shamir Riccardo ... Critically appraise the evidence for • Validity • Impact (size of the benefit) • Applicability Integrate with clinical expertise and patient values Evaluate our effectiveness and efficiency Clinical ... individuals  Discourage the use of classical vs non-classical, typical vs atypical  Discourage the use of the term latent CD Ludvigsson et al Gut 2012 ESGPHAN member Questionnaire 85 % of those...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 09:20

... is the name of the "class of endings" associated with every lemma A class of endings is the set of all the endings related to a given class of words For example, each of the regular verbs of the ... approach to the problem is to store in a data base a list of all the declined forms for every lemma of the language, as well as their morphologic, syntactic and semantic characteristics The size of ... structured as tables of a relational data base l the morphologic and semantic characteristics of the word, but not its syntactic cathegory: for example, the easa (house) can be altered in casina (little...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 05:21

... purposed the assessment of the migration capacity of the cells At the moment there is no consensus in establishing acceptance criteria for the migration capacity of BM-MNC in cardiac regeneration ... invalid value, based on acceptance criteria, was observed in the first run for the 1:10 dilution The results of the validation assay are reported in Table Page of (page number not for citation ... and coordination All the authors read and approved the final manuscript References Regulation (EC) No 1394/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 November 2007 on advanced therapy...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 15:20

... Surface area of the catalyst before and after use in the reaction was measured using surface area & pore size analyzer (NOVA 1000e, Quanta chrome Instruments) All the chemicals were used as-received ... method for the preparation of oximes The methodology also offers chemical, economical, and environmental advantages On the other hand, Bi2O3 is remarkably easier to use, nonhazardous, inexpensive and ... [6], amines [7], and synthesis of azaheterocycles [8] are some of the synthetic applications of oximes They are also useful for selective a- activation [9] and are extensively used as intermediates...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 22:20

... Nazarpour, S Sanei, and J A Chambers, A novel semiblind signal extraction approach incorporating PARAFAC for the removal of the removal of eye-blink artifact from EEGs,” in Proceedings of the ... signature of factor The spatial signature of factor (c) (d) Figure 6: The extracted factors by using PARAFAC; (a) and (b) illustrate, respectively, the spectral and temporal signatures of the extracted ... clean signals coming from nonfrontal areas 3.3 Performance evaluations In order to provide a quantitative measure of performance for the proposed artifact removal method, the CC values of the...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 22:20

... The mainstay of surgical therapy in primary or metastatic disease is to achieve a complete resection with negative margins [7] Conventional chemotherapy and radiation therapy may have minor adjunctive ... Kubota K, Makuuchi M, Kusaka K, Kobayashi T, Miki K, Hasegawa K, Harihara Y, Takayama T: Measurement of liver volume and hepatic functional reserve as a guide to decision-making in resectional ... colorectal liver metastases Am J Surg 2003, 185:221-229 Kawasaki S, Makuuchi M, Kakazu T, Miyagawa S, Takayama T, Kosuge T, Sugihara K, Moriya Y: Resection for multiple metastatic liver tumors after...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 07:21

... Chantratita N, Wuthiekanun V, Limmathurotsakul D, Thanwisai A, Chantratita W, Day NP, Peacock SJ: Prospective clinical evaluation of the accuracy of 16S rRNA real-time PCR assay for the diagnosis ... purpura clinical data and microbiological data are available in Table and Additional data file All groups were similar in terms of race There was no statistically significant difference in age among ... classified 14 of the 18 samples (78% accuracy) Secondary validation of the candidate biomarker signature The performance of the candidate biomarkers identified in the training set was further evaluated...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 20:20

... depth of barium titanate particles in the temporary cavity The radiological examination of the infiltration depth of barium titanate particles within the ruptures of a temporary cavity in the gelatin ... size of the temporary cavity and the infiltration depth of the barium titanate particles In contrast to this, the infiltration depth of barium titanate particles in the case of the full metal jacket ... Yoganandan N, Pintar FA, Kumaresan S, Maiman DJ, Hargarten SW: Dynamic analysis of penetrating trauma J Trauma 1997, 42:266-72 Yetiser S, Kahramanyol M: High-velocity gunshot wounds to the head...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 20:21

... transcranial and extracranial ultrasound was normal, abdominal CT showed an aneurysm of the infrarenal aorta with a diameter of 4.8 cm and a marginal thrombus (Figure 1C and 1D) CT angiography ... aorta, and the abdominal aorta cranial to the aneurysm (arrows with corresponding maximal standardized uptake values) (B) Magnetic resonance angiography of the cerebral vessels (C), (D) Infrarenal ... carotid arteries This method offers the advantages of early detection of disease activity and the global assessment of the arterial system in a single examination Page of (page number not for citation...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 21:22

... codon)-3’ and the “second round PCR” (one -for- all) primer set: One -for- all-forward: 5’-GGGGACAAGTTTGTACAAAAAAGCAGGCT-3’ and One -for- all-reverse: 5’-GGGGACCACTTTGTACAAGAAAGCTGGGTC-3’ PCR products containing ... in large scale as described by Soutscheck et al [12], rearranged in line assay format and validated with a number of pre-characterized serum samples These validation data confirmed the seroreactivity ... analysis, expression and purification of proteins in small format, ELISAs assays, data analysis and Page of wrote the manuscript KIP carried out large scale protein purification, microarray screen, line...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:20

... heparin administration as rapidly as necessary? How can dosage of the drug be titrated to achieve maximal local effects without the risk of systemic complications? What is the adequate duration ... Critical Care Vol 12 No Suter The translation of a potentially beneficial effect of inhaled heparin in experimental models of ALI to clinical practice has not yet been achieved; important additional ... remains to be done The following questions need to be answered As the pro-coagulant state in the alveolar space begins in the early phases of ALI, how can it be assessed in order to initiate...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22

... disease, and therefore, either have a de novo or spontaneous mutation (~15-20% of patients) or the mother is a carrier of the mutation (majority of cases, 80-85%) All the female offspring of an affected ... affected male child and any other affected male relative, then she should be regarded as an obligate carrier Approximately half (50%) of male XLA patients not have family history of the disease, ... (WASP) and WAS gene sequencing that the patient has a diagnosis of XLT His renal disease was likely related to the underlying WAS mutation since WAS variants with increased IgA and impaired Page...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:22

... percent of eukaryotic DNA, does not appear to participate in the “classic” Watson and Crick role of DNA as an information repository for protein synthesis; therefore the majority of human DNA appears ... and access of biological information via the DNA transcription machinery One of the limitations of the Central Dogma (and, for that matter, the abstract description of a digital computer as a Von ... the form of software abstraction also includes the organization of that information, as opposed to a physical object The software aspect of the centralized information-processing complex in a...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:20

... treatment with APC was started before the initiation of injurious ventilation Therefore, it remains unknown at present whether inhaled APC would be beneficial if initiated after the lungs have ... whether inhaled APC can prevent or minimize primary or secondary lung damage when low tidal volumes are used for mechanical ventilation Abbreviations APC, activated protein C; ERK, extracellular-regulated ... exposed to large tidal volumes, an important clinical issue Additionally, low-tidal-volume ventilation has become the standard of care in critically ill patients because of studies showing that its...

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