... disease was achieved by serial PCI of the remaining diseased coronary arteries according to hemodynamic relevance and morphology of the stenosis during the further clinical course Basic clinical ... like age, blood pressure, and heart rate Conclusions Velocity Vector imaging (VVI) is a clinically feasible approach for strain measurements in infarcted myocardium allowing an accurate assessment ... (38%) as infarcted, 162 (30%) as adjacent and 173 (32%) as non-infarcted The comparison of infarcted and non-infarcted segments showed a significant difference (p < 0.05) according to 2DS, dSR and...
... Catterall et al Asp) within matrix proteins could also interfere with the normal turnover of cartilage as certain proteases, including matrix metalloproteinase-3 and some caspases, are unable ... lesioned OA cartilage regions are presented in Figure 1c, d, demonstrating more intense GAG staining in the deep non-lesioned OA cartilage regions and less intense staining in lesioned cartilage (Figure ... matrix and matrix interaction, preventing the conversion of aspartate to the D-β-Asp racemized form Due to the steady age-related increase in aspartate racemization in normal cartilage previously...
... 31, 36, 38 and 42 On day 44, the remaining two chickens in groups 1,3 and 4, and the remaining three chickens in group were sampled Blood was collected before euthanisation, and the carcasses were ... than in the bursa, and thus mostly undetectable by our current methods, until replication was enhanced in groups andAs enhanced replication in the spleen and thymus was not recorded in groups and ... system by subclinical coccidiosis and vvIBDV, enhancing the replication and distribution of the vaccine strain in chicken lymphoid tissues Assuming that replication of and presence of vaccine virus...
... diphtheria toxin is cleaved by furin into two fragments: the A chain corresponding to the catalytic domain (C domain); and the B chain corresponding to the translocation domain (T domain) and the receptor-binding ... receptor-binding domain The C and T domains remain covalently linked by a disulfide bond Following binding to its cell-surface receptor, diphtheria toxin is internalized through the clathrin-coated ... changes within diphtheria T domain P Man et al Introduction Diphtheria toxin is a protein secreted by Corynebacterium diphtheriae as a single polypeptide chain of 58 kDa [1] During cell intoxication,...
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... using different fluorescence methods 1) The red laser-induced chlorophyll fluorescence kinetics (determination of Rfd-values as a vitality index of needles) measured near 690 and near 730 nm in ... Lichtenthaler and Rinderle, 1988) The were more or less the in summer and winter (values of 0.83-0.96 at the Althof and Mauzenberg sites) In contrast, the qE-values (energy quenching), which contain information, ... apparatus as seen from the lower Rfd-values In contrast, the Rfd-values as a vitality index andas an index of the intactness of the photosynthetic apparatus, showed a different behavior There was a...
... Creek by the gill nets during spring and ebb tides The number of invertebrate samples is shown in Table These invertebrates were selected in the present study because they are predominant and high ... al., 2001) In the ecological aspect, the fecal materials can be quickly increased in bacteria biomass and nutrient contents that can be easily assimilated by other deposit-feeders As a result, ... movement and assimilation by invertebrates in estuarine habitats at a scale of metres Marine Ecology Progress Series 278, 27–34 Hentschel, B.T., 1998 Intraspecific variations in δ13C indicate...
... 5year experience in disaster medicine and had participated in previous disasters The selection of participants was determined using a purposeful sampling method The participants were included until ... regarding disaster response The preparedness of the Ministry of Health in Pakistan was far from sufficient regarding the earthquake in 2005 [18] Since there was no disaster management plan during ... analysis, revision, editing and manuscript writing HK was involved in the conception and design of study and took an active part in the data analysis and results interpretation GO participated...
... Trend as Age Decreases N/A fluctuates decrease decrease no change increase increase increase increase increase increase decrease fluctuates N/A N/A N/A N/A Table 1: List of all features used during ... MySpace In the future we plan on using age and other metadata to improve results in larger tasks such as identifying opinion, persuasion and power by targeting our approach in those tasks to ... are shown in Table We experimented against two baselines, online behavior and interests We chose these two features as baselines because they are both easy to generate and not lexical in nature...
... mistakes in using nominals and denominals as pre- modifiers in complex noun phrases I Common mistakes made by Vietnamese learners in using nominals and denominals as pre- modifiers in complex noun phrases ... She in the corner Hoa I.2 Complex Noun Phrases: There are two kinds of noun phrases: basic noun phrases and complex noun phrases In the study, nominals and denominals as pre- modifiers are only in ... meaning to the name, proper nouns take the definite article Unique meaning Partitive meaning during Easter during the Easter of that year in England in the England of Queen Elizabeth in Denmark in...
