lumbar puncture and cerebrospinal fluid analysis

... into test tubes and stored at -20°C until subsequent assay CSF was collected by standard sterile lumbar puncture technique after the informed consent was reviewed with the patient and signed Brain ... assay included a standard curve derived from positive and negative controls Negative controls consisted of 2% BSA and human serum, free of sHLA-I and sHLA-II Positive control standards were prepared ... the cerebrospinal fluid (unbroken line) and saliva (dotted Figure line) in multiple sclerosis patients Demonstration of the distribution curves for soluble HLA-II levels in the cerebrospinal fluid...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 22:20

... numbers and perform tandem walking, albeit characteristically slowly A chest X-ray was normal Urine analysis and blood cultures were repeated The patient was started on ceftriaxone, doxycycline and ... reaction assay of cerebrospinal fluid samples Clin Infect Dis 1997, 25(1):86-91 Simko JP, Caliendo AM, Hogle K, Versalovic J: Differences in laboratory findings for cerebrospinal fluid specimens ... tomography scan of the patient on presentation A lumbar puncture performed immediately thereafter revealed an opening CSF pressure of 19 cmH2O The CSF analysis revealed a white blood cell (WBC) count...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 19:21

... research, collected, analyzed and interpreted the data, and drafted and revised the manuscript NTHT carried out the collection, analysis and interpretation of the data DTND and MK contributed to the ... bacterial meningitis cerebrospinal fluid glucose, lactate, and lactate dehydrogenase compared Clin Chem 1981, 27:1431-1434 52 Curtis GD, Slack MP, Tompkins DS: Cerebrospinal fluid lactate and the diagnosis ... T: Cerebrospinal fluid and arterial lactate, pyruvate and acid-base balance in patients with intracranial hemorrhages Stroke 1975, 6:707-714 64 Simpson H, Habel AH, George EL: Cerebrospinal fluid...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21

... contributions Conception and design of experiments: MCG, LST, MCL and CAG Acquisition, analysis and interpretation of data: MCG, LST, MCL, FG, CDR, EN, DSE and LR Writing and/ or critical review ... After 30 or 24 h, cerebrospinal fluid was collected by magna puncture (A) and blood by intracardic puncture (B) The control group is represented by grey bars and the LPS-treated group is represented ... glutathione and an increase in GFAP Together, these data contribute to our understanding of the effect of LPS on astrocytes, particularly on S100B secretion, and help us to interpret cerebrospinal fluid...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 22:20

... between cerebrospinal fluid Figure = 0.01) in count and cerebrospinal fluid viral load Scatter plot graphic: correlation between cerebrospinal fluid leukocyte count and cerebrospinal fluid viral ... load and CSF cytological and biochemical characteristics (e.g., leukocyte count, protein concentration and CCPA titer); CSF HIV-1 viral load and HIV-1 plasma viral load; and CSF leukocyte count and ... stimulation in the cerebrospinal fluid during HIV infection: a longitudinal study Scand J Infect Dis 1994, 26:523-33 Price RW, Staprans S: Measuring the "viral load" in cerebrospinal fluid human immunodeficiency...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... neurologist and neuropsychologist Examination of the CNS signs and symptoms included lumbar puncture, neuropsychological tests and MRI of the brain Nine of the patients underwent lumbar puncture ... HS, Yu CL: Cerebrospinal fluid interleukin-6, prostaglandin E2 and autoantibodies in patients with neuropsychiatric systemic lupus erythematosus and central nervous system infections Scand J Rheumatol ... CY: The study of anticardiolipin antibodies and interleukin-6 in cerebrospinal fluid and blood of Chinese patients with systemic lupus erythematosus and central nervous system involvement Autoimmunity...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:23

