... investigated whether suPAR levels changed in individual patients duringthefirst week of ICU treatment Within thefirst week, the following surviving patients were discharged from the ICU: n = ... from the ICU duringthefirst week At admission to the ICU, serum suPAR concentrations in the total cohort and the subgroups of sepsis and nonsepsis patients were closely correlated to markers of ... upon admission and duringthe clinical course within thefirst week Serum suPAR concentrations did not significantly differ within thefirst week, either for the total cohort of critically ill...
... 200 mg b.i.d The unplanned pregnancy was identified during her first trimester of gestation after the patient had experienced 7.4 weeks of amenorrhea The patient was informed ofthe potential ... that they have no competing interests Authors' contributions MC was responsible ofthe clinical management ofthe patient, acquisition of data, drafting the manuscript; SS was responsible ofthe ... editing ofthe manuscript; IB, FMS, MS were involved in clinical management ofthe patient and interpretation of data, PED was supervisor of clinical management ofthe patient and interpretation of...
... 0.05) The head was clinically involved in 2.7%, the extremities in 53.3%, the thorax in 19.6%, the spine in 6.5% and the pelvis in 17.9% of patients (Table 1) At the time of diagnosis, 22% of patients ... 0.8%, the extremities in 62.7%, the thorax in 9.7%, the spine in 8.4%, and the pelvis in 18.3% Table shows the course of disease concerning radiological lesions (means) in thefirst year of treatment ... using the ESR as a biochemical marker of response in the core set Some children in our cohort have a normal ESR throughout the study, compromising the utility ofthe definition of improvement The...
... of one cigarette or more daily duringthefirst months of life and/or maternal smoking at one year of age ofthe child Quantitative information i.e the number of cigarettes smoked both of mothers ... thefirst two years of life ofthe children was reported for 25% ofthe children In families with smoking fathers 34% ofthe mothers smoked compared to 8.3% in families with non-smoking fathers ... Smoking 1during pregnancy and thefirst two years ofthe child Smoking during pregnancy and thefirst two years ofthe child and parents with or without asthma and/or respiratory allergy of one...
... sections, taking into account that the ratio ofthe area ofthe intestinal stroma to the area of surface epithelium Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Theoretical Biology and Medical ... systematic investigation of CD30 antigen expression in non-hematopoietic embryonal tissues duringthe proliferation and differentiation stages, beginning with the epithelial cells ofthe developing intestinal ... seminoma [21] and in the seminomatous components of 7/14 cases of mixed germ cell tumours ofthe testis [22] Suster et al detected the CD30 antigen in 6/25 yolk sac tumours ofthe testis and mediastinum...
... superior because The transducer tip is closer to the pregnancy This allows a higher frequency transducer The exception being nuchal translucency More freedom of movement on the anterior abdominal ... abdominal wall Gestational Sac First ultrasound sign of pregnancy At weeks day to weeks days 2-3 mm At weeks 5mm, can be seen abdominally Beware ofthe pseudo sac week sac Yolk Sac Transvaginal ... Transabdominal Should be seen at weeks, MSD 25mm First Trimester Gestational Age Best predicted by the Crown Rump Measurement Signs ofFirst Trimester Pregnancy Failure Sac with...
... Use of health careThe aim of this section is to analyse the current use of health care services by the elderly and the determinants of this utilisation Indicators for the use of health care ... ERIKA SCHULZ The other tasks of WP2 are to: • • • • • • show the current use of health care services by the elderly; analyse the determinants ofthe demand for health care services; show the extent ... informal care- giving and changes in the labour force participation of women over time; analyse the contribution ofthe elderly to thecare and nursingofthe oldest old; and provide data on the rules...
... iron requirements of infants cannot be met by human milk alone at any stageof infancy The iron endowment at birth meets the iron needs ofthe breastfed infant in thefirst half of infancy, i.e ... the amounts of vitamins A and B6 in human milk are adequate to meet the requirements for infants duringthefirst months of life In populations deficient in vitamins A and B6, the amount of these ... intakes of human milk duringthefirst months Estimated needs duringthe second months are sometimes determined by extrapolating from these intake measures The reasons for selecting thefirst months...
... much lower in the early stages ofthe experiment but recovered part ofthe differences in comparison with the two other genotypes because of its longer growing season The end ofthe growth in ... that stem height ofthe three genotypes increased not in parallel duringthe growing season because ofthe different growth rate and the different bud set dates ofthe genotypes Thefirst genotype ... H2 is the height ofthe cone (difference between total height ofthe main stem and 100 cm) and R2 is the radius at the base ofthe cone (coincident with the upper base ofthe truncated cone)...
... injection helped maintain the smoothness ofthe surface ofthe articular cartilage (Figure 2) Histological analyses demonstrated that 30 km of strenuous running induced depletion ofthe articular cartilage ... affected by degeneration ofthe articular cartilage In the present study, we cannot answer how the error of ignoring nonsulfated disaccharides could affect the measurement ofthe total keratan sulfate ... of hyaluronan suppressed progression of osteoarthritis One ofthe mechanisms was to prevent release of keratan sulfate from the cartilage matrix This could be monitored by the concentration of...
