... metastases [14] A more advanced stage of gastric cancer (stage III and IV) results in higher serum levelsof CA 72-4 Our patient had a normal CA 19-9 serum level Elevated serum levelsof CA 19-9 have ... al.: Primary adenocarcinoma of the stomach in von Recklinghausen’s disease with high serum levelsof multiple tumor markers: a case report Journal of Medical Case Reports 2011 5:521 Submit your ... frequency of 2% to 6% The prognosis of these cases tends to be poor with a high frequency of hepatic metastasis at presentation Liver metastasis has been reported to occur in 70% to 80% of cases...
... to high titers in primary and secondary expansion cultures, reaching highlevelsof p24 production (mean, 1745.7 pg/ml) The other 72 isolates did not produce highlevelsof virus in primary or ... error of the mean Comparisons between groups were performed using the Pearson chi-square or Fisher’s exact test for categorical variables The Mann-Whitney U test was used for continuous data of ... batches of PHA-stimulated PBMC from normal donors The in vitro growth kinetics of the viruses studied were determined in triplicate by mono-infection of PBMC at a multiplicity of infection (MOI) of...
... 200 100 0 Hepatitis score Figure erase activity Correlation of mitotic indices and hepatitis scores to telomCorrelation of mitotic indices and hepatitis scores to telomerase activity Mitotic indices ... reflected loss of functional liver parenchyma and surgical induction of liver injury with temporary rise of serum aminotransferases Pigs display no or very low levelsof telomerase activity in the ... Mitotic activity and hepatitis scores Mitotic hepatocytes were identified in the majority of liver samples on the 3rd postoperative day after PH or PH/TIPS (Figures 1C and 1D) The highest number of...
... predominance of the low -activity dimer form As the hTK1 concentration increases during S phase, more and more enzyme will be in the high- active tetramer form Recently, phosphorylation of hTK1 at ... light of these effects, the complex regulatory and structural properties of hTK1 may be important for maintaining a balanced supply of the DNA precursor This underlines the importance of elucidating ... incubated with or without mm of the respective nucleotide or phosphate compound for h at °C, and stored for at least weeks at )80 °C before use for kinetic and molecular mass analyses The activity...
... structure of the cytoplasmic domain, i.e an open form and a compact form The Ca2–E1 state is an open form [45–47] Binding of the nucleotide converts it into a compact form [47] The compact form induced ... oligomycin or other ligands in the 675 Stimulation of pNPPase activityof Na+ ⁄ K+-ATPase H Homareda and M Ushimaru Table Phosphorylation of Na+ ⁄ K+-ATPase from pNPP, Pi and ATP For phosphorylation ... effect of NaCl on pNPPase activity in the presence of NaCl up to 20 mm In the presence of NaCl at concentrations of more than 20 mm, however, the pNPPase activity with oligomycin was higher than...
... Lawrence Mansueti, Patrick Gilman, and Kevin Lynn of the U.S Department of Energy for their support of this work For reviewing drafts of this report and /or for providing comments that helped shape our ... manufacturer, or otherwise, does not necessarily constitute or imply its endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by the United States Government or any agency thereof, or The Regents of the University of ... California The views and opinions of authors expressed herein not necessarily state or reflect those of the United States Government or any agency thereof, or The Regents of the University of California...
... evidence exists for the disorder of about 500 proteins [7], and bioinformatics predictions suggest that disorder is prevalent in the proteome of eukaryotes, with more than 10% of their proteins ... Authors Journal compilation ª 2009 FEBS 3747 Highlevelsof disorder in scaffold proteins V Csizmok et al A B C D Fig Structural characterization of fragments of PRD (A) Far-UV CD spectra of PRD1-His ... possible importance of disorder in Caskin1 function and the class of scaffolds in general The collection of scaffold proteins for bioinformatics study, however, is hampered by the lack of consensus...
... the type of activity, the duration that specific activities are performed, and the intensity of the activity in terms of the cardiorespiratory response Ambulatory physiological monitoring of individuals ... number not for citation purposes) Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2007, 4:41 may lead to more reliable reporting not only ofactivity but also of the intensity of activity, when ... he walked on a treadmill for 11 minutes (AC4), it was recorded that the individual performed an AC0 activity for minutes and an AC4 activity for 11 minutes For each of these two periods, e.g...
... American cohorts of seroconvertors [3,4], baseline HIV RNA was higher and closer to levels seen in reports from African [8] and Asian [2] countries Although some differences in early laboratory values ... significant for p < 0.05, two-tailed tests Univariate analysis was performed for the variables hypothesized as risk factors for events under study All the variables of interest for the study ... report from the only multicentre cohort of HIV seroconverters in Argentina and one of the few descriptions of HIV-1 progression from seroconversion in Latin America In our cohort, the proportion...
... [7,8], higher levelsof stress [8-11], sense of devaluation and blame [9], and also impaired physical functioning, tiredness or exhaustion in mothers and fathers [12,13] For example, Weiss [7] reported ... the scarcity of data about the HRQL of parents of children of normal intelligence with PDDs, we deem it relevant to also take into account research on the well-being of parents of children with ... performed by the first author of this study The diagnostic reassessment revealed that 13 children fulfilled ICD-10 criteria for autistic disorder, and 19 fulfilled ICD-10 criteria for AS Moreover,...
