... is thedifferencebetween total PSA and free PSA?
What is the normal range? In addition, how can it be that if there is ANY prostate
specific antigen in the blood that there is no prostate cancer?
Doesn’t ... cells ofthe prostate gland. The most frequently
used PSA - prostate-specific antigen test - is the total PSA, which measures the
sum ofthe free PSA andthe cPSA (complex or bound) in the blood. ... and impotence. For
these reasons, it is important that the benefits and risks of diagnostic procedures
and treatment be taken into account when considering whether to undertake
prostate cancer...
... unlike the IMF’s, is linked to the date of
the liberalization. Eichengreen forthcoming reviews the data and methodological differences among most
of these and other studies. (For discussions ofthe ... mean of ∆capital), and (X1-mean of X1)*(∆capital – mean of ∆capital). Centering before obtaining the
interaction terms reduces the correlation between each ofthe variables andthe interaction ... part of a broader cluster of policies and processes, and are therefore
collinear with many other variables. (We will develop this point below as we describe the “repression
syndrome” and the...
... year of data is available.
The CDS rate quoted for any particular CDS depends on the term ofthe CDS andthe
credit quality ofthe underlying asset. The vast majority of quotes lie between 0 and ... that the values
sampled for the adjusted spread change are
n
sss K,,
21
, the mean adjusted spread change
is
s , andthe standard deviation ofthe spread change is
σ
ˆ
. The bootstrap test of ... Journal of Derivatives, 8, 3, Spring, 12-21.
25
Researchers such as Altman and Kao (1992) and Lando and Skodeberg (2002) find that
the probability ofthe credit rating change for a company...
... interaction for the individual SBDs and also in the
absence ofthe D(316–344) and D(495–535) regions of
the D2 and D3 domains, respectively.
Kinetic parameters of co-purified recombinant
CD and different ... protein makes this isoform a potential target for
the manipulation ofthe level and quality of plant
starch. However, little is known about the role of
SSIII in starch synthesis andthe structure–function
relationship ... detected with anti-GS (lane 2) or anti-D123 (lane 3)
serum. (E) Pull-down assays for D1 (left panel), D2 (middle panel) and D3 (right panel). The first lane of each panel (lanes 1, 4 and 7) corre-
sponds...
... Institute of Technology,
Tokyo, Japan) for clones and antibody ofthe methyl CpG-binding
protein 1; Dr Dominique Rebouillat and Dr Bryan Williams
(Department of Cancer Biology, Cleveland Clinic ... Clinic Foundation,
Cleveland, OH, USA) for providing an OAS panel of stably
transfected HT1080 fibrosarcoma cells; and Morten Mulig Nielsen
andSigneEskildsenNielsenfortheFhitandp42OASbait
constructs, ... protein and MBD1.
In vivo pull-down of MBD1 transfected into p59.F-V5 OASL and
p59DUbL-V5 OASL stably transfected human fibrosarcoma HT1080
cells. The full length p59 OASL andthe deletion mutant...
... including the
GHQ-30, the GHQ-28, the GHQ-20 andthe GHQ-12.
The shortest version ofthe questionnaire (GHQ-12) has
been extensively validated and used in a numberof coun-
tries and in different languages ... that they have no competing interests.
Authors' contributions
MSY was the main investigator and analysed the data and
wrote the first draft. AI and CR contributed to the study
design andthe ... We were therefore interested in
testing this hypothesis and examining whether there is a
relationship between psychological distress and vitality.
The relationship betweenthe GHQ-12 andthe VS...
... Biology
(Keio University)’ and a grant from New Energy and
Industrial Technology Development Organization
(NEDO) ofthe Ministry of Economy, Trade and
Industry of Japan (Development of a Technological
Infrastructure ... PIPES as an internal standard, and 2 lgof
protein samples in a final volume of 100 lL. The reaction
mixture was incubated for 10 min at 37 °C and transferred
to 400 lL cold methanol. The contents ... NaCl, and
1mm dithiothreitol, and used for further analyses.
The concentration ofthe purified protein was determined
from the extent of UV absorption with A
280
0:1%
values of
0.83 for the full...
... agonist analogue) and Glu82.
MD simulations of MBP(74–85), and Ala81MBP(74–85)
in water and Me
2
SO
To further assess the structural origin ofthedifference in
activity betweenthe agonist and antagonist, ... of Asp81 and G lu82 [this is
consistent wi th the observed long-range NOE cross-peak
between the side chain of Arg78 (H
g
) and Glu82 (H
c1
)and
the medium-range NOE betweenthe side chains of ... distance solute–box of 14 A
˚
.
The various systems comprised 3899 and 4516 SPC
molecules for the agonist andthe antagonist in water,
respectively, and 817 and 927 Me
2
SO molecules for the
agonist...
... two-state transition for heating and high
pressure.
Fig. 3. Pressure-induced changes ofthe centre ofthe spectral mass of
(A) proCPY (d)andDgly proCPY (s)at25°C(B)CPY(d )and
Dgly CPY (s)at25°C, and (C) ... DG
p
and DV are the Gibbs free energy change at T
(298 K) and 0.1 MPa andthe volume change at T,
respectively. The correlation coefficient ofthe fitting was
0.999 or higher in all cases.
DG
p
and ... DH
cal
/
DH
v
wasdeterminedtobe1.74(DH
cal
and DH
v
values were
765 and 440 kJặmol
)1
, respectively) andthe peak was
deconvoluted into two peaks with T
m1
of 57.0 and T
m2
of
62.1 °C, as shown by the dashed lines of Fig. 1B....