... antibodies against human origin Ig G, Ig M and Ig A antibodies This method is brucella agglutination test that occurs in microwell and performed with Coombs antiserum and determines the three antibodies ... various clinics were included in the studyand kept at -70ºC until performing laboratory study Coombs anti-brucella test (Vircell, S.L., Spain), ELISA Ig G and Ig M (Vircell, S.L., Spain) and ... all three of the antibodies and blocking antibodies that form against brucella, the titers that it has determined were higher in number than STA and Coombs methods has higher sensitivity and specificity...
... on ring constructs made using half pins incomparison to those constructed using transverse wires Use of one ring in transverse wire construct was also compared with a ring constructs using transverse ... rings Divergence Angle Half pins (1 ring) Transverse Wires (2 rings) Transverse Wires (1 ring) Half pins (1 ring) Transverse Wires (2 rings) Transverse Wires (1 ring) 90° 98.04 (±2.03) 102.04 ... more than the transverse wires (with accessory ring) construct Similarly, for 155 mm diameter rings, there was an increase between 9.5% and 24.6% for half pins incomparison to transverse wires...
... arterial nervorums, and arterial nervorums degeneration could result in sciatic nerves injury Introduction The peripheral nerves are supplied by arterial nervorums (ANs) and innervated by neural ... cell were arranged in the surface of the inner cavity of cylindiric Endothelial cells arranged plane originally is a rectangle which forming inner surface of the cylindrical inner cavity of ANs ... hematoxyline and eosin ANs and L3 roots were evaluated The numbers of the normal and degenerated axons were determined, and the ANs were evaluated in all roots Axonal degeneration criteria were defined...
... preparation of this manuscript Furthermore, all authors read and approved the final manuscript NPvdK operated the animals, collected and analyzed the data, and prepared the manuscript JK and AJJCB ... closed and the animals received ml of 5% glucose intraperitoneally and 0.1 mg/kg of buprenorphinhydrochloride (0.3 mg/ml) intramuscularly and were weaned from the ventilator Body temperature was ... septal edema and alveolar hemorrhages, which were most severe on day and after LIRI and resolved thereafter On day brownish macrophages were found after clearance of erythrocytes in the alveolus...
... with -RT/+RT ratio >0.1 for Cαchain or PBGD indicating DNA contamination and/ or RNA degradation were excluded from further analysis The aim of our study was the detection of TCR repertoire restriction ... blood and originating from tissue samples resulted in no significant correlations (Figure and not shown) from cancer patients (48%)) reflecting an non-normalized Vβ repertoire restriction in peripheral ... of a single TCR Vβ-chain was performed as described [27] Shortly, qRT PCRs were performed with a universal reverse primer and TaqMan probe, both annealing at the constant part of the β-chain (Cβ),...
... of the following: walking a quarter mile, climbing stairs, getting inand out of a car, rising from a chair, lifting and carrying groceries, getting out of bed, getting out of the bathtub, or ... types of resistance training and a control on changes in measures of quality of life and selfefficacy in older adults The data indicate that the mode of training resulted in a differential pattern ... were distinct and unique to this type of training Clearly further research is needed to replicate and extend these findings 2.5 2 Effect Size 1.5 Control Strength Training 1,2 0.5 Power Training...
... distress among health personnel are work demands (long hours, workload, and pressure), lack of control over work, and poor support from managers [7] Furthermore, administrative-organizational stressors ... was predicted by neuroticism, frequency of lack of leader support, severity and frequency of time pressure, severity of physical demands and severity of operational demands After adjusting for emotional ... contributes to R2 over and above that which can be accounted for by the other predictors Results Table provides the means and standard deviations (median and range for categorical variables) for...
... for each of the repeated measurements Correlations were then performed to quantify the intra and inter observer errors As shown in table 3, there was a very high intra-observer repeatability and ... was measured by drawing a straight line across the inferior point of each acetabular teardrop Two perpendicular lines are drawn from the most medial part of each lesser trochanter superiorly to ... superior for restoring leg length and reducing femoral offset discrepancies It is likely that hip resurfacing further preserves the anatomy of the hip, affords greater stability due to the largediameter...
... is an important cause of a wide range of diseases in production animals and humans worldwide, including pigs In certain cases, animals are a reservoir of infection for humans, either by direct ... countries, and ceftiofur and apramycin use in Canada, and enrofloxacin use in Vietnam Frequent usage of agents in the past, such as chloramphenicol in Vietnam and nitrofurantoin in Canada also ... ceftiofur and apramycin, whereas no resistance was recorded for enrofloxacin with the Canadian isolates The similarities and differences in antimicrobial resistance between the two countries...
... TMC) will reduce the risk of premature germination and/ or deterioration However, the risk of premature germination can also be reduced if moisture uptake during priming is controlled using an osmoticum, ... to vary with dormancy intensity prior to priming The objective of this study was to determine the effect of GA3 concentration during chilling on dormancy release in FI and TMC seeds of alder and ... concentration, chilling duration, germination temperature and their interactions on percentage germination and MGT using the GLM procedure in SAS [36] Full factorial ANOVAs were carried out separately...
