the ventricles and cerebrospinal fluid

... fluctuations in sHLA-I and sHLA-II levels in the serum and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of patients with MS [12-14] However, the published reports are somewhat in conflict There has been reported ... 6.25, 3.1 and ng/ml) of pure sHLA-I protein The test values were calculated from the curve described by these standards All sHLA-I assays were standardized with dilutions of banked standard serum ... unit/ml, t = 0.2, P = 0.84) differences The measurements of the saliva and the CSF HLA-I demonstrated the following: sHLA I was highly elevated in the CSF and saliva of only two patients with RRMS,...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 22:20

... that allow the analysis of the fluid flow, including the thermal heat transfer and heat conduction effects in the fluid and through the solid boundaries of the flow domain For instance, in the case ... material at the discretion of the instructors On the other hand, we also hope that here and there, through the chapters, the newcomer to CFD will have his/her intellectual curiosity aroused by the subject ... I.1.1 The structure of the virtual prototyping environment I.1.1 The Definition Phase The first step in the creation of the product is the definition phase, which covers the specification and geometrical...

Ngày tải lên: 01/04/2014, 10:56

... with the NIH Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals and were approved by the local authorities Thirty-day old Wistar rats were killed by decapitation and the brains were removed and ... (75 and 10 mg/Kg, respectively, i.p.) and placed in a stereotaxic apparatus A midline saggital incision was made in the scalp and one burr hole was drilled in the skull over both ventricles The ... with the NIH Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals and were approved by the local authorities Adult Wistar rats (90 days old) were used For ventricular access, the animals were anesthetized...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 22:20

... [9,10] Elevated concentrations of IgG in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), of the IgG–albumin ratio and of the IgG index, and the presence of oligoclonal bands have all been described with varying ... oligoclonal IgG bands These bands represent the brain-infiltrating oligoclonal B-cell population MRI analyses Neuroimaging was performed to evaluate the extent and localization of brain lesions The neuroimaging ... KT, Chuang CY, Chen CY: The study of anticardiolipin antibodies and interleukin-6 in cerebrospinal fluid and blood of Chinese patients with systemic lupus erythematosus and central nervous system...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:23

... imatinib therapy Although the newer TKIs are similar, there are differences in their side-effects and indications To date, there is no data comparing the efficacy of these three drugs directly, but these ... and therapy can be resumed at the 400 mg once daily dose after resolution [14] Besides fluid retention, other adverse events contribute to the safety profile of both imatinib and nilotinib, and ... Novartis, and Methylgene Authors' contributions GG, DM, and AY contributed equally to the content and focus of the manuscript from its earliest conception All authors read and approved the final...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 22:20

... cattle and three pigs in the same pen did not appeared FMD clinic symptoms, but the sera antibody and their OP fluid of two cattle were positive Meanwhile, the spinal cords of three pigs in the ... from an OP fluid sample (Figure 1) In this report, we evaluated the infectivity and pathogenicity to cattle and pigs of the strain, and compared the virulence between O/CHN/2010/33-OP and a circulated ... research HFB, DL and PS carried out most of the experiments DL wrote and revised the manuscript JH, QZ, XWB, YFF, ZJL carried out part of the experiment All of the authors read and approved the final...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 21:22

... Switzerland Authors’ contributions UF was responsible for the study concept and design, analysis and interpretation, and drafting the manuscript PS participated in the design of the study and performed ... performed the diagnostic imaging JMD participated in the design of the study and revised the manuscript LP was responsible for the study concept and revising the manuscript All authors read and approved ... assessed the patients’ response to therapy FC was involved in the pathological diagnosis and FL in immunohistochemical characterization MV participated in the design of the study and in the assessment...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 14:22

... IL-8, osteocalcin and IL-1, osteocalcin and IL-11, and IL-8 and LIF lost the level of significance A moderate positive correlation was detected between the SF WBC count and the IL-1 and IL-6 concentrations ... on the basis of the activity of the disease within each patient cohort OA was assessed on the basis of the WOMAC index score, and RA was evaluated on the basis of the synovial WBC count, ESR and ... between catabolic and anabolic markers and their changes during the onset of joint diseases will help to identify the key biomarkers of diagnostic and/ or prognostic value The focus of the current study...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:22

... assess fluid responsiveness First, despite the careful implementation of passive leg raising, a small shift or displacement of the TOE probes in relation to the LV short axis could distort the findings ... manner at the bedside Competing interests The author(s) declare that they have no competing interests Acknowledgements Work conducted by the authors is supported by an unrestricted grant from the International ... noninvasive and dynamic manner The great strength of this tool lies in its power to add supplementary information regarding contractility and afterloading conditions in a direct, comprehensible and physiological...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:20

