developmental neuropsychological and neurological consequences of brain tumors in child

... basal and 24 hours neuroserpin levels was defined as neuroserpin decrease All determinations were carried out in a laboratory blind to the clinical outcome and neuroimaging findings Endpoints ... Neuroserpin was used as a continuous variable since there was a linearity of the odds ratios for outcome The influence of neuroserpin decrease at 24 h on serum levels of molecular markers of brain injury ... associated with a decrease in neuroserpin levels

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... basal and 24 hours neuroserpin levels was defined as neuroserpin decrease All determinations were carried out in a laboratory blind to the clinical outcome and neuroimaging findings Endpoints ... Neuroserpin was used as a continuous variable since there was a linearity of the odds ratios for outcome The influence of neuroserpin decrease at 24 h on serum levels of molecular markers of brain injury ... associated with a decrease in neuroserpin levels

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 03:20

... reported an incidence of 26.3% and 42%, and Derchain et al [32] of 34% and 51%, of EOC staged I and III, respectively Interestingly, our data have shown a slightly higher predominance of poor prognosis ... pointed to ovarian endometrioid adenocarcinoma occupying the second position in EOC incidence rank [24,25] In contrast, our analysis has indicated equal proportions of both ovarian mucinous and ... respectively), in agreement with data published by Kim et al [30], who have reported an incidence of 39% of EOC detected in stage I, and 42.7% of EOC diagnosed in stage III in a study performed in Chicago,...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... efficiency of State management in terms of increasing the effectiveness of shielding resources, contributing to better production and to the protection of public health and environment In terms of plant ... adapted and evaluated More than 1,350 IPM trainers had undergone Training of Trainers After this training, this group of IPM trainers conducted Farmers' Field Schools (FFS) in all 53 provinces of ... total area of 3.9 million (General Statistical Office, 1995) Single and double rice croppings are dominant cropping systems in the Mekong Delta, taking up 70 percent of the agricultural land Some...

Ngày tải lên: 03/02/2015, 15:33

... result in good classification using a small training set, and the result depends on the training set To address this problem, the SVM training is iteratively refined as the level set grows • Defining ... consists of all training points), sensitivity to noise in the training data, and the undesirable behavior that occurs when a class is under-represented in the training data [8] One of the recent ... Tumor, Edema, and 3D view [30] a registered brain atlas as a model for healthy brains Then, they make use of the robust estimates of the location and dispersion of the normal brain tissue intensity...

Ngày tải lên: 08/11/2015, 17:33

... upregulation in gliomas and it is also in duced during periods of increased glial cell motility in development and following brain injury Gliomas express unique brevican isoforms and the processing of ... transmembrane glycoproteins consisting of non-cova‐ lently linked α and β chains, which both determine ligand binding strength and specificity Eight distinct α and 18 β chains combine to form about ... comprising also tenascin C, X, and W, is a homotrimer with both lectican and integrin binding sites forming an adhesion link between the ECM and cells The developed brain does not contains tenascin,...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 10:20

... the brain (A) Brain levels of the pro-inflammatory prostaglandin PGE2 (B), the anti-inflammatory one 15d-PGJ2 (C), and interleukin-1b (IL-1b) mRNA levels in control and after CMS in the brain ... of LPS and can activate brain TLR-4 inducing a neuroinflammatory response In order to clarify the origin of stress-induced activation of the TLR-4 pathway in CMS, we studied LPS and its binding ... after stress exposure in rats mRNA expression levels for TLR-4 (A) and MD-2 (C) in brain in control and after CMS Protein expression of TLR-4 (B) and MD-2 (D) in brain in control and after CMS Data...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 22:20

... a key role in the difficulties of managing hepatitis B infection Hence, further research and understanding in this sector may bring exciting new information and better understanding of the natural ... seroreversion Clinical Spectrum of HBV Infection Primary Infection –Subclinical Infection and Acute hepatitis B Majority of HBV infection in children are subclinical versus those in adults, about 30% to ... typical of infection in children and young adults It usually lasts for 2-4 weeks, but can last for years in those who acquired the infection during the perinatal period [11] Individuals in this...

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2012, 11:17

... specific dates and magnitudes), cases of SARM increased by a factor of in Germany and Spain, and a factor of approximately in Austria, Belgium, Italy and Switzerland In France and the United Kingdom, ... remains in the consumer countries, i.e most profits are made, and re-invested, in the industrialized countries More than 90 per cent of the value added (gross profit) of cocaine and heroin is ... the case in Myanmar In Colombia, the massive wealth of the Medellín group was also invested mainly in land, thereby driving up the price of land.85 Income distribution The question of income correlates...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 06:20

... material contained herein Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com) Dedicated to my parents, Zina Steinberg and David Rudenstine, and brother, ... watched agonizing images of residents of New Orleans being stranded on their roofs, of creaking and overburdened shelters themselves threatened by the storm, and of national leaders floundering on the ... maintaining and furthering the conversation on disasters between events that capture the public’s attention In so doing, this inquiry has developed our understanding of the causes and consequences of...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 21:20

... structures of CMP and UMP, and interactions between the cytosine moiety of nucleotide and various side chains of wild-type CMP kinase (Upper) Chemical differences between CMP and UMP are indicated in ... Calculating proton uptake release and binding free energy taking into account ionization and conformation changes induced by proteininhibitor association: application to plasmepsin, cathepsin D and ... with enzyme binding and substrate catalysis Kinetic and nucleotide-binding properties of E coli CMP kinase variants with ATP as variable substrate Determination of the reaction rates of different...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 10:20

