... characteristics and laboratory data between patients with and without sustained virological response (SVR). Characteristics Patients with SVR(n=41 ) Patients without SVR (n=13) P-ValueMale gender, n, ... apparently associatedwith higher response to treatment among Asian Americans pa-tients compared to Caucasians, Hispanics and Afri-can Americans, respectively (19). In our study, the patients with ... associated with treatment success (10, 20). However, other studies demonstrated that weight loss did not improve the treatment outcomes (15, 21). It is known that interferon therapy is associated...
... population did not include subjects with malnutrition nor there were any with nutritional modifications during the interventional period. More studies with larger sample sizes and longer ... metabolism among older people. A recent report has shown that greater aspirin hydroly-sis can be associatedwith decreased cholesterol levels of high-density lipoprotein in type 2 diabetics (6). Although ... significant correlations with the changes in cholesterol concentrations may open new avenues for exploration of aspirin metabolism. Our present results of improvement of aspirin effect with de-creased...
... to be associatedwith an increased risk of BP progression in males, but not in females [22]. Further studies are needed to resolve these conflicting results. Since there are many loci with ... subjects with or without the 16 repeat allele (Table 3). The plasma BNP level was significantly higher in the EH group than in the NT group (p=0.0203). The plasma BNP level in each genotype with ... levels with age and gender were consistent. Further-more, the BNP level that had the optimal sensitivity and specificity for detecting systolic dysfunction in the overall population increased with...
... polymorphism was associatedwith the low risk of the infection independent on severe atrophy. Although the Gab1 polymorphism prevented H. pylori infection, it was associatedwith the risk of ... seropositive subjects, the Gab1 polymorphism was not associatedwith gastric cancer. When we made a comparison between cases and controls with seropositive atrophy, the ORs of G/A and A/A for ... Ivyspring International Publisher. All rights reserved Research Paper Grb2 -associated binder 1 polymorphism was associatedwith the risk of Helicobactor pylori infection and gastric atrophy Yasuyuki...
... correlated positively with age, total cholesterol, urea, creatinine, glucose levels and carotid intimal thickness (CIT). Conclusion: The MTHFR mutation does not seem to be associated with either high ... seem to be associatedwith the occurrence of coronary heart disease or the elevation of plasma tHcy in the studied patients. Plasma tHcy was significantly higher in elder patients with cardiovascular ... complications compared with the young control group. There was a significant positive correlation between plasma tHcy and age. Also, the high plasma tHcy was associatedwith the presence of mildly...
... Bacskai BJ, Hyman BT, Trotti D, Brown RH Jr. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis -associated SOD1 mutant proteins bind and aggregate with Bcl-2 in spinal cord mitochondria. Neuron 2004; 43(1):19-30. 30. ... spinal cord neurons. Neuron cultures were infected with Adeno (Ad)-Vgf or Ad-LacZ viral constructs at 5 MOI for 72 hrs, and then treated with AMPA (5 àM), NMDA (20 àM) for 48 hrs while cell ... blocked by incubation with casein. Samples and standards were applied in duplicate and incubated overnight at 4°C. Following the Vgf capture phase, the plates were reacted with rabbit anti-Vgf...
... manifest as febrile illness (20%). Severe neurologic disease (meningoencephalitis), frequently associated with advanced age and diabetes, was initially re-ported to occur in less than 1% of patients. ... ophthalmoscopy, with early hyopofluorescence and late staining on fluorescein angiography (FA). Inac-tive chorioretinal lesions typically are partially atro-phic and partially pigmented with a “targetlike ... FA (Figure 1). Chorioretinal lesions vary in number and size, involving the mid-periphery, with or without involvement of the poste-rior pole. Linear clustering of chorioretinal lesions, following...
... monitoring with an ILR was 6 months. The baseline clinical characteristics of patients with asystolic or bradycardic responses during ILR monitoring (Group 1) are compared with those with- out ... reserved Research Paper Clinical Symptoms Associatedwith Asystolic or Bradycardic Responses on Implantable Loop Recorder Monitoring in Patients with Recurrent Syncope Khalil Kanjwal, Yousuf ... predicting cause of syncope from clinical histories found that syncope occurring without aura or prodrome is associatedwith spontaneous ar-rhythmic etiology predominantly bradycardia. Given a small...
... 2009Keywords:EmotionMoodConsumerFoodabstractEmotion attributes have been generally associatedwith product brands but little work has been pub-lished to understand consumer emotions associated ... emotion terms was screened and validated with consumers. The emotion termsselected for foods were generally positive, as compared with emotion testing originating within a clinicalframework. The list ... However, another reasonis the lack of a standard method or methods for measuring emo-tions associatedwith food within the product development con-text. This context is important because techniques...
... increasing the land for IPs to 65 000–70 000 ha in 2015 with the land for hiring reaching up to 60%;2 this growth will be associated with an increase of hazardous industrial waste generation ... including industrial waste, is illegally discharged daily without any control measures. The amount of HzSW collected is about 60–120 tons/day, with an additional 40–60 tons/day not being collected ... is just at the initial trial period, with many diffi culties being experienced due to the waste generators’ inexperience; edu-cation needs to be carried out with a view to “learning from the...
... annua L. (sweet wormwood), 15 Risks Associatedwith Overcollection of Medicinal Plants 379Botanical Garden, and the University of Chicago have all contracted with privatepharmaceutical companies ... nutri-tional plants are regarded still with reverence and typically are guarded with ferocity.DENALI, Alaska’s only biotechnology company, is working with Native orga-nizations throughout the ... to the groundfor reseeding. That noted, individual, established plants within a stand appear to be 15 Risks Associatedwith Overcollection of Medicinal Plants 367Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew,...
... GMOs?Future GM organisms are likely to include plants with improved disease or droughtresistance, crops with increased nutrient levels, fish species with enhanced growthcharacteristics, and plants ... transcriptional factors or hor-mones) into the same organism with subsequent effects on other genes. The mainissue associatedwith gene biotechnology is that the foreign genes could escape ... andadhesives.ã To develop GM rapeseed oil with high erucic acid content. This oil is used inplastics and in high-grade industrial lubricants.ã To develop plants with higher carbon xation rates via...
... fractal measure associatedwith 45Case 1. If (y4,y5,y6) is not a generator, then #t6n+6 =#t6n+5 a F6n+5aF6n+6.Case 2. If (y4,y5,y6) is a generator.Without loss of ... M. Ngai, Iterated function systems with overlaps, AsianJ. Math. 4(2000), 527 - 552.5. T. Hu, The local dimensions of the Bernoulli convolution associatedwith the goldennumber, Trans. Amer. ... fractal probability measures associated with equal probability weight, Preprint.7. T. Hu, N. Nguyen and T. Wang, Local dimensions of the probability measure asso-ciated with the (0, 1, 3) - problem,...
... is also associatedwith oral andother anogenital malignancies, however, it is most commonly associated with cervical cancer; in fact, over 99% of all cervicalcancers are associatedwith high-risk ... tumor virusesAlthough retroviruses have been associatedwith manyanimal tumors, to date, only one human retrovirus, HTLV-1, hasbeen associatedwith human cancers. The biology of HTLV-1will ... often is the virus associatedwith the tumor?)2. Consistency (has the association been observed repeatedly?)3. Specificity of association (is the virus uniquely associatedwith the tumor?)4....