... income and poverty, low parent education levels, and race and ethnicity An intact two-parent family and regular church attendance are each associatedwith fewer problem behaviors, more positive social ... equal to that with family integrity An intact two-parent family and regular religious participation are also associatedwith the parent reporting less parenting stress and a better parentchild relationship ... biological parents and attend religious services weekly or monthly Another 30 percent attend religious services regularly but live with one parent only, with one parent and a stepparent, or with foster...
... using Neighbor-joining or parsimony methods with Kimura 2-parameter as a model of nucleotide substitution with the MEGA 3.1 [26] and Phylip v3.65 softwares The statistical significance of the tree ... grouped within one of the four lineages previously reported by Jin et al [5] (Fig 1) The typeable and untypeable G1 strains reported by Rahman et al [19], grouped within the lineage I with a high ... M, Azim T: Typing of human rotaviruses: nucleotide mismatches between the VP7 gene and primer areassociatedwith genotyping failure Virol J 2005, 2:24 Martella V, Terio V, Arista S, Elia G, Corrente...
... DISCUSSION The reduction of leaf size and total foliage area, thick leaves, high leaf mass per area, and other features areassociated to plant species from hot and dry environments These traits ... area (LMA) and leaf area ratio of the shoot (LARshoot , leaf area divided by the dry mass of stems + branches + petioles + leaves); (4) leaf area of individual leaves to calculate mean leaf area ... species At each node within the crown, the internode and petiole angles and azimuths, the angle and azimuth of the leaf surface normal, and the azimuth of the midrib were recorded with a compassprotractor...
... increased in patients with anti-topoisomerase antibodies and diffuse SSc, which areassociatedwith a more rapid and severe disease course [38] These results are consistent with findings from Kikuchi ... (Scl-70 neg) and higher levels than patients without detectable autoantibodies Data are shown as box plots, with upper and lower quartiles shaded # P < 0.05 Capillaroscopy and endostatin and bFGF ... sclerosis (SSc) patients withand without fingertip ulcers Compared with healthy controls, serum levels of VEGF were increased in patients with fingertip ulcers In patients without fingertip ulcers,...
... were associatedwith thousand-grain weight and explained 4.0% of the genetic variance (Table 4) Haplotypes of the candidate gene BPBF were significantly associated to crude protein content and ... SNPs that areassociatedand others that are not associatedwith the trait under consideration If only one or two SNPs per locus (e.g EST) would be interrogated as is presently the case with many ... referred to as ‘K2’), ‘row number’ and ‘origin’ was applied Several SNPs within the candidate gene BLZ1 being in high LD with one another were significantly associatedwith flowering time (Table 3,...
... other hand, greater seasonal changes and poor illumination indoors are significant factors which were associatedwith worse mental ill-being The intensity of seasonal changes in mood and behavior ... Changes in the physical andsocial activities, such as those that affect income and financial security, social circles, leisure, physical and mental health and abilities, are known to be linked ... disappear and the QoL on average and mental health, health perceptions andsocial functioning in specific improve [19] Our findings herein suggest that light exposure and illumination levels are important...
... nucleotide and amino acid identities with the Indian G1 rotavirus strain, ISO-4) To compare them with the typeable G1 sequences, the VP7 genes of two typeable G1 strains, Dhaka8-02 [GenBank:AY631049] and ... strains In 2002, a total of 3,803 patients with history of watery diarrhea were included in the hospital surveillance system In Dhaka and Matlab, 535 (27.2%) and 358 (19.4%) specimens were positive ... (14.6%), and G4 (13.8%) G1 comprised only 11.6% of the isolates and 36.9% of the rotavirus-positive samples were untypeable VP7 gene sequence analysis We amplified the VP7 genes of five randomly...
... LDL, triglyceride and total cholesterol lipid profile variables areassociatedwith disability changes in MS patients Associations with MRI Higher HDL levels were associatedwith a lower probability ... LDL, triglycerides and total cholesterol levels areassociatedwith increased disability progression in MS Higher HDL levels and lower levels of triglycerides were associatedwith decreased CEL ... the groups withand without MRI available (See Additional File 1, Table S1) The group with MRI differed from the group without MRI in the higher frequency of progressive forms of MS and a modestly...
... described in humans Ficolin-1, -2, and -3 are derived from the genes FCN1, FCN2, and FCN3, respectively In healthy individuals, ficolin2 and -3 are present in the serum and plasma in relatively high ... those with a NIH scale of 16 with poor expected outcome, and the ficolin-3 levels were compared accordingly There were significantly ... GF, ZsI and PG conceived of the study, and participated in its design and coordination, and helped to draft the manuscript; L-MT and M-OS carried out the immunoassays; GSZ, T, GP, KH, RSZ and ZSz...
... nucleotide and amino acid identities with the Indian G1 rotavirus strain, ISO-4) To compare them with the typeable G1 sequences, the VP7 genes of two typeable G1 strains, Dhaka8-02 [GenBank:AY631049] and ... strains In 2002, a total of 3,803 patients with history of watery diarrhea were included in the hospital surveillance system In Dhaka and Matlab, 535 (27.2%) and 358 (19.4%) specimens were positive ... (14.6%), and G4 (13.8%) G1 comprised only 11.6% of the isolates and 36.9% of the rotavirus-positive samples were untypeable VP7 gene sequence analysis We amplified the VP7 genes of five randomly...
