... persists for months or years is not classified as acute This type of pain is seen after trauma, surgical interventions and some diseases (Loeser and Melzack, 1999) Chronic ... pain (Lavand’homme and Eisenach, 1999) In humans, the spinal administration of adenosine also produces analgesia that is selective for sensitized states (Eisenach et al., 2002) Studies have shown ... system 17 1.4 Amino acid sequences of some mammalian opioids 24 1.5 Opioid Receptor types – their endogenous ligands, selective agonists and antagonists 27 1.6 Amino acid sequences of some mammalian...
... strongly suggests that ExoS must utilize a strategy for its interaction with 14-3-3 that is similar to that seen with R18 and serotonin N-acetyltransferase This is because R18 is also nonphosphorylated ... Coomassie blue stained SDS ⁄ PAGE showing the purified GST-fusion proteins used in this study The order corresponds to lanes 2–17 above S( Q420A), GST-ExoS(G421A), GST-ExoS(L422A), GST-ExoS(L423A), ... This This This This This This FEBS Journal 273 (2006) 638–646 ª 2006 The Authors Journal compilation ª 2006 FEBS study study study study study study study study study study study study study study...
... agreements with its users that address rights and responsibilities of both parties in such matters as safety, operations, logistics, proprietary research, and costs These user agreements vary substantially ... field over time Users at CHESS, SRC, and NIST CNR: 1990 and 1998; users at ALS, APS, NSLS, SSRL, HFIR, HFBR, IPNS, and LANSCE: 1990 and 1997; users at NHMFL: 1995 and 1998 (see Appendix E for ... larger and more heterogeneous systems, with studies possible on smaller and less-well-ordered samples The coherence of the x-ray beams from undulator sources excites researchers as much as their...
... ropes, shoestrings, cords, sashes, and leashes were among the items involved in these types of incidents Playground slides were most often involved, although climbing equipment and swing sets were ... Commission (CPSC) staff revealed that deaths and serious injuries resulted from falls, hangings, impact with moving equipment, entrapment and contact with protrusions, pinch points, sharp edges and ... current study The proportions of injuries associated with slides, swings, and other public equipment declined somewhat On home equipment, swings and swing sets continued to be associated with the...
... to use CSS3 's shadows, gradients, and transformations, as well as how to learn how to work with fonts In the last section, we'll use HTML5 's client-side features such as Web Storage, Web SQL ... lot of confusion among developers, customers, and even authors In some cases, pieces H o w THIS W O R K S from the CSS3 specification such as shadows, gradients, and transformations are being ... Databases, and offline support to build client-side applications We'll use Web Sockets to talk to a simple chat service, and you'll see how HTML5 makes it possible to send messages and data across...
... training and the rest for testing Also, it has separate lists for such information as special suffices like -ly, -y, -ed, -d, and -s The accuracy of this parser is reported Proceedings of EACL '99 Synonyms/Hypernyms ... 2.2 Roget 's Thesaurus In Roget 's Thesaurus (Chapman, 1977), words are classified according to the ideas they express, and these categories of ideas are numbered in sequence The terms within a ... is given a very low weight using only the corpus-based syntactic-relationbased thesaurus, expansion using only the corpusbased co-occurrence-based thesaurus, and expansion using combined thesauri...
... as a matrix The sample was ionized with KeV Xe atoms, and the ions were accelerated through 10 KeV Argon was used as the collision gas RESULTS AND DISCUSSION Analysis of LPS As shown in Fig 1, ... 1H chemical shift The 1H signals were assigned using DQF-COSY, TOCSY and ROESY spectra, and the 13C signals were assigned using HMQC and HMBC spectra Some of the coupling constants that were ... described in Results and discussion LPS from B fragilis NCTC 10581 was prepared by a procedure similar to that described above LPS from E coli O111:B4 was purchased from Sigma (St Louis, MO, USA)...
... affordable and welcoming to all Some of our ideas—such as doing away with laws that require lawyers to be involved in house sales in most states and simplifying the divorce process—would save consumers ... THOUSANDS OF “LEGAL” TASKS, INCLUDING UNCONTESTED NAME CHANGES, ADOPTIONS, DIVORCES AND PROBATES, ARE PRESENTED TO AMERICAN JUDGES THIS IS AS NEEDLESS AS IT IS COSTLY COURTS ARE A MISERABLE PLACE ... these court procedures, such as the processes necessary to change one s name or probate an estate left to the deceased person s spouse or close family, should simply be abolished Other matters,...
... task was trained during the sessions and reflects a training specific change Patients scored less (better) on the GDS (p = 0.05) and PDQ-39 scales, which suggests less depressive symptoms and ... sit-to-stand and stand-to-sit transfers Patients were instructed to stand up and sit down five times as fast as possible Page of starting in the sitting position and stopping after sitting down ... 0.05 (two-sided) All analyses were conducted with SPSS version 16 software (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA) Results All participants completed the 18 training sessions and all evaluations and reported...
... In some cases, assessment of quiet stance on a firm surface lacks the sensitivity to distinguish healthy subjects from patients with balance disorders [18] A method commonly used to increase ... periods This was conducted for anteroposterior and lateral sway, respectively, and both with eyes open and closed SPSS 12.0 (Chicago, Illinois, USA) was used for the calculations Results Clinical ... seconds BBS: The Berg Balance Scale, best possible score is 56 points [30-32] FES (S) : Falls -Efficacy Scale, Swedish version Best possible total score is 130 points [38] (n = 8) Two patients were...
