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... president of the National Academy of Engineering. The Institute of Medicine was established in 1970 by the National Academy of Sciences to secure the services of eminent members of appropriate professions ... Persian Gulf War. Annals of Internal Medicine 125(5):398-405. IOM (Institute of Medicine). 1995. Health Consequences of Service During the Persian Gulf War: Initial Findings and Recommendations ... path of the sarin–cyclosarin plume. Initially, however, because of the complexity of the modeling that needed to be done, CIA-DOD estimated that any noticeable effects of sarin and cyclosarin...

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... item forms part of a reporting entity’s net investment in a foreign operation and is denominated in the functional currency of the reporting entity, an exchange difference arises in the foreign ... complying with International Financial Reporting Standards only if they comply with all the requirements of each applicable Standard and each applicable Interpretation of those Standards including ... accounting for foreign currency items, including the hedging of a net investment in a foreign operation. IAS 39 applies to hedge accounting. 6 This Standard applies to the presentation of an...

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... resulting in the depositing at the feet of the chains of huge deposits of sand, gravel and clay. There then followed a phase of general increased marine predominance, lasting a good part of the ... modelling, filling in with detritus the internal Apennine depressions previously occupied by lakes (Val d'Arno, Val Tiberina, etc.) and also forming the plains at the edges of the peninsula and ... fact the Alpine rivers have a cycle conditioned by the winter snow cover, being high in the summer and low in the winter; while the pre-Alpine and northern Apennine source rivers are mainly rain-fed...

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... 3B). Effect of quercetin on the copper-induced lipid peroxidation in preoxidized LDL In order to evaluate the effect of quercetin on the Cu 2+ - induced LPO in pre-oxidized LDL, LDL were first incuba- tedwithCu 2+ and ... estimated as the intercept of the linear part of the kinetics of diene formation shown in Fig. 2(B,D) with x-axis. Half times for carotenoid consumption were obtained from the kinetic of carotenoid ... 1993 Anti- and pro-oxidant effects of quercetin in copper-induced low density lipoprotein oxidation Quercetin as an effective antioxidant against pro-oxidant effects of urate Paulo Filipe 1,2 ,...

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... partic- ularly during phases of rapidly increasing or decreasing changes in the monitored concentrations. This is due to slight shifts between the onsets of the increasing or decreasing phases, because ... mechanisms relating Cu 2+ redox change to the initiation of LPO in LDL are not yet clearly established [40]. In the presence of pre-existing traces of hydroperox- ides both Cu 2+ and Cu + may induce LPO ... effect of urate [21]. In vitro data also point out the pro-oxidant ability of urate under certain circumstances. A pro-oxidant effect of urate has been reported in the in vitro Cu 2+ -induced...

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... BPA effects have to be considered independently of its ED action and might help in the understanding of the adverse effects caused in humans. Abbreviations AKT: RAC-alpha serine/threonine-protein ... and involvement of both intrinsic and extrinsic pathways of apoptosis. Background The Endocrine Disrupting Compounds are defined as "exogenous substances that cause adverse health effects in ... activation of extrinsic and intrinsic cell death pathways modulating both FAS and TRAIL and by inducing BAD phosphorylation in NB4 cells. Finally, also non genomic actions such as the early decrease of...

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... cytokines, including TNF-a and IL-6 by white adipose tissue (WAT), and the activ ation of a net- work of pro-inflammatory signaling pathways, including the c-Jun NH 2 -terminal kinase (JNK) and inhibitor ... feature of obesity and links obesity to insulin resistance, impaired glucose tolerance and even diabetes. Features of obesity-induced inflammation include increased production of pro- inflammatory ... appropriate in modulating intestinal inflammation as a large array of AChRs are expressed in the gut. Irrespe ctively, nicotine administration amelio- rated disease in previous studies of experimental...

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... element binding protein that promotes the degradation of a number of inflammatory mediators including TNF-a Nicotine-activated STAT3 signaling induces the expres- sion of TTP in macrophages and, in ... a keyroleinnicotine-induced anti-inflammatory effect through destabilization of TNF-a transcripts. Since an excess of TNF-a is involved in many inflammatory dis- eases, the inhibition of TNF-a ... cytokines, including TNF-a and IL-6 by white adipose tissue (WAT), and the activ ation of a net- work of pro-inflammatory signaling pathways, including the c-Jun NH 2 -terminal kinase (JNK) and inhibitor...

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... Nephrology Working Group of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine: Prevention of acute kidney injury and protection of renal function in the intensive care unit. Expert opinion of the Working ... sex, concomitant use of a calcineurin inhibitor, hyperbilirubi- nemia, and hypoalbuminemia. The incidence of kidney injury increased with an increase in the number of risk factors. Hypoalbuminemia also was ... variable protein binding. Also, the antibacterial activity of colistin is atte- nuated in the face of high bacterial loads, as may be seen in pneumonia [37]. Data on colistin pharmacokinetics in critically...

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... differ- ence of two days. In none of the treatments are differ- ences in average germination time greater than two days. 3.3. Temporal distribution of germination The temporal distribution of germination ... P., De las Heras J., Effects of high temperatures on 446 O. Reyes and M. Casal germination of Pinus halepensis Mill. and pinaster Aiton subsp. pinaster seeds in Southeast Spain, Vegetatio 116 (1995) ... to P. pinaster, P. radiata and E. globulus according to the age of the seeds. Although the trajectory of P. pinaster is not totally linear, there are no important variations in the germina- tion...

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... syndrome. As IL-2 in the brain is involved in emotional behavior and its effects are area-dependent [3,23], it was of interest to examine the effects of dioscorea on IL-2 levels in the brain of menopausal ... microinjections of inter- leukin-2 and rat behaviour in the elevated plus-maze. Behav Brain Res 2006, 168:339-344. 7. Hanisch UK: Effects of Interleukin-2 and interferons on the nervous system. In Psychoneuroimmunology ... glycerol containing protease inhibitors (1 µg/ml of aprotinin, 0.5 µg/ml of leupeptin, and 100 µg/ml of 4-(2-aminoethyl) benzenesulfonyl fluoride)). The homogenate was centri- fuged at 2900 g for 15 min...

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... to statins in vitro, and the context of statin treatment might therefore be of some importance. In vivo effects of statins in models of inflammation Several groups have now investigated the enticing possibility ... lipid lowering in cardiovascular disease? The increasing body of evidence for the efficacy of statins in protecting against vascular events irrespective of cholesterol status has prompted investigation ... Five statins are currently available within the UK: pravastatin, simvastatin, fluvastatin, atorvastatin and rosuvastatin; in addition, lovastatin is available in other countries. Cerivastatin has been...

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... Rituximab on the apoptosis of PBMNCs in the patients included in this study. Interestingly, we found an important and significant increase in the percent of TUNEL+ cells at day 30 of Rituxi- mab therapy ... function of T cells [2-4]. In addition, several abnormalities of B lymphocytes, including an increased Ca 2+ influx, and a decreased fraction of naïve B cells with enhanced levels of circulating ... activated in vitro with phytohe- magglutinin (PHA). The percent of CD4+ lymphocytes synthesizing IL-10 was determined using the appropriate commercial kit (Miltenyi), fol- lowing the instructions of...

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