... for biomass were obtained for spruce in the Svealand and Götaland regions In Svealand, the use of BEFs for Norway spruce in young stands resulted in lower, andin mature stands, higher biomass estimates ... Swedish definition for forest land, were used in the calculations of this study [17] The data were divided between four regions: Norra Norrland, Södra Norrland, Svealand and Götaland (Fig 1) ... sampling error of the estimates For this, special weights are used to combine sampling errors of estimates based on mean data from more than one year of inventory and to combine sampling errors from...
... bark for all sites andtreatments are presented in table I The coefficients of variation were higher for micronutrients and Al than for macronutrients More than 50% of Al, B and K were extracted, ... are not hardened, and repeated in November when the trees were hardened Trees were classed as undamaged or having bark lesions Three trees with bark lesions and three undamaged trees were randomly ... nutrients in bark extract (e) and extracted bark tissue (b) The elements are ranked in importance according to the standard partial regression coefficient Values from treated and control plots at...
... DH, Berry JA, Björkman O (1986) Photoinhibition of photosynthesis in intact bean leaves: role of light and temperature, and requirement for chloroplast protein synthesis during recovery Planta ... the reduction in m /F v F resulted from both a decrease in F m andan increase in F (Demmig and Björkman, 1987) This finding clearly distinguishes the reactions observed here from the diurnal and ... (1993) Influences of soil drought and fertilization on gas exchange, growth and survival of three oak species (Quercus petraea Matt Liebl, Q robur L and Q rubra L) grown in buried containers Ann...
... DH, Berry JA, Björkman O (1986) Photoinhibition of photosynthesis in intact bean leaves: role of light and temperature, and re- quirement for chloroplast-protein synthesis during recovery Planta ... JM Gioria for breeding the plants, JM Guehl for advice in preparing the manuscript and two anonymous reviewers for helpful criticism REFERENCES André M (1986) Capacité oxydative et r sistanceà ... Ziegler H, eds) Springer Verlag, Berlin, 263-324 Schwab KB, Schreiber U, Hever U (1989) Response of photosynthesis and respiration of resurrection plants to dessication and rehydration Planta...
... of commercially available antibodies, and differences in scoring criteria with considerable interobserver variability in interpretation of results [23] Our study is trying to answer a simpler ... M, Vandenberghe P, De WC: Real-time reverse transcription-PCR and fluorescence in- situ hybridization are complementary to understand the mechanisms involved in HER-2/neu overexpression in human ... membranous positivity were considered as Her-2 protein over expression, and scoring was performed according to the manufacturer's recommendations by pathologists in a number of different practice...
... in the study showed no signs of atypia and were completely removed under sonographic imaging Therefore open biopsy was not performed after recommendation inan interdisciplinary tumour conference ... procedure 20 ml of Prilocaine 1% with epinephrine 1:200000 was used as local anaesthetic It was applied subcutaneously and not peritumorally in order to not interfere with the imaging Further ... MH and SO designed the current studyand collected the data MH and KF performed all data analyses GH, BK, DW and UK–S edited the manuscript All authors approved the final version of the manuscript...
... perceptions and values Conclusion In this paper, we examine the relationships between health researchers and researcher characteristics and forms of research transfer activities Our findings point to ... importance of translation activities were not statistically and significantly different for researchers when comparing by research domain and faculty Rather, perceptions of the importance of Mode ... researchers and provide exploratory insights into what influences and characterizes researchers who engage in Modes I and II activities If these differences observed in Alberta persist in other...
... inspiratory flow The flow pattern is therefore called decelerating inspiratory flow In VC ventilation, there is a constant inspiratory flow and the resulting intrathoracic pressure is always increasing ... and survival were also recorded Airway pressures were recorded on the display monitor of the ventilator and arterial blood gases were measured using an arterial blood gas analyser (ABL 2; Radiometer, ... 152:1835-1846 Rappaport SH, Shpiner R, Yoshihara G, Wright J, et al: Randomized, prospective trial of pressure-limited versus volume-controlled ventilation in severe respiratory failure Crit Care Med...
... Costs of co-ordinating stroke services Setting up and maintaining a stroke service requires considerable co-ordination efforts between disciplines and facilities involved in organising co-ordinated ... residence/having a partner) and enabling (waiting days and waiting lists) factors The need and predisposing (demand-side) factors may be important building-blocks for DRGs for stroke Having a partner (or ... care facilities and treatment disciplines, dedicated training (neurology and stroke), developing dossiers, producing news letters, organising working conferences etc The range of costs per region...
... improve the performance of raters and to monitor inter-rater reliability Initiation of a study at any site required evidence of inter-rater ESRS reliability and certification of raters Inter-rater ... (upper and lower extremities), and other involuntary movements Each item is rated from (absent) to (severe and constant) Raters were trained on the ESRS using training tapes at a multicenter investigators' ... investigators' meeting held to standardize procedures Investigators and/ or designated raters performed ESRS ratings of video-recorded interviews of patients Videotapes were available at study sites...