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Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 07:20

... challenges and barriers in communication, organizational response, standards of care, and surge capacity Meta-leaders build and maintain relationships and establish clear channels of communication ... develop a planning framework (surge capacity and capability map) that presents all available and relevant internal and external resources This framework should be transparent, updated, and shared ... hospitals will face in a mass casualty event (MCE) include surge capacity and capability issues in emergency and trauma services, as well as medical, paramedical, administrative, logistical, and...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 03:20

... substrate Ile-Glu-Ala-Arg-p-nitroanilide (IEARpNA) [31] ProHP8Xa lacked IEARase activity, but after the zymogen was activated by factor Xa, IEARase activity increased significantly above that of factor ... Kanost MR (2004) Beta-1,3-glucan recognition protein-2 (betaGRP-2)from Manduca sexta; an acute-phase protein that binds beta-1,3-glucan and lipoteichoic acid to aggregate fungi and bacteria and ... ¨ [24,25] Jang et al [11] described a B mori clip-domain proteinase called BAEEase as a candidate proSpatzle-1 ¨ activator, because it is activated by upstream serine proteinase cascade components...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 09:22

... ELISAs, and guided or performed image analysis, analyzed data and drafted the manuscript LJ performed tissue preparation, immunohistochemistry, image analysisand ELISAs KT carried out ELISAs and ... embedded in paraffin The other hemi-brain was snap frozen and stored at -80°C for biochemical analysis of A Anti -A antibody ELISA Anti -A antibodies in plasma were measured by ELISA as previously ... Unger WW, Jansen W, Wolvers DA, van Halteren AG, Kraal G, Samsom JN: Nasal tolerance induces antigen- specific CD4+CD25regulatory T cells that can transfer their regulatory capacity to naive CD4+...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 22:20

... TCTGTGGTGTTCTTCGTTGC ACAATTTAGGAGGTGCCGTG Rev MT-I Fwd NM_021283.2 CCAGCTGGTACAGCAGACAA Fwd GCTGTCCTCTAAGCGTCACC Rev MT-II NM_008337.3 NM_009892.2 AGGAGCAGCAGCTCTTCTTG Fwd CAAACCGATCTCTCGTCGAT Rev AGGAGCAGCAGCTTTTCTTG ... NM_008084.2 GGATGCAGGGATGATGTTCT Fwd ACTGGCAAAAGGATGGTGAC GACCTGTGGGTTGTTGACCT Fwd TCAACCCCCAGCTAGTTGTC Rev IL-4 Accession No CCCAGAAGACTGTGGATGG Rev IFN-g Sequence (5’ - 3’) Fwd Rev GAPDH TCTGTGGTGTTCTTCGTTGC ... Burlingame, CA, USA) as a blocking reagent Biotinylated goat anti-rat IgG (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA, USA), biotinylated goat anti-rabbit IgG (Invitrogen) or donkey anti-goat IgG (Santa Cruz, Santa...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 22:20

... displays annual growth rings (Lowe, 1968; Paliwal and Prasad, 1970; Lawton and Lawton, 1971; Rao, 1972; Amobi, 1973; Paliwal et al, 1976; Ghouse and Shamima Hashmi, 1979; Zamski, 1979; Rao and Dave, ... boundary was not always uniform at the cellular level, mainly because of the occurrence of parenchyma bands In this area, parenchyma cells changed from a radially flattened type to a radially dilated ... phyllotaxy units Each sympodial MATERIALS AND METHODS and unit is characteristic of the genus Terminalia, the Terminalia branching being specifically described in T catappa (Hallé and Oldeman, 1970;...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:22

... similar to that in some tropical and temper- ate woody species, such as Persea americana, Pinus taeda, Populus deltoides (Bor- Tabernaemontana crassa (Prévost, 1972) and to the radial growth rate ... (green) leaves The mean diameter of axes was measured with a calliper rule: main stems at cm above and below each tier, and different branches at the base a tape A complete set of data was collected ... superba plants growing in a natural environment still remains to be examined A comparative study of the growth rates before and after the month of March has shown that primary and secondary growths,...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:22

... severity of arthritis in each paw was graded on a scale from to The maximum arthritic score for each paw was 4, and the total arthritis score per rat was 16 For histological assessment of arthritis, ... Arthritis Research & Therapy Vol No Tong and Moudgil RA, osteoarthritis, lower back pain, and so on Celastrus and some of its defined constituents possess anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidant, and ... cell infiltrate, synovial hyperplasia, cartilage damage and bone erosion [33,34] Each of these parameters was graded on a scale from to as follows: = absent; = mild; = moderate; and = severe...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:20

... unknown primary, gastrointestinal and pancreas, skin melanoma, and other rare sources Among men, however, the primary sites are the lung, unknown primary, gastrointestinal and pancreas, prostate, ... chemotherapy Thus, chemotherapy alone can be a viable treatment for choroidal metastasis if the primary tumor is responsive to chemotherapy As such, acute radiation damage and its sequelae to vital ... detachment is common and sound attenuation in the lesion is usually moderate [7] Treatment options available are external beam radiotherapy, plaque radiotherapy, and new methods like surgical Page...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 12:20

... IL-1alpha and IL-1beta by endothelial cells, fibroblasts, and macrophages can be profibrotic and not only exacerbates the inflammatory response, but also activates and stimulates proliferation ... cytokine analysis, and helped prepare figures for the manuscript CH assisted with animal care and organ preparation for histologic examination, assisted with histology data analysis EC helped to ... proliferation of T and B cells [21] Activated T cells produce additional IL1alpha and IL-1beta as well as IL-2, which further propagate the inflammatory response by activating macrophages, natural killer...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:21

