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... Asian individual could benchmark against Finally, we correlated measures of cognitive performance and brain structure In view of the increasing automation in brain structure measurement, we made head-to-head ... values in this healthy cohort Total cerebral measures may suffice in assessing cognition brain structure relationships in healthy subjects We found that adjusted total cerebral volume was the brain ... Longitudinal magnetic resonance imaging studies of older adults: a shrinking brain J Neurosci 23, 3295–3301 Reuter-Lorenz, P.A., Lustig, C., 2005 Brain aging: reorganizing discoveries about the aging...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 06:20

... purified heart and brain complexes is shown in Fig 1A,B Varying the concentration of the separating gel (10% in Fig 1A and 7% in Fig 1B) allowed for a better resolution of some proteins, in particular, ... synaptosome-derived microsomes in the membraneous fraction accompanying brain OGDHC Structural differences between OGDHC from brain and heart An essential difference between brain and heart OGDHC was revealed ... dehydrogenase complexes is lower in brain than in heart Even if the MS-based abundance of brain OGDHC components (Table 4) is distorted by a loss of brain E3 and E2o during electrophoresis and ⁄ or...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 06:20

... Comparative protein structure modeling using Modeller Curr Protoc Bioinformatics Chapter 5, Unit 34 Fiser A, Do RK & Sali A (2000) Modeling of loops in protein structures Protein Sci 9, 1753–1773 ... Crescenzi O, Tancredi T & Picone D (2003) Role of the hinge peptide and the intersubunit interface in the swapping of N-termini in dimeric bovine seminal RNase Eur J Biochem 270, 4729–4735 Leich F, ... form in which the chains swap their N-termini (MxM) This phenomenon was later found in many proteins, and is now well known under the name of ‘3D domain swapping’ In most cases, the swapping is...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 17:20

... and mRNA binding to cytosolic and polysome proteins in brain and peripheral tissues Brain Res Mol Brain Res 58, 170–177 39 Lauger, P (1991) Na,K-ATPase, in Electrogenic Ion Pumps, Sinauer, Portland, ... can be detected in the venous blood exiting the brain during activation (see also Subheading 3.), one must assume that all the lactate produced in the brain is consumed by the brain Hence, if not ... brain would explain the higher concentration of lactate in CSF than in plasma (20) Hence, the normal brain continuously produces large amounts of lactate If lactate is being produced in the brain...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 19:20

... Baseline CHI WT CHI TNF/LT- -/- vehicle injection TNF injection Intracerebral IL-18 concentrations in mice, as determined by ELISA in murine brain homogenates (n = 10 animals per group) Figure Intracerebral ... alpha in brain injury Cytokine Growth Factor Rev 1999, 10:119-130 Lenzlinger PM, Morganti-Kossmann MC, Laurer HL, McIntosh TK: The duality of the inflammatory response to traumatic brain injury ... pro-inflammatory mediators, depending on the kinetic of their expression and posttraumatic regulation in the injured brain [3,12,13] However, the TNF-dependent regulation of IL18 in the injured brain...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 22:20

... During scanning, the subject’s head was rested in a foam-cushioned headrest, and a head strap was used to minimize head movement Initially, a 6-min transmission scan with a rotating 137 Cs single-photon ... Functional brain imaging with SPECT in normal aging and dementia Methodological, pathophysiological, and diagnostic aspects Cerebrovasc Brain Metab Rev 1995, 7:89-130 Cha S: Update on brain tumor imaging: ... range Our findings correspond to the values previously reported in the literature using this technique [7,8,13,28,29] In a larger Japanese study encompassing 70 healthy subjects spanning 11 institutions,...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 23:20

... EMG activity during walking in health and disease Tibialis Tibialis posterior EMG activity during walking in health and disease Tibialis posterior EMG activity during walking in health and disease ... Assessing the function of the TP muscle and tendon can be determined through careful clinical examination including techniques such as manual muscle testing and the single heel rise test [7,8] Clinical ... joint complex in rheumatoid arthritis patients with painful valgus deformity of the rearfoot Rheumatology 2002, 41:1406-12 Barto PS, Supinski RS, Skinner SR: Dynamic EMG findings in varus hindfoot...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 21:23

... Public Health, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China 2Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China 3Department of Preventive Medicine, ... 3Department of Preventive Medicine, Jiaxing University School of Medicine, Jiaxing, China Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology of Chinese Ministry of Health, Hangzhou, China Authors’ contributions FW, ... were in one direction only, and these correlations in both our groups were low Nevertheless, our findings could help to explain the psychotic features in personality disorders such as hallucination...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 15:22

... Impact 1 Social relations Smiling 1 esr Painful aching esm Uncomfortable eating PainDiscomfort Unsatisfactory diet Interrupt meals PainDiscomfort Eating Sleeping-relaxing 1 eea esl 1 Emotional state ... adequacy of model fitting to the data However, some shortcomings should be taken into account when interpreting the findings, because although this method identified the structure that best fitted ... participants in a waiting room, whereas the OIDP was completed in face-to-face interviews in a quiet private room by a trained and calibrated examiner (MJ) to overcome the Montero et al Health and...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 01:21

... natriuretic peptide (BNP) and N-terminal pro -brain natriuretic peptide (NTproBNP), help in determining the cause of acute dyspnea in the prehospital setting [2,7] Point-of-care bedside lung ultrasound ... capnometry, N-terminal pro -brain natriuretic peptide, and clinical assessment in differentiating acute heart filure from pulmonary disease as cause of acute dyspnea in prehospital emergency setting: study ... NTproBNP, amino terminal pro -brain natriuretic peptide; HF, heart failure; COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; CI, confidence interval bUnivariable screening was performed on clinical, historical...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 08:21

... lack of increase in LV dyssynchrony during dobutamine stress in patients with wide QRS duration (20) In contrast, Kurita et al reported on an increased mechanical dyssynchrony during pacing–induced ... time and heart rate and expressed in seconds per minute Diastolic time was calculated as the cardiac length (RR interval) minus the duration of systole To define diastolic duration during exercise ... rest or during exercise or the exercise-related increase in EDVI and the corresponding LDT values were found in both IDCM subgroups Results Systolic and diastolic time intervals The clinical characteristics...

