tumor and host determinants of pulmonary metastasis in bladder cancer

... in viral load within nine weeks of infection whereas group 2, infected with strain B, maintained high viremia One major finding of this study was that group patients display potent neutralizing ... postinfection The following observations were made in SIVagm-infected AGMs: 1)A significant increase in TGFb1 and Foxp3 gene expression beginning in the first week after infection, coinciding ... 2:24 tions" In December 2004, the topic of the first conference was "Viral and Host Determinants of HCV, HCMV and HIV Infections", considering the pathogenesis of these chronic viral infections...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 09:21

... challenge of tuberculosis of the elderly in hospital: experience at a university hospital in Saudi Arabia J Infect 1995; 31: 93-7 22 Morris CD Sputum examination in the screening and diagnosis of pulmonary ... data included the following: demographic characteristics, presenting symptoms and body temperature, underlying illnesses, laboratory findings (including microbiologic study at the time of diagnosis), ... predominance (p

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 03:20

... http://www.wjso.com/content/9/1/50 and III tumors were 0, 13, and 23%, respectively [5] The incidence of pulmonary metastases varies with the primary tumor and stage of disease Bone tumors such as osteosarcomas and Ewing’s ... or interlobular septal thickness was observed The tumor was resected together with the right seventh, eighth, and ninth ribs Figure Resected tumor specimen Hematoxylin and eosin staining of the ... unusual clinical and radiological pulmonary findings are detected Informed consent Written informed consent was obtained from the patient for publication of this case report and accompanying images...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:24

... on housing, grazing, work load, replacement of animals, and procedures for prevention, treatment and recording of disease This questionnaire included a total of 94 (18 continuous and 76 discrete) ... a way of dealing with multicollinearity Factor analysis is a technique that was originally developed to understand the link between student performance measured in terms of grades and intelligence ... indicators, describing management in dairy herds The number of factors to extract is subjective; guidelines exist and are based on the scree-plot (find the elbow of the plot) and the amount of...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:22

... effect of 1% increase in GDP per 24 capita in LA and South and East Asia was 0.206 and 0.158% increase of Gini index correspondingly Education, being insignificant in most of the countries including ... capita and disrgarding the size of the countries, inequality between countries using GDI per capita but taking into account the size of countries and ignoring inequality within countries and inequality ... suggesting that the model captures nonlinearity of the index Gini behaviour including the second power of LnGDP per capita and interaction of openness ratio Consequently, the problem of predicted...

Ngày tải lên: 08/01/2017, 19:48

... understand of the clinical significance of Pim-1 Figure Expression profile of Pim-1 in bladder cancer cell lines A Expression profile of Pim-1 in bladder cancer cell lines Cell lysate from five bladder ... associated with bladder cancer initiation and progression Expression profile of Pim-1 in bladder cancer cell lines In order to further demonstrate the role and function of Pim-1 in bladder cancer, the ... growth and survival of bladder cancer cells Knockdown of Pim-1 sensitizes bladder cancer cells to chemotherapy in vitro As Pim-1 is involved in drug resistance in some cancer types and adjuvant intravesical...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:20

... cases of bladder cancer and in the United Kingdom, bladder cancer is the 4th most common cancer amongst males In Singapore, it is the 9th most common cancer afflicting males The tumour incidence and ... BCG and live BCG treatment in vitro with human bladder cancer cell lines were compared, the integrin α5 and β1 expression and BCG internalizing capacity of the cell lines (MGH, J82, UMUC3, RT4 and ... to the bladder and iliac lymph nodes 81 Table 4.1 Integrins α5 and β1 expression and live BCG internalization profiles of human bladder cancer cell lines 87 Table 4.2 Effects of blocking mammalian...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 10:06

... participated in data analysis, interpretation and write-up GB involved in study design and critically revised the manuscript FA involved in study design, data analysis and write-up of the manuscript and ... and low knowledge of each domain using mean value Information collected during the FGDs was translated into Amharic and entered into separate tables for women and men, according to the study area ... the cause of smoking, but not TB which could lead to delayed diagnosis and treatment On the other hand, the findings from this survey indicate that pastoral communities living in both of the study...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 04:20

... fitness of the final model was good in terms Table Sites and methods of diagnois of extrapulmonary involvement in 40 patients Involved organ* Miliary involvement Lymph node Intestine Larynx Soft ... predictors of the presence of extrapulmonary involvement In logistic regression, backward elimination was used to select variables to be maintained in the final model, using a p value of

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 03:20

... partners [2-8] Since husbands play a pivotal role in decisionmaking within the home, and are often the main bread winners, establishing their buy -in and support for PMTCT activities and interventions ... different definitions of male involvement in PMTCT are used in different studies resulting in difficulties when comparing data between these studies Determining a consensus definition of male involvement ... cohabiting couples in urban Zambia and Rwanda: an analysis of survey and clinical data Lancet 2008, 371:2183–2191 Matovu JK, Makumbi FE: Expanding access to voluntary HIV counselling and testing in...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 12:20

