... Gender, Women, and the Tobacco Epidemic: Impact ofTobaccoUseonWomen s Health greater among the offspring ofwomen who smoke In addition, it appears that breastfeeding is less common or of shorter ... prevention Journal ofBone and Mineral Research, 1994, 9:1339–1346 154 Kiel DP et al The effect of smoking at different life stages onbonemineraldensityin elderly men and women Osteoporosis International, ... epidemic among womenin the industrialized world, following women s adoption of cigarette smoking earlier in the century Tobacco- caused diseases will threaten womenin developing countries in the...
... Period (Month) Monthly Average Concentration (µg/mc) Linear (Monthly Average Concentration (µg/mc)) Figure Monthly evolutions of mean concentrations of NO2 in 2009 Monthly Evolution of Mean Concentration ... hormones and bone matrix proteins are likely to also play a role Most family and association studies to date have focused on the genetic contributions to bone density, a major determinant ofbone ... StudiedPeriod (Month) Monthly Mean Concentration (µg/mc) Linear (Monthly Mean Concentration (µg/mc)) Figure Monthly evolutions of mean concentrations of PM10 in 2009 86 Analele Universităţii din Oradea...
... 10 Increasing Housing and Population Density by Likelihood of Consumers Being Unable to Reach Destinations in Previous Month Because of Transportation Problems……………………………………………………… 84 11 Zone ... Traveling to Consumers’ Homes by Car Ownership (Percentages)……………76 Decreasing Density/ Accessibility by Zone by Consumer Inability to Reach Destinations in Previous Month Because of Transportation ... in Likelihood of Provider Accompanying Consumer to Locations and Saying Consumer Needs Help Getting to Locations by Each Additional Hour of Provider’s Daily Time in Travel of Specific Locations………………………………………………………………………...
... Burrin JM, Noonan K, James I, Wood DF, Price CP, Monson JP: A longitudinal study of markers ofbone turnover in graves ' disease and their value in predicting bonemineraldensity J Clin Endocrinol ... Effect of replacement doses of thyroxine onbonemineraldensity Clin Endocrinol 1998, 48(2):229-234 Florkowski CM, Brownlie BE, Elliot JR, Ayling EM, Turner JG: Bonemineraldensityin patients ... markers during the first year of treatment can predict the degree of reduction ofBMD Our models' predictions of the time of maximum rate of change inbone mass density correspond reasonably well...
... were maintained in 300 ml conical flasks for weeks Concentration of macro element NH4NO3 KNO3 Determination and analyses Extraction and determination of ginsenoside production were determined as ... growth and a concomitant increase in the level of secondary metabolism [10,11] demonstrated the effect of phosphate limitations on the accumulation of cinnamoyl putrescines intobacco cultures, ... [12] concluded that the lack of phosphate stimulated secondary metabolite biosynthesis In cell suspension cultures of P ginseng and P notoginseng, a low initial concentration of phosphate in the...
... microsections were rinsed in water, stained with an aqueous 1% solution of safranin for one minute, and rinsed in 96% alcohol The microsections were then placed on slides and mounted in Canada ... 60% of stones, on a fragmented C horizon The calcisol type consists of a dark-brown carbonate-free A horizon (15 to 20 cm thick) with 30 to 50% of stones, on a reddish carbonate-free S horizon ... study the response of seedlings to both types of variation The effectsof the degree of canopy closure on beech seedlings have been studied under natural and controlled conditions Early studies...
... Gursky Y, Minashkin M, Shevelev A, Tkachuk V: The chemotactic action of urokinase on smooth muscle cells is dependent on its kringle domain Characterization of interactions and contribution to chemotaxis ... on the contraction of ASM from CFaffected subjects and compared our findings to those of cells from CF non-affected subjects We also examined the expression of CXCRs and the effectsof IL-8 on ... was used to study the effectsof IL-8 on the phosphorylation of MLC20 in CF and control cells Figure shows the extent of MLC20 phosphorylation in CF and control cells (panel A) under control conditions...
... patients no protection against MCh-induced bronchoconstriction [5,6] Most investigations of murine models of airway inflammation have focused on bronchial responsiveness and Page 10 of 12 (page number ... mice and in acute airway inflammation, but not in mice with chronic inflammation The lack of protective effect against increased lung resistance in chronically inflamed mice is in line with human ... inspiration is related to the number of DI before administration of a bronchoconstricting stimulus [4] There is convincing evidence that both bronchodilatory and bronchoprotective actions of DI...
... interpretation of the data and the drafting and revision of the manuscript PM was involved in the conception and design of the study, analysis and interpretation of the data and in the revision of the ... dysfunction may be different in different populations Obtaining a better understanding of its underlying causes could have important implications in the rehabilitation of these patients In the ... facilitation and the all-or-nothing nature of α-motoneuron depolarisation While firing of a discrete number of α-motoneurons may be completely prevented by a given inhibitory input, others will only...