... Mingxian, Valerie and Velda and Yen Han, thank you for the many, many good years of friendship To my dear friends Bean, Emily, Kenrick, Marcus, Natascha, Wei Ting, Xiao Xuan and Yi Kang, I am thankful ... cytometers, and Benson from the Kemeny Lab for accommodating my requests for animals To the members of the Alonso Lab, past and present (and honorary)— Aakanksha, Adrian, Annabelle, Emily, Eshele, Fiona, ... standard methods for diagnosing active TB (Steingart et al., 2006) A new automated, PCRbased molecular diagnostic assay called Xpert MTB/RIF has recently gained WHO approval, and is far more rapid...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 08:20

... Margareth MacDonald, Petra Skalicka and Hana Kostalova – who have been for several years steadily contributing to the quality of PIN’s educational programs and the value of this training manual ... subject area you might want the students to compare different items, e.g two vegetables (tomato and potato; onion and garlic, etc.), two literary characters (Bilcho and Tom Thumb, lion and parrot), ... with a selected letter For example with letter A (Awassa, Addis, Alaba, A , Athens, Asore ); Several animals that start with the same letter (hen, horse, hyena ); Towns in Africa with names starting...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2016, 19:32

... temporal resolution aerosol data Compounds are grouped into factors according to their covariance, and the strength of association between compounds and factors is expressed as a loading matrix Each ... preconcentration traps, chromatography columns, and detectors Channel was designed for preconcentration and separation of C3 – C6 nonmethane hydrocarbons, including alkanes, alkenes and alkynes, on an ... incorrectly attributing a nonzero fraction of the variance to a given factor) The analysis was limited to six factors since including more factors failed to account for more than an additional 2% of...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 21:20

... (lifestyle and medication) to help achieve and maintain the HbA1c target level q inform a person with a higher HbA1c that any reduction in HbA1c towards the agreed target is advantageous to future health ... pharmacotherapies, in primary care, pharmacies, local authorities and workplaces, with particular reference to manual working groups, pregnant smokers and hard to reach communities’, Public health ... deficiency and high sugar intake can lead to a related state (hyperosmolar coma) Type diabetes is notable for the increased cardiovascular risk that it carries This can be manifest as coronary artery...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 14:20

... environmental issues to improve safety and motor function cognitive assessment and appropriate intervention s Access to speech and language therapy Speech and language therapy should be available for people ... TRODAT-1 SPECT: Quantitative analysis55 Same as above 98 88 Ib 100 100 II TRODAT-1 SPECT: Contralateral putamen/occipital and contralateral putamen/caudate57 78 40 TRODAT-1 SPECT: Quantitative ... treatments The authors indicated that a 0.55 ATME gain per patient is equivalent to approximately 17 additional days of treatment to a PD patient or withholding approximately days of treatment and...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 13:20

... guidance for ligand binding assays [12] as a foundation in which to base the validation of a flow cytometry pharmacodynamic assay and applying the "appropriate" parameters for a cell based cytometry ... calibration and data analysis A Becton Dickenson FACSCalibur instrument using 488 argon and red-diode lasers was calibrated daily using QC3 calibration beads (Bangs Laboratories) MESF was determined ... ELISA and mass spectrometry based technologies, is the ability of an assay to measure analyte against a standard or quantitative control (QC) and is the most difficult of the parameters to define...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 15:20

... stimulated the downstream intracellular signaling pathway, causing cell detachment and motility in metastatic melanoma cells and enhancing cell proliferation in primary melanomas carrying NRAS Q61L ... PLX4032, a selective BRAF (V600E) kinase inhibitor, activates the ERK pathway and enhances cell migration and proliferation of BRAF melanoma cells Pigment Cell Melanoma Res 2010, 23:190-200 Pratilas ... M, Edwards R: Application of a BRAF pyrosequencing assay for mutation detection and copy number analysis in malignant melanoma J Mol Diagn 2007, 9:464-471 Hay R, MacRae E, Barber D, Khalil M,...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20

... divided into major classes Inflammatory cytokines (e.g TNFa, IL- 1a, and IL-1b; also referred to as proinflammatory) promote the production of inflammatory mediators, and anti-inflammatory cytokines ... clearance and Galectin-3/MAC-2 expression during normal Wallerian degeneration (A) A Schwann cell that is surrounded by basal lamina (arrow heads) forms a myelin sheath around an intact axon; Bar ... normal Wallerian degeneration, have been implicated IL-1b Page of 14 and TNFa may sensitize intact axons to produce spontaneous activity and/ or enhanced activity in response to mechanical and...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 22:20

... ΨΠ, and the ΨΠ value varie with both investigator and species, summarize the effects of the variations in the ln RWC/(–ln (–ΨΠ)) relationship, and are calculated by many authors as an indicator ... molecular and physiological determinants of water-use efficiency and drought resistance in major forest trees” (DELTA), and two national programs ACC-SV3 (the Research and Education Ministry) and ... [2] Baradat P., Pastuszka P., Le pin maritime, in: Gallais A. , Bannerot H (Eds.), Amélioration des Espèces Végétales Cultivées, INRA, Paris, 1992, pp 695–709 [3] Blum A. , Towards standard assays...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:21

... establishment of provenance trials The area investigated within each stand varied between 15 and 20 A random sample of 120 acorns was taken from each bulked seed lot and used for further analysis ... populations, and 2) central populations only (1, 3, 6, 12, 17, 32 and 36) The choice of central populations was arbitrary The main objective of this analysis was to separate the total sample ... separated populations Information from a larger set of loci is necessary to clarify post-glacial migration pathways st G values calculated in our study are similar to those found in regional...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 19:21