... market segments For the period afterthe crisis, the two markets appear to have had more or less the same level of liquidity for short-term as well as long-term bonds The authors would like to ... for short-term covered bonds Beforethe crisis government bonds were slightly more liquid than covered bonds in both the short- and long-term market segments For the period afterthe crisis, the ... traders become binding duringthe crisis We also find that relative to the period beforethe crisis, the variability ofthe Amihud measure decreased duringthe crisis for short-term covered bonds...
... easy on a sore mouth u Visit a dentist at least weeks before starting biological therapy, chemotherapy, or radiation therapy to the head or neck It is important to have a healthy mouth before starting ... or other tobacco products • Beer, wine, liquor, or other type of alcohol u Tell your doctor and dentist if your mouth or gums are sore They can figure out whether these are from treatment or dental ... calories but won’t affect your appetite for the next meal u Change the form of a food For instance, you might make a fruit milkshake instead of eating a piece of fruit There is a recipe on the...
... informed consent was obtained from the patient for publication of this case report and any accompanying images A copy ofthe written consent is available for review by the Editor-in-Chief of ... This case report demonstrates that surgical manipulation ofthetrigeminalnerveduring posterior fossa explorations for an MVD procedure has the potential to activate a previously dormant herpes ... exposed from its origin to its entry into the Meckel’s cave Both the sensory and motor nerve rootlets were displayed No major arterial or venous vascular loop was identified near the dorsal root entry...
... history of colic They were housed at the department, where they were kept outdoor duringthe day and stabled at night They were fasted for 12 hours before anaesthesia Anaesthesia Colic horses ... eight ofthe healthy horses during some part ofthe anaesthetic procedure One ofthe surviving colic horses (C5) never achieved a higher PaO2 than 4.5 kPa The colic horses were anaesthetised for ... healthy group of horses anaesthetised with the present protocol The limited number of horses included in the study and the variable horse material in the colic group decrease the power ofthe study...
... were poor – not because the humanitarians had bad intentions, but simply because they were unprepared either for the task or for the thieving instincts ofthe local population Most of them were ... ex-presidents of this and that, Heads of Regional Offices, Principal Investigators, and so on The total reform and reconstruction of health sector was under way or at the very least the reform of public ... keep the work going I hope the following vignettes will illustrate well the range of roles we had to play Just a few days beforethe war started, I was called to the hospital shortly before midnight...
... 15%–20% ofthe thickness ofthe muscle A demarcated area of compression was typically apparent toward the point of exit ofthe long thoracic nerve from the middle scalene muscle, mirroring the experience ... carried by the mother The mechanism seems to be compression ofthe LTN within the scalene muscle exacerbated by a stretch force along the course ofthenerve [3-6] Direct blunt force trauma to the upper ... goal of full range of motion at or beyond preoperative levels by the third day after surgery Intraoperative monitoring Nerve conduction was monitored before and after neurolysis After induction of...
... Thedevelopmentofthe DGE system enables the sequencing of total cDNA for the derivation of an accurate measure of gene expression, both individually and comprehensively, and the discovery of ... that these metabolic processes are more active in the early developmentof brace roots Moreover, as shown in Table 5, comparison of gene categories showed that, except for the categories of 160 ... which accounted for 24% of genes, whereas only 11.3% of genes were classified into this category in the brace root tissue For the rest ofthe categories, the transcript abundances in the brace root...
... conduct ofthe negroes for the first nine months after their liberation, up to the middle of 1794 Ofthe conduct ofthe negroes duringthe year 1795, and part of 1796, I find no account Had there ... followed, the reports of which, when brought to the mother country, were so terrible that the Assembly rescinded the decree in favor ofthe people of color in the same year In 1792, the news of this ... picture in the history of this unhappy island, occurred in the days of slavery, beforethe proclamation of Santhonax and Polverel, and beforethe great conventional decree ofthe mother country...
... infiltrated the CNS ofthe TLR3KO-B6 mice were similar to those ofthe B6 mice at dpi (Fig 1B) However, the levels of these cells in the CNS of TLR3KO-B6 mice were significantly higher than those of control ... x 105 PFU) of TMEV BeAn These virus-infected mice were then assessed for the progression of demyelinating disease for 80 dpi (Fig 2A) We chose the low dose ofthe virus to maximize the differences ... those ofthe NLM mice at dpi The proportion of H-2Ks-VP3159-166-tetramer reactive CD8+ T cells in the CNS of TLR3KO mice was also similar to that ofthe NLM mice at the early stage (7 dpi) of infection,...
... plantlet duringthe root-devel- opment phase Therefore, the survival of plantlets depends on the root system and on the stage ofdevelopmentofthe aerial structure Thedevelopment and the morphology ... very high for the initiation and developmentofthe organs This hypothesis is supported by the results of a previous The roots and the callus were favourable sites for the accumulation of soluble ... (PAR) The rooting percentage, the number of roots, the total length ofthe root system, the number of mature leaves and the height ofthe rooted plantlets were determined after weeks in the root-development...
