... patients had a medial meniscal injury, patients had a lateral meniscal injury and all these patients had a combination of medial and lateral meniscal injury, patient had chondral injury grade II, ... the patients had an increaseof grades and 3% ofthe patients had an increaseof grades (Table 4, and 6) 10 % ofthe patients had no changes after 10 years of follow-up According to both radiological ... ofthe patients there was no change compared to the contralateral side (Table and 4) The Fairbank classification showed an increase in osteoarthritis of grade in 52% ofthe patients, 35% of the...
... Isrina Oktavia Salasia et al reactions and with a commercial grouping kit (Slidex Strepto-kit bioMerieux, Nürtingen, Germany) The growth pattern ofthe bacteria in fluid media and the morphology of ... and with compact colonies in soft agar The growth properties of these three bacteria obtained from the original outbreak had already been described [15] According to studies of Abdulmawjood and ... (Biolabs, Schwalbach, Germany) [1] The preparation and SmaI digestion ofthe chromosomal DNA for macrorestriction analysis ofthe isolates by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis was performed as described...
... two players choose any pair of complement strings (except for the pair 11 10 and 00 01), then the third player can always attain an advantage by choosing a particular string Before we proceed, ... has the same or better chance of occurring before σ1 and σ2 Proof The proof can be shown in a similar fashion to that of Theorem 2, so it is omitted Remark It should be noted that the inequalities ... independently and randomly from {0, 1} The winner ofthe game is the player whose selected string appears first This problem has been formulated as a game or studied as a classical probabilistic problem...
... were taken The principal provenance trial, established Krahl-Urban in 1950, was located in the Bramwald Forest In 1951, the trial was replicated at Syke near Bremen, using seedling transplants ... indigenous Q petraea stored coppice at Bagley Wood, Oxford The study analysis of variance for trial data is presented the provein table I, from which it can be seen that the factors significantly influencing ... within-family and between family variation Acknowledging the limitations of unreplicated trials, estimated values, respectively at 0.60 ± 0.25 on an individual tree basis and 0.79 ± 0.21 on a family...
... differential diagnosis of steroid cell tumors We ruled out the diagnosis of adrenocortical carcinoma and paraganglioma on the basis of immunohistochemical markers Adrenocortical carcinomas are negative ... to EMA, keratin, and chromogranin, whereas the tumor in the present case was positive for these markers An absence of mass lesions in bilateral adrenals further ruled out the diagnosis of adrenocortical ... her pregnancy Conclusions The present case was a rare report of an extraovarian and extra-adrenal steroid cell tumor ofthe pelvic mesentery The tumor was a cause of virilizing symptoms and infertility...
... In the last decade, there is growing evidence that OSA acts as a cardiovascular risk factor, independent of associated traditional risk factors (e.g arterial hypertension, dyslipedemia, obesitas) ... calculated as the number of respiratory events per hour after manual scoring Minimal nocturnal oxygen saturation was defined as the lowest saturation reached during sleep after manual exclusion of clear ... in these patients Based on quantitative coronary angiography, late lumen loss, which is a marker of restenosis and vascular remodeling, was enhanced in OSA-patients The rate of hemodynamically...
... individual dogs Intensity of infectiona Intensity of infectiona Giardia Number of samples Average age (days) Dual infections Giarda 1+ (% of pos samples) Giardia 2+ (% of pos samples) Giardia 3+ (% of ... Kirkpatrick (1988) [31] found that an urban locality gave a higher riskof parasitic infection compared with a non-urban locality Since G duodenalis of Assemblage A occurs in a wide range of mammalian ... genotypes/assemblages [15] Most of these assemblages appear to have distinct host associations Genotyping of Giardia isolates from dogs has shown that Giardia from Assemblages A, B, C and D may occur...
... for a difference of at least 0.05 unit PRBC/patient/day with a standard deviation of 0.15 units PRBC/patient/day Statistical analysis We expressed variables as means ± standard deviations and ... intensivist) is a consultant in the division of respiratory and critical care medicine ofthe author's hospital LTK is theheadofthe division of respiratory and critical care medicine ofthe author's ... critical care ofthe author's hospital DP is a research assistant CYH is theheadofthe biostatistics unit ofthe Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore JP (medical intensivist)...