... (Behring), with normal range between and mg/ml Analysis of cytokines in cerebrospinal fluid and serum Concentrations of IL-1β, IL-6, IL-8, IL-10, IL-12 and TNF-α in CSF and serum (only in patients with ... in serum and CSF in the bacterial meningitis group are summarized in Table Cortisol and cytokines in cerebrospinal fluid and serum Cortisol and cytokine CSF concentrations in all groups and levels ... haemolyticus (n = 1) and Haemophilus influenzae (n = 1) Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Cytology and chemistry of cerebrospinal fluid Routine cytological and clinical chemistry...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:20

... amino acids in Cerebrospinal fluid Development of a new method for quantitative analysis of physiological amino acids in cerebrospinal fluid without pretreatments and evaluation of this analysis method ... Three An analysis of amino acid neurotransmitters and nitric oxide in acute labor pain Applying our new method for amino acid analysis in CSF to analysis of physiological amino acids and other ... in the cerebrospinal fluid of pregnant women with and without labor pain v 82 Chapter Four A comparative study on the roles of amino acid neurotransmitters and nitric oxide in chronic and acute...

Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2015, 09:55

... urban area in Japan and agricultural drains when agricultural chemicals are applied In addition, analysis of agricultural chemicals by GC/MS was simultaneously carried out and their ecotoxicity ... inhibition) ratio for daphnia and mortality ratio for fish in acute toxicity tests were used as water quality indexes - 225 - GC/MS Analysis of Agricultural Chemicals GC/MS analysis was applied to ... (GV) for water quality control in the Water Supply Law of Japan, and had been prepared a mixture standard solution for simultaneous analysis commercially (Wako Pure Chemical Industries., Ltd., Japan)...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 10:15

... sources of energy (at fuel life cycle level), production and transportation of electricity, and production and transportation of hydrogen (and the same for the gasoline for the conventional vehicles) ... C´s, and 26% of vehicle D´s, there were increases (relatively only one passenger, the driver) of near 14%, 15%, 17%, and 19% respectively The ICEV and the HEV presented respectively 108% and 59% ... 54%, and vehicle D 71% The ICEV has 123%, and the HEV 71% more consumption than the Vehicle A in original cycle, and when the HVAC system is on these conventional vehicles have respectively 97% and...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 14:58

... syntax and semantics and giving an overview of syntactic and semantic features of negation in both English and Vietnamese 12 - Studying negation in terms of its structures and semantics and finding ... structures and semantic characteristics and how it works in English and Vietnamese Chapter will focus on two parts: comparison between English and Vietnamese negatives in terms of syntactic features and ... distinguish few and a few, little and a little because of their different meaning and usage Lets see these examples: Mr Commissioner, if you let the land sharks take the roof from over my children and the...

Ngày tải lên: 11/12/2013, 23:53

... English and Vietnamese-A contrastive analysis We also hope that specific analysis and suggested exercises provided will contribute a small part in teaching and learning Semantics in general and metonymy ... Minh Hải - 40A2 Metonymy in English and Vietnamese-A contrastive analysis language and is still understandable and acceptable because the hearer can understand what the sentences imply In the ... we believe and how we act We listen to and Graduation paper Trịnh Minh Hải - 40A2 Metonymy in English and Vietnamese-A contrastive analysis take over existing habits of speaking and thinking...

Ngày tải lên: 19/12/2013, 15:06

... antonyms E.g."sky" and " earth" are antonyms when they symbolize the meaning of high and low "day " and "night " symbolize for "light anddark", up date and out of date " "elephant and mouse" symbolize ... part of speech and to the same semantic field but are opposite in meaning E.g married and single awake and asleep big and small They are antonyms But considering the words "big "and "red", they ... word can have different antonyms E g short and long short and tall old and young old and new Polysemantic words may have antonyms in some of their meanings and more in the others When "criticism"...

