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... decrease the amount of exogenous insulin administered to the patients and the incidence of hypoglycemia in the acute setting of severely burned pediatric patients Materials and methods Patients Twenty-four ... insulin therapy as described below The intensive insulin treatment (IIT) patients were treated with intensive insulin to maintain plasma glucose levels between 80 and 140 mg/dl Regular insulin ... Page of Figure Percentage of coefficient of variance (% CV) Figure Exogenous insulin administered and insulin plasma levels (a) Insulin administered per patient per day (b) Average of administered...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 21:21

... tested in serial dilutions of cell lines Deltaretrovirus PCR tested in serial dilutions of cell lines Cell line DNA was diluted in genomic DNA from healthy individuals A: cell line Mo T (HTLV-II-infected), ... (HTLV-II-infected), B: cell line MJ (HTLV-I-infected), C: cell line BL3.1 (BLV-infected) First and last lane in every gel: φX174/Hae III size standard (QIAGEN, Hilden/Germany) No cell line harboring STLV-III, ... technical assistance They are indebted to Prof Harald Stein (Head of the Dept of Pathology, Charité Campus Benjamin Franklin) for giving them access to lymphoma DNA samples TB and SS were supported by...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 09:20

... to disseminate information, encourage participation in the education and economy of the communities To achieve its goal of disseminating useful information and eradicating poverty the adult education ... Planning language, planning inequality: language policy in the community, London, Longman Rachal J R (1989), ‘The social context of adult and continuing education,’ in Merriam S B and Cunningham ... vital in fighting poverty The adult education program can thus harness the local languages and indigenous knowledge of the minority and poor people and use them to mobilize the poor and minorities...

Ngày tải lên: 05/11/2012, 16:27

... of exon 2, intron 1, exon and its 5¢-flanking noncoding sequence, and 2.7 kb of sequence containing the 3¢-part of exon and 3¢-flanking intron sequence, respectively These were inserted into a pBluescript ... (1992) Low density lipoprotein receptor-related protein and gp330 bind similar ligands, including plasminogen activator-inhibitor complexes and lactoferrin, an inhibitor of chylomicron remnant clearance ... abundance of its mRNA increases dramatically during adulthood (Fig 3) It would be interesting to determine whether it is suckling, like in the case of LRP [21], or weaning, as in the case of LDLR...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 18:20

... design of the study, data analysis and writing of the manuscript EH contributed to the design of the study, interpretation of the findings and writing of the manuscript Acknowledgements The clinical ... Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009, 7:74 integrated and increasingly difficult to define and measure" Smith et al [5] explored a structural model of the determinants of health status and QoL, ... that of a programme of spinal manual physiotherapy in the treatment of non-specific low back pain of less than Q1 During the baseline assessment, the following question was asked: Because of your...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... validation of the Italian translation of the gastrointestinal symptom-rating scale and quality of life in reflux and dyspepsia questionnaire in patients with gastro-oesophageal reflux disease Clin Drug ... clinician-rated severity of a) heartburn and b) regurgitation at baseline (visit 1) increased by between 1.5 points (Physical/Social functioning) and 2.5 points (Vitality), indicating a clinically relevant ... to 0.95 In the present study, high ceiling effects were observed in five of the 25 QOLRAD domains - four in the Physical/social functioning domain and one in the Emotional distress domain Sensitivity...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... reported in the individual studies This pattern included a clear increase in risks of lung cancer and lymphoma, both Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin, and a potential decrease in risks of colorectal cancer and ... Citations meeting the inclusion criteria were obtained and screened for the outcomes of interest, which included the observed incidence rates of total malignancy, lymphoma, lung, colorectal, and breast ... misclassification of the inclusion of patients into the RA populations, and there may have been uncertainty surrounding the diagnostic accuracy of the malignancies Several of the studies were...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:23

... value of changes in BMI and nadir SpO2 entered individually on the following outcomes: changes in insulin, insulin resistance as measured by HOMA-IR, leptin, ghrelin, adiponectin and resistin Inclusion ... for changes in weight, hormone levels and sleep parameters [r(pvalue)] HOMAIR BMI HOMAIR Ghrelin Leptin Insulin Adipon ectin Resistin Ghrelin Leptin Insulin Adiponectin nectin Resistin ESS CPAP ... http://respiratory-research.com/content/12/1/80 in its regulation including changes in insulin sensitivity Insulin administration has been shown to suppress circulating ghrelin levels in some [31] but not all studies [32] Plasma insulin...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 13:22

... dosing algorithm for maintaining adequate sedation and comfort The time elapsed between initiating the SDT and stopping the down-titration (i.e switching back on/increasing the remifentanil infusion ... within 12 hours before the start of remifentanil administration, together with measurement of plasma and urinary creatinine concentration, using the following equation: CLcr (ml/min) = [Cr]urine ... pharmacodynamic and safety profiles of remifentanil administered by continuous intravenous infusion for up to 72 hours in ICU patients with varying degrees of renal impairment The study was conducted in accordance...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20

... 7:341-522 26 Cunningham DJC, Robbins PA, Wolff CB: Integration of respiratory responses to changes in alveolar partial pressures of CO2 and O2 and in arterial pH In Handbook of Physiology, Section ... heterogeneous population of adult intensive care patients, indicate that the level of PEEP significantly influences resting short-term breathing patterns by selectively affecting the duration of expiration ... reduction in PEEP is paralleled by an increase in respiratory rate and subsequently in VE, and vice versa According to our findings, the magnitude of the effect is about 0.4 breaths/min per cmH2O...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 22:22