... months old, and to recruit the new owners ofthe puppies to participate in the study (the dogs were delivered to their new owners at approximately weeks old) The new owners ofthe puppies were asked ... comparing the prevalences in the different regions and counties with each other (a dog being classified as positive if the actual parasite was identified in the dog duringthe course ofthe study), ... Giardia Some ofthe dogs had more than one positive sample for either or both parasites for the puppies to rid themselves ofthe infection, which is consistent with the findings of Lloyd and...
... overestimate the magnitude of psychological distress However, the aim ofthe study was to assess the level and course of symptoms duringthefirst year after ICU discharge A formal diagnosis of PTSD ... included in the regression analyses, in the analyses ofthe course of symptoms or in the analyses of prevalence The results from these patients (n = 43) were only used for comparisons with the responders ... 2, measured duringthefirst 24 hours of stay in the ICU NEMS, Nine equivalents ofnursing manpower use score presented as mean NEMS per day LOS ICU, Length of stay in intensive care unit at...
... 20 days duringthe experiment 12 Table 4.3 Result the length ofthe fish after 20 days duringthe experiment 13 Table 4.4 Result the weight ofthe fish after 20 days duringthe experiment ... quality parameters duringthe experiment .15 Table 4.6 Mouth gape size of fish in 20 days duringthe experiment 16 Table 4.7 Result the length ofthe fish after 20 days duringthe experiment ... experiment 17 Table 4.8 Result the weight ofthe fish after 20 days duringthe experiment 18 iv List of Figures Figures Figure 3.1 Dimensions ofthe buccal apparatus of Cetropomus undecimalis 10...
... the early stageof atherosclerosis, the number of Cx43 gap junction plaques increased and the diameter of gap junction became smaller in during endometrial thickening Duringthe progression of ... connections The present study aimed to detect the expression of Cx40 and Cx43 in the artery at early stageof high fat diet induced atherosclerosis and to investigate the effects of AT1 antagonist ... changes The internal wall of vessels was slick in the normal group, while lumens were smaller in the high fat diet group than in the normal group Vessel wall is in the condition of rugosity and the...
... than to the distribution as a whole None of these manipulations ofthe data changed the essential contours ofthe results: class location is simply not a powerful determinant ofthe amount of housework ... manner the relationship between class and the gender division oflabor in the household The basic objective of this chapter, then, is to explore empirically the relationship between class and the ... gender in the home 147 spite ofthe differences in theoretical argument, the role of domestic labor in the linkage between class relations and gender relations was a central theme With this theoretical...
... Having the concept ofthe internal energy, we can formulate thefirst law of thermodynamics 4/29/2008 11 2.2 Formulation ofthefirst law of thermodynamics: Consider a change of state ofthe system ... Chapter XV TheFirst Law of Thermodynamics §1 Heat, work and paths of a thermodynamic process §2 Thefirst law of thermodynamics §3 Kinds of thermodynamic processes §4 Thermodynamic processes ... Q-W U Thefirst law of thermodynamics: The change of internal energy The work done by a system: The quantity of heat added to the system The work done by the system V2 W PdV V1 The relation...
... levels of apoptotic markers duringthe late stages of MPyV infection However, comparison ofthe levels of apoptotic markers and cytotoxicity duringthe replication of wt MPyV, and replication ofthe ... as a control of sample loadings Discussion In the present work, the cytotoxic properties ofthe minor structural proteins (VP2 and VP3) ofthe MPyV were studied in the absence of other virus components ... inducers of apoptosis The low toxicity of tVP3, observed duringthe first 24 h post-transfection, suggests that domain ofthe minor capsid proteins may be important for the potentiation of apoptosis...
... indicate the position and orientation ofthe primers Bold font represents the sequence of mature miR9* and italic fonts the sequence of mature miR9 (C) RT-PCR analysis of pri-miR9s duringthe neuronal ... vivo imaging of gene expression of endogenous pri-miR9 during neurogenesis To image in vivo the endogenous expression ofthe pri-miR9 in small animals, 2.5 · 106 of P19 cells bearing the miR9-1PN3_Fluc ... differentiation (A) The chromosomal region of has-primiR9-1 (B) Schematic diagram ofthe upstream region of pri-miR9-1 fused to a promoterless FLuc reporter vector The promoter sizes ofthe construct...
... the absence ofthe SK fragment (B inset) Dependence with the pH ofthe wavelength ofthe maximum ofthe fluorescence spectra for the ANS + SK 1–63 mixtures relative to the spectrum of free ANS ... their detachment from the remainder ofthe protein Domain A, on the other hand, is destabilized by 9–10 °C when excised from the rest ofthe chain Visual inspection ofthe crystal structure of ... characterization ofthe thermally induced aggregation of SK using a variety of techniques The results provide us with some ofthe properties of these high molecular mass aggregates and help to delimit the...
... remembered mainly as thefirst and noblest ofthe women of her imperial race who bore the title of Governess ofthe Netherlands MARTIN HUME THEFIRST GOVERNESS OFTHE NETHERLANDS MARGARET OF AUSTRIA CHAPTER ... of his wife was arrogantly claiming, not only the crown of Castile, but TheFirst Governess ofthe Netherlands, by Eleanor E Tremayne 10 the entire control of its policy against the wish ofthe ... climate made it the favourite home ofthe Dukes of Savoy Below in the valley, which extends to the Rhone, the waters ofthe river Ain join those ofthe Suran To the south and east are the mountain...