... composed of 81% of 3HB and 19% of 3-hydroxyvalerate (3HV) (Sigma-Aldrich Japan K.K., Japan) was used as the standard of 3HV unit in PHA These standards were also digested and analyzed by gas chromatography ... Conversion rate of DOC to PHA For SBR reactors, the value of conversion rate to PHA, CRP value, was calculated as the amount of PHA increased during the anaerobic phase divided by the amount of carbon ... from the carbon mass balances in the anaerobic or microaerophilic zone of these studied reactors MATERIALS AND METHODS Activated sludge reactors Activated sludge was collected from the reactors as...
... about 42% ofthe victims had used alcohol or drugs on the day ofthe assault, and 15% had used cocaine However, about half of those who had used cocaine said that their assailant had forced them ... to the death ofthe man partner differ from factors related to the death ofthe woman partner; 6) explore the interactive effects of clusters ofrisk factors on theriskofa lethal outcome, as ... case-by-case in more qualitative analysis The second goal was made possible by the collection of detailed information about a wide variety of variables over a two-year time span Risk Factors The...
... on the classification ofthe National Tuberculosis and Respiratory Disease Association ofthe USA (14) Statistical analysis Comparisons between variables were tested using the chi-square test ... fibrosis and inflammation may play important roles TB infection is associated with airway fibrosis and the immune response to mycobacteria could cause airway inflammation, a characteristic of obstructive ... Based on the 2000 Population Census ofthe National Statistical Office of Korea, a stratified, multi-stage, clustered, probability design was used to select a representative sample of civilian, non-institutionalized...
... synthesis was accompanied by the appearance ofa small amount of FAD, at a rate of 4.5 pmolặmin)1ặmg)1 protein The dependence of FMN synthesis rate on the substrate concentration showed saturation ... concentration was increased to 50 lm (Fig 5D), the amount of FAD increased almost linearly in the rst 10 ofthe reaction, at a rate of 413 pmolặmin)1ặmg)1 protein The amount of FAD reached a maximum ... protoplasts (Fig 1) The mitochondrial and the extramitochondrial amounts of Rf, FMN and FAD in the acid-extractable fractions were measured via HPLC and compared to the amounts of avin cofactors...
... acknowledge the contributions made to this paper by Webster Kasongo and David Mwakazanga at the Tropical Diseases Research Centre, Zambia in study coordination and data analysis, respectively Finally, the ... isolates were finally available for phenotypic DST Additionally, we had to disqualify a result from the analysis because the patient was less than 15 years Of these 193 subjects, 132 were males and ... resistance, may require further investigation Acknowledgments The authors thank the technical staff at the Chest Diseases Laboratory, Zambia for their excellent work The authors would also like to acknowledge...
... at °C and then embedded in paraffin blocks In each animal, two sections, at a distance of 200 lm from each other in the central part ofthe parametrial or periovarian depots were studied The adipocytes ... levels of UCP1 mRNA and protein in WAT and BAT, as compared to wild-type (WT) controls Materials and methods Materials All organic and inorganic chemicals of analytical or molecular biology grade ... a section was measured using a Nikon Eclipse E800 connected with a digital Camera DXM1200 at a magnification of 20· The surface area ofthe cells was measured using the Nikon LUCIA IMAGE Version...
... whereas ATP concentrations fell The extent of these changes and the rate of glycerol uptake and glucose synthesis were dependent on the initial concentration of added substrate and were maximal ... work was supported by grants from the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council, the Flinders Medical Centre Foundation and the Drug and Alcohol Services Council of South Australia ... In the absence of added glucose, about 90% ofthe glycerol taken up was converted into carbohydrate (glucose plus glycogen) and the balance was glycolysed The rate of glycerol uptake was unaffected...
... SDS/PAGE ofthe supernatants obtained after precipitation of mitochondria by centrifugation This release of proteins at 24 h after PH was associated with the appearance, in the supernatant, of typical ... isoenzyme In fact, under conditions where the cytosolic AAT was stable, there was a thermal instability of mitochondrial AAT at 70 °C [22] The activity of mitochondrial AAT was taken as the difference ... 269) animal the morphology of about 600 mitochondria in a hepatic lobule was examined Preparations of cytosolic fraction and mitochondria AAT), whereas that ofthe sample incubated at 70 °C was assumed...
... raises therisk Other risk factors It is rare, but some women are born with a gene that puts them at high risk for breast cancer Having radiation treatment at a young age also raises therisk Learning ... Cancer Risk Factors Age Getting older raises theriskof breast cancer Family history Having a mother, sister, or daughter who had breast cancer raises therisk Breast biopsy history Having an abnormal ... abnormal finding on a past breast biopsy raises theriskof breast cancer Menstrual history Having your first period at an early age (before age 12) raises therisk Going through menopause late (after...