... association with religious attendance is about equal to that with family integrity An intact two-parent family and regular religious participationare also associatedwith the parent reporting less parenting ... examines the correlation between children’s family structure and parenting stress Children living with both biological parents or two adoptive parents have parents with the lowest parenting stress ... problems inschool Children who live with both biological parents or two adoptive parents are least likely to have their parents contacted by school teachers or administrators about school- related...
... Grindlinger GA, Desjardins S: Noninvasive cerebral oximetry in patients with traumatic brain injury Crit Care Med 2004, 32(Suppl):A104 Jordan KG: Continuous EEG monitoring in the neuroscience intensive ... altered brain wave patterns With increased ICP or decreased CPP, StcO2 is reduced As well, increased ICP or decreased CPP areassociatedwith a reduction in BIS Increased BIS is associatedwith increased ... and ICP withoutcomes indicates that BIS, StcO2, and ICP data are complementary BIS, StcO2, ICP, and CPP are related, but distinct indices of outcome with severe brain injury Survival is independently...
... co-circulating R5-tropic clones, indicating the presence of CXCR4 tropism determinants also in domains different from V3 [41] Interestingly, the threonine in position 96 that we find mutated in 72.5% ... particular within the clusterI, that is a gp41 immunodominant loop involved in the interactions with gp120 [16,18,82-85] Similarly, S129DQ gp41 , associatedwith CCR5-usage and localized in the gp41 ... [19-23] The binding to the chemokine receptor is based upon the presence of selected amino acids in gp120 (specifically within the V3 loop, but also in other regions), providing greater affinity to...
... Farrar JJ, Aderem A: A polymorphism in Toll-interleukin receptor domain containing adaptor protein is associatedwith susceptibility to meningeal tuberculosis J Infect Dis 2006, 194:1127-1134 Holmes ... regulators of TLR signaling pathways, including Toll-interacting protein (TOLLIP), inhibited TLR signaling pathway-mediated inflammatory responses and restored immune system balance Inadequate production ... and haplotype GCT in Toll-interacting protein (TOLLIP) gene have a higher risk of developing sepsis in the Chinese Han population • Single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) rs5743867 influences the...
... the discontinuation of statins postoperatively was associatedwith increased all-cause hospital mortality (2.6% vs 0.6%) compared to those who had statin therapy maintained Statin use in the current ... heparinization (300 mg/kg heparin sulfate) to maintain an activated clotting time (ACT) >450 seconds Off pump cardiac surgery utilized 100 mg/kg loading dose of heparin with a goal to maintain ... and CHF areassociatedwith statin therapy administered acutely within the first 24 hours of AMI Int J Cardiol 2006, 108:314-319 14 Ray KK, Cannon CP, Ganz P: Beyond lipid lowering: what have...
... cholesterol was associatedwith increases in the number of contrast-enhancing lesions on brain MRI in clinically isolated syndrome patients following a first clinical demyelinating event [21] MS patients ... cholesterol levels areassociatedwith increased disability progression in MS Higher HDL levels and lower levels of triglycerides were associatedwith decreased CEL activity whereas higher total cholesterol ... Cholesterol is a major component of myelin and statins may hinder remyelination by inhibiting cholesterol synthesis in the brain [36,37] The studies of statin treatment in MS have likewise also yielded...
... visualized using 3-3 diaminobenzidine for minutes Slides were then rinsed in water, lightly counterstained in filtered Mayer’s hematoxylin, rinsed, dehydrated, cleared, and mounted The cells of interest ... dilution) for 30 minutes at room temperature After rinsing in Dako wash buffer, slides were incubated with the Dako LSAB2 biotinylated link for 10 minutes at room temperature, rinsed in Dako wash ... each 50 point decrease in p-ERK staining intensity, the risk of death increased by 32% (p = 0.06), reflecting a benefit to increased p-ERK levels A borderline significant improvement in OS was...
... with glycine, diminished erythrocyte-binding activity by > 50% of the original peptide activity throughout the concentration range used The role of each HABP-5501 amino acid in erythrocyte binding ... parasites, in terms of the percentage of parasitized RBC, on slides following Acridine Orange staining IFA and Western blot Competition-binding assay Critical amino acids were defined as being those amino ... modifications induced Fig Identification of critical residues for erythrocyte binding The height of the bars is proportional to the erythrocyte-binding activity Analogue peptides with erythrocyte-binding activity...
... declined sharply E94 The American Naturalist Statistical Analyses Testing for Within-Individual Declines in Performance and Factors Associatedwith These Declines Within-individual declines in ... Variables Used in Analyses The following variables were used in analyses to test our main hypothesis that rates of within-individual decline in reproductive performance may be associatedwith earlylife ... treated as a continuous variable in the model because we were interested in how breeding success declines linearly in the years leading up to the death of individuals and how this decline (slope)...
... Social Insurance Institution of Finland were contacted Interviewers attended training sessions on the specific themes that were to be covered in the computer assisted interviews During the interviews, ... education High education Living together Location in the north Medium exercise Fitness exercise Sport exercise Medium alcohol intake High alcohol intake No alcohol intake High GSS High BDI Low illuminance ... further research aiming at designing optimal working and living environments in terms of lighting conditions Current indoor lighting standards are based on specifications concerning the visual requirements...