... operation and management of industrial cooling water systems 2 Biofouling in Cooling Water Intake Systems: Ecological Aspects 15 Biofouling in Industrial Cooling Water Systems Macrofoulants in industrial ... of biofouling In: Flemming HC, Murthy PS, Venkatesan R, Cooksey K (eds) Marine and industrial biofouling Springer, Berlin Flemming HC, Murthy PS, Venkatesan R, Cooksey K (eds) (2009) Marine and ... aspects of the problem of antifouling In: Proceedings of IIIrd International Congress on Marine Corrosion and Fouling, pp 648–652 Board PA, Holmes NJ (1972) Marine fouling in power station cooling...

Ngày tải lên: 29/05/2014, 23:46

... contribute to the loss of BBB integrity [2] One important common determinant of increased paracellular permeability is brain inflammation Because brain inflammation occurs in a phasic manner, water ... with interleukin-1b (IL1b) as a marker of active inflammation and GFAP (astrocytes) as a marker of glial scarring following the MIQE guidelines [14] Brains were freshly extracted following transcardiac ... review of progress in understanding the pathophysiology and treatment of brain edema Neurosurg Focus 2007, 22:E1 Sandoval KE, Witt KA: Blood -brain barrier tight junction permeability and ischemic...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 22:20

... processing Figure Radial evolution of the relative intra-ring proportion (in %) of (nearly) light-saturated pixels in the outer 60 rings of tree I – values estimated using two matching strips of ... image analysis of the strips of trees I and II demonstrated that the mineral inclusions reached peak concentrations at the beginning of the latewood (Figs 1, and 4) and mainly in multiseriate ... subsequent rings in tree I and between sapwood and heartwood rings (Fig 3) might be due to differences in the relative intraring concentrations of both minerals, as a result of differences in specific...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 16:20

... breathe and died within 24 hours of birth Histological examination of the lung revealed a severe reduction in the number of airspaces formed and accumulation of noningested dying cells, suggesting ... examination of other organs, apart from the malformations observed in the brain Hence, the potential role of PSR in embryogenesis of other organs remains undefined In this context it is of note ... pathways that are implicated in the resolution of inflammation and in the efficient disposal of ‘apoptotic waste’, preventing it from inducing an immune response Competing interests None declared...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:23

... against brain tumors, is used mostly for re-irradiation of recurrent brain tumors [6-9] Although radiotherapy has been proven to be effective in prolonging survival and improving the quality -of- life ... or a sham seed (uninterrupted line) Figure HE-stained sections HE-stained sections Hematoxylin-eosin stained sections of mouse brain (a) Section of an non-irradiated mouse brain with a large vital ... xenotransplantation of tumors in the hind leg of immunocompromised mice (heterotopic implantation) instead of implantation in the brain (orthotopic implantation) because high-dose external beam radiotherapy in...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:21

... major protein component of plant cell walls [8] They are rich in hydroxyproline but also in serine, lysine, tyrosine, and valine residues, and they contain arabinose and galactose in the attached ... proline-rich proteins (PRPs) and glycine-rich proteins Extensins represent a well studied sub-family of HRGPs [8] They have been implicated in nearly all aspects of plant growth and development including ... rich in threonine or histidine rather than serine, and hence they are called threonineor histidine-hydroxyproline-rich glycoproteins (THRGPs or HHRGPs) [32] Moreover, extensins of dicots are...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 11:21

... CPP and PtiO2, with a peak of PtiO2 at a CPP value around 78 mmHg [15] The importance of CPP for maintaining an adequate level of tissue oxygenation is a point of clinical relevance Taking into ... values of insufficient (< 60 mmHg), advised (60 to 70 mmHg) and excessive (> 70 mm Hg) CPP in the absence of brain ischemia, following updated guidelines for CPP management of severe traumatic brain ... aggressively maintaining CPP above 60 mmHg in the absence of cerebral ischemia due to the risk of ARDS, maintaining CPP above 60 and 70 mmHg may be of practical relevance as a strategy for improving cerebral...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:20

... in standing conditions and assuming AS occurrence is not dependent on infectious exposure, increasing frequency of the ALRR allele in the general population should not result in an increase of ... took into account that difference of accuracy and the resulting uncertainty by bootstrapping the control dataset, which eventually increased the robustness of our results The maintenance of the ... 248 AS and 245 CS cases Genotyping of CS and AS cases During that period, the PrP genotype of all cases was routinely determined, when suitable samples were available, at codons 136, 154 and 171...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 13:21

... meningeal layer of the dura and drain into the cranial venous sinuses Blood from both brain is drained by cerebral veins into dural sinuses and then into the jugular Cerebral veins is divided into important ... images of CVT by using routine magnetic resonance imaging in combination with magnetic resonance imaging of vein and/ or routine magnetic imaging in combination with computerized tomography of cerebral ... sinous thrombosis and brain parenchymal injuries 1.3.4 D-dimer in diagnosis of cerebral venous thrombosis 1.3.4.1 Biochemical characteristics of D-dimer D-dimer, the final product of plasma in- mediated...

Ngày tải lên: 21/10/2014, 21:52