... specimens, and analyzed and interpreted data PD conceptualized and designed the experiments, analyzed and interpreted data, and helped with the drafting of manuscript JM conceptualized and designed ... designed and implemented experiments SS recruited, collected and annotated specimens, and interpreted data KO recruited, collected and annotated specimens, and interpreted data SC collected and annotated ... conceptualized and designed the experiments, collected, assembled, analyzed and interpreted data, and drafted the manuscript OC conceptualized and designed the experiments, and collected, assembled and...
... related to infection with HIV-1 subtype C compared with other viral subtypes [26] Elevated CRP and other inflammation biomarkers areassociatedwith endothelial dysfunction and an increased risk ... baseline serum ferritin and hsCRP levels were associatedwith increased mortality; compared with a ferritin value of 25 μg/L, a baseline serum level of 250 μg/L was associatedwith an approximate ... participants with low levels [13] Relative long-term (i.e., longer than six month) declines in serum albumin areassociatedwith increased mortality among HIV-infected women (both withand without...
... and clinical findings, the objective of this study was to explore the relationships of KRAS and BRAF status with p-AKT and p-ERK expression andwith clinical outcomes (response to radiation and ... response and stage with p-AKT and p-ERK activation used JonckheereTerpstra tests to account for ordered differences among groups, and Wilcoxon Rank Sum tests were used to compare p-AKT and p-ERK ... by IHC with chemoradiotherapy response and survival Our results stand in contradiction to our hypothesis, however, in that increasing intensity of both p-AKT and p-ERK were associatedwith less...
... patients with probable NSAID ulcers were compared with the 98 patients with definite NSAID ulcers Significant differences between patients with probable or definite NSAID ulcers were age (mean 87.3 and ... isolated area largely bordering on Germany All in-patient healthcare is provided by a single teaching hospital, supplied with all diagnostic and therapeutic facilities All drug prescriptions are registered ... frequency matched for age and sex, with NSAID use on the index date were included Demographic characteristics, co-morbidities and current medication use are summarised in Tables and The mean age was...
... that seen in the probands (P = 0.0009 for relatives as compared with probands), it achieved statistical significance for both parent and sibling subpopulations when compared with control individuals ... Vα24+Vβ11+), and the proportion of memory CD4+ T cells (CD45RA-CD45RO+) Results shown are for 144 (143 for NKT cells) lupus probands, 356 family (parents and siblings) members (355 for NKT cells), 287 parents ... < 0.05, **P < 0.005, and ***P < 0.0005) were determined using the Wilcoxon test In panel a differences are as compared with control individuals, and in panel b comparisons are between indicated...
... sRAGE and S100 proteins were associatedwith RA inflammatory factorsand autoantibody production, andwith the recruitment of classical vascular risk factors to end-organ damage Consistent with ... generally associatedwith a more favorable vascular risk profile in our RA cohort, and potentially associatedwith concomitant reduction in proinflammatory and/ or pro-atherogenic RAGE ligand binding Factors ... risk factorsand inflammation are difficult to separate in RA [69] As we observed here, increasing sRAGE levels areassociatedwith a favorable vascular risk profile, potentially associated with...
... 0.965 and Correlation coefficient r = 0.872 for rs6990375 G>A and rs3802278 G>A; D’ = 0.981 and r2 = 0.678 for rs6990375 G>A and rs3087714 C>T; D’ = 1.000 and r2 = 0.919 for rs3802278 G>A and rs3087714 ... rs2623047G and rs6990375G as compared with other haplotypes (P = 0.014; Ptrend = 0.004) as shown in Figure 1B In further analysis, we also found that rs2623047 A>G was associatedwith PFS Patients with ... population and data collection were described previously [18] Briefly, the 168 patients were registered at The University of Texas M D Anderson Cancer Center between 2000 and 2007 and diagnosed with...
... compound, AS101, areassociatedwith regulation of NFB signaling pathway and nitric oxide induction in macrophages Journal of Inflammation 2010 7:3 Publish with Bio Med Central and every scientist ... degradation and phosphorylation of IKBa in RAW264.7 macrophages (A,D) Cells were treated with LPS in the absence or in the presence of AS101 for h (A) and h (D) Total cellular proteins were prepared and ... Nuclear and cytosolic fractions preparation Cells were suspended and homogenized with ice-cold lysis buffer containing: 10 mM Hepes (pH 7.4), 1.5 mM MgCl , 10 mM KCl, mg/ml aprotinin and mg/ml...
... deposition and ASCD, histologic features associatedwith postcapillary remodeling, are also associatedwith RVSP in a non-selected cohort of IPF patients Iron deposition and ASCD were associated ... Chronic inflammation is often associatedwith fibroproliferation and neovascularization histologically [27] Inflammation and angiogenesis are also closely related events and temporally coincide [27] ... lobules of alveolar tissue, and categorized as Grade andwith the mean of ASCD
... sialylation between cases with or without flare The change in IgG1 sialylation was for cases with early flare: +0.03% (SD 0.64%), P < 0.957, and for cases without early flare: -0.20% (SD 0.56%), ... 29) and cases without a late flare (no deterioration, n = 112) The change in galactosylation was significantly different between late flare and no late flare for IgG1 and IgG2 (P < 0.0001 and ... galactosylation and sialylation at each timepoint and for changes in time between cases and controls as well as responders versus non-responders and flare versus no-flare postpartum Pearson and Spearman...