Ngày tải lên: 20/12/2013, 18:16

... groups and proverbs, we will come to the next part 1.1.4 Distinction between idioms and free word groups and proverbs 1.1.4.1 Free word groups and idioms The distinction between free word groups and ... idioms referring to Head and a contrastive analysis with Vietnamese ones based on structural and semantic features We hope that this will be an interesting and useful teaching and learning material ... idioms referring to Head and also help them understand the cultural characteristics of English and Vietnamese people via the idioms The third aim is to help the teaching and learning of idioms...

Ngày tải lên: 20/12/2013, 18:33

... the transfer of energy between a solid surface and the adjacent fluid that is in motion, and it involves the combined effects of conduction and fluid motion Radiation is the transfer of energy ... heating, and this will manifest itself as a slight rise in the temperature of the fluid In fluid systems, we are usually interested in increasing the pressure, velocity, and/ or elevation of a fluid ... extracted and the mechanical energy of the fluid is expressed by the pump efficiency and turbine efficiency, defined as h pump # # Wpump,u ¢E mech ,fluid Mechanical energy increase of the fluid ϭ...

Ngày tải lên: 20/01/2014, 15:19

... 3.1.1 Sources for Analysis The data from this booklet had been used for analysis of the overall results of the project, coverage of new accounts opened, and analysis of willingness and unwillingness ... Sources for Analysis 15 3.2 Account Usage Behaviour 16 3.2.1 Sources for Analysis 16 3.3 Cost and Break Even of No Frills Accounts 16 3.3.1 Sources for Analysis ... transactions and balance Some of the reasons behind non usage of accounts are also covered 3.2.1 Sources for Analysis For usage analysis, transaction data were collected from bank branches on a randomly...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 11:20

... and K Griebenow Structural dynamics and serine protease catalysis Table Kinetic and thermodynamic parameters derived from amide H D exchange rates for a-CT and for the various lactose-a-CT and ... J Sola and K Griebenow Structural dynamics and serine protease catalysis Table Global energetic parameters and DebyeWaller temperature factors calculated for the protein portion of a-CT and the ... dynamics and enzyme kinetics Next we performed a statistical correlation analysis (Fig 6) between the structural dynamic (DGHX,1) and catalytic (DG k2, DG k3) thermodynamic parameters (Tables and...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 05:20

... the grammatical and semantic characteristics of onomatopoeia The former includes Kloe (1977), Kaida et al (1985) and Taylor (2006), and the latter Schourup (1993) and Tamori and Schourup (1999) ... corpus- and usage-based analysis to clarify grammatical/semantic features of representative onomatopoeic words; and (iii) to examine register variations of onomatopoeic words Method and Data ... (documents, reports, etc.) / Learned and scientific writings / General fiction / Mystery and detective fiction / Science fiction / Adventure and Western fiction / Romance and love story / Humor) This...

Ngày tải lên: 24/02/2014, 18:20

... Business Processes 31 74 10 Analysis Aids: Worksheets and Tools 32 75 10.1 Analysis Worksheets and Guidelines 32 76 10.1.1 Analysis Worksheets and Editor………………………………………………… ... Process and Business Information Analysis Methodology and Meta Model Analysis teams will use methodologies and meta models to specify the business processes in an electronic business community An analysis ... Purpose and domain MAY be defined and scoped by Business Process and Business Information Analysis Overview Copyright © UN/CEFACT and OASIS, 2001 All Rights Reserved Page 38 of 40 ebXML BP/CC Analysis...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 20:21

... at pH The control analysis showed CJ Ei values of 0.08 and 0.2 for PGAM and 0.85 and 0.57 for PPDK at 10 and 39 mU of added PPDK, respectively PGAM was 91 mU, ENO was 309 mU and LDH was 11 U; ... glycolysis E Saavedra et al in which Vf and Vr represent the maximal forward and reverse rates, Ks and Kp are the Michaelis constants for substrate s and product p, and kz is the rst-order rate constant ... cofactor and are found in bacteria, fungi and some protozoans, whereas class I aldolases not require a metal cofactor and are present in bacteria, protozoa, animal and plant cells [34] This analysis...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 17:20