... and laboratory data between patients with and without sustained virological response (SVR) Characteristics Male gender, n, (%) Patients with SVR Patients without SVR (n=13) P-Value (n=41 ) 30 ... with the mean age of 52.5 years (Table 1) Fifty six percent were infected with genotype 1, 16% with genotype and 28% with genotype Clinical characteristics, relevant laboratory data and liver ... end of treatment (P=0.02) compared to patients without SVR Moreover, low platelet count (thrombocytopenia) at the end of treatment was associatedwith SVR (P=0.05) Age, ethnicity, 38 gender, drug...
... study 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 follow-up ... metabolism among older people A recent report has shown that greater aspirin hydrolysis can be associatedwith decreased cholesterol levels of high-density lipoprotein in type 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 decreased total...
... 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 or without ... polymorphism was associatedwith EH in female subjects However, this finding does not necessarily imply that there is a relationship between the NPPB gene and EH Further studies of other polymorphisms ... degree of polymorphism in the number of tandemly repeated nucleotide sequence units, VNTR polymorphisms, also called minisatellites, were originally studied for linkage-mapping purposes VNTRs have...
... the Gab1 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 ... epidemiologic finding that the Gab1 polymorphism was associatedwith H pylori seropositivity and gastric atrophy is plausible However, the Gab1 polymorphism did not influence the development of ... not be genotyped for PTPN11 Gab1 polymorphism and the step of atrophy/metaplasia-gastric cancer We assessed whether the Gab1 gene polymorphism was associatedwith the development of H pylori-related...
... analyzed [18-21] Some authors suggested that the homozygosity for the MTHFR C677T polymorphism was associatedwith an increased risk of coronary heart disease [9,22] whereas others failed to demonstrate ... 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...
... Vgf78-340) [19] followed by incubation with a reporter antibody (HRP–conjugated anti–rabbit IgG, Santa Cruz Biotech, CA) The assay was developed using a stabilized HRP substrate All samples were analyzed ... D-MEM/F12 supplemented with 10% FBS on a poly D lysine-coated 96 well plate at a density of 105 cells/well After 30 min, the medium was replaced with Neurobasal media supplemented with 2% B-27, 0.5 ... immunohistochemistry was performed as previously reported [21] with minor modifications Briefly, spinal cord tissue sections were treated with an antibody against Vgf (rabbit anti rat monoclonal D20,...
... involvement, frequently asymptomatic and self-limited, is present in almost 80% of patients with WNV infection associatedwith neurologic disease The unique pattern of multifocal chorioretinitis can help ... including ophthalmoscopy and FA in selected cases, should be part of the routine evaluation of patients with clinically suspected WNV infection References Hayes EB, Gubler DJ West Nile virus: epidemiology ... 2006;57:181-94 Khairallah M, Ben Yahia S, Ladjimi A, et al Chorioretinal involvement in patients with West Nile virus infection Ophthalmology 2004;111:2065-70 Garg S, Jampol LM Systemic and intraocular...
... monitoring with an ILR was months The baseline clinical characteristics of patients with asystolic or bradycardic responses during ILR monitoring (Group 1) are compared with those without asystolic ... [17] Syncope can sometimes be confused with seizures Some studies have reported that 30-42% of patients who were initially diagnosed with epilepsy had syncope with convulsive activity due cardiovascular ... predicting cause of syncope from clinical histories found that syncope occurring without aura or prodrome is associatedwith spontaneous arrhythmic etiology predominantly bradycardia Given a small...
... Identify appropriate terms to measure emotions associatedwith foods maximizing information about the product Identify scaling approaches to measure emotions with consumers Develop a test protocol to ... terms were used to describe favorite foods while negative terms were associatedwith least favorite foods Positive terms were used with higher frequency Four negative terms were selected 20% of the ... with a new product category; experience-to-date suggest that this is necessary to fully present the emotional response of consumers to capture the potential emotional differences associated with...
... target of increasing the land for IPs to 65 000–70 000 in 2015 with the land for hiring reaching up to 60%;2 this growth will be associatedwith an increase of hazardous industrial waste generation ... the total MSW generated with 35% of MSW being recycled, reused, composted, or having energy recovered In 2020, these figures increase to 90% of the total MSW generated with more than 60% of MSW ... to seek urgent and suitable solutions, including enhancement of 3R activities with respect to SWM in the IPs and enterprises (see Fig 5) The inventory of hazardous chemical products was estimated...