Ngày tải lên: 05/11/2012, 11:32

... Therefore, we investigated successional development of nitrifying bacterial community structure and in situ nitrifying activities in biofilms when the biofilms were grown on rotating disk reactors ... analyzed by comparing with existing 16S rRNA gene database and used for probe and primer designing The fingerprinting techniques can be used to monitor microbial community changes in natural environments ... Nitrifying Bacteria Although the biofilm was cultured in the synthetic medium containing no organic carbon, the NH4+-oxidizing bacteria clusters were surrounded by a number of heterotrophs including...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 08:40

... It is fabricated by mixing titanium oxides and potassium oxides in a certain ratio, with a suitable calcination flux, and calcining at 900 – 1100°C The reaction during calcination is: 4TiO2 + K2O→ ... metallic ions in water, as the quantity of absorbent (PTW) increases, the active sites of the absorbent increases, which results in more metallic ions absorbed and less ions remain in water in equilibrium, ... granules, such as spherule or honeycomb, of PTW by mixing and calcining with a suitable binder material Research in this area is being done in Shandong University ACKNOWLEDGMENT This research was...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 09:38

... flux non-competitively by binding to a binding site other than BL In addition, changes in the conformation of BL caused by this binding of proton result in decreases in the number of BL The conformation ... (2007) investigated the effects of pH on short-term uptake of manganese and cadmium into Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, and they concluded that the increase in proton concentration inhibits the metal internalization ... for the toxicity model, indicating that increases in proton concentration cause decreases in copper toxicity though proton is not a competitive cation with copper binding onto BL Heijerick et...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 10:15

... negotiation online • Negotiators who are representing other’s interests, rather than their own interests, tend to behave in a less trusting way 10-23 Key Elements in Managing Negotiations within Relationships ... in Managing Negotiations within Relationships • Reputation • Trust • Justice 10-14 Key Elements in Managing Negotiations within Relationships • Reputation – Perceptual and highly subjective in ... Key Elements in Managing Negotiations within Relationships • Trust – – “An individual’s belief in and willingness to act on the words, actions and decisions of another” Three things that contribute...

Ngày tải lên: 20/09/2013, 00:28

... individuals whose main function in the health care setting is something other than interpreting These individuals may work within health care or outside it They provide interpreting services as a ... dedicated interpreter models, there is an expense involved in recruiting and maintaining staff In addition, since it is rarely cost effective to employ interpreters in all language combinations, ... functioning of the institution Like bilingual clinical staff, non-clinical staff members usually have no training as interpreters And unlike clinical staff, these individuals rarely have a working...

Ngày tải lên: 22/10/2013, 12:15

... against infection and invading connective tissue There are still very few studies applying the methods of tissue engineering to produce tracheal replacements and to examine these in vitro and in ... intubation over several days as an intratracheal splinting An external splinting by metallic microplates in the surgical tracheal reconstruction was described first time by Zalzal and Deutch in ... implanted skin substrates after cell seeding with oral keratinocytes in vitro into palatinal wounds in dogs as a model for closure of cleft palate by tissue-engineered constructs In all six animals,...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2013, 08:20

... 2009:116 Layout and printed in Malmö, Sweden by Medicinsk Informationsteknik, 2009 “The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them” ... understanding of this preclinical stage in AD development RESEARCH APPROACH 1|2 PRE-EXISTING UNDERSTANDING 1|2|1 A central point of departure has been the opinion that the symptomatic, clinical definition ... for detecting incipient AD One of the reasons behind the limited sample size, leading to absence in power, has been that invasive investigations have been performed without clinical indication...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 18:20

... or drink alcoholic beverages 24 h before the laboratory test The study subjects were also instructed to avoid eating or drinking anything except water during the testing period Written, informed ... an increase in the inflammatory cascade [17,19] Increased secretion of sCD40L may be one explanation for the increased inflammation associated with aging, and may be a pathway that links aging ... recombinant cytokines was used to establish standard curves and to maximize the sensitivity and dynamic range of the assay Cytokine levels were determined using a Luminex IS 100 (Luminex, Austin,...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 06:20

... norepinephrine appearance rates in older individuals Am J Physiol261:E233-E239, 1991 29 Poehlman ET, Gardner AW, Goran MI: Influence of endurance training on energy intake, norepinephrine kinetics ... differences in FFM (Fig 3) In fact, Vo;?max alone accounted for 79% of the variation in TEE in this group of healthy elderly subjects, This tinding can be interpreted in two ways: (1) the increased ... Carpenter, and the nursing staff of the Clinical Research Center for their roles in coordinating and performing this study, and to the volunteers participating in this research project Finally, appreciation...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 07:20