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... thermophilic bacterium has provided insights into the mechanisms of protein maturation, folding, and stability Yoshihiro Sambongi1, Susumu Uchiyama2,*, Yuji Kobayashi2, Yasuo Igarashi3 and Jun Hasegawa41Graduate ... and areapplicable to the elucidation of the dynamic features of cytochromes c. It is of interest to characterize cytochrome c with respect to protein maturation, folding, stability, and function ... Although the cytoplasmic holo-(TT c- 552) has the same function and spectra as the authentic one, the cytoplasmic soluble protein fraction also contains a minorproduct, which has a heme attached...

... Brassica napus soluble epoxide hydrolase (BNSEH1) Cloning and characterization of the recombinant enzyme expressed in Pichia pastoris Stefan Bellevik1, Jiaming Zhang2 and Johan Meijer11Department ... putative epoxide hydrolase genes inferred by data mining of the genome sequence [22] are intrinsically divergentFig. 5. Effects of inhibitors on recombinant BNSEH1 enzyme activity. Enzyme activity was ... Haikou, China Epoxide hydrolase (EC 3.3.2.3) in plants is involved in the metabolism of epoxy fatty acids and in mediating defenceresponses. We report the cloning of a full-length epoxide hydrolase...

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... Validation of actigraphy to assess circadian organization and sleep quality in patients with advanced lung cancer. Journal of Circadian Rhythms 2011 9:4.Submit your next manuscript to BioMed Central and ... AccessValidation of actigraphy to assess circadian organization and sleep quality in patients with advanced lung cancerJames F Grutsch1,6*, Patricia A Wood2,3, Jovelyn Du-Quiton2,3, Justin L Reynolds2, ... self-report of daytime activity and sleep quality and actigraphy- measur ed activ ity and sleep function are masked in this setting. The hospital routineobviouslychangesthedailyact ivity pattern obscuringsome...

... the Netherlands.Authors’ contributionsFB carried out the soil surveys, peasant interviews and the building of the first version of the Maya soil classification. JAZ improved the Maya soil classification ... [14] showed the closecorrelation and complement arit y of the numerical, Maya and WRB [21] classifications of 54 soil profiles from the Mérida municipality. The Maya soil, geoform and waterknowledge ... diagnosticproperty. The Maya soil classification and the WRB classifica-tion are complementary. The MSC shares categories and classes with the WRB framework. This is an advan-tage for the scheme...

... provided the original work is properly cited.Research article Carinal surgery: experience of a single center and review of the current literatureHaralabos Parissis*1 and Vincent Young2AbstractBackground: ... & lower lobectomy 5 years ago.CP: carinal plasty with reinplantation of the right main bronchus to the trachea for Tracheal Sarcoma (TS) or carcinoid tumor A: AliveD:Dead Parissis and Young ... hparissis@yahoo.co.uk1 Cardiothoracic Department, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, Northern IrelandFull list of author information is available at the end of the article Parissis and Young...

... of 4 CAS E REP O R T Open AccessPortal hypertensive enteropathy diagnosed by capsule endoscopy and demonstration of the ileal changes after transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt placement: ... endoscopy and the effect of transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt on the ileal pictures. Case presentation: An 83-year-old Caucasian woman was admitted to our hospital for anemia and a positive ... capsule endoscopy and demonstration of the ileal changes after transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt placement: a case report. Journal of Medical Case Reports 2011 5:90.Submit your next manuscript...

... article as: Mahdavi et al., Sudden deterioration due to intra-tumoral hemorrhage of ependymoma of the fourth ventricle in a child during a flight: a case report Journal of Medical Case Reports ... dural sinuses. At a cabin pressure of 575 mmHg, gas expands to 132% of its baseline volume atsea level [10]. Expansion of intestinal gas may havebrought about a mild elevation of intra-abdominal ... attached to the inferior triangle of the fourth ventricle floor. The boy had an uneventfulearly recovery post-operatively. He was breathing inde-pendently one day after surgery and gradually...

... Chase and Shaw29.1%) of the time, with a further 48.5% (36.9 to 60.8%) in the 6.2 to 7.99 mmol/L band. The authors conclude that the protocol “did not achieve tight glycaemic control for asubstantial ... Krinsley'soriginal work [4] and the data presented by Shulman et al.They are also similar to other studies [14-16].This contradiction illustrates the almost complete inability to assess ... glycaemic control interms of overall results, rather than per patient. Thus, onecould (in extreme) report relatively wide variability for aprotocol, when in fact each patient was tightly controlledwithin...

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... hemodynamic changes that play the leading roles in the early evolutive phases are replacedlater by the metabolic alterations.Hyperdynamic splanchnic and systemic circulation areearly hemodynamic ... 95:827-830.148. Palma MD, Aller MA, Vara F, Nava MP, Garcia C, Arias-Diaz J, BalibreaJL, Arias J: Portal hypertension produces an evolutive hepato-intestinal pro- and anti-inflammatory response in the rat.Cytokine ... ischemia-reperfusion (vasodilatory response), infiltration by inflammatory cells (mast cells)and bacteria (intestinal translocation of endotoxins and bacteria) and lastly, angiogenesis. Similarinflammatory phenotypes,...

... of the respiratory system, regard-less of the position of the curve [11]. That is, we haveCommentaryIs the way to man’s heart (and lung) through the abdomen?Robert L Owens1, R Scott Harris2and ... atelectasis, airway closure, alveolar floodingand/or expiratory flow limitation [10].Second, the slope of a pressure–volume curve reflects the compliance (or elastance) of the respiratory system, regard-less ... presumably through compression of venules.We have previously observed patients with presumedhepatorenal syndrome (a diagnosis with ostensibly up to 100% mortality) who were markedly improved by loweringIAP...