... miscarriages, and livedo reticularis Materials and Methods We focused on the secondary prevention of stroke with APS, and compared single antiplatelet therapy and a combination of antiplatelet and anticoagulation ... [7] recently reported the results of the first randomized, double-blind, controlled trial oftwo different intensities of warfarin treatment on the prevention of recurrent thrombotic events in ... Randomization was performed using a randomly generated score Results Table shows the background of the two groups There was no significant difference between the two groups in age, gender, NIH Stroke...
... Coefficients of correlations between age, type of diabetes and duration of diabetes, gender, educational status and monthly income were significant, whereas the correlations between type of diabetes and ... http://www.hqlo.com/content/6/1/79 Table 2: Means and standard deviations of trait anxiety and coping strategies of the participants oftwo types of diabetes (n = 161) Type I Diabetes (n = 39) Type ... least 70% of items included in any scale were included in the study Results The total mean and standard deviation of trait anxiety in two types of diabetes was 46.98 ± 6.14 The mean of trait anxiety...
... significant relationships between physical function (ECS) and less use of normalising optimistic coping (coefficient: -0.12, p = 0.037), andbetween social function and less use of combined emotive ... internal demands [19] Thereby, one may propose that coping is a mediator between functional status and the perception of burden in the HRQOL model by Wilson and Cleary [5] According to Lazarus and Folkman ... years and for men 61.3 (10.1) years Angiographic CAD was found in a majority (81%) of the patients, and was significantly more frequent in men The mean value of the LVEF was 64.6 (12.0), and 12% of...
... country of birth, and highest level of education, stratifying by gender, representing an approximate change of one standard deviation for each of the adiposity measures ated with the risk of knee ... participated in the design of the study and the acquisition of data, and reviewed the manuscript FMC participated in the design of the study, helped with the interpretation of data, and reviewed the manuscript ... prospective cohort study of 41,528 people (17,049 men) aged between 27 and 75 years at baseline, 99.3% of whom were aged 40 to 69 years [21] Participants were recruited between 1990 and 1994 via Electoral...
... al.: Unusual association of ST-T abnormalities, myocarditis and cardiomyopathy with H1N1 influenza in pregnancy: two case reports and review of the literature Journal of Medical Case Reports 2011 ... estimated rate of admission for pandemic H N influenza virus infection in pregnant women during the first month of the outbreak was higher than it was in the general population Between 15 April and 16 ... development of peri-partum cardiomyopathy, the association of H1N1-associated severe viral pneumonia combined with features of troponin negative myocarditis and cardiomyopathy in our two consecutive...
... synthesis of 25-hydroxyvitamin D, due to lack of sunlight exposure, and dietary insufficiency of vitamin D Page of appear to be the main causes of osteomalacia [4,5] The occurrence of osteomalacia ... recovery and biochemical normalization of the serum calcium, alkaline phosphatase, PTH and 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels in both of our cases Conclusion These two case reports highlight the importance of ... Academic Department of Endocrinology, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland 2Department of Rheumatology, Connolly Memorial Hospital, Dublin, Ireland 3Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes Mellitus,...
... 2Department of Medical Biochemistry, Medical Biology and Physics, General Hospital, Bari, Italy, 3Department of "Head and Neck Diseases", Hospital "Fatebenefratelli", Rome, Italy, 4Department of Maxillofacial ... 5Department of Dental Sciences and Surgery, General Hospital, Bari, Italy, 6Department of Maxillofacial Surgery, General Hospital, Bari, Italy, 7Department of Surgical, Reconstructive and Diagnostic ... R: Orofacial granulomas after injection of cosmetic fillers Histopathologic and clinical study of 11 cases J Oral Pathol Med 2004, 33(2):115-20 Narins RS, Brandt F, Leyden J, et al.: A randomized,...
... In two cases of anatomical variation of the cervical part of the ICA the midsagittal and coronal cross sections of the head and neck were made to facilitate a better approach to the site of anatomical ... descending and ascending limbs of the ECS had rigid attachments to the petrous bone of the cranial base at two places, a kinking area was suspended by the fibrous band and the point of entry of the ... Inferior Figure view of the base of the brain removed from the cranial cavity with its roof and parts of the floor of the posterior cranial fossa Inferior view of the base of the brain removed...
... the role of residue C44 Replacement of C110 and C112 led to a complete loss of cluster-binding ability of IscA Since the Mossbauer data ă indicated an all-cysteine ligation of the cluster and the ... by C110 and C112 in between the two protomers of the IscA dimer The FeS cluster assembled at IscA could be transferred to apo ferredoxin by incubation of the two proteins in the presence of a reductant ... was used as matrix Determination of sulfide and iron Determination of sulfide and iron were carried out as described by Siegel [30] and Fish [31] Gel electrophoresis and Western blotting SDS/PAGE...