... day 14 to the level of control mice at day The expression of cystatin B was increased about twofold on day ofthe acute stage (Fig 3a) Like the expression of cathepsins, the expression of cystatin ... tumor necrosis factor and ofthe acute phase TNF-α expression was not significantly elevated at the mRNA level on day ofthe acute phase or on day 21 ofthe chronic phase The anti-inflammatory ... of proinflammatory cytokines on days and The downregulation of cathepsin K on day could be another example ofthe fact that the time course of cytokine expression determines the time course of...
... 201) However, two of these studies presented their results in median number of days [14,13], and three of them presented their data as mean hours or days We wrote to the authors ofthe two papers ... prophylaxis or whether they were given solely in response to AF episodes None ofthe other studies in this meta-analysis gave any details on the need for cardioversion orthe use of anti-arrhythmic ... in the atria, predisposing the tissue to thedevelopmentof fibrillation Due to the lack of understanding ofthe basic mechanisms of AF following cardiac surgery, it is difficult to propose a theory...
... had full access to all ofthe study data and takes responsibility for the integrity ofthe data and the accuracy ofthe data analysis Both authors contributed equally to the study Study concept ... explanatory variables by performing collinearity diagnostic analyses We performed the stepwise selection of variables from the models with the following criteria: Tolerance greater than 0.4 or variance ... to thedevelopmentof surgical site infections after major cardiac surgery Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2011 6:4 Submit your next manuscript to BioMed Central and take full advantage of: ...
... vivarium in accordance with the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals ofthe National Institutes of Health and the Animal Welfare Act under the supervision of our institutional Animal ... in the Western diet This rodent model has all the hallmarks of obesity, insulin resistance, and liver steatosis plus it offers the further advantage of proven use for the investigation of therapeutic ... ofthe liver in these HFC-fed mice It has been reported that the omental fat pad in obese humans can serve as a steady-state generator of inflammatory mediators which will then impact the development...
... vivarium in accordance with the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals ofthe National Institutes of Health and the Animal Welfare Act under the supervision of our institutional Animal ... in the Western diet This rodent model has all the hallmarks of obesity, insulin resistance, and liver steatosis plus it offers the further advantage of proven use for the investigation of therapeutic ... ofthe liver in these HFC-fed mice It has been reported that the omental fat pad in obese humans can serve as a steady-state generator of inflammatory mediators which will then impact the development...
... effect on the action of MP on the fiber system of DA (Fig 1), nor were there any adaptive changes in the GABAergic system in the prefrontal cortex or amygdala of afore traumatized gerbils There are ... p = 0.49) or interaction effect of condition and lamina (F (1,17) = 0.07, p = 0.79) for the DA fibers in the prefrontal cortex, or for the DA fibers in the amygdaloid complex (effect of rearing ... participated in the design ofthe study and the critical reviewing ofthe manuscript 17 All the authors have read and approved the final manuscript 18 Acknowledgements The authors would like to...
... To the best of our knowledge, this report describes the first reported case of pyelovenous backflow that was visualized after a nephrostomy Figure Pyelovenous backflow During pyelography, the ... SES were major contributors in reviewing the literature and in writing the manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript Competing interests The authors declare that they have no ... as a result ofthe ureteral stricture, the urine recirculated into our patient’s blood This in turn increased the serum creatinine level of our patient without causing the alteration of his kidney...
... informatics aspects ofthe study design respectively All authors read and approved the final manuscript Authors’ Information RFS is an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics ... a professor of Internal Medicine and the Associate Program Director ofthe UNM General Clinical Research Center Scholars’ Program RB is a Professor of Psychiatry and the Associate Dean for Clinical ... Affairs ofthe UNM School of Medicine PJK is an Assistant Professor and the Director of Biomedical Informatics Research, Training and Scholarship in the UNM Health Sciences Library & Informatics...
... congestion For this reason, the approach developed in this study could have a potential impact for the study ofthe early phase ofthedevelopmentof lung edema and for the evaluation of possible ... 1) As the highest frequency ofthe second OVW was higher than the overall frequency response of our system, we limited the second waveform to the first components Duringthe application ofthe ... studies correlating thedevelopmentof lung edema with changes of lung mechanics were focused mainly either on the effects of pulmonary congestion only or on the effects of later stages of acute...
... of PAEC as a rescue for reintubation after maxillofacial surgery has not been reported also important factors in this decision The timing of removal ofthe PAEC was therefore different depending ... [16] The PAEC should never be inserted against a resistance Although the tip ofthe PAEC is rounded and blunt, perforations ofthe tracheo-bronchial tree duringthe insertion of these catheters ... after 18 hours of extubation aspirated beforethe reintubation, but this patient had already had swallowing dysfunction due to radiotherapy beforethe operation We therefore considered that the...