its peaks are closely associated with financial crises

... 50 patients with normal gastric mucosa including chronic gastritis and ulcer (normal group), 50 with IM including adenoma (high risk group), 40 with EGC (EGC group), 45 with AGC without distant ... HMGB1 levels were significantly increased in patients with GC compared to those of patients without cancer Although HMGB1 and its receptor, RAGE, are thought to be elevated in almost all types of ... tended to be elevated in patients with adenoma compared to patients with IM (data was not shown) We also compared the sensitivity and specificity of serum HMGB1 with that of CEA, a well-known gastrointestinal...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 15:20

... different types of leucine zippers are associated with the homeodomain (HD) in START proteins from plants Two different types of leucine zippers are associated with the homeodomain (HD) in START ... prokaryotic species are classified according to genus and are shown by black lettering on colored boxes Shaded areas indicate proteins that contain additional domains in combination with START: gray, ... plasma membrane with phosphatidylcholine and to allow its efflux Mammalian PCTP To identify plant START domains that are most similar to mammalian PCTP, we constructed a phylogeny with PCTP against...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 20:20

... when individuals with the C-1306-C-735 haplotype were compared to subjects with the T-1306-T-735 haplotype (OR = 6.53; 95% CI = 2.78–15.33) [11] The MMP3 5A allele was associated with a poorer prognosis ... compared to the PGA-European panel Although this difference was not significant (p = 0.73) The 5A allele was more common in patients with low Clark level melanomas (p = 0.04) and with tumors with ... angiogenesis [1] MMPs are expressed in melanocytes and their overexpression has been linked to tumor development, progression and metastasis [2-5] Certain MMPs are associated with generalized growth...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 08:21

... were that baseline levels were only marginally associated with later radiographic damage The firstyear change in IgM-RF levels was modestly associated with SHS at the two-year follow up; however, ... Page of Absolute change of IgM-RF and ACPA compared with the absolute change of DAS28, HAQ and SHS Figure Absolute change of IgM-RF and ACPA compared with the absolute change of DAS28, HAQ and SHS ... http://arthritis-research.com/content/12/1/R8 At baseline, ACPA levels and status were associated only with SHS at baseline, while IgM-RF levels and status were associated with DAS28 and SHS at baseline, as was also reported...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 11:22

... TAP1 and TAP2 As the residues of the b11 region with charge differences in the two TAP-NBDs are located within a distance that allows interaction with the Walker A motifs over a short distance ... transporters associated with antigen processing Immunity 1, 491–500 Velarde, G., Ford, R.C., Rosenberg, M.F & Powis, S.J (2001) Three-dimensional structure of transporter associated with antigen ... relevance of human transporter associated with antigen processing polymorphism for peptide selection J Immunol 159, 2350–2357 Kyritsis, C., Gorbulev, S., Hutschenreiter, S., Pawlitschko, K., ´ Abele,...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 02:21

... protected with only two immunizations (such as those immunized with peptide 24148), reacted strongly with 70 kDa and 42 kDa molecular mass molecules This data suggests that immunization with peptides ... be stronger than intraresidue crosspeaks In addition to these sequential cross -peaks, some medium-range dNN (i,i + 1), dab (i,i + 3), daN (i,i + 3), and daN (i,i + 4) cross -peaks were found, indicating ... XWIN-NMR software Structure calculations Peptide structure was determined by Molecular Simulations Inc (MSI) software Cross-peak volume was obtained by integration using FELIX software on the NOESY...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 08:20

... compared with LqhaIT and Lqh2 [6,17,18] To clarify the molecular basis of the unique pharmacological features of Lqh3, we analyzed its bioactive surface seeking for residues involved with its ... pharmacological properties of Lqh3 are unique in that its binding afnity for insect channels drops >30-fold at pH 8.5 versus pH 6.5, and its rate of association with receptor site-3 on both insect ... that bind with high afnity to rat brain synaptosomes and are practically nontoxic to insects [1]; (b) a-toxins highly active on insects that bind with high afnity to insect Navs and are weakly...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 09:20

... relationship with their parents Children who live with both biological parents or two adoptive parents are most likely to have a high-quality relationship with their parents Quality of Parent -Child ... children’s family structure and parenting stress Children living with both biological parents or two adoptive parents have parents with the lowest parenting stress levels Parenting Stress by Children's ... association with religious attendance is about equal to that with family integrity An intact two-parent family and regular religious participation are also associated with the parent reporting less parenting...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 09:20

... Testing for Within-Individual Declines in Performance and Factors Associated with These Declines Within-individual declines in breeding success in the years before death were tested for with a generalized ... response variable, with indicating successful (i.e., raised a chick to the age at which it would leave the colony; chicks are taken to sea by the male parent after ∼3 weeks and are still flightless) ... analyses to test our main hypothesis that rates of within-individual decline in reproductive performance may be associated with earlylife reproduction and with environmental conditions experienced early...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 16:20

