... versus nonusers of methotrexate In the fifth and sixth columns of Tables and 2, we subdivided patients into users and nonusers of methotrexate Baseline characteristics and the use of antirheumatics ... value of 2.29 (µU mmol/ml l) for identification of insulin resistance and a threshold QUICKI value of 0.337 for identification of decreased insulin sensitivity Materials and method Patients and ... Switzerland); total cholesterol, HDLcholesterol, and triglycerides (Olympus Diagnostics, County Clare, Ireland); LDL-cholesterol (Randox Laboratories Ltd, Crumlin, UK); and plasma glucose and serum...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 06:22
... quyền sở hữu người cổ đơng - stockholders (principals) từ kiểm sốt người quản lý - managers (agents) (agents) Những người quản lý hành động theo cách riêng họ khơng quan tâm đến lợi ích cổ đơng ... dòng vốn p g ị g y g Các trung gian tài giảm chi phí giao dịch nào? Tạo kinh tế quy mơ (economies of scale) 2 Phát triển nghiệp vụ chun mơn làm giảm chi phí giao dịch (Puzzle 3) Copyright © 2000 ... Các nhà đầu tư khơng muốn mua chứng khốn xấu, thị trường khơng vân hành tốt g g Giải thích Puzzle and Puzzle Cũng giải thích Puzzle 6: Càng thơng tin bất cân xứng cho cơng ty hoạt động tốt vấn đề...
Ngày tải lên: 20/01/2014, 19:20
Tài liệu NTP-CERHR Monograph on the Potential Human Reproductive and Developmental Effects of Di-Isodecyl Phthalate (DIDP) pdf
... were 160 and 192% of controls and relative weights were 176 and 238%, respectively In low-dose males, absolute and relative weights were 121% of controls A variety of other effects were observed ... pregnancy and gestation Complete details of the study, including a description of reproductive effects in parents and offspring, are included in Section In the F1 offspring there were no effects ... adverse effects Concern for adverse effects Some concern for adverse effects Developmental effects Reproductive effects Minimal concern for adverse effects Negligible concern for adverse effects...
Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 10:20
Tài liệu A Dissertation on the Medical Properties and Injurious Effects of the Habitual Use of Tobacco pptx
... its peculiar effects End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of A Dissertation on the Medical Properties and Injurious Effects of the Habitual Use of Tobacco, by A McAllister *** END OF THIS PROJECT ... variety of computers including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers It exists because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from people in all walks of life Volunteers and ... meeting of the Medical Society of the County of Oneida, on the 5th of March, 1830, a communication was received, signed by a number of highly respectable gentlemen from this and other counties of...
Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 22:20
NTP-CERHR MONOGRAPH ON THE POTENTIAL HUMAN REPRODUCTIVE AND DEVELOPMENTAl EFFECTS OF BISPHENOL A pot
... than the developmental effects observed at “high” doses on survival and growth and the “low” dose effects on brain and behavior, mammary gland, prostate gland, and onset of puberty in females ... the incidence of a variety of other ovarian and uterine proliferative lesions and cysts were also reported Replication of these findings and further study of the linkage of early and late occurring ... confirm these findings and include longer periods of follow-up to understand the significance of the structural and cellular effects observed in fetuses and to clarify the relevance of prostate intraepithelial...
Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 16:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Alternative splicing: good and bad effects of translationally silent substitutions pdf
... splicing A variety of tools are available to us for this purpose and further investigation of these sequence variants will not only further our understanding of the splicing mechanism and improve clinical ... sites, most of them still lack experimental approaches directed at identifying the exact mechanism involved In spite of the well-known lack of reliability of in silico approaches, many of the synonymous ... (mouse–rat and human–dog) [10] This analysis showed a strong purifying selection at silent sites in a critical region of this gene [10], spanning the 3¢ end of exon 10 and the 5¢ end of exon 11...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 09:22
Báo cáo khoa học: Structural and biological effects of a b2- or b3-amino acid insertion in a peptide Application to molecular recognition of substance P by the neurokinin-1 receptor ppt
... screening of 4Ær and no cut-off was used Minimum-energy conformers of b- and a-amino acids were generated by molecular dynamics at high temperature followed by energy minimization Two thousand structures ... grid searches of b-amino acids were initially carried out at intervals of 30° for each torsion angle /, h, and w and were subsequently refined by varying /, w angles in intervals of 10° and setting ... shifts and random coil values, are commonly used to detect secondary structures in peptides and proteins [38] They are reported in Fig Stronger upfield shifts of Ha (Fig 3A) and downfield shifts of...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 08:20
The Effects of Land Use on the Mobility of Elderly and Disabled and Their Homecare Workers, and the Effects of Care on Client Mobility: Findings from Contra Costa, California pdf
... ii Abstract The Effects of Land Use on the Mobility of Elderly and Disabled and Their Homecare Workers, and the Effects of Care on Client Mobility: Findings from Contra ... University of California, Berkeley, for his advice and encouragement at every step of the way; Professor Elizabeth Deakin, Department of City & Regional Planning, Director of the University of California ... with survey design and thinking about the interaction of land use and transportation variables; Professor Paola Timiras, Department of Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley,...
Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 17:20
CLINICAL POLICIES AND PROTOCOLS - Bureau of Tuberculosis Control New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene pdf
... on the treatment of individuals who are HIV-positive and who are receiving antiretroviral agents and rifamycins, screening and treatment of children and information on the use of blood-based TB ... is a very serious infraction of New York State Public Health Law, New York City Health Code, Policies and Procedures of the BTBC and Standards of Conduct of the City of New York Laws Governing ... .133 Commissioner’s orders 145 Handling of the specimen 133 Care of equipment and area between uses 133 Care of room and nebulizer at the end of the day 134 Documentation ...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 03:20
industry and the effects of climate in italy
... depositing at the feet of the chains of huge deposits of sand, gravel and clay There then followed a phase of general increased marine predominance, lasting a good part of the Miocene and all the Pliocene ... submersion of the margins of this major Tyrrhenian island The coastlineThe complexity of the peninsula's relief is echoed in the diversity of its coastal profile Along the low and sandy Adriatic ... with the exceptions of the bulge of the Po delta and of the two rocky promontories of the Conero and Gargano The Ionian and Tyrrhenian shores are very different, their extensive sandy curves, corresponding...
Ngày tải lên: 21/03/2014, 22:04
Báo cáo khoa học: A distinct sequence in the adenine nucleotide translocase from Artemia franciscana embryos is associated with insensitivity to bongkrekate and atypical effects of adenine nucleotides on Ca2+ uptake and sequestration pdf
... protein sequence with that of other species (Xenopus, Drosophila, mouse isoforms 1, 2, and 4, rat isoforms and 2, bovine isoforms 1, 2, 3, and 4, and human isoforms 1, 2, 3, and 4) is shown in Fig ... applies to Artemia mitochondria, we tested the effect of ADP and ATP in the presence and absence of the ANT inhibitory ligand cATR, and of the F0F1ATP synthase inhibitor oligomycin The results ... well-characterized, inhibitors of ANT have also been reported [37] Mindful of (a) the well-established ligand profile of ANT, (b) the modulatory role of ANT in the mammalian PTP, and (c) the absence of a Ca2+-induced...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 00:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Prohibitin is expressed in pancreatic b-cells and protects against oxidative and proapoptotic effects of ethanol pdf
... at the expense of ATP synthe- MTT (% of control) A 120 100 * 80 * 60 40 20 0 20 mM 40 mM 60 mM 80 mM 100 mM ETOH B 120 100 MTT (% of control) have reported on deleterious effects of ethanol on ... proof of apoptosis, cleaved caspase-3 was determined in cell extracts by western blot (G) Representative blot of n = experiments showing 17 and 19 kDa caspase-3 cleavage bands and the levels of ... expressed as a percentage of the control (no ethanol) and shown as the mean ± SEM N = experiments *P < 0.05 versus control sis [28], we then determined the level of UCP2 protein and ATP production in...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 08:20
Remedying Hyperopia: The Effects of Self- Control Regret on Consumer Behavior pptx
... dearth of empirical research on self -control regret, a basic assumption underlying extant theories of self -control is that the anticipated regret of future lapses of control motivates the use of ... model of self -control Long-term regret is shown to relax self -control and to motivate consumers to spend more money and purchase and consume more indulgences and luxuries Key Findings and Alternative ... the passage of time attenuates regret about choosing vice and accentuates regret about choosing virtue because of the decay of indulgence guilt and the intensification of feelings of missing out...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 20:20
Báo cáo hóa học: "Regulatory T cell frequency in patients with melanoma with different disease stage and course, and modulating effects of high-dose interferon-a 2b treatment" pptx
... understanding of the mechanism of action of IFN-a 2b may facilitate the development of treatment strategies to increase efficacy and reduce toxicity, ultimately leading to a better standard of care ... history of psychiatric illness and depression; and a history of autoimmune disease Control groups The peripheral blood samples of healthy subjects who visited the Transfusion Medicine Unit of the ... understanding of the mechanism of action may help to potentiate the clinical efficacy and reduce the toxicity [13] of IFN-a 2b/PegIFN-a 2b Numerous studies suggest that the mechanism of action of...
Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20
báo cáo hóa học: " Dexamethasone diminishes the pro-inflammatory and cytotoxic effects of amyloid β-protein in cerebrovascular smooth muscle cells" docx
... Eagle medium (DMEM) and fetal bovine serum was obtained from Gibco-BRL (Grand Island, NY) Dexamethasone, ibuprofen, and indomethacin were obtained from Sigma (St Louis, MO) and resuspended as ... expression and activation of MMP-2 in response to Dutch mutant Aβ40 (Figure 5) On the other hand, indomethacin and ibuprofen, which did not block HCSM cell death, did not suppress expression and activation ... References reducing the risk of AD, delaying the age of onset, and slowing the progression of disease and cognitive impairments [42,43] Despite the potential for NSAIDs and steroidal anti-inflammatory...
Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 22:20
báo cáo hóa học: " Pro-inflammatory gene expression and neurotoxic effects of activated microglia are attenuated by absence of CCAAT/enhancer binding protein b" potx
... absence of C/EBPb specifically in microglia This strongly supports a role of C/EBPb in the regulation of potentially neurotoxic effects of microglia and suggests that the neuroprotective effects of ... respective control %p < 0.05; %%%p < 0.001 compared to respective LPS condition observed effects could be of astroglial origin However, in the case of the effects of C/EBPb absence on NOS2 expression and ... treatment, and in nuclear levels of both activating (Full/LAP) and inhibitory (LIP) C/EBPb isoforms 24 h after treatment The increases in C/EBPb mRNA and protein induced by LPS and LPS+IFNg were of similar...
Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 22:20
báo cáo hóa học:" Proliferating and differentiating effects of three different growth factors on pluripotent mesenchymal cells and osteoblast like cells" pdf
... synergistically [40] Therefore, for optimal stimulation of bone repair the controlled and local delivery of factors and factor combinations is mandatory [14,41,42] In the present study the growth ... healing phases The controlled temporal regulation of growth factor action is necessary because of the interaction of the different factors Less information on the interaction of factors is available, ... concerning the effect of both factors (PDGFbb and IGF-I) on osteoblast differentiation are controversy Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research 2007,...
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 01:20
báo cáo hóa học:" Pain in cancer. An outcome research project to evaluate the epidemiology, the quality and the effects of pain treatment in cancer patients" pptx
... usual practice (standard of care) and followed over time using standardized methods and forms to make possible a valid and reliable description of case-mix, pattern of care and outcomes Subjects ... x x x x *mandatory outcomes Later, Later, after the launch of the observational study and on the basis of results, in specific subsamples of patients, in select centers, a Randomized Controlled ... characteristics of a large sample of cancer patients in terms of case mix (patients characteristics), pattern of care (pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments) and relevant efficacy (analgesic and...
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "Genotoxicity and toxicological effects of acrylamide on reproductive system in male rats" ppsx
... 30 mM MgCl , mM KCl salt solution, and 4% of S9 fraction Each of fresh bacterial suspension, 0.1 ml of S9 mixture (or 0.5 ml phosphate buffer), and 0.1 ml of the test substance were mixed in ... concentration of acrylamide (2,500 and 5,000 µg/plate) in the presence and absence of S9 mixture Moreover, numbers of revertants in TA100 increased significantly (p < 0.01) at higher concentration of acrylamide ... doses of 72.5, 100, and 145 mg/kg Toxicity on reproductive system The body weights gained after administration of acrylamide were measured and compared After 72 hrs of last administration of acrylamide,...
Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 18:21