... site of disease (pulmonary, extra pulmonary or disseminated) and risk factors for TB; both behavioral risk factors, contact history; alcoholism; smoking; number of households and clinical risk factors ... diagnostic method of TB was detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the sputum on 1353 (56.3%) of patients, diagnosis by means ofclinical and radiological findings on 346 (14.4%) of patients, ... regarding level of education, occupation and employment status characterize the social situation of the population of patients in our study, since most of them (74.7%) had a low level of education,...
... evidence of successes, more information about the characteristicsof patients starting ART in “real-world settings” - and how those characteristics are changing over time - is needed to characterize ... with no history of PMTCT; (2) men; and (3) women with a history of PMTCT Analysis We conducted cross-sectional analyses of socio-demographic, clinical and laboratory characteristicsof patients at ... describe the epidemiologic characteristicsof patients accessing ART during this phase of the scale up in east Africa Methods Patients The EA-IeDEA is a cohort of patients from clinical care sites in...
... of mutant receptors to EGFR inhibitor, cells were treated with various concentrations of Erlotinib Page of 10 (Tarceva® LC laboratories, Woburn, MA) three hours before the addition of 10 ng of ... of HER2neu (c-erbB-2) and epidermal growth factor receptor in cervical cancer: prognostic correlation with clinical characteristics, and comparison of manual and automated imaging analysis Gynecol ... Equal amounts of protein were prepared in 50 μl of Laemmli loading buffer and resolved using 4-15% Figure Identification of missense mutations in MPM tumor samples Chromatograms of MPM (Panels...
... methodology of the study, the conduction ofclinical interviewing, the interpretation of data, and the critical revision of the manuscript TAA, managed to provide the rest of authors with most of the ... students 2- To estimate the characteristic symptom profile of Egyptian adolescent female students (if there is a characteristic profile) Hypothesis The hypothesis of this study was that depressive ... respectively A percentage of 15.3% of the studied sample were estimated to meet criteria for depression according to the CDI cut-off point While, by the use of SCID-I about 13.3% of the studied population...
... of their brothers/sisters 3.1.2 Several clinical and paraclinical characteristics 3.1.2.1 Clinicalcharacteristics Figure 3.6 - Clinicalcharacteristicsof antibiotic-resistant H pylori PDU Figure ... Several epidemiological and clinicalcharacteristicsof PDU caused by antibiotic-resistant H pylori 3.1.1 Several epidemiological characteristics 3.1.1.1 Rate ofpediatric PDU caused by antibiotic-resistant ... 2013” Specific objectives of the research were: Epidemiological and clinicalcharacteristicsofpediatric peptic ulcers disease caused by drug-resistant H pylori at National Pediatric Hospital, from...
... amounts of food waste and sewage sludge were added in individual bottles Each bottle was supplemented with 200 mg of KH2PO4, 14 mg of MgCl2•4H2O, mg of Na2MoO4•4H2O, mg of CaCl2•2H2O, 2.5 mg of MnCl2•6H2O, ... characteristicsof the heat-shocked digester sludge converting the organic wastes were similar to those of anaerobic spore-forming bacteria, Clostridium sp The hydrogen production potential of ... sieve opening of 2.00 mm) The characteristicsof the substrate were summarized in Table Operating procedure The experiments were conducted using 415 mL Wheaton media lab bottles A total of 33 bottles...
... (i) that the rate of formation of lactic acid during a heavy workload is the same, independent of the length of the work period, but that lactic acid during the short periods of rest is eliminated ... energy (lactate, H2O, CO2 and creatine) This is achieved by sequences of chemical reactions by which part of the change in free energy is used for the synthesis of ATP through a reversal of reaction ... positively inuence risk factors for development of inactivity-associated diseases In spite of the fact that acute training is associated with a transient increased risk of cardiac arrest, taken...
... effect The transient responses of Fig 4b, suggested that one of the two steps of the reaction (8) resulting of the O3 dissociation is enhanced by the presence of the metal particles [33–35] p ... practically insensitive in this temperature range to the tested gases and in these senses could be used as selective elements against ozone The characteristicsof the dynamic responses of the activated ... properties of reactively sputtered WO3 thin films as ozone gas sensor, Sens Actuators B 84 (2002) 1–5 [15] M Bendahan, R Boulmani, J.L Seguin, K Aguir, Characterization of ozone sensors based on WO3 reactively...
... Con:28 of 44 Stage II Exp:1 5of 33 Con:21 of 77 Exp:15 of 33 Con:29 of 77 Exp:14 of 80 Exp:17 of 80 Con:12 of 40 Jadad’s grades (year) Exp:18 of 73 Stage III ATC-BCG Con:31 of 109 Exp:16 of 73 ... Con:17 of 40 Stage III 7.6 B C Exp:1 6of 44 [23] ATV-NDV Stage I-IV Exp:20 of 44 Con:16 of 25 NO C Exp:1 2of 25 [24] 17-1 [25] Antibody ATC Stage III Con:48 of 76 Con:54 of 76 B Stage I-IV Exp:39 of ... comparable baseline characteristicsof ASI, including the number of evaluated CRC patients, the type of vaccine, the route of vaccination, adjuvants, the toxicity, and the objective clinical responses...
