motility dynamics and mitophagy as a quality control axis

... Intensive Care Med 2004, 30:996-997 doi:10.1186/cc8189 Cite this article as: Aardema LM, et al.: Value and price of ventilator-associated pneumonia surveillance as a quality indicator Critical Care ... for the interdisciplinary team Crit Care Med 2006, 34:211-218 Horan TC, Andrus M, Dudeck MA: CDC/NHSN surveillance definition of health care-associated infection and criteria for specific types ... in the acute care setting Am J Infect Control 2008, 36:309-332 Tulleken JE, Zijlstra JG, Ligtenberg JJ, Spanjersberg R, Van der Werf TS: Ventilator-associated pneumonia: caveats for benchmarking...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21

... Center, Santa Cruz Laboratory, Santa Cruz, California 95060 Jonathan A Hare (243), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Ocean Service, National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, ... indicate Atlantic sites Families: 1, Acanthoclinidae; 2, Acanthuridae; 3, Albulidae; 4, Antennariidae; 5, Aplodactylidae; 6, Aploacinidae; 7, Apogonidae; 8, Aulostomidae; 9, Balistidae; 10, Batrachoididae; ... fish families are equivocal or based on otoliths The oldest records of the Acanthuridae, Labridae, and Pomacentridae (and the Zanclidae, Siganidae, Ephippidae, and Sparidae) based on skeletal material...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 18:21

... the prodomain, the common naturally occurring A5 3V variation that has no significant effect on plasma cholesterol levels and the R46L variation, a naturally occurring variant associated with hypocholesterolemia ... immunoprecipitated PCSK9 from cells and media, and analyzed samples by SDS ⁄ PAGE fractionation followed by phosphorimaging (Fig 5) Lanes and and and represent immunoprecipitated PCSK9 from media and total ... specific band just above the major propeptide band represents the propeptide generated by the alternate signal peptidase cleavage following Ala28 instead of Ala30, as shown in the mass spectra previously...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 06:20

... PAGE (15% acrylamide) and PhosphorImager analysis To calculate reaction stoichiometries, radiolabeled reaction products and radioactive standards were quantitated using IMAGEQUANT software (Amersham ... Schizophrenia and Depression (JAB), the National Institute of Mental Health (ACN and RWG), the Department of Defense (JAB and AAF), the Department of Veterans A airs (RWG), and the Ella McFadden Charitable ... translational regulation, rate of turnover, subcellular localization, or association with as yet undefined regulatory factors The most abundant nucleoside kinase in mammals, AK has emerged as a key...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 18:20

... TGTAAAG TGTAAAG + ) + )95 )1100 )1470 ACACacG ACACttG ACACaaG + + + + ) ) ) ) ) )140 )1100 )1596 )1632 )140 )1100 )1596 )1632 )1874 CAaaTG CAagTG CAaaTG CAaaTG CAaaTG CActTG CAttTG CAgtTG TGAGTCA ... peptide was constructed as follows The DNA fragment was amplified from GmPDIM cDNA by PCR using the primers 5¢-GACGACGACAAGATGC ACGCACTCTATGGAGC-3¢ and 5¢-GAGGAGAAGC CCGGTTCATAGCTCATCCTTGCTTGAAG-3¢ ... soybean cotyledons during maturation (A) GmPDIM mRNA was quantified by real time RT-PCR Each value was standardized by dividing the value by that for actin mRNA Values are calculated as a percentage...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 04:20

... example, ATPase/helicase activity is found associated with TFIIH and chromatin remodeling complexes and plays crucial roles in transcriptional initiation and preinitiation The ATPase/helicase activity ... were harvested, and the extracts were prepared for luciferase assay Luciferase activity was measured by the Luciferase Assay System (Promega, Madison, WI) as described previously [26] Transfection ... efficiency was monitored by Renilla luciferase activity using the pRL-TK plasmid (Promega) as an internal control The data are presented as the fold increase in luciferase activities (mean ± SD) relative...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 15:20

