changes of the respiratory system during pregnancy

... 1) As the highest frequency of the second OVW was higher than the overall frequency response of our system, we limited the second waveform to the first components During the application of the ... variability of baseline values, there are very slight differences in Zrs at the end of the experiment between control and treated group Figure shows the time courses of Raw and of the estimates of the ... resulted from the integration of the flow signal was removed by estimating the linear trend on the integrated signal and removing it from the recording The frequency response of the measuring systems...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:21

... compliance of the respiratory sysand static compliance of the respiratory system (Crs) conditions of the present study, but may not be warranted in the clinical setting It could be argued that the effects ... injection ance of( ARDS) functional bytrial after acute (FRC) and static compliTime courserespiratory system (Crs) during respiratory distress syn-endance of the respiratory system (Crs) during a decremental ... collected the data during the experiments BL and PG analysed the data and performed the statistical analysis VD participated in the design and the coordination of the study and helped to draft the...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22

... elastic recoil of the lung (Fig 2) [9] The kyphotic curvature of the spine and the anteroposterior diameter of the chest increase with aging, thereby decreasing the curvature of the diaphragm ... slope of pressure-volume curve for the respiratory system (rs) in the older subject, illustrating decreased compliance of the respiratory system (Data from Turner J, Mead J, Wohl M Elasticity of ... (ie, loss of elastic recoil of the lung) (see Fig 1) These changes are similar to those described in senile hyperinflation of the lung in humans [9,44] As noted in SAM during the course of aging,...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 21:20

... localization of which was under paracrine TNFα control54 Inhibition of TNFα or induction of the super-repressor mutant of IκB (inhibitor of NFκB) in transgenic animals during the later stages of neoplastic ... On the basis of classical theories of immune surveillance and more recent awareness of the tumour-promoting properties of innate immune cells, researchers are now investigating the efficacy of ... transplants is increased when there is a previous history of alcohol and tobacco use66,67 On the other hand, the RR for the most common non-viral-associated solid tumours of epithelial origin is decreased...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 01:20

... Introduction The disease of respiratory system is one of the most frequent reasons for hospitalization of infants and children Basic knowledge of the development and functions of respiratory system ... respiratory system are essential to understand many of these respiratory tract diseases 1.Anatomical characteristics of respiratory system (1) The upper airway nose; paranasal sinuses; pharynx; ... infection →develop obstruction The right bronchus →direct continuation of the trachea; The left bronchus spreads out from the lateral surface of trachea; So foreign body →often aspirated into right...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 09:20

... high level of reproducibility with a geometrical accuracy of less than mm for the LS [10,11] and a overall accuracy of 1.7 ± 0.7 mm for the GTC [12] In the case of the Fixster system there is no ... design of the study and acquisition of data RH/ATB study design, analysis of data and results, and finally in the writing of the manuscript All authors have read and approved the final version of the ... position The first set of X-ray images was used as a template, and the center of the target was carefully marked A pencil was used to mark the inner table of the skull bone and bone landmarks on the...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:22

... substantially displayed during spontaneous smiling and was part of the aesthetic zone The mandibular anterior teeth formed part of the aesthetic zone especially during speech in 93 per cent of the participants ... zero The vertical length of the upper lip was measured between the lower edge of the upper lip and subnasion on the spontaneous smiling record and the record in the natural rest position The amount ... subjects according to the guidelines of that institution On the full dentition record, the lengths of the teeth were measured to obtain the actual length of the tooth crowns On the spontaneous smiling...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 17:20

... to the healthy subjects Before depicting the results from the real respiratory signals, the performance of the estimator which is bounded by the respiratory models and the properties of the respiratory ... about the respiratory models fit to the measured signals 3.2 Estimation of the Model Parameters Once the variance and the shape factor of the measurement noise are estimated, parameters of the respiratory ... to represent the respiratory system Accordingly, one of our aims was to derive the theoretical expressions of the presented lung models in the framework of the MLE algorithm with the GGD noise...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 16:20

... decrease the metabolic demand, or to maintain the flow despite the increase or the reduction of the systemic blood pressure [5,6] When the MAP exceeds the limits of autoregulation, the brain ... of HSP Although hypertension is one of the parameters for the diagnosis of HSP, other aspects must be considered; for example, the development of brain alterations, frequent in severe cases of ... by the use of anti-hypertensives Some studies demonstrate that there must be a reduction of 25% in the MAP within the first hour [5] However, reports on the duration of hypertension before pregnancy, ...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 23:20

... represent the complex biological state of human obesity The presence of the functional leptin receptor in the lung recognizes the potential involvement of leptin in the pathogenesis of respiratory ... suggesting that the influence of leptin is under the control of the systemic inflammatory response [108] The airflow limitation in COPD is linked to structural changes, including the presence of an abnormal ... task, since the role of leptin cannot always be separated from obesity and the biology of adipose tissue Currently, the effect of leptin signaling in the respiratory Malli et al Respiratory Research...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 11:23

