genetic and molecular pathophysiology of medullary thyroid carcinoma

... of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, and Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore USA 4Division of Cardiology, St Page of ... inconsistently, incompletely, and often with delay For example, in surveys of hospitals receiving resuscitated patients, only 26% of physicians [11,12] (USA and Canada) and 26% of hospitals [13] (United ... Scale [24]); mean and median time to target temperature; mean and median temperature at six hours from first ED arrival; and mean and median (inter-quartile range) of duration of cooling We will...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:23

... z-stacks of a series of confocal optical sectioning of CNE2 cells shown on the top and right side of the en face image show the staining on the cross section side profile of the cells The top and ... epidermoid carcinoma cells A-431 [35] An ELISA analysis of the amount of EGFR in cell lysate of a few cancer cell lines belonging to two types of cancer i.e nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) and bladder carcinoma ... for the growth of gold shell [28]…… ……………… …126 Figure 5.1 Reaction schematic of the synthesis and pegylation of gold nanoshells with core of 81 nm radius and gold shell thickness of 23 nm used...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 09:02

... definitions of speaking, principles of teaching speaking, and the significance of teaching speaking Also, concepts related to CLT, types of CAs used in teaching speaking, and the roles of teachers and ... announcements, and speeches” This type of talk seems to be in form of monologues rather than dialogues It often follows a recognizable format such as a speech of thank you and is closer to the form of written ... observation and pilot teaching Both qualitative and quantitative methods were employed to create a realistic and detailed description of the real teaching context and the attitudes, assessments of teachers...

Ngày tải lên: 18/12/2013, 10:08

... context, and then present and discuss eight case studies found in the literature 1.1 Software development; problems and remedies To develop and maintain software is often referred to as software ... productivity and quality of the developed software The outcome of several of these improvement initiatives was summed up in an article in Communications of the ACM [10] Claims of order of magnitude ... Telenor Telecom Software has descriptions of technical work processes in them, and at sd&m and ICL Finland, we nd lists of employees skills, as well as lists of customers, partners and projects Telenor...

Ngày tải lên: 16/01/2014, 16:33

... limited scope of the study, the biggest aim of the research is only to obtain a snapshot of the current practice of peer teaching in ESP classes at the College of Science, and of the survey subjects’ ... on the type of peer teaching activity being undertaken These include: levels of formality and informality, emphasis on individual or group learning, and learning goals of individuals and the agendas ... courses 1.2.4 Benefits of peer teaching There is a wealth of evidence that peer teaching is extremely effective for a wide range of goals, content, and students of different levels and personalities...

Ngày tải lên: 29/01/2014, 10:49

... hand, fiction (F) and FL, a low-quality subset of F For LPE, we defined a category D consisting of articles from quality broadsheets Table gives an overview of the categories and the number of ... text The frequencies were standardised using z-scores, so that the resulting random variables have a mean of and a variance of The z-scores were rounded Proceedings of EACL '99 down to the next ... frequent in texts from law and science, both of which tend to contain texts of argumentative types The frequency of infinitives of auxiliaries reflects both the use of passive voice, which is...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 03:20

... number of nonterminals in the shared forest grammar, Gw, is O(n 2) and the number of productions is O(n re+l) where Iw I = n and m is the maximum number of nonterminals in the right-hand-side of ... set of M be the nonterminal and terminal alphabet of Gw: i.e., Q = VN U VT The initial state of MG, is the start symbol of Gw, i.e., q0 - S' The input alphabet of MG, is the stack alphabet of ... Therefore, the number of productions is O(n 6) and construction of this grammar takes O(n 6) time Although the derivations of Gto encode derivations of the string w by Go the specific set of terminal strings...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 10:20

... the same level of prominence tends to be monotonous One of the chief means of distinguishing foreground from background is tense and aspect, which has been called a sort of flow -of- control mechanism, ... current state of the world; information of secondary i m p o r t a n c e ; identifications; import of the story; effects of actions; comments made by participants in the story; and collateral ... identification of place, and the two main clauses express a main event and a current state, respectively The next two sections will Look at the syntactic correlates of the information field and t h...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 18:20

... served on the board of directors of the Association of Death Education and Counseling (ADEC) and is a member of the Society for Arts in Healthcare and several prominent U.S and Canadian hospice ... the details of using ritual and how each week’s session will proceed One of the difficulties of a book that is designed for different professions and levels of experience in grief and group leadership ... Combining the support of the group and the use of physical and creative activities offer the grievers what they need most: acceptance and nonjudgmental listening (Rando, 1984) The use of creative arts...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 04:20

... reality of using teaching aids, kinds of teaching aids and how to use these aids effectively in teaching English It explores the benefits and the difficulties of using teaching aids in teaching and ... to their surroundings and are more interested in the physical and the tangible As Scott & Ytreberg (1990) described children’s understanding came through hands and eyes and ears, so the physical ... children shape and arrive at shared meanings and understandings  Encouraging children to think and contribute Williams also emphasizes the important role of learners in the learning process and suggests...