... Private Sub btnWindowsUser_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnWindowsUser.Click Dim WindowsUser As String = My.User.Name MessageBox.Show(WindowsUser) End Sub ... schema is SYS, whereas with SYSOPER the default schema is PUBLIC SYSDBA is a superset of SYSOPER While connecting with system-level privileges, it is obvious to work with DBA privileges as well If ... works as a senior software engineer developing Java- and NET-based applications and web services. Steven credits his wife Su Ok and daughter Sarah for supporting and inspiring his ongoing passion...
... this very successful study of the algebraic method behind Alon and Tarsi s Theorem, combinatorialists always search for purely combinatorial proofs, since this usually helps to understand the situation ... each such v ∈ V1P \ V1C Mrs Correct has to use (and use up) one eraser from the corresponding stack Sv She loses if she runs out of erasers and cannot that, i.e., if already Sv = ∅ for a still ... already have lost more erasers One example where Paint s winning strategy is like this is K3,3 with one eraser at each vertex Alon and Tarsi s Theorem In this section we discus a surprising connection...
... iff Des(I) ⊆ Des(J) In this case we say that I is coarser than J The descent composition I = C(σ) of a permutation σ ∈ Sn is the composition of n whose descents are exactly the set of descent ... combinatorics 17 (2010), #R34 Recall that the algebra Sym of noncommutative symmetric functions is the free associative algebra, on the symbol set Sn , whose basis is given by S I = Si1 · · · Sin for ... Here ∨ is the linear involution sending each permutation to its inverse and ids = 12 · · · s is the identity permutation of size s The sum of all permutations whose descent composition is I will...
... codewords s3 ) has constant distance s2 This is a code which satisfies the Plotkin bound (Theorem 9.3 of [4]) with equality Also, the OA itself satisfies the Bose-Bush bound(Theorem 9.6 of [4]) with ... a set of s symbols, A an orthogonal array OA (s3 , s2 + s + 1, s, 2) Then we use the following notations (1) OA (s3 , s2 + s + 1, s, 2) is denoted by OA(3, s) for simplicity (2) Ω(A) is the set ... exactly s + λ s in s2 s+ 1 v(1), v(2), · · · , v (s2 ) We have s2 =| {v(1), v(2), · · · , v (s2 )} |≥ (s + 1 )s, since λ is arbitrary and | GF (s) |= s, This is a contradiction This yields [o, u,...
... Behçet s disease was assessed by the 1994 criteria for disease activity of Behçet s disease, proposed by the Behçet s Disease Research Committee of Japan [25] At time of sampling, disease was active ... cytometric analysis As a control, cells were treated in a separated tube with phycoerythrin-labelled mouse IgG antibody (Sigma) Statistical analysis Student s t-test was used to compare responses in different ... reported, but this discrepancy is probably due to inclusion of different populations of patients and/ or stages of disease progression in those studies [33] Indeed, Vγ9/Vδ2 cells from patients with active...
... autoimmune diseases such as RA and Crohn 's disease [13,28,29,39] make this cytokine a prime candidate also in the pathogenesis of SS Increased serum levels and salivary gland expression of IL18 ... GC-like structures identified as described in Materials and methods, and foci were classified as nonsegregated and segregated with or without GC-like structures drome (SS) (a–d) salivary gland ducts ... increased in SS patients with anti-SSA/Ro+ and anti-SSB/ La+ antibodies The strength of this association was further emphasized by the positive correlation of IL-18 serum levels with both anti-SSA/Ro...
... patient with SS (nd, not determined; ns, not significant) observed for the Vλ repertoire, this suggests a positive selection of these mutations in the parotid gland Discussion The present study has ... Gellrich S, Rutz S, Borkowski A, Golembowski S, Gromnica-Ihle E, Sterry W, Jahn S: Analysis of VH-DJH gene transcripts in B cells infiltrating the salivary glands and lymph node tissue of patients with ... Porter SR, Richards A, Sauvezie B, Schiodt M, Sciuto M, Shoenfeld Y, Skopouli FN, Smolen JS, Soromenho F, Tishler M, Wattiaux MJ: Assessment of the European classification criteria for Sjögren s syndrome...
... survival was found to be associated with location of metastases; metastases outside the craniospinal axes were associated with a shorter survival time than metastases confined to the CNS (6.6 s vs 13.7 ... immunohistochemical labeling in 0% of noninvasive adenomas, 15.2% of invasive tumors, and 100% of metastases These data suggest that p53 expression analysis may be a promising avenue for assessing ... hypotensive and unarousable Aggressive fluid resuscitation and cardiopulmonary support with transcutaneous pacing and vasopressor therapy were initiated She stabilized for a short period but showed...
... diseases Page of doi:10.1186/1749-8090-5-66 Cite this article as: Weissen-Plenz et al.: Aortic dissection associated with cogans s syndrome: deleterious loss of vascular structural integrity is associated ... (GM-CSF), was massively increased The gross of GM-CSF was collocated with macrophages, but also with neighboring SMC In comparison with normal controls (aortic specimens taken during ACB surgery, ... Figure Transverse (A) and sagittal (B) CT views of the aorta The dissection (arrows) is circumferential and begins distally to the coronary ostiae arrows: dissection membrane Weissen-Plenz et...
... tension-free anastomosis This result is true if the umbilicus is chosen for the stoma Especially in this case, the adipose tissue of the patient s abdomen was very thick, and the appendix was ... scarring with subsequent progression to renal failure are feared and serious complications that can occur in patients with neurogenic bladder associated with myelomeningocele Such patients should ... anastomosis (see Figure 1) The segment is then opened longitudinally along the antimesenteric border and retubularized transversely with absorbable suture over a 12-Fr catheter Stay sutures placed...