... prevent the colonisation of the nasopharynx and subsequently limit the spread of pneumococci from the upper to the lower respiratory tract by enhancing clearance via the mucocilliary system, ... mice cleared bacteria from their blood by 48 hrs post infection and that the numbers of pneumococci in the blood of both strains of mice reflected their levels in the lung These results strongly ... in 3) the nasopharynx (figureSP-D-/- (◆)(n = of S pneumoniae time infected intranasally of 1), numbers SP-D+/+ (■) mice Time error of the with SEM) Time course of the change in numbers of S pneumoniae...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:20

... proved the eon'eetness of the system with a rigor and explicitness that is unusual for the great majority of mathematical proofs A Survey of the System gtructure Storage Allocation In the classical ... in their homing position Each process blocked in the course of task execution relies on the other processes for removal of the barrier Essentially, the proof in question is a demonstration of the ... the value of the semaphore called "sem" by If the resulting value of the semaphore concerned is positive, the V-operation in question has no further effect; if, however, the resulting value of...

Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2012, 15:05

... addition, there was a higher prevalence of threatened abortions in the mothers with infusion compared with the mothers of total groups However, there was no significant difference in the prevalence of ... (Table 4) There was no a higher prevalence of infusion during the study pregnancy in any CA-groups On the other hand the maternal infusion during the study pregnancy showed 139 a lower occurrence ... on cases and two offspring had mothers with infusion after the third month of gestation (i.e the critical period of this CA-group) The lower prevalence of infusion in the mothers with children...

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2012, 11:08

... 4.5 millions of individual entrepreneurs);  90 % of the total number of establishments;  44 % of GDP;  45 % of employment Sources of financing Business partners, relatives or other people ... stimulation of goods and services production and distribution, and also for a mutuality of start-up enterprises in the acquisition of getting profits and a capital accumulation experience Main tasks of ... of Microfinance      to stimulate efficiency access to the financial resources; to create work places; to grow of tax proceeds; to create a credit history for the further development of SMEs...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 03:15

... with the historical facets of his position, some with the philosophical, and some with both.4 What are the defining features of the morality system? At the end of Chapter 10 of Ethics and the Limits ... Kant, some of the most fundamental moral obligations concern the promotion of general ideals or ends such as our own perfection and the happiness of others The obligations of the morality system ... 66216 The Critique of the Morality System July 11, 2007 113 KANT AND THE MORALITY SYSTEM Now that we have a better idea of what Williams means by the morality system, ” what are we to make of his...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 07:20

... An Overview of the Financial System • Primary function of the Financial System is financial Intermediation • The channeling of funds from households, firms and governments ... shortage of funds (borrowers) • Direct finance vs Indirect finance 2-2 An Overview of the Financial System II 2-3 Structure of Financial Markets I Debt Markets • Short-term (maturity < year) – the ... expertise and taking advantage of economies of scale 2- Function of Financial Intermediaries III Risk Sharing • Create and sell assets with low risk characteristics and then use the funds to buy assets...

Ngày tải lên: 05/01/2014, 16:55

... impair the pumping action of the heart, or when there is a threat of other complications The choice of drug is empirical If the desired effect is not achieved, another drug is tried Combinations of ... membranous sacs of the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR); c) Ca2+ bound to the inside of the plasmalemma The plasmalemma of cardiomyocytes extends into the cell interior in the form of tubular invaginations ... tubuli) The trigger signal for relaxation is the return of the membrane potential to its resting level During repolarization, Ca2+ levels fall below the threshold for activation of the myofilaments...

Ngày tải lên: 26/01/2014, 19:20

... the RCL of the serpin inserts into the major A b-sheet causing the protease to be rapidly translocated from the top to the bottom of the inhibitor [6] In the process, the structure of the protease ... polymers of serpins, where the insertion of another molecule’s RCL takes place [8] Both of these result in the irreversible inactivation (generally) of the serpins, and, in the case of the anticoagulant ... ‘crushed’ against the bottom of the inhibitor [7] In particular, this deformation of the protease affects the geometry of the catalytic triad, preventing the completion of catalysis beyond the acyl intermediate...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 02:21

... account both of the probability of derivations yielding a specific relation and of the proportion of such derivations in the forest produced by the parser A weighted set of GRs from the parse forest ... general) level in the hierarchy The micro-averaged precision, recall and F1 score are calculated from the counts for all relations in the hierarchy The macroaveraged scores are the mean of the individual ... to some extent tune the parser to different genres without the need for retraining The current version of the grammar finds at least one parse rooted in S for about 85% of the Susanne corpus (used...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 12:20

... marrow stem cells, are the most potent antigen-presenting cells of the immune system They play a central role in the initiation of primary immune response and in the enhancement of secondary immune ... the RNA content and cDNA synthesis in the different preparations Furthermore, the PCR primers for glyceraldehyde3-phosphate dehydrogenase and FAAH were selected on the basis of the sequence of ... one of the enzymes mostly involved in endocannabinoid inactivation The heterogeneous distribution of CB2 receptors among cells of the immune system suggests that these receptors might exert their...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 07:20