Ngày tải lên: 03/04/2014, 19:32

... best if there is manifest attenuation and acidification as a result of hydrolysis of the agar Overall, the degree of hydrolysis of agar and the characteristics of the media after sterilization in ... Liberec and later also of the Botanic Gardens in Liberec I consider the following properties as the principal advantages of the described solution: It is very easy and safe to pour sand and cold ... sand and a liquid medium Plantlets can sink into sand partly and contact with medium is ideal Acidity stays at the same pH after autoclaving and no poisonous sulphuric ions occur in the flask Sand...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 03:22

... a psychotic illness, whereas of 12 not waiting had a psychotic illness Duration of stay was composed of the days preceding the chosen day and the number of days of further treatment in the acute ... impact of social and clinical characteristics on the costs of schizophrenia treatment Acta Psychiatr Scand 2003, 107:351-60 Shepherd J: Violence in health care Understanding, preventing and surviving ... Care of 1999 Net running costs for the acute wards that year were 7,001,960 Euro (9,156,410 $) Spurious incomes of 394,853 Euro (516,346 $) and the acute ward's share of the food, cleaning, and...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 21:20

... 134 out of 140 (90.3%) parents of an equal number of children and adolescents under 18 years of age All were residents of the Byron-Kesariani area of the city of Athens, Greece Methodology The ... according to sex, educational level, age and gender of the child and use of medication Results A total of 134 out of 140 questionnaires were completed Only two of the parents had former experience ... treatment of psychiatric disorders in children and adolescents The limited number of systematic, controlled studies to assess the safety and efficacy of psychotropic medications for children, and the...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:20

... software, Bio-Rad) The sum of fluorescence within DNA smears was used for calculations and assessing differences in between experiments Determination of H2AX and activated caspase-3 by immunofluorescence ... component of total DNA breakage, and that the inhibition of apoptosis allows for more proper estimation of radiation-induced DNA DSB repair and apoptosis itself First, we found spontaneous cleavage of ... the study and drafted the manuscript GP, LL and MB participated in PFGE and in immunofluorescence studies XS provided informatics and support with statistics for data analysis SM, OC, RM and GC...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:20

... criteria and types of selection (including the situation of no selection due to the lack of molecular information) and random mating, the average homozygosity by descent of the population and the ... generations of random individual selection As an example, with four markers and six alleles per marker and frequency-dependent selection, the rates of 1.02 and homozygosity (%) of the genome and of the ... number of markers and alleles per marker The relative value of the number of markers and the number of alleles per marker has been analysed only for the breeding structure of eight sires, 24 dams and...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 18:21

... frequency of approximately 0. 5and V = 0.125 Rates of gain over QTL one, three and five generations of MAS were 0.340, 0.869, and 1.255 respectively, which compare to the figures of 0.329, 0.890, and ... case of juvenile MOET (multiple ovulation and embryo transfer) schemes for dairy cattle (Nicholas and Smith, 1983), genetic gains were increased by 38 and 21% after one and five generations of ... used, the number of offspring can be much larger With ten offspring per dam and recording before selection, response rates increased by 13 and 2% after one and five generations of MAS respectively...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 18:22

... of documenting medicinal plant uses and the associated indigenous knowledge of local people of Mustang Materials and methods Plant collection and identification The plants were collected in and ... collected in this study and deposited in the Tribhuvan University Central Herbarium (TUCH), Kathmandu, Nepal Plants were identified by two of us (SB and RPC) with the help of standard botanical literature ... collected by direct and participant-observation of study participants in fields and forests and through semi-structured interviews Interview protocols and field observations all followed standard ethnobotanical...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:21

... and spirituality The practice of bush medicines confirmed and supported participant's cultural beliefs and attitudes that conformed to Aboriginal understandings and epistemologies of health and ... the possibility of use of bioactive agents that are not prescribed Recognition and understanding of the use of traditional medicine and healing system can boost the confidence of Aboriginal people ... attributed to a number of different things; stress and/ or the influence and impact of the dominant culture and sometimes cultural causes It is often interpreted as a "white-man's disease" and linked to...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:21

... caused by a repetitive opening and closure of the orifice of the Eustachian tube A particular sequelae of pathological movements of soft palate muscles is the syndrome of a "patulous Eustachian tube" ... of the muscles of the soft palate (palatoglossus and palatopharyngeus muscles, salpingopharyngeus, tensor and levator veli palatini muscles) lead to a rhythmic elevation of the soft palate [16] ... points The submandibular glands are treated by a ultrasound-guided one or 2-point injection of a total of 15 units Botox® per gland It has been shown by objective datas in a lot of papers that...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 00:20