... rotavirus strains have previously been typed using a variety of techniques Serotyping was introduced by Ward et al [28] with specimens collected during 1985–1986 in Dhaka using neutralization with hyperimmune ... untypeable strains on G typing of Bangladeshi rotavirus strains isolated in 2002 (n = 433) Effect of1 Effect of untypeable strains on G typing of Bangladeshi rotavirus strains isolated in 2002 (n ... rotaviruses causing acute gastroenteritis in neonates and infants in Vellore, India J Clin Microbiol 2004, 42:2541-2547 Iturriza-Gomara M, Green J, Brown DW, Desselberger U, Gray JJ: Diversity within the...
... observation is in accordance with the recent findings of Song et al [29] According to our present findings, the clinical associations with the low ficolin-3 and high CRP levels measured in the follow ... the binding of ficolin-3 to dying cells may be responsible for the selective clinical correlation with the levels of this protein Further studies, including simultaneous measurement of ficolin-3 ... 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...
... branches indicate one or two mutations at the primer binding site The lineages are represented in the tree as follows: lineage I (orange), lineage II (green), lineage III (blue) and lineage IV ... capsid protein VP7 in genotype g4 human rotavirus strains: simultaneous emergence and spread of different lineages in Argentina J Clin Microbiol 2002, 40:2016-2022 Gouvea V, Lima RC, Linhares RE, ... bootstrapping, using 1000 pseudo-replicates data sets All the strains grouped within one of the four lineages previously reported by Jin et al [5] (Fig 1) The typeable and untypeable G1 strains reported...
... rotavirus strains have previously been typed using a variety of techniques Serotyping was introduced by Ward et al [28] with specimens collected during 1985–1986 in Dhaka using neutralization with hyperimmune ... untypeable strains on G typing of Bangladeshi rotavirus strains isolated in 2002 (n = 433) Effect of1 Effect of untypeable strains on G typing of Bangladeshi rotavirus strains isolated in 2002 (n ... rotaviruses causing acute gastroenteritis in neonates and infants in Vellore, India J Clin Microbiol 2004, 42:2541-2547 Iturriza-Gomara M, Green J, Brown DW, Desselberger U, Gray JJ: Diversity within the...
... ovarian cancer risk in women with an ovarian mass [11] Interestingly, levels of three of the five biomarkers, apolipoprotein, prealbumin and transferrin, decrease in women with malignancy This ... decrease in patients and are correlated with stage with an even greater statistical significance than that seen in Table p-values indicating statistically significant differences are shown in bold ... shown in bold the serum of women with papillary serous ovarian cancer Oncogenesis is associatedwith an increase in the intracellular levels of ROS, in turn resulting in an upregulation of antioxidant...
... 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 with and without ... and interleukin-6 areassociatedwith HIV disease progression in subjects treated with highly active antiretroviral therapy J Infect Dis 201:1796-1805 23 Quinn TC, Piot P, McCormick JB, Feinsod ... compared with 25 g/L was associatedwith a nearly 50% reduced hazard of mortality (AHR 0.52 [0.38, 0.70]) Conversely, higher baseline serum ferritin and hsCRP levels were associatedwith increased...
... 37–39] In agreement with this, we observed the lowest mean and total leaf areas in seedlings of Mediterranean oaks (Fig 3) The reduction in the mean area of individual leaves resulted in a non-linear ... the Quercus taxonomic section within subgenus Quercus, excepting Q rubra which is included in the Lobatae section [29] Seeds obtained in Zaragoza province (NE Spain) were used for some evergreen ... Light-harvesting efficiency in Quercus seedlings transitional sub-Mediterranean and mesic environments are distinctive functional groups However, inferences based on interspecific trait rankings from seedlings...
... at flare Patients with active kidney involvement at the present flare are indicated by filled circles, patients without kidney involvement by open circles Four of four patients with ongoing nephritis ... contrasting with levels of other acutephase reactants, might in fact be due to the consumption of CRP by ICs [35] With this in mind we find the high frequency (4 of 4) of anti-CRP in patients with ... Pentraxins are phylogenetically conserved pentameric acute-phase proteins that are expressed during infection, systemic inflammation or tissue damage [4] The family includes long pentraxins, such...
... (VEGF) in systemic sclerosis (SSc) patients with and without fingertip ulcers Compared with healthy controls, serum levels of VEGF were increased in patients with fingertip ulcers In patients without ... show any crossreactivity with World Health Organization standards for any human and murine cytokine, including murine endostatin The minimum detectable concentration of endostatin was less than ... [41] The inverse association of endostatin with giant capillaries and microhemorrhages and of the higher levels of endostatin in patients with avascular areas argue for a role of endostatin in the...
... gender, smoking ever and RA duration Correcting for age, gender and smoking was done because these variables are known to be associatedwith CVD but not with the use of certain DMARDs Correcting for ... and interpretation of the data and was involved in writing the manuscript, focusing on the statistical analyses BD was involved in the design of the present study and gave his intellectual input ... levels [19,22] Corticosteroids are known to cause insulin resistance, hyperglycemia, weight gain, fluid retention and hypertension, all effects that areassociatedwith an increased cardiovascular...