... prostate carcinoma Am J Surg Pathol 2001, 25:1397-1404 Rubin MA, Zhou M, Dhanasekaran SM, Varambally S, Barrette TR, Sanda MG, Pienta KJ, Ghosh D, Chinnaiyan AM: alpha-Methylacyl coenzyme A racemase ... AMACR and PSA Immunostaining of prostate cancer tissue with antibodies against AMACR and PSA Surgically resected prostate cancer tissue was immunostained with an anti-AMACR antibody (panel A) or anti-PSA ... mRNA was observed in normal adult liver and pancreas (Figure 1A) In contrast, the AMACR mRNA level was elevated in all three prostate cancer cell lines (LNCaP, DU145 and PC-3) and in surgically...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 15:20

... immune activation: a longitudinal analysis in patients before and during highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) Blood 2000, 95:249-255 Brenchley JM, Paiardini M, Knox KS, Asher AI, Cervasi ... CD4+ and CD8+ T cells and of natural killer (NK) cells from the resting state, increased T and NK cell turnover and death, polyclonal B cell activation with increased immunoglobulin levels, and ... suggesting that microbial trans­ location may not be the cause of general immune activation However, further analysis is warranted before a role for microbial translocation on T cell dynamics can be...

Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2014, 19:21

... measurements and involving all stages of disease and a demographically broad sample Prospective rather than cross-sectional measurements have important advantages, in guarding against cohort bias (differences ... patient group in a rheumatology practice? The available literatures have been based on a posteriori analyses of data from randomized, controlled trials and small, qualitative research Figure arthritis ... population was Gaussian The mean (standard deviation) overall HAQ-DI was 1.27 (0.82) Interestingly, 249 patients (4%) had no disability at all revealed in any of their observations Table Baseline...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:24

... the data and drafted the manuscript AHL and YZ analysed the data and revised the manuscript CWB designed the study and revised the manuscript TH, YT and KN assisted with data collection and interpretation ... cancer and cardiovascular disease [22] Its validity and reproducibility had been established for the Japanese population [23] The reference recall period for dietary variables was set at years before ... participants by gender and case -control status The average age of subjects was about 66 years For the prevalent case group, 220 patients (80%) had their COPD diagnosed within the past two years The...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 14:20

... Khoo, Hooman Samani, Nimesha Ranasinghe, Dilrukshi Abeyrathna, Weiquan Lu, Kening Zhu, Elham Saadatian, Kasun Karunanayaka, , Shuang Yu, Haimo Zhang, Zhongyuan Zhang, Toni-Jan Keith Monserrat, Chen ... verbal and nonverbal behavior of their avatars, such as the facial expression, gaze, and speech [9] By augmenting their representational, sensory, and situational characteristics, interactants may ... living away and maintaining their social relationships” [87] On the other hand, humans communicate and interact with each other in rich and complex ways Thanks to the increasing use and release...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:02

... IFMR and Diviya Wahi, Shilpa Deshpande, and Anant Natu from ICICI Bank is gratefully acknowledged References Ananth, Bindu, Bastavee Barooah, Rupalee Ruchismita and Aparna Bhatnagar 2004 A Blueprint ... A P H S it has been argued that there exist a set of market-based approaches that have the potential to address poverty on a scaled basis At the heart of this approach is building universal access ... research and product design capabilities both at a basic level and at an advanced level Launch of FINO, an Application Services Provider (ASP) that seeks to provide front-end (smart card, point-of-sale...

Ngày tải lên: 30/08/2016, 15:25

... functions: xTaskCreate() and vTaskDelete() To delay a main task in a specific time, FreeRTOS provides two functions vTaskDelay() and vTaskDelayUntil() And to suspend or resume a task to be available ... xTaskCreate() Create a new task and add it to the list of tasks that are ready to run vTaskDelete() Delete a task vTaskDelay() Delay a task for a given number of ticks; push the task to the state ... memory is a 16-bit value data type, therefore the pointer will be a 16-bit value ARRAYS: An array is a data set of a declared type, arranged in order An array is declared with the array name and the...

