... assessment in children include EHC 30, Principles for Evaluating Health Risks to Progeny Associatedwith Exposure to Chemicals during Pregnancy (IPCS, 1984), and EHC 59, Principles for Evaluating Health ... 237: Principles for Evaluating Health Risks in Children EHCs addressing methodologies for assessing risks in children: EHC 30, Principles for Evaluating Health Risks to Progeny Associatedwith ... web site xiv WHO TASK GROUP ON ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH CRITERIA ON PRINCIPLES FOR EVALUATING HEALTH RISKS IN CHILDREN ASSOCIATEDWITH EXPOSURE TO CHEMICALS Dr T Damstra, IPCS, served as the Responsible...
... 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 ... 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 ... gender, drug abuse, and histology were not significantly associatedwith SVR To allow for clinical applicability, logistic regression with clinical cut-offs in the significant relevant covariants,...
... 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 ... examinations from subjects not receiving medications 150 In the Japanese population, it has been reported that plasma BNP levels are positively associatedwith age, urinary salt excretion, higher ... found to be associatedwith an increased risk of BP progression in males, but not in females [22] Further studies are needed to resolve these conflicting results Since there are many loci with a high...
... 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 of atrophy ... seropositive subjects, the Gab1 polymorphism was not associatedwith gastric cancer When we made a comparison between cases and controls with seropositive atrophy, the ORs of G/A and A/A for ... 55:74-108 Blaser MJ, Perez-Perez GI, Kleanthous H, et al Infection with Helicobacter pylori strains possessing cagA is associatedwith an increased risk of developing adenocarcinoma of the stomach...
... 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 ... group and Gp2 compared with the control This impairment in the glycemic control most probably reflects a state of insulin resistance Elevated homocysteine is associatedwith several cardiovascular...
... 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, ... Cruz Biotechnology, Inc.) labeled with Zenon Alexa Fluor 594 (mouse IgG labeling kit; Molecular Probes Inc.) at 25°C for h Furthermore, the sections were treated with the monoclonal antibody against...
... 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 ... generators with a registered amount of hazardous waste generated of 108 000–132 388 tons/year, but only 40%–54% (51 000 tons of HzSW) were collected Sonadezi Waste Treatment Co (equipped with one...
... 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...
... 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 ... Future GM organisms are likely to include plants with improved disease or drought resistance, crops with increased nutrient levels, fish species with enhanced growth characteristics, and plants ... human consumption and were developed primarily 13 • • • • • • • • • • • • Risks and Benefits Associatedwith GM Plants 335 for production of starch for industrial purposes Overexpression of the...
... 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 ... cancer, ovarian Although retroviruses have been associatedwith many animal tumors, to date, only one human retrovirus, HTLV-1, has been associatedwith human cancers The biology of HTLV-1 will ... (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...
... MCP1 -2581G was in weak linkage disequilibrium (LD) with another promoter variant, MCP1 -362C (r2 = 0.27), which was even stronger associatedwith resistance to TB than MCP1 -2581G MCP1 -362C has ... 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 ... human pulmonary tuberculosis with Sp110 variants J Med Genet 2006, 43:e32 doi:10.1186/1471-2156-12-34 Cite this article as: Intemann et al.: MCP1 haplotypes associatedwith protection from pulmonary...
... the capacity of TIAR to be associatedwith polysomes Although the association of DDX21 with TIAR relies on RNA intermediate, DDX5, hnRNP M and ASF ⁄ SF2 are associatedwith TIAR by protein– protein ... migrate into SGs in cells treated with arsenite in combination with puromycin (data not shown) Furthermore, ASF ⁄ SF2 co-localized exclusively with TIAR and not with Dcp1-positive Pbs [21], thereby ... ASF ⁄ SF2 with TIA-1 protein The experimental procedure was identical to that described in Fig 2A is also associatedwith TIA-1 (Fig 3B), thereby indicating that ASF ⁄ SF2 can interact with both...
... 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...