... anti-CRP levels and several clinical and laboratory disease activity measures, namely serum levelsof anti-DNA antibodies, complement factors C1q, C3 and C4, and SLEDAI scores, regardless of whether ... signs of disease activity defined as a SLEDAI peak score of at least (median 16) for a median time of 16.1 months (range 5–27 months) The term ‘flare’ was used to describe the time-point of highest ... whether anti-CRP levels might vary over time and be associated with disease activityor flares, and /or certain disease manifestations Table Spearman’s rank correlations between anti-CRP levels (optical...
... identification of the binding partners of OP1 in the formation of high- molecular-weight aggregates may provide important information for the formulation and delivery of growth factors into target ... 0.0654) Interestingly, SF levelsof OP-1 tended to correlate positively with levelsof HA, but correlate negatively with levelsof AgKS In our studies, the highest concentration of HA was found in RA ... error of the mean Results Demographics of three populations of samples The SF used for this study was obtained from the knee joints of 14 asymptomatic organ donors with no documented history of...
... analyzed for intensity of staining By the use of Quantity One v 4.5.2 software (Bio-Rad Laboratories, Hercules, CA, USA), we determined color densities of 20 randomly selected areas of both the ... the territorial/ interterritorial zones on a total cartilage area of 0.25 mm2 for each specimen The densities of the pericellular zones were then normalized to the densities of the territorial/interterritorial ... well, for isotope incorporation assays The ratio of medium to tissue (1.5 ml per 100 mg of cartilage) was always kept constant [13,14] The other part of the cartilage samples was used for mRNA...
... fractions of Gy for compensation of a split period For patients a dose of 55 Gy in daily fractions of 2.75 Gy was administered For one patient the mean lung dose was considered too high for a dose of ... and had more often an ECOG performance score more than At multivariate analysis only treatment with chemo-radiation was left as a prognostic factor for OS (P = 0.024) The HR for OS of sequential ... have reported 5-year survival of 20–25% for treatment schemes consisting of high- dose radiotherapy in a short OTT combined with daily administration of low-dose cisplatin (Keene, Schild) or concomitant...
... other indicators of disease activity were considered, the chemokine and IFN scores were not significantly correlated with ESR or circulating levelsof IgG anti-dsDNA antibody Page of 10 (page ... chemokine score might be more specific for SLE than for RA One of the potential explanations for the discrepancy between the expression of IFIGs and IFN-inducible chemokines is the highly complicated ... therapy One of the weaknesses of the SLEDAI-2K score is its insensitivity in detecting improvement or worsening in a manifestation, because this can only be recorded as absent or present For example,...
... reported in RA [44,45], we report for the first time in pSS and SLE the increased functional activityof sPLA2, despite the absence of increased levelsof other classical biological markers of ... Characteristics of patients are expressed as number and percentage and median and range Results for MP levels are expressed as mean ± standard error of the mean Comparisons of mean MP levels, sPLA2 activity, ... state of cell activation in these diseases However, because the level of MPs increases less in patients with more severe disease, the interest of using MP levels for monitoring disease activity...
... extraction by chloroform-methanol (2-1) Phospholipid proportion was determined by measuring the phosphorus content of lipids (BIPEA, 1976) using the mean content of 40 mg phosphorus per g phospholipids ... in proportion of abdominal fat appeared after 15 d of age when no difference could be observed for the proportion of other adipose deposits Divergence between lines for abdominal fat proportion ... weight (16 wk of age) or for high immature weight and low mature weight led, respectively, to lean and fat lines of the shape of the growth curve ween chickens So there seems to be a correlation...
... region; I: intron Failure of amplification in some of the lines may be due to the presence of SNPs/Indels in the binding sites of the sequences and /or the absence of some of the Cbf genes in some ... number of alleles which occurred only in one population PIC: Polymorphic information content, a higher value means higher genetic diversity Allelic richness is a measure of the number of alleles ... non-synonymous polymorphisms resulting in amino acid replacements, 15 of which changed polarity In the Cbf gene family, ScCbf9b No of lines b No of SNPs c (non-synonymous) dN/dS No of Indels No of haplotypes...
... judgment for the prediction of violent behavior and poor outcome for predominately male samples [6,11], there is relatively little data on female forensic or correctional samples The vast majority of ... patients from high to lower levelsof security Page of Table Clinical diagnosis according to DSM-IV (several diagnoses possible, n = 72) Organic brain syndromes Schizophrenia or -related disorders Affective ... A significant proportion of the cohort met criteria for substance abuse dependence Forty-seven patients (65%) had more than one clinical diagnosis recorded See table The majority (55, 76%) had...
... Glostrup, Denmark) Levelsof C1q were expressed as the percentage of the levelsof healthy blood donors (normal range, 76 to 136%) C3 (normal range, 0.70 to 1.3 g/l) and C4 (normal range, 0.13 ... against CRP in lupus was originally described by Frank A Robey and coworkers in 1985 [16] Later, Bell and colleagues reported a high frequency of Page of (page number not for citation purposes) ... theory [2] Antibodies against dsDNA are frequently found both in serum and inflammatory lesions in glomerulonephritis [3] The circulating levelsof anti-dsDNA often correlate with disease activity, ...