... advantages of the method include a precise anatomical fit, and no risk of disease transmission or immunological reaction [4-10] Regardless of such advantages, clinical problems, such as over-absorption ... result was classified as mild absorption, but when the cortex disappeared because of the absorption, the result was classified as severe absorption In accordance with a previous study, we also ... (-1), no change (0), single nodules of bone formation (1) and bridging or lamellar bone formation (2) An assessment of these results was made and agreed upon by AS, TY and NT Tartrate-resistant acid...
... comparisons Comparisons of nonparametric data from the modified Mankin histological scoring of the stained tissue sections were assessed using the Mann–Whitney U-test Results Histology Lateral meniscectomy ... synthesis of collagens types I and III and a change in the relative levels of the fibrilassociated SLRPs In particular there is decrease in synthesis of decorin and an increase in biglycan and lumican, ... investigation of the specific relationships between growth factors, collagens and the SLRPs in normal and diseased cartilage is warranted R859 Significant proteolysis of the SLRPs was evident in the present...
... represent means ± SEM from n separate experiments Statistical significance of differences was evaluated using one-way ANOVA, followed by a Newman-Keuls multiple comparisons test Differences were ... increase in ASM mass (by 96 ± 3%, P < 0.001) No significant effect of YIGSR treatment was observed in saline-challenged animals To determine whether the changes in ASM content were associatedwith ... ovalbumin-challenged animals (n = 7) and YIGSR-treated, ovalbumin-challenged animals (n = 7) Data for the saline-treated animals (controls) have been published previously as part of a simultaneous parallel study...
... fibrosis was semi-quantitatively assessed according to Ashcroft and co-workers[17] Briefly, the grade of lung fibrosis was scored on a scale from to by examining randomly chosen fields of the ... days The results were analyzed by one-way ANOVA followed by a Bonferroni post-hoc test for multiple comparisons A P-value of less than 0.05 was considered significant Statistical analysis for survival ... data was calculated by Fisher 's exact probability test For such analyses, p < 0.05 was considered significant Results Histological examination of lung sections revealed significant tissue damage...
... saline and each of the HA preparations The areas used for analyses were the integrals over the time points assessed These were calculated using the mean of respective differences from the baseline ... comparisons For protocols and 3, the measures obtained from different time points were compared between groups using repeated measures analysis of variances (ANOVAs) with the between-subjects factor ... longer-lasting effect of the latter Limitations and advantages The comparison between substances was performed byestablishing a dose-response relation for NASHA, and calculating the injection volumes...
... serum specimens were transferred to individual glass tubes, sealed with parafilm and stored at –70°C until radioimmunoassay Male Golden-Syrian hamsters weighing 80–140 g (Harlan Animals, Indianapolis, ... process [30,31] It is also possible that ProCT and its component peptides are released by non-NE cells, which normally possess regulatory mechanisms limiting the expression of ProCT mRNA; these ... promising serum markers for the sepsis syndrome These peptides are released into the central circulation and may act systemically, as opposed to many of the known mediators of sepsis, which are released...
... factors [43,44] Oxidative stress plays an important role in various diseases as well as in OSA, which causes an effect similar to ischemia-reperfusion [18] in which there is activation of xanthine ... was observed only in the tissue most susceptible to lesions produced by IH In the alkaline version used, the comet assay detects a broad spectrum of DNA lesions, including single strand breaks ... animals for histological analysis; the rest were frozen -80°C for later biochemical analysis The animals were euthanized by exsanguination under deep anaesthesia [27,28] Nine millilitres of phosphate...
... estimating equations, taking repeated measures in the same animals into account A P value less than 0.05 was considered significant Results Lung injury by LPS and MV The experimental setup is ... Dos Santos CC, Slutsky AS: Invited review: mechanisms of ventilatorinduced lung injury: a perspective J Appl Physiol 2000, 89:1645-1655 Dos Santos CC, Slutsky AS: The contribution of biophysical ... CA, USA) Comparison among groups was performed using Kruskal-Wallis test When an overall P < 0.05, a Dunn 's multiple-comparison post hoc analysis was conducted A P value less than 0.05 was considered...
... amphibians, the human intermediate lobe appears to be less important as it is sometimes absent in adults, and when present, consists only of a thin layer of cells between the posterior and anterior ... facility, and the sequence analyses and assembly were performed using the DNASIS (Hitachi Software Engineering, San Francisco, CA) software 2.2 Identification of Homologous Recombinants PCR Genomic ... 1.5 Diseases AssociatedWith Mutations Within the LHX3 Gene The human LHX3 gene contains seven coding exons with six introns, and maps to chromosome at 9q34.3 (Sloop, Showalter et al 2000; Sloop,...
... deviation Statistical significance was determined by Student s t-test using the SPSS program (version 10.0; SPSS Inc, Chicago, IL, USA) P < 0.05 was considered statistically significant Results Inhibition ... Finally, cells were washed with PBS and analyzed on a FACScalibur flow cytometer (Becton Dickinson, San Jose, CA, USA) Statistical analysis Experimental findings are presented as mean ± standard deviation ... production of IL-10 and TGF-β was assessed by sandwich ELISA analyses of culture supernatants The data represent average values from three independent measurements R217 Arthritis Research & Therapy...