... in serum and CSF in the bacterial meningitis group are summarized in Table Cortisol and cytokines in cerebrospinal fluid and serum Cortisol and cytokine CSF concentrations in all groups and levels ... 0.001) Correlation of cerebrospinal fluid cortisol levels and other parameters The primary aim was to assess the relationship between the severity of bacterial meningitis and CSF cortisol as well ... data and drafted the manuscript OB participated in the design of the study, supervised the laboratory experiments and helped to write the manuscript OD helped to collect patient samples and data...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:20

... electrolyte concentrations between the blood and the interstitial fluid, (2) blood flow rates at the capillaries and venules, (3) pressures at the arterial and venous ends of these small vessels which ... structure and acupuncture in action at acupoints is hypothesized The hypothesis, referred as the CFMDD hypothesis, defines the meridian structure embedded in the Connective Tissue Interstitial Fluid ... acts on the adjacent connective tissues inside the interstitium and changes the shapes of these connective tissues Such changes in pressure would in turn influence the flow speed and the value...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 15:21

... To further evaluate the accuracy of the CSF lactate concentration, the Q value and area under the curve (AUC) were calculated from the SROC curves The Q value is the intersection point of the SROC ... designed the research, collected, analyzed and interpreted the data, and drafted and revised the manuscript NTHT carried out the collection, analysis and interpretation of the data DTND and MK ... to the conception of the study and approved the final version of the manuscript JZ helped to design the study, performed the statistical analysis and drafted the manuscript KH participated in the...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21

... Aδ-fibers and the unmyelinated C-fibers The terminals of these fibers synapse with numerous second order neurons located in the superficial laminae of the spinal dorsal horn and activate them The excitatory ... were also detected in other hypothamamic nuclei, the inferior colliculus, the ventral central gray matter, the pontine tegmentum, the amygdala, the reticular formation and the spinal trigeminal ... 1.2 The Physiology of Pain The major components of the nociceptive system include the nociceptors, afferent fibers, spinal cord and the brain The peripheral endings of primary...

Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2015, 09:55

... minimum of the other years 134 Figure 6.2 The number of hourly instances that the horizontal global radiation for each month of the year exceeds the maximum or falls below the minimum of the other ... of the year falls below the minimum of the other years 135 Figure 6.5 The cumulative amount by which the horizontal global radiation for each month of the year exceeds the maximum of the ... 2002) Therefore, the requirements for intensive computing resources and time cost make the unsteady RANS and LES inappropriate for complex building cluster modeling The standard k-ε model and the...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 13:58

... Given the high CaO content, the conversion of CO and H2O to CO2 and H2 reached the highest measured values The dry based H2 content ranged between 21.7% at 800  C and 22.26% at 900  C The complete ... with steam, the Ca content of coal ash both promotes the wateregas shift equilibrium and influences the composition of the product gas For the used materials here, the Ca content plays the major ... rig The flow sheet of the micro-reactivity test rig used in these investigations is shown in Fig The heart of the testing rig is a glass reactor where the catalyst can be placed, in this case the...

Ngày tải lên: 01/08/2016, 09:30

... writes, then reads the file back sequentially, then writes 100 Mbytes randomly to the existing file, then reads 100 Mbytes randomly from the file, and finally reads the file sequentially again The bandwidth ... for the log can be generated either by copying the old blocks or by threading the log around the old blocks The left side of the figure shows the threaded log approach where the log skips over the ... are overwritten If the count falls to zero then the segment can be reused without cleaning The blocks of the segment usage table are written to the log, and the addresses of the blocks are stored...

Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2012, 15:05

... controlling and mixing the signals in these many elements, the sonar system can steer the emitted pulse to the desired location and determine the direction that echoes are received from To handle these ... transferring their customer's information, while they must pay to establish and maintain the channel The financial bottom line is simple: the more information they can pass through a single channel, the ... generation and recognition are used to communicate between humans and machines Rather than using your hands and eyes, you use your mouth and ears This is very convenient when your hands and eyes...

Ngày tải lên: 13/09/2012, 09:49

... Signal and Graph Terminology 11 Mean and Standard Deviation 13 Signal vs Underlying Process 17 The Histogram, Pmf and Pdf 19 The Normal Distribution 26 Digital Noise Generation 29 Precision and ... one-thousand in the next 15 years This tremendous power has changed the way science and engineering is done, and there is no better example of this than Digital Signal Processing In the early ... campus, Mexico City); and other reviewers who wish to remain anonymous This book is now in the hands of the final reviewer, you Please take the time to give me your comments and suggestions This...

Ngày tải lên: 13/09/2012, 10:21

... end, they make themselves agreeable, smiling and nodding with interest and approval with those they know When not preoccupied with themselves, they can be well attuned to the needs of others and ... patterns Whether these are activated depends on the social demands placed on the individual by the way of life of their community These determine the situational contexts evocative of the social ... of their ability to impress and be chosen, they fear that attempts to gain recognition might attract contempt and ridicule instead, further diminishing their rather uncertain standing within the...

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 10:54