... main sources of infection in a community [5,6] Delays in the diagnosis and start of effective treatment of tuberculosis patients result in a prolonged period of infectivity in the community and ... of treatment in our patients These delays included patient delay, institutional delay, diagnostic delay, and delay in the treatment Both patient and institutional delays result in increased infection ... treatment diagnosis interval treatment interval admission to hospital diagnosis initiation of treatment Table shows the distribution of the diagnosis intervals and initiation of treatment intervals with...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 18:20

... short and quick to administer (5-10 min) and welladapted for studies in general populations Strategy for identification of type and determinants of missingness The type of missingness was defined ... Number of missing data for other items, RP score MNAR MNAR MAR BP (Bodily pain) BP1 Intensity of bodily pain 2.4% Number of missing data for other items, PF and BP scores BP2 Extent pain interfered ... Little and Rubin to characterize missing data processes operating during administration of this questionnaire In this large representative sample of the French population the proportion of missing...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... characterize the determinants of access to HAART and to assess late vs early initiation of HAART in a population-based cohort of HIV-positive Argentinean men and women Methods PUMA is an ongoing multicenter ... eligibility for HAART Including a variety of clinics from different regions of Argentina reduced the possible effect of random variation between sites and any other outlying characteristics Finally, readers ... in Argentina Finally, other variables including income, education, other co-infections or comorbidities, and availability of healthcare services cannot be excluded as other determinants of access...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... investments in human capital and infrastructure In a pointless and debilitating churning of resources, the creditors provide development assistance with one hand and then withdraw it in debt servicing ... justified in terms of the return on investment Investing in health (the mantra of the Commission on Macroeconomics and Health) is defended with reference to evidence of the payoffs in improving the ... resulting skewing of priorities; reform of national and international intellectual property regimes is arguably a part of such necessary reforms [3739], but just a part (see e.g [40]) Expanding and...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:20

... speaking fees from GlaxoSmithKline and Nycomed; and grant support from BoehringerIngelheim and GlaxoSmithKline B.R.C has received consulting fees from Altana, AstraZeneca, Boehringer-Ingelheim and ... GlaxoSmithKline; speaking fees from Altana, AstraZeneca, Boehringer-Ingelheim and GlaxoSmithKline; and grant support from Boehringer-Ingelheim and GlaxoSmithKline G.T.F has received consulting fees ... Zeneca, Boehringer-Ingelheim, GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis and Pearl Therapeutics; speaking fees from Boehringer-Ingelheim, GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer; and grant support from Boehringer-Ingelheim,...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 13:22

... competency and wealth.     Tansel  (2002)  uses  data  from  the  household  income  and expenditure  survey  of Turkey in 1994 to examine the determinants of school attainment of boys and girls.  Using  ... and the results combined into a single result that includes information on standard  errors that incorporate both sampling and imputation error (Foy and Olson 2009).  To  sum  up,  estimating  the  point  estimate  ... 1950s:  Jacob  Mincer’s  article  “Investment in human capital and personal income distribution” in 1958 and Gary  The University of Nottingham     1  Chapter 1. Introduction and Literature Review ...

Ngày tải lên: 10/10/2014, 23:17

... retain its other ISD clients An audit firm specializing in the ISD industry faces concerns about maintaining reputation to protect its investment in specialized resources (e.g., training, standardized ... those of independence (e.g., willingness to report a breach, resolution of audit conflicts with the client according to professional standards, and the ability to maintain professional standards ... D., and E R Wilson 1989 An empirical investigation of factors affecting the timeliness of reporting by municipalities Journal of Accounting and Public Policy (Spring): 29-55 Eichenseher, J W., and...

Ngày tải lên: 06/01/2015, 19:42

... about 10% of all cancer incidence and mortality in 20132 Consistent with trends in developed countries, CRC is the most frequent cancer in Singapore, accounting for 14% to 18% of all cancer incidence ... are used in subsequent investigations to elucidate the functional role of STMN1 in colorectal cancer metastasis Expression of endogenous STMN1 and/ or STMN1-DDK in each cell line is shown in Figure ... developing CRC In particular, low fibre diet rich in red meat9 and lack of regular exercise10 appear to correlate closely with CRC incidence Since physical inactivity, obesity, smoking and heavy...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 11:25

... determining the loyalty of individual customers in retail banking of eight branches and transaction offices of BIDV in Lam Dong Province The in- depth interviews with experienced managers of BIDV‟s ... DETERMINANTS OF CUSTOMER LOYALTY IN RETAIL BANKING A case study of BIDV’s branches and transaction offices in Lam Dong Province In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements of the Degree of ... 2013 to August 2013, in Lam Dong Province and Ho Chi Minh City There are three kinds of customers in BIDV including individual customers, corporate customers and financial institution This research...

Ngày tải lên: 22/10/2015, 13:31

... Quy, an intensive farmer in Vinh Ha, stated: None of us has participated in a specific training for disease prevention and treatment Some of us joined general training only Most of the training was ... fry and the productivity of fishing in commune went down Findings from group discussion shown that 224 of Con in Ba Con area in Vinh Ha have been completely converted into shrimp farms and 80% of ... collection was mainly conducted in provincial and national agencies: the Ministry of Fisheries (MOFI), RIA No 1, Hai phong Institute of Oceanography (HIO), DOFI, Department of Resource and Environment...

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2012, 10:15