... advanced methods than suffix replacement since their affixing of words (inflection of words) can include both prefixing, infixing and suffixing Therefore we created a trainable lemmatizer that handles ... 3-12) Berlin: Springer Johan Carlberger, Hercules Dalianis, Martin Hassel, and Ola Knutsson 2001 Improving Precision in Information Retrieval for Swedish using Stemming In the Proceedings of NoDaLiDa-01 ... training process terminates when the full forms in all pairs in the training set are transformed to their corresponding lemmas After training, the data structure of rules is made permanent and...
... disseminate information and work in parallel, where in the past this was done by distributing and updating documents in serial fashion People have become comfortable using web conferencing for ... Explaining the different types of testing that complement decision making during the various phases of a network’s lifecycle ■ Outlining a business and technical blueprint for developing a testing ... Enterprise Network Testing Introduction As many as 17 billion devices are projected to be connected to the Internet by 2014, fueled by more and more computing tasks now being handled online, from phone...
... analysis and writing, and supervised all aspects of its implementation PJF originated the study and contributed writing WDJ contributed interpreting results and writing VK proposed the ideas and posed ... 47) decreased as BMI increased The percentage of children reporting physical scores between 47 and 50 decreased as BMI increased, however the trend was not linear The majority of children in this ... with body fat and a high level of body fat may increase the risk of developing diseases The relation between fatness and BMI differs with age and gender As BMI increases, the risk for some disease...
... associated with metastasis and relapse of breast cancer, and is overexpressed in lymph node positive breast cancer [38] Gain on 22q13.33 was over represented in 15 primary tumor and 15 blood samples ... encoding solute carrier family 16 member (SLC16A3) and casein kinase delta (CSNGK1D) SLC16A3 is a hypoxia-regulated gene that is expressed in bladder and breast cell lines [37] CSNK1D is associated ... values were represented by linear-ratios and the N-value was delineated by real time PCR (Fig 2) The relative fold increases by real time PCR of three genes were consistent with those obtained from...
... between BCT and MRM as regarding body image This was explained by assuming the greatest concern for most patients is "they have cancer and they are trying to survive it" [50] Poulsen and colleagues ... Therefore, during the coming decades, older women will account for an increasing number of new cases and survivors [7] At present, treatment for this growing diverse population is variable and represents ... Farrar W, Andersen BL: Comparing Surgical Groups and Determining Individual Differences in Postoperative Sexuality andBody Change Stress J Consult Clin Psychol 2000, 68(4):697-709 Kenny P, King LM,...
... Total Values in parentheses are percentages Concurrent chemotherapy Margin status (millimeters) Lymphatic vessel invasion Blood vessel invasion Perineural invasion Bone invasion Skin invasion Nodal ... normalization to an internal control (actin) GP96-overexpression was defined as a 1.5-fold increase in lesion tissue as compared with the normal oral mucosa The level of GP96-expression and its associations ... link between neoplasms and GP96-expression Our previous work has shown that GP96 contributed to radioresistance in nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) and ORC cell lines [14,15], indicating that this...
... blocking radioimmunoassay (RIA) after acid alcohol extraction IGFBP-1 and IGFBP-3 were measured by RIA in dilute serum The sensitivity of the IGF-I assay was 63.4 ng/ml, and intra- and inter-assay ... 6.5% and 9.4%, respectively Corresponding values for the IGFBP-1 assay were ng/ml, with intra- and inter-assay CVs of 6% and 12%, and those for the IGFBP-3 assay were 0.8 mg/l, with intra- and inter-assay ... Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases and the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of Health (NIH), and all participants provided written informed...
... contributions GRS was a major contributor in writing the manuscript, and gathering and analyzing the data regarding the history and the operation of our patient MCL provided clinical insights and final approval ... lesion was removed In addition, her right mandibular first molar was extracted During surgery, a foreign body composed of gauze was found in the oval radiolucent area (Figure 3) There was no infection ... follow-up examination after two weeks Discussion CT and CBCT scans are the most effective methods to diagnose gossypiboma, showing a round, low-intensity, ill-defined mass containing a spongiform...
... symptoms or infections that may be marked by the subjects during the period of the study Body composition and Strength training Results Height, weight andbody mass index were measured andbody composition ... composition was estimated via seven-site skinfold as described by Jackson and Pollock [6] Strength training was composed of different training routines that were performed each week The training routines ... protein as prescribed by the nutritionist was not advisable, being considered as an exclusion factor Subjects were oriented to ingest one PAK 30 minutes before the training session and every morning...