... hypopituitarism and SES in critically ill infants and children Iodinated antiseptics in cardiac surgery Infants may absorb significant quantities of iodine in iodinated topical antiseptics transcutaneously ... diarrhoea or diabetic ketoacidosis [40,41] and sepsis [42] The thyroid function in neonates and premature babies is impaired and thyroid function disorders associated with neonatal adaption and ... dopamine suppressed prolactin and thyrotropin secretion, anda rebound release started within 20 minutes after dopamine withdrawal [45] Thus, dopamine infusion induces or aggravates partial hypopituitarism...
... vessels that were functionally proper antecedents had given rise to a familiarity with the use of clay anda capacity in handling it that, with advancing culture, brought all nature within the reach ... enhance usefulness To please fancy.—————— —— MODIFICATION BY ADVENTITION Incapacity of material. Itis evident at a glance that clay lacks the capacity to assume and to retain many of the details ... this, is the fact that all precolumbian American pottery precedes the acquisition of written language, and this contrast is emphasized by the additional fact that it also antedates the use of...
... 14-21 August 2002, Thailand KIM ET AL chain International agencies, such as the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO), are currently advocating compliance ... lettuce and to establelish the critical level of elements in chinese cabbage, radish and lettuce Materials and Methods A silty loam soil with low concentrations of As and Cd was used in the experiment ... phytotoxicity was shown by growth retardation of radish and lettuce whereas Cd phytotoxicity was shown by growth retardation and leaf chlorosis of Chinese cabbage and lettuce at the early growing season...
... Treebanks and their annotation schemes respectively are compared using a stepwise approximation Annotation components corresponding to certain annotation decisions are taken out or inserted, submitting ... morphological labels, non-terminal nodes with phrase labels All edges are labeled with grammatical functions Annotation was accomplished semi-automatically with the same software tools The main difference ... this modification When parsing without grammatical functions, it increases about 6,5% When parsing with grammatical functions, it increases about 14% Thus, the additional rules provided by a topological...
... 11b-hydroxylase, when creating a CYP11B1 double mutant containing the aldosterone synthase specific amino acids glycine and alanine at positions 288 and 320, respectively [18] Bottner ¨ et al [19] have ... encodes an amino-acid sequence that is involved in substrate recognition and binding as well as redox partner binding [20] This finding was also supported by results obtained with microsomal P450 ... effect than a dramatically increasing effect on the enzymatic activity Nevertheless, itis conceivable that pathological abnormalities observed in patients with essential hypertension could be caused...
... range In all animals, there isa general increase in total serum protein, a decrease in albumin, and an increase in globulins with advancing age [42] Štukelj et al Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica ... contains lactic acid, citric acid, formic acid, fumaric acid and ammonium formate Group III (8 females and castrates) were fed the same basal diet with added 0.3% additive containing 0.15% tannin ... value (one-way ANOVA) 0.272 0.916 * p < 0.05, paired t-test used for the comparison between initial and final values in individual groups of growers Štukelj et al Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica...
... The authors declare that they have no competing interests Authors' contributions All authors had substantial contributions to conception and design, analysis and interpretation of data, drafting ... model and clinical implications Clin Biomech (Bristol, Avon) 1997, 12(5):273-280 Wingstrand H, Wingstrand A, Krantz P: Intracapsular and atmospheric pressure in the dynamics and stability of ... intra-capsular pressure was recorded in six standardised hip positions in the following sequence The neutral position was obtained when the cadaver was placed supine ona hard surface with his...
... CRT algorithm parameters in order to obtain a reasonably trade-off between energy consumption and reliability Finally, through simulations, we have assessed the results obtained analytically, and ... approach also ina network where nodes alternate between sleep and awake state, both reliability and energy saving can be achieved with a moderate increase in the overall complexity and with very ... Comparison between PR calculated through analytical model and simulations If we consider that TTX j are uniformly distributed between and TAMAX , the random variable z has a triangular distribution...
... chromatogram was obtained Data were analyzed by construction of mass chromatograms for each SRM transition separately, and peak areas were manually tabulated Statistical analysis HPLC data obtained ... Lactobacillus present in the normal vaginal flora, and estimated calculations based on concentrations of Lactobacillus present [9,10] Protection against oxidation was investigated by the addition ... stability of Spantide II, a promising topical anti-inflammatory agent for the treatment of psoriasis and contact dermatitis J Pharm Pharmacol 2004, 56:19-25 McNally EJ: Protein Formulation and...
... woman presented with chronic and unrelenting right upper quadrant pain, epigastric fullness, early satiety, nausea, vomiting and dysphagia On physical examination, hepatomegaly and tenderness in ... disease andis associated with an autosomal dominant inheritance Patients are usually asymptomatic [1] Symptomatic PLD has been treated by percutaneous aspiration with or without sclerotherapy, ... evaluated However, our initial experience is promising, and we believe that it may become a valuable means in surgery for PLD Handling of the instrument, cutting and coagulation quality were satisfactory...
