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... cystatin C or cystatin C-based eGFR in HIV-infected persons included those on HAARTwith regimens consisting of tenofovir and indinavir, andthe reported increase in serum cystatin C in these stu-dies ... LA: Guidelines for the management of chronic kidney disease in HIV-infected patients: recommendations of theHIV Medicine Association of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.Clin Infect Dis ... (Figure 1 &2). In mu ltiple linearregression,thevariationincystatinCasexplainedbyboth models was small and only reached significant pro-portion i n Model 2 (model includ ing BMI), Table 3...
... impacton these layers and their interaction. In recent years, theimportance of the cross -layer design at the PHY/MAC /link layer has been reiterated through the emergence of manyinnovative techniques, ... allowscertain important information to in uence decisions in a layer that is originally not defined to use that information(e.g., the SNR information at the linklayer or the queue sizeat the baseband ... multipleusers. In order to properly reflect these features in theprotocol stack, the methodology of cross -layer design hasbeen adopted. In short, the cross -layer methodology allowscertain important information...
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... amino-terminal two repeats of thedeath effector domain (DED), it lacks the carboxy-terminal half of the proteolytic domain. Caspase 8L binds to the Fas-asso-ciating protein with death domain ... etiology of acceleratedatherosclerosis in SLE patients [6-8]. These findings suggesta contributing role of the auto-immune disease itself in atherogenesis.The response-to-injury model supports ... provided the clinical back-ground, was in charge of the recruitment of patients and par-ticipated in design and drafting of the manuscript. MHparticipated in the design and coordination of the study...
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... been implicated in the induction of apoptosis, including the ORF 7a andORF 7b proteins as confirmed in this study (Figure 2).Activation of apoptosis was therefore compared in cellsinfected with ... beenshown to be involved in the induction of apoptosis,including the 7a and 7b proteins [18,46,47]. To analyzewhether the deletion in ORF 7b had any influence on itsAmino acid variability in ORF 7b ... mRNAtranscription, confirming earlier findings [50]. Induction of transcription was not observed with r7bΔTMD either,indicating that the ORF 7b protein is not involved in theComparison of recombinant viruses...
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... objective of the current study was to assess expression and function of BRP-39, the murine equivalent of YKL40 in a murine modelof cigarette smoke-induced inflammationand contrast expression and function ... importance of BRP-39 in HDM- and cigarette smoke-induced inflammation. While functionally important in HDM-induced inflammation, BRP-39 is a biomarker of cigarette smoke induced inflammation ... USA). Intracellular staining for cytokineswas performed using BD cytofix/cytoperm and BDperm/wash reagents with GolgiStop as recommended byBD Pharmingen. Intracellular cytokine staining was...