... technology to identify priority areas with the greatest biological wealth and the greatest degree of threat, with a focus on conservation priorities The WWF works closely with the North American Commission ... a national organization with chapters throughout the United States It continues to expand, stop abuse of wilderness lands, save endangered species, 15 Risks Associatedwith Overcollection of Medicinal ... contaminated with soil microflora that become problematic during the tissue culture process Certain soil microflora can form tight associations with the root systems or even grow within the root...
... developed primarily 13 • • • • • • • • • • • • Risks and Benefits Associatedwith GM Plants 335 for production of starch for industrial purposes Overexpression of the sucrose6-phosphate synthase (SPS) ... as transcriptional factors or hormones) into the same organism with subsequent effects on other genes The main issue associatedwith gene biotechnology is that the foreign genes could escape ... could mitigate the potential harmful impacts of GM crops? 13 Risks and Benefits Associatedwith GM Plants 339 13.3 Purported Advantages of GM Food Plants The world population has now reached six...
... fractal probability measures associatedwith equal probability weight, Preprint T Hu, N Nguyen and T Wang, Local dimensions of the probability measure associatedwith the (0, 1, 3) - problem, ... and S M Ngai, Iterated function systems with overlaps, Asian J Math 4(2000), 527 - 552 T Hu, The local dimensions of the Bernoulli convolution associatedwith the golden number, Trans Amer Math ... dimension of fractal measure associatedwith Case If (y4 , y5 , y6 ) is not a generator, then # t6n+6 = # t6n+5 F6n+6 45 F6n+5 Case If (y4 , y5 , y6 ) is a generator Without loss of generality,...
... is also associatedwith oral and other anogenital malignancies, however, it is most commonly associatedwith cervical cancer; in fact, over 99% of all cervical cancers are associatedwith high-risk ... Human herpesvirus 8-encoded proteins with potential roles in virus -associated neoplasia, Front Biosci 12 (2007) 265–281 [30] G Cathomas, Kaposi's sarcoma -associated herpesvirus (KSHV)/human herpesvirus ... (how often is the virus associatedwith the tumor?) Consistency (has the association been observed repeatedly?) Specificity of association (is the virus uniquely associatedwith the tumor?) Temporal...
... van Belkum A: Polymorphism in CC-chemokine ligand associatedwith tuberculosis in Zambia Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2008, 12:1485-1488 Rovin BH, Lu L, Saxena R: A novel polymorphism in the MCP-1 gene ... in intron (int1del554-567) associatedwith protection against TB similar to the ORs of MCP1 -2581G and MCP1 -362C As the three variants are in weak LD (MCP1 -2581A/ G with MCP1 -362C/G and MCP1 ... Montaño M, Barnes PF, Selman M, Granados J: A functional promoter polymorphism in monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 is associatedwith increased susceptibility to pulmonary tuberculosis J Exp Med...
... anti-rOMM-64 affinity beads were allowed to react with saccular and otolith matrix extracts After incubation with the otolith matrix extract and stringent washing with acidic glycine, the beads were found ... at room temperature first with normal rabbit serum (1 : 1000) for h and then with anti-rOMM-64 serum (1 : 1000) in 10 mm NaCl ⁄ Pi (pH 7.4) overnight After immunoreaction with secondary antibody ... 140 kDa (Fig 7) The HMW protein band reacted strongly with anti-rOMM-64 serum, whereas the other two bands of 95 and 140 kDa immunoreacted with anti-recombinant otolin-1 (rOtolin-1) serum, as...
... cells with HO-2 siRNA induced the expression of HO-1 mRNA and protein without affecting the concentration of GAPDH mRNA and b-actin (Fig 4A,B) Likewise, the selective reduction of HO-2 mRNA with ... Consistent with HO-1 mRNA expression, expression of HO-1 protein was also induced by the treatment with HO-2 siRNA in HepG2 cells These results indicate that the down-regulation of HO-2 expression is associated ... or transfected with siGAPDH or siHO-1, the heme content was twofold higher after treatment with hemin (Fig 9A), whereas the heme content remained unchanged in HepG2 cells treated with hemin (Fig...
... Ó FEBS 2004 DDT metabolism by a mutant CYP6A2 (Eur J Biochem 271) 1251 relation with xenobiotic metabolism or with metabolism of endogenous compounds [24,25] Models for CYP51 were also built ... areas and counting with a Wallac 1410 counter Substrate-induced binding spectra Spectral titrations were conducted using a double-beam spectrophotometer (Kontron Uvikon 860) with two CYP6A2 enzymes: ... structure of CYP102A1, this protein is the most similar to CYP6A2 among those with a known structure The software used for this purpose was DEEPVIEW/SWISS-PDBVIEWER V3.7 (available at http://www.expasy.org/spdbv)...