Ngày tải lên: 23/09/2016, 16:09

... Source: [52] a Canadian figures for 2000 from Statistics Canada (Statistics Canada, 2002) The data and analysis related to the availability and quality of childcare for Canadian women and those from ... by social democratic (Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, and Austria), Christian democratic (Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland), or liberal Anglo-Saxon (Canada, Ireland, ... and US and to a lesser extent in Canada 9.1 Decline of the welfare state Teeple [11] sees increasing income and wealth inequalities and the weakening of social infrastructures within Canada and...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 11:20

... Prevignano, Duane Savage-Rumbaugh, Susan SavageRumbaugh, Zhang Shaojie, Jared Tagliatela, Godfrey Tanner, Amy Tsui, Theo van Leeuwen, Eija Ventola, and David Wallace To my daughter, Ilaria, many thanks ... scalar levels of semiotic and material organization Michael Halliday, Ruqaiya Hasan, and Jay Lemke deserve a very special mention for their generosity and support – both intellectual and personal ... include Basil Bernstein, Mikhail Bakhtin, Robert de Beaugrande, James J Gibson, Michael Halliday, Ruqaiya Hasan, Walter Kauffman, Lakoff & Johnson, Jay Lemke, Jean Piaget, Stanley Salthe, xii Preface...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 15:20

... 11 and a girl aged 13 – 14 years) also participated in the translations The translators discussed semantic and conceptual discrepancies and finally developed a consensus-based forward translation ... "Often" and = "Always") Mean scores are calculated for each of the six subscales and for the total scale and linearly transformed to a – 100 scale In school populations, the German ILC has shown an ... or 14 years) and 10th grade (age 15 or 16 years) The national Norwegian database for primary education (GSI) was used to enumerate all pupils attending any of the targeted grades at all schools...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... Gender andMarital status are covariates only for ExP • Age is not a relevant covariate for any of the five forms of SpR practice • Disease itself has an impact on NoP (and a minor impact on HuP and ... statistical analysis and drafted the manuscript TO participated to conceive and design the study assisted in statistical analysis and helped to draft the manuscript PFM participated in the design and ... diseases who have stressful psychological and social changes, as well as existential struggles related to meaning and purpose Surveys suggest that most patients regard their spiritual health and...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... when bacterium was stimulated by aspartate Dashed lines show bacterial division points after 80 of stimulation by aspartate, localized Tar was diffused completely Then, the aspartate was removed ... protein-localization dynamics and the motility for generations was developed • The decreasing and recovery of the Tar-localization in a living bacterium was monitored under environmental change Levit ... cultivation started, the Tar-localization ratio (red square) was 2.5 and the tumbling-frequency (blue circle) was 0.5 (s-1) (Fig 1B -a and Fig 2a) After the 2nd cell division was occurred, minimal...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 00:22

... Statistical analysis SPSS 12.0 software package (Chicago, IL) was used for statistical analyses, and p < 0.05 was considered statistically significant Normal distribution was evaluated by Shapiro-Wilkinson's ... capillary flow and thus a decrease in Vc This will result in a reduction in surface area available for gas exchange, and therefore in a decrease of Dm [25] Secondly, parenchymal and vascular destruction ... by a ratio less than 1[21] Analysis of hemodynamic parameters Pulmonary capillary wedge pressure (PCWP) was measured in order to exclude left sided heart disease and calculate pulmonary vascular...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 14:20

... biological sensitivity and standardized methodology Huangqin Tang (HQT) is a classical Chinese medicine formula for treating gastrointestinal ailments including diarrhea, nausea and abdominal cramps ... (n-1) ratios Matrices A and B were respectively designated as MA and MB Each column/row in MA and MB may be represented by the vectors as follows: A A x iA = ( MiA , MiA , MiA , MiA , MiA ,  ... death was observed by methylene blue staining Cells were harvested and RNA was isolated from both PHY906-6 treated and control treated cells The RNA was quantitated using qRT-PCR and standardized...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 15:21