... Lambros & Vandenberg [13] They were washed and treated as described previously [12] The slides with the dry parasites were blocked for 10 with 1% nonfat milk and incubated for 30 with appropriate ... then washed five times with isotonic NaCl/Pi; radioactivity associatedwith the cells was then determined Animals and immunization Aotus nancymaae monkeys were immunized with the synthesized polymeric ... immunological analysis on days and 15, and 20 days after each immunization Challenge and parasitemia assessment Both immunized and control A nancymaae monkeys were infected with 200 000 P falciparum...
... controlling for family 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, ... association with religious attendance is about equal to that with family integrity An intact two-parent family and regular religious participation are also associatedwith the parent reporting less parenting ... services regularly but live with one parent only, with one parent and a stepparent, or with foster parents or other relatives Still another 13 percent live with both parents but attend religious services...
... mixed-model analysis was repeated withand without the effects of period and year nested within period and also with year as a factor in the fixed model rather than the random model These alternative ... chick to the age at which it would leave the colony; chicks are taken to sea by the male parent after ∼3 weeks andare still flightless) and indicating failure (i.e., did not raise a chick to leaving ... body size, live remarkably long compared to mammals and in general are expected to senesce at slower rates (Williams 1957; Holmes and Austad 1995; Ricklefs and Scheuerlein 2001) Compelling evidence...
... 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 ... Finland, a northern European country, and can therefore be generalized to concern any population with a similar standard of living at the time of the study Seasonal changes in mood and behavior are ... Changes in the physical and social activities, such as those that affect income and financial security, social circles, leisure, physical and mental health and abilities, are known to be linked...
... 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...
... 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...
... 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...
... 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 ... interval: 0.67, 0.93]) compared with a value of 0.87 mmol/L (i.e., the low end of the normal range) [21] A serum albumin of 30 g/L compared with 25 g/L was associatedwith a nearly 50% reduced...
... 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 ... 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, ... (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...
... various DMARD groups and between the RA patients with CVD and without CVD were performed using Students' t-tests and Mann-Whitney U-tests for continuous variables and Pearson's Chi-square tests for ... characteristics of the RA patients withand without CVD in our study population are shown in Table The RA patients with CVD were significantly older (p < 0.001) and more often male (p = 0.02) Furthermore, ... rheumatoid factor and erosions on radiographs, was associatedwith a higher risk of CVD; however, patients with these characteristics are also likely to receive more aggressive treatment with DMARDs,...
... 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...
... 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 and inflammation are difficult to separate in RA [69] As we observed here, increasing sRAGE levels areassociatedwith a favorable vascular risk profile, potentially associatedwith concomitant ... sRAGE and S100 proteins were associatedwith RA inflammatory factors and autoantibody production, andwith the recruitment of classical vascular risk factors to end-organ damage Consistent with...
... accordance with the protocols approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees at Florida Atlantic University To obtain pregnant mice, female mice were mated with male breeders and inspected ... hypoacetylation correlates with chromatin condensation and transcriptional repression Consistent with this, HATs have been shown to associate with several transcription activators and some transcription ... that bind a conserved A-T-rich DNA sequence associatedwith most cardiac muscle structural genes andare expressed in cardiogenic precursor cells and differentiated cardiac myocytes during embryogenesis...
... [14] and in individuals with early infection and low viral set point thereafter [15] In these studies, ART naive individuals with detectable viremia were chosen as controls and compared to NP with ... HIV-1-specific CD8+ T cells areassociatedwith nonprogressive HIV-1 infection [13] In addition, measurement of IFN-γ secretion in combination with the differentiation markers CCR7 and CD45RA revealed ... NP and compared to responses observed in PR and ART-treated patients (Table 1) Following stimulation with pools of overlapping peptides, we simultaneously measured the expression of CD45RA and...