... experiments demonstrated that uPAR expression is associatedwithan active ERK and the bikunin expression is necessary for inhibition of uPAR expression possibly through suppression of ERK phosphorylation; ... filter using chemoinvasion chambers Statistical analysis Data are presented as mean ± SD All statistical analysis was performed using STATVIEW for Macintosh The Mann– Whitney U-test was used for ... clones Molecular mass standards are indicated at the left Results are representative of two separate experiments Expression of uPAR in HRA cells is associatedwithan active ERK1/2 AS we showed...
... (mycobacterium-induced systemic lupus erythematosus 1) This might suggest shared disease pathways in different models for autoimmune diseases controlled by the same genes within this interval On the basis of potential ... candidate genes from susceptible and resistant mouse strains, speculations on disease mechanisms has to be considered preliminary The re-defined Aec2 locus could most likely be further reduced by a ... locus, important in the homeostasis of lipids, lipoproteins, cholesterols, and fatty acids Secondary effects of impaired lipid homeostasis could result in inflammation and cell death Results from...
... (mycobacterium-induced systemic lupus erythematosus 1) This might suggest shared disease pathways in different models for autoimmune diseases controlled by the same genes within this interval On the basis of potential ... candidate genes from susceptible and resistant mouse strains, speculations on disease mechanisms has to be considered preliminary The re-defined Aec2 locus could most likely be further reduced by a ... locus, important in the homeostasis of lipids, lipoproteins, cholesterols, and fatty acids Secondary effects of impaired lipid homeostasis could result in inflammation and cell death Results from...
... necessary variances and covariances for recursive prediction II The animalmodel The animalmodel is demonstrated here for - each animal has - each animalwith a a single record on one a simple situation ... vector of additive genetic effects (breeding values) of animals with records in y,, random with mean zero and variance A and a;, l i e is the vector of residuals, random with mean zero and variance ... and scaling of variables can lessen problems due to loss of accuracy If X is an incidence matrix with no regressors each method produce solutions of equal accuracy Ranking animals for the purpose...
... those of previous susceptibility studies using wild-type HIV-1 and HIV-2 [25,30] and is supported by similar assays conducted in the present study using HIV-1 and HIV-2 as positive controls for ... infection was assessed as previously described [57] Briefly, clusters were disrupted by pipetting; and, after h of incubation at 37°C, the formation of new clusters was assessed by light microscopy ... primate studies Animals and drug treatments The Indian Rhesus macaques used in this study were housed at BIOQUAL, Inc Rockville, MD, according to standards and guidelines as set forth in the Animal...
... percentage of animals classified in the correct decile was determined for animals with and without simulated uncertainty and for animals with both parents known Fuzzy classification for parsimonious modelling ... fuzzy) and definition of genetic groups (on the basis of Table 3: Percentage of animals correctly classified in deciles created on the basis of ranking on true breeding values Group of animals Distinct ... modelwith groups and relationships J Dairy Sci 1988, 71:1338-1345 Strandberg E, Grandinson K: Adjusting for seasonal effects in ananimalmodel using fuzzy classification Proceedings of the...
... Thompson and Hill s suggestion, the initial transformation matrix was chosen so that p traits and sums of traits were analysed Subsequently, afterq = univariate analyses, a canonical transformation ... and that variances were constant across lactations A permanent environmental effect was fitted as an additional random effect for these analyses Comparing results from these analyses with results ... different samples and their contribution to the parameter estimates in each sample For analyses 1) and 2) data were split into subsets of 20 herds each, for analyses 3) into 5, and subsets (for L L and...
... (index) sources of the cow s sire and dam and the cow s own records reduction in response to selection is expected when selection is across age classes, eg across cohorts with different amounts of ... thorough study of long-term losses in response through incorrect estimation of genetic trend, thus creating an suboptimal ranking of young vs old animals, was outside the scope of this study.) ... combinations of the observations using economic values as weights For the case of just using observations for M F and P this is not I , i surprising, since these traits were so highly correlated and...
... a GSTp polymorphism is associatedwith PD in a Drosophila model expressing mutant parkin [35] Moreover, its expression is responsible for nigral neuron sensitivity in an experimental modelof ... method [47], scanned withan Epson Perfection V750 Pro transmission scanner (Epson, Nagano, Japan) and analyzed with imagemaster 2d platinum software, version 5.0 (GE Healthcare) Spots were detected ... The membrane was incubated with mouse anti-a-synuclein (BD Transduction Laboratories, Franklin Lakes, NJ, USA), mouse antiHSP70 (Zymed Laboratories, San Francisco, CA, USA) or mouse anti-b-actin...
... This is consistent with our general discussion in Section D.3 For the purpose of option pricing, let us consider a stock that has the same set of risk exposures as the endowment shock and pays ... a sequence of securities that are increasingly sensitive to rare events At the same time, the modelwith only risk aversion misprices this sequence of securities with increasing proportion As ... References Andersen, P K., O Borgan, R Gill, and N Keiding, 1992, Statistical Models Based on Counting Processes, Springer-Verlag, New York Anderson, E., L Hansen, and T Sargent, 2000, ‘‘Robustness,...