... workers are associated with greater use of some services, including measles vaccination and use of skilled birth attendants [13,21] Aggregate health workers and doctors alone were associated with ... immunization, clinic visits of children with acute respiratory infection (presumed pneumonia), antenatal care (minimum four visits), use of skilled birth attendant for delivery, caesarean section and ... were associated with utilization of skilled birth attendants and measles immunization but not with four other essential services In disaggregated analysis, nurses were significantly associated with...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... complications are associated with worse patientreported disability and somewhat worse physical health, but not with mental health These findings suggest that morbidity associated with autologous ... < 0.0001), with the largest group difference being between those with very low ODI scores as compared to the remainder of the sample To evaluate the stability of the measure, we compared ICBG ... differ when using tetrachoric and polychoric correlations With polychoric, two factors are identified (scar issues and ensuing difficulties with item loading weakly on F1); the first factor explains...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 18:20

... were positively associated with better mental well-being On the other hand, greater seasonal changes and poor illumination indoors are significant factors which were associated with worse mental ... region or catchment area, 16 health care districts were sampled as clusters (80 health care districts in the whole country, including 160 municipalities) The 15 biggest health care districts in ... the primary sampling units, and the ultimate sampling units were persons who were selected by systematic sampling from the health centre districts From these 80 health care districts, a random...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... BLAST homology searches (99–100% nucleotide and amino acid identities with the Indian G1 rotavirus strain, ISO-4) To compare them with the typeable G1 sequences, the VP7 genes of two typeable G1 strains, ... of techniques Serotyping was introduced by Ward et al [28] with specimens collected during 1985–1986 in Dhaka using neutralization with hyperimmune antisera against prototype rotavirus strains ... perfect matches at the 3' end, it could detect 25% of the G1 rotaviruses When we compared the target sequence with the Gouvea G1 primer sequence (forward primer, aBT1; 5'CAAGTACTCAAATCAATGATGG-3';...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... total cholesterol lipid profile variables are associated with disability changes in MS patients Associations with MRI Higher HDL levels were associated with a lower probability for the presence ... exhibited a trend with total cholesterol to HDL ratio (p = 0.047) levels The EDSS change was not associated with higher HDL (p = 0.79) Similarly, worsening MSSS changes were associated with higher ... triglycerides and total cholesterol levels are associated with increased disability progression in MS Higher HDL levels and lower levels of triglycerides were associated with decreased CEL activity whereas...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 22:20

... permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited 1 Low ficolin-3 levels in early follow-up serum samples are associated with ... concentration of ficolin-1 is much lower [25] Similar to MBL, the ficolins are associated with a set of three serine proteases, termed MBL -associated serine proteases (MASPs), enabling activation of the ... those with a NIH scale of 16 with poor expected outcome, and the ficolin-3 levels were compared accordingly There were significantly...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 22:20

... mismatches and its clustering within specific lineages, we collected 173 sequences of the VP7 gene from G1 strains from the GenBank database Release 151, December 2005 (alignments are available ... using Neighbor-joining or parsimony methods with Kimura 2-parameter as a model of nucleotide substitution with the MEGA 3.1 [26] and Phylip v3.65 softwares The statistical significance of the tree ... grouped within one of the four lineages previously reported by Jin et al [5] (Fig 1) The typeable and untypeable G1 strains reported by Rahman et al [19], grouped within the lineage I with a high...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 01:20

... BLAST homology searches (99–100% nucleotide and amino acid identities with the Indian G1 rotavirus strain, ISO-4) To compare them with the typeable G1 sequences, the VP7 genes of two typeable G1 strains, ... of techniques Serotyping was introduced by Ward et al [28] with specimens collected during 1985–1986 in Dhaka using neutralization with hyperimmune antisera against prototype rotavirus strains ... perfect matches at the 3' end, it could detect 25% of the G1 rotaviruses When we compared the target sequence with the Gouvea G1 primer sequence (forward primer, aBT1; 5'CAAGTACTCAAATCAATGATGG-3';...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 04:20

... levels of GPX3 than women with early stage disease These results are summarized in Table Since most ovarian cancer cases are diagnosed in postmenopausal women, we next compared the levels of GPX3 ... patients diagnosed with late stage (p = × 10-4) and recurrent disease (p = × 10 -3 ) when compared to those diagnosed with early stage disease was again present These results are summarized in ... women with serous ovarian cancer in a stage-dependent manner In addition, we demonstrate that serum levels are also decreased in women with recurrent disease and the stage-dependent decreases are...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... interval: 0.67, 0.93]) compared with a value of 0.87 mmol/L (i.e., the low end of the normal range) [21] A serum albumin of 30 g/L compared with 25 g/L was associated with a nearly 50% reduced ... ferritin and hsCRP levels were associated with increased mortality; compared with a ferritin value of 25 μg/L, a baseline serum level of 250 μg/L was associated with an approximate 67% increased ... was associated with a nearly 10-fold increased hazard (AHR 9.28 [3.13, 27.50]) A baseline hsCRP level of 15 mg/L was associated with a nearly two-fold increased hazard of death compared with...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... area (LMA) and leaf area ratio of the shoot (LARshoot , leaf area divided by the dry mass of stems + branches + petioles + leaves); (4) leaf area of individual leaves to calculate mean leaf area ... leaf size and total foliage area, thick leaves, high leaf mass per area, and other features are associated to plant species from hot and dry environments These traits have been considered as ... analyses based on Y-plant and direct morphological measurements are used to explore form-functional suites of traits that could be associated with different developmental patterns in this phylogenetically...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 16:20