... form of a dichotomous outcome, namely 'passive' or 'active' These topics are: the routine pattern of activities and the amount of time laying or sitting during the day of yesterday, the number of ... whereas fluctuating active patients start with practicing a base line activity level that prevents bursts of activity, passive patients start directly with increasing physical activity [11,12] The ... cut-off points characteristic (ROC) marked with IPAQ, CFS-AQ Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves of the IPAQ, CFS-AQ and API predicting CFS-patients daily activity typology, best cut-off...
... different amounts of 1,8-octanedithiol, are shown in Figure By introducing a small amount of the additive to a solution-processed active layer, the J-V characteristicsof the active layer were ... increased Because of this reason, the film with 3.5 vol.% of 1,8-octanedithiol exhibited the best device performances in this work Conclusions The performance characteristicsof BHJ polymer solar ... important because of the fact that the exciton diffusion length in a polymer system is about to 10 nm Therefore, it is necessary to maintain a proper size of the polymer aggregate because of an efficient...
... different amounts of 1,8-octanedithiol, are shown in Figure By introducing a small amount of the additive to a solution-processed active layer, the J-V characteristicsof the active layer were ... increased Because of this reason, the film with 3.5 vol.% of 1,8-octanedithiol exhibited the best device performances in this work Conclusions The performance characteristicsof BHJ polymer solar ... important because of the fact that the exciton diffusion length in a polymer system is about to 10 nm Therefore, it is necessary to maintain a proper size of the polymer aggregate because of an efficient...
... Y., & Hong, E K (2009) Study of macrophage activation and structural characteristicsof purified polysaccharides from the fruiting body of Hericium erinaceus Journal of Microbiology & Biotechnology, ... found to act as an immunostimulant through the activation of macrophages, was a 1,6-branched-glucogalactomannan that had a molecular weight of 36 kDa (Table and Fig 3) The fruiting bodies of wild ... mainly composed of (1 → 4)-linked d-galactopyranosyl residues, and terminated with d-galactopyranosyl residues, with a degree of branching (DB) of 0.2 Discussion Fig Identification of the anomeric...
... of epidemiological characteristics, clinical manifestations of atypical pneumonia caused by bacteria in children” The study objectives were: To describe the epidemiological characteristics, clinical ... described the clinical manifestations and laboratorial characteristicsof atypical pneumonia, atypical pneumonia co-infection in children Practical value of the subject - Evaluate the results ofclinical ... Classification of atypical pneumonia Chapter RESULTS 3.1 Epidemiological characteristicsof Atypical bacterial pneumonia in children 3.1.1 General epidemiological characteristicsof atypical pneumonia...
... Textural Characteristicsof Activated Carbons 102 Figure 5: Composition of activated carbon prepared by chemical activation with 65% solution of ZnCl2 at the pyrolysis temperature of 500oC area of ... of activated carbon However, the decrease of micropore volume at higher pyrolysis temperatures in the range of 600oC–800oC was caused by a contraction or breaking of some of the porous wall of ... temperature controller Textural Characteristicsof Activated Carbons 2.4 Characterization of the Activated Carbons 2.4.1 96 Nitrogen adsorption studies The determination of the adsorption-desorption...
... associations of gender and disease activity, disease characteristics, and treatments of RA in a large multinational cross-sectional cohort of patients with RA called Quantitative Standard Monitoring of ... possible influence of gender on the clinical status and disease activity measures of RA appears to be of value Therefore, we explored possible associations of gender and disease activity measures, ... activity may originate from the measures of disease activity rather than from RA disease activity itself Gender differences in disease activity and other measures may reflect the properties of...
... binding activities of the transcription factors activator protein-1 (AP-1) and NF-B were determined in nuclear extracts of spleen CD4+ T cells preincubated with antiCD4 mAbs The activity of AP-1 ... correlated with the clinical score of individual animals The successful mode of action of anti-CD4 mAbs in arthritides may therefore be based on increasing the reactivity of a subpopulation of regulatory ... phosphorylation of src-homologydomain-containing protein (Shc), or the translocation of nuclear factor of activated T cells (NF-AT) (both primary CD4+ T cells and clone A2b), and the activity of p59fyn...
... pointed to the presence of ANCAs directed at more than one neutrophil cytoplasm antigen as a characteristic feature of DIV [4,5] Others have observed a characteristic development of ANAs and antihistone ... patients, and the clinical manifestations usually subside after withdrawal of the offending drug Nevertheless, some patients go on to develop serious vasculitic manifestations if the offending drug ... this has been observed the prognosis appeared to be worse because of the development of more extensive lesions The development of DIV in conjunction with propylthiouracil or methimazol therapy...
... associations of gender and disease activity, disease characteristics, and treatments of RA in a large multinational cross-sectional cohort of patients with RA called Quantitative Standard Monitoring of ... possible influence of gender on the clinical status and disease activity measures of RA appears to be of value Therefore, we explored possible associations of gender and disease activity measures, ... activity may originate from the measures of disease activity rather than from RA disease activity itself Gender differences in disease activity and other measures may reflect the properties of...