... characteristics and SMFQ scores between those with and without a DISC diagnosis Page of 11 of depressive disorder using c2 -and t-tests The validity of depression scores from the SMFQ-C, the SMFQ-P, and the ... child report, parent report, and combined child and parent report a cut point of two, with sensitivity of 0.65 and specificity of 0.68 Discussion As expected, the accuracy of the SMFQ varied depending ... a sensitivity of 0.60 and a specificity of 0.85 at a cutoff of eight Our most acceptable cutoff was four, and at this lower cut point our observed sensitivity was similar to that of Angold’s group,...
... on patterns of variation in both of the major areas of pig domestication and breed diversity MATERIAL AND METHODS 2.1 Sampling and DNA preparation A total of 98 lines from Europe and China were ... adequate number of specimens of a reasonable number of breeds from both China and Europe The current study is part of a large-scale cooperation between many research groups from Europe and China through ... history and processes of domestication and breed formation and maintenance between these areas From these studies, it is difficult to gain better insight into differences between Europe and China...
... Luo, 1989; Luo and Kearsey, 1989; Lander and Botstein, 1989) Hill (1975) demonstrated the use of analysis of variance for detecting linkage between a marker gene and a QTL by means of a nested backcrossing ... power of the kinds of designs for detecting linkage between a marker gene and a QTL can be expressed as function of design parameters and parameters describing genetic properties of the marker and ... noncentral F-variable with degrees of freedom vi and v and noncentral parameter6 while Fa;Vl;V2 stands for the upper a point of a central F-variable with degrees of freedom VI and v Power calculation...
... capable ofand who have taught me so much To Sandra Petronio, to whom I owe much of my successes and growth during my studies at IUPUI To my wonderful husband, Craig, who has been my voice of reason, ... the first year of college and the onset of breast cancer in the family, and the desire for privacy as well as disclosure between young adults and their families is a key element of this research ... description” of how these respondents and their families managed privacy and disclosure in the midst oftwo significant stressors (p 359) A case study approach clarifies the complexities of the two cases...
... sensitivity of 80% and a specificity of 70% (AUC 0.8) with a cut-off value of less than 1.95 cm/s Poor agreement between VVI and TDI measurements have been previously demonstrated, and therefore ... differences of the peak systolic longitudinal strain between segments with LE ≥ 51% and LE 1-50% 15 By using the previously proposed cut-off value 15 for strain of –6.5 % a sensitivity of 23 % and specificity ... specificity of 87 % was calculated for the detection of infarcted segments (AUC 0.6, confidence interval 0.53 – 0.64) A 111 cut-off value of –10.34% resulted in a sensitivity of 54 % and specificity of...
... between MCP-1 and radical levels and a negative correlation between ICAM-1 and these levels The lack of a positive correlation between radicals and these markers of inflammation, as well as between ... High values for MMP-9 and low values for ICAM-1 were associated with high levels of free radicals Several correlations were found between the values of MMP-9 and ICAM-1 and different clinical ... pathogenesis of brain damage due to various causes Our results of a positive correlation between levels of free radicals and MMP-9 at operation for carotid artery stenosis further support this role of...
... so we could interview one to two travelers Most of them seemed too closed, to be friendly and warmhearted, and welcome us They told us everything they did in Vietnam and they thought about Vietnam ... with tourist We ordered a bottle of orange juice, drank and wait for a chance to access tourists And we got it Most of tourists here were very cheerful, very humor and very easy to get an open talk ... Therefore, they spend more time and money for travelling, and for relaxing in some Southern Eastern Asian countries: Thailand, Singapore, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam And the reason why the north...
... conformation of BL caused by this binding of proton result in decreases in the number of BL The conformation change of BL may decrease the internalization flux of - 343 - Journal of Water and Environment ... Accumulation of Pb and Zn in Gametophytes and Sporophytes of the Moss Funaria hygrometrica (Funariales), Ann Bot., 87, 537-543 Cheng T and Allen H E (2001) Prediction of uptake of copper from ... to reduce 50% of growth rate, and β is a parameter showing the inverse of the slope of the dose response curve Total copper concentration (total metal model), and the fraction of BL bound by...
... series of GST-fused deletions of the CD2-1 region (Fig 3E) and examined the interactions between bacterially expressed proteins of these subregions (Fig S1C) and 1654 Fig Of all members of the ... domains of Spir-2 and PTPN13 were generated by RT-PCR and inserted into pEGFP-C1 and pGEX-4T-2 The N- and C-terminal regions of the v-KIND KIND2 and the MAP2 CD were generated by PCR and cloned ... KIND2-binding specificity of residues 702–744 of MAP2, we performed a pulldown assay of combinations of EGFP-fused KIND1 or KIND2 of v-KIND with GST-fused CD2-1-6-1 or CD2-1-6-2 of MAP2 We successfully...