... the positive effectsof extrinsic motivation on intrinsic motivation Particularly, Kruglanski et al (1975) investigated the interaction between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation on forty-eight ... correlation between extrinsic motivation and speaking ability The correlation between intrinsic motivation and speaking ability In 1982, England examined the role of intrinsic motivation in adults’ ... motivation according to different perspectives of psycholinguists In the present research, motivation is classified into two types: intrinsic motivation and extrinsic motivation Intrinsic motivation...
... to conservation in the country’s context 1.3 Emergence of conservation awareness The rise of conservation and environmental activism came at a time of social upheaval in the Philippines During ... threatened from continuing habitat loss and poaching (Bueser et al 2003) Continued fieldwork and in situ conservation efforts involve an alliance of major local and international conservation groups ... protecting and maintaining biological diversity are vital to conservation, particularly where pristine habitat is becoming increasingly scarce The growing awareness of the need to conserve Philippine...
... duplicates one area of dengue infection but not the entire disease spectrum The C57Bl mouse is used to study T cell activation during virus infection, SCID is useful for CNS infection studies, ICR mouse ... monolayers were confluent in 24 hours and ready for use 2.2 INFECTION OF CELLS 2.2.1 Viruses The viruses used in this study are given in Table The stock viruses previously grown on a Vero cell monolayer ... A granular labelling of DV antigens in infiltrating cells in the spleen of AG129 mice inoculated with DV2 61 Figure 11 Nonspecific labelling on blood vessels and meninges in AG129 mice ...
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... between effectsof mycorrhizae on stem elongation on the one hand and on diameter and weight growth on the other Tyminska et al (1986) observed higher biomass growth in Pinus silvestris seedlings infected ... higher in LI than in Tt In February, transplanting significantly reduced the needle P content in TtP, while this concentration remained unchanged in the other treatments Needle N concentration in ... transpiration flow, Dietz and Foyer (1986) observed a short-term (5 min) increase in CO as2 similation and a concurrent decrease in transpiration, resulting in a marked increase of WUE Transplanting...
... observed only inbone resorption markers (urinary excretion of N-telopeptide of type I collagen and deoxypyridinoline) [18] No effect on serum bone alkaline phosphatase, a marker ofbone formation, ... defect inbone formation that may be explained, in part, by systemic inflammation Indeed, in one of our previous studies [16], uncoupling between bone destruction and formation was observed in destructive ... observed in clinical nonresponders to infliximab is in accordance with the findings of a recent study [8] that demonstrated protective effectson joint destruction in the absence of clinical response...
... http://arthritis-research.com/content/12/3/R119 to two-dimensional methods like DXA and DXR, pQCT allows the determination ofbone geometry ofbone cross-section independent ofbone size To date, no study has examined vBMD ... counterbalance inflammation to induced cortical thinning [14] Second, periosteal bone formation is seen as a repair process in inflammation-induced increased bone turnover [27,28] Irrespective of the ... tibia, contour mode and peel mode of the software) Bonemineral content (BMC) per cm slice thickness, total cross-sectional area (CSA) and total volumetric bonemineraldensity (BMD) were de-termined...
... group comparisons examined for each of the GEO datasets Condition Condition No of samples in condition GSE3320 Non smokers GSE2302 Control GSE2302 GSE2302 GSE1276 Smokers * Smoke 15 min, 24 hr recovery ... genes in bronchial epithelial cell datasets information Genome Biology 2007, 8:R201 interactions In order to confirm the impact of smoking on airway epithelial cell gene expression and examine ... 8:R201 found to be induced by smoking and rapidly reversible upon smoking cessation) are enriched among genes down-regulated during differentiation (GSE5264) or in response to interferon gamma treatment...
... mixed even in the same country setting, 35,38 with effects ranging from relapse to non-condom use to an increase in condom use Among those successful interventions, the increase in condom use also ... succeeded in increasing condom use for vaginal sex lead to a similar concurrent increase in condom use for oral sex or did they cause unintended effects such as an increase in unprotected oral sex? None ... Five-month effectson condom use and cervical gonorrhea incidence (1994) Unintended effectson oral sex and pharyngeal gonorrhea incidence 104 Process evaluation 106 Effectsof condom promotion...
... been introduced to differentiate the mixed-population biofilm into functions of ammonium oxidizing and COD oxidizing fractions Convergence tolerance was set to 0.0005 and the secant minimization ... collection interval MLSS concentration, particle size and biofilm density were determined at the end of each experiment The biofilm particle size was determined using an Image Analyzing System ... that sloughing of outer biofilm layers - 95 - may have taken place after de-coupling This could have resulted in nitrifying bacteria in inner layers being sheared off during the sloughing process...
... application of bentonite in the disposal of heavy metal waste water, Mining Engineering, 3(3), 52-54 Lan J and Wang Y (2002) Advances in technology of applying iron filings corrosive-cell to the in- situ ... Changes in the concentration of total phosphorous in the effluent of different reactors CONCLUSIONS This study indicates that when the reaction medium ratio of zero valent iron to modified bentonite ... 51.75% The principles of removal involved in the experiment are ion exchange and adsorption There are certain adsorption for ammonium in zero valent iron, activated carbon and modified bentonite The...