... number of skin tests positive/number of western blots positive2 Only one patient had skin testing done to shrimp3 Only eleven patients had skin testing done to almond Kamdar et al Clinical and Molecular ... direct determination of food allergen-specific IgE may be beneficial in identifying the likely food triggers for clinicians considering food elimination therapy in EoE patients Page of doi:10.1186/1476-7961-8-16 ... article as: Kamdar et al.: Skin prick testing does not reflect the presence of IgE against food allergens in adult eosinophilic esophagitis patients: a case study Clinical and Molecular Allergy 2010...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:22

... how to define timing of RRT initiation due to the aforementioned limitations in available data The concept of ‘timing’ remains poorly defined and inconsistent [16] Previously, timing of RRT has ... to the pace of clinical evolution of the patient, and AKI ‘trend’ refers to the rate of clinical and/ or biochemical changes (including urea and creatinine) [16] The objective of this algorithm ... multinational study, Uchino and colleagues [4] found AKI occurred in to 6% of all ICU admissions, with 70% of these eventually receiving RRT Recent data indicate the incidence of AKI is rising...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 19:20

... duration of PICU stay, setting of mechanical ventilation, history of medications, type of nutrition and the fate of all patients Full clinical examination and estimation of the angle of back rest ... writing and preparation of the manuscript HMI performed the clinical recruitment and evaluation of patients, PICU management of the patients, statistical analysis of the results and discussion of ... reflux and mortality in VAP group points to its detrimental effects in this group of patients Conclusions In conclusion, GER is a permanent incident in mechanically ventilated pediatric patients...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 19:20

... carboxyl-terminal ligand binding domain and an amino-terminal DNA-binding domain CAR forms a heterodimer with RXRα (Suino et al., 2004) The ligand binding domain of CAR is 40% similar to PXR, attributing to ... DNA binding domain (DBD), and a carboxyl terminal ligand binding domain (LBD) that contains dimerisation motif and ligand-dependent transcriptional AF-2 (Edwards, 2000) In the absence of ligand, ... frame deletion of 37 amino acids in the ligand-binding domain The lack of ligand binding ability might be responsible for the failure of this transcript in transactivating the target genes (Gardner-Stephen...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:08

... Human SPHK Inhibitors Over-expression of SPHK1 and SPHK2 was achieved by transfecting the SPHK1 or SPHK2 plasmids into CHO cells using Lipofectamine TM 2000 (Invitrogen), following the instructions ... inhibitors (Aprotinin, Leupeptin, Pepstatin A, PMSF and SOV) were freshly added each time before using Substrate preparation: 1mM D-erythro-sphingosine was prepared by mixing 20μl sphingosine (50mM) ... and incubated at 30°C for 30 minutes The incubation was terminated by placing the reaction tubes in a 95°C heat block for 10 44 Chapter2 Development and Evaluation of Human SPHK Inhibitors minutes...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 16:06

... Roles of SPHK Inhibitors in Human BM- and AD- MSCs Differentiation inhibitors Within these results, 1μM of DMS triggered a higher staining than 0.5μM of DMS; and 5μM of CP6 triggered higher staining ... are shown below in Figure 3.8 102 Chapter Roles of SPHK Inhibitors in Human BM- and AD- MSCs Differentiation Figure 3.8 Immunostaining of osteocalcin, osteopontin, and osteonectin in human BM-MSC ... Penicillin and Streptomycin DMEM+10% FBS +1% Penicillin and Streptomycin Supplements N/A 0.5mM isobutyl-methylxanthine, 1μM dexamethasone, 10μM insulin, 200μM indomethacin, 1% Penicillin and Streptomycin...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 16:06

... cultured in 6-well plates were washed twice with 1x PBS and starved in serum-free DMEM for half an hour 1μM S1P was then added into the wells and incubated at 37°C for 5min, 10min, 30min, and 60min ... fixed and stained with Alizarin Red S The Alizarin Red S Staining quantification results are shown in Figure 4.11 Alizarin Red Staining quantification of human BM-MSCs cultured in different conditions ... able to bind with Gi subunit of G-protein, and S1PRs are all Gprotein-coupled receptors and shown to bind/activate Gi subunit (Section 1.1 SPHK and S1P) 144 Chapter Role of S1P in human BM- and AD-...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 16:06

... Conclusion and Future Work being one of the most potent and specific SPHK1 inhibitors (chapter 2), DMS was continuously used as a reference inhibitor It is interesting to note that CP6 and DMS affected ... amounts (1μM DMS and 5μM CP6) showed to inhibit the osteogenic differentiation in most of the experiments Interestingly, in human BM- and AD- MSCs adipogenic differentiation, DMS and CP6 showed ... the use of SPHK inhibitors in preconditioning stem cells before transplanting them into the body, by committing stem cells along specific differentiation path More work, including in vivo work,...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 16:06

... (1998) “N,N-Dimethylsphingosine Is a Potent Competitive Inhibitor of Sphingosine Kinase but Not of Protein Kinase C: Modulation of Cellular Levels of Sphingosine 1-Phosphate and Ceramide.” Biochemistry, ... “Characterization of N, N-dimethyl-derythro-sphingosine-induced apoptosis and signaling in U937 cells: independence of sphingosine kinase inhibition.” Prostaglandins & Other Lipid Mediators 86(1-4):18-25 ... myocardial infarction in mice." Kidney Int 68(5): 1940-3 Garner, P., Park, J M., and Malecki, E (1988) "A stereodivergent synthesis of Derythro-sphingosine and D-threo-sphingosine from L-serine."...

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