... database have been fully encrypted, and the database is fully compliant with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Information available for each facility and ... dependency and sedation, increased risk of industrial and motor vehicle accidents, and neonatal and infant mortality when used in late pregnancy or during breast feeding [11,12] A substantial proportion ... initial pharmacotherapy for GAD ina large, geographically diverse population, and changes in healthcare utilization and costs in the periods immediately before and after initiation of such therapy...
... H186R APOBEC3G allelic variant is associated with accelerated HIV disease progression, and actually appears to have slightly increased antiviral potency based onin vitro infectivity data (cytidine ... hypermutants are littered with canonical APOBECinduced mutations and appear to be evolutionary dead ends, while others are barely distinguishable from nonhypermutant control sequences and may in fact ... Mutations occurring at recognized protease inhibitor resistance positions are listed, based on Stanford HIV Drug Resistance Database conventions [51] Class IV mutations are listed separately, and...
... brief, inflammation was scored using four parameters (periportal or periseptal interface hepatitis, confluent necrosis, focal lytic necrosis and portal inflammation) to obtain a histological activity ... MS, Unalp-Arida A, Yeh M, McCullough AJ, Sanyal AJ, Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis Clinical Research Network: Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis Clinical Research Network Design and validation of a histological ... Kubota K, Saito S, Iwasaki T, Terauchi Y, Togo S, Maeyama S, Nakajima A: High-sensitivity C-reactive protein is an independent clinical feature of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and also...
... established that they had not been on any medication that could interfere with bone metabolism and had not had any bone metabolic disease Individuals showing abnormal cartilage macroscopic changes and/ or ... was extracted with TRIzol™ reagent (Invitrogen, Burlington, Ontario, Canada) in accordance with the manufacturer's specifications and than treated with the DNA-free™ DNase Treatment and Removal ... After amplification, DNA was analyzed on an agarose gel and revealed by ultraviolet detection Densitometric analysis was performed for each amplimer against that for GAPDH with a ChemiImager 4000...
... Legionella pneumonia and bacteraemia in association with protein-losing enteropathy after Fontan operation J Infect 2001, 42:206-207 Available online http://ccforum.com/content/7/2/185 11 Mainwaring ... Mean (Gpt/l) Range IgA Mean and respective data ranges +, value above normal range, without quantitative data in the records; –, no data available The date of PLE onset in cases 2–8 was not exactly ... We hypothesise that infection and inflammation are associated with, and may possibly be, an important additional factor for the development of PLE Discussion The principal observation in the present...
... to disentangle the precise physiological mechanisms that are involved in heart rate variability alterations in the ICU In such conditions, one could even wonder how heart rate variability parameters ... variability [5], whereas invasive ventilation enhances respiratory oscillations The list of medications that affect heart rate variability is impressive Thus, variability studies may not allow one ... mortality after myocardial infarction ATRAMI (Autonomic Tone and Reflexes After Myocardial Infarction) Investigators Lancet 1998, 351:478-484 Jurysta F, van de Borne P, Migeotte PF, Dumont M, Lanquart...
... whom this diagnosis may be important Available online http://ccforum.com/content/10/6/175 This would include patients with adrenal hemorrhage/ infarction, as well as patients with liver disease, ... that patients with septic shock, and perhaps those with early ARDS and Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Table Diagnostic criteria for adrenal insufficiency Albumin > 2.5 g/dl Albumin ... Critical Care Vol 10 No Marik Figure Meta-analysis Summarized isa meta-analysis of the effect of treatment with low-dose hydrocortisone on shock reversal at day in patients with septic...
... Kellum JA: RIFLE criteria for acute kidney injury are associated with hospital mortality in critically ill patients: a cohort analysis Crit Care 2006, 10:R73 Akcan-Arikan A, Zappitelli M, Loftis LL, ... markers for the accurate and reliable assessment of early AKI development, AKI duration and site of injury So, isit time to leave serum creatinine behind as a marker of renal function in patients ... Second International Consensus Conference of the Acute Dialysis Quality Initiative (ADQI) Group Crit Care 2004, 8:R204-R212 Hoste EA, Clermont G, Kersten A, Venkataraman R, Angus DC, De Bacquer...
... heavy metals existing in sludge in the rain water soaked with bricks andon some technical parameters (erasable, curvature and water absorption) As can be seen in figure and 3, the concentration ... heavy metals leaching after 2, 14 and 21 days of soaking in rain water The experiments were carried out in the laboratory of Environmental analysis, faculty of Environmental Sciences and department ... curvature and water absorption were analyzed/tested in the laboratory of Construction material, Hanoi University of Construction The environmental safety of sludge re-usage was assessed based on...