... characteristics and laboratory data between patients with and without
sustained virological response (SVR).
Characteristics Patients with SVR
(n=41 )
Patients without SVR (n=13) P-Value
Male gender, n, ... apparently associatedwith higher
response to treatment among Asian Americans pa-
tients compared to Caucasians, Hispanics and Afri-
can Americans, respectively (19).
In our study, the patients with ...
associated with treatment success (10, 20). However,
other studies demonstrated that weight loss did not
improve the treatment outcomes (15, 21). It is known
that interferon therapy is associated...
...
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 ... metabolism among older people. A
recent report has shown that greater aspirin hydroly-
sis can be associatedwith decreased cholesterol levels
of high-density lipoprotein in type 2 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 de-
creased...
... 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 ... 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 ...
levels with age and gender were consistent. Further-
more, the BNP level that had the optimal sensitivity
and specificity for detecting systolic dysfunction in the
overall population increased with...
... 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 ... 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 ... Ivyspring International Publisher. All rights reserved
Research Paper
Grb2 -associated binder 1 polymorphism was associatedwith the risk of
Helicobactor pylori infection and gastric atrophy
Yasuyuki...
... correlated
positively with age, total cholesterol, urea, creatinine, glucose levels and carotid
intimal thickness (CIT). Conclusion: The MTHFR mutation does not seem to be
associated with either high ...
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...
... Bacskai BJ, Hyman BT, Trotti
D, Brown RH Jr. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis -associated SOD1
mutant proteins bind and aggregate with Bcl-2 in spinal cord
mitochondria. Neuron 2004; 43(1):19-30.
30. ... spinal cord neurons. Neuron
cultures were infected with Adeno (Ad)-Vgf or Ad-LacZ viral
constructs at 5 MOI for 72 hrs, and then treated with AMPA (5
àM), NMDA (20 àM) for 48 hrs while cell ... blocked by incubation
with casein. Samples and standards were applied in
duplicate and incubated overnight at 4°C. Following
the Vgf capture phase, the plates were reacted with
rabbit anti-Vgf...
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manifest as febrile illness (20%). Severe neurologic
disease (meningoencephalitis), frequently associated
with advanced age and diabetes, was initially re-
ported to occur in less than 1% of patients. ...
ophthalmoscopy, with early hyopofluorescence and
late staining on fluorescein angiography (FA). Inac-
tive chorioretinal lesions typically are partially atro-
phic and partially pigmented with a “targetlike ... FA (Figure 1). Chorioretinal
lesions vary in number and size, involving the mid-
periphery, with or without involvement of the poste-
rior pole. Linear clustering of chorioretinal lesions,
following...
... monitoring with an
ILR was 6 months.
The baseline clinical characteristics of patients
with asystolic or bradycardic responses during ILR
monitoring (Group 1) are compared with those with-
out ... reserved
Research Paper
Clinical Symptoms Associatedwith Asystolic or Bradycardic Responses on
Implantable Loop Recorder Monitoring in Patients with Recurrent Syncope
Khalil Kanjwal, Yousuf ... predicting cause of syncope from clinical
histories found that syncope occurring without aura
or prodrome is associatedwith spontaneous ar-
rhythmic etiology predominantly bradycardia.
Given a small...
... 2009
Keywords:
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Consumer
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abstract
Emotion attributes have been generally associatedwith product brands but little work has been pub-
lished to understand consumer emotions associated ... emotion terms was screened and validated with consumers. The emotion terms
selected for foods were generally positive, as compared with emotion testing originating within a clinical
framework. The list ... However, another reason
is the lack of a standard method or methods for measuring emo-
tions associatedwith food within the product development con-
text. This context is important because techniques...
...
increasing the land for IPs to 65 000–70 000 ha in 2015 with
the land for hiring reaching up to 60%;
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this growth will be
associated with an increase of hazardous industrial waste
generation ... including industrial waste, is illegally
discharged daily without any control measures. The amount
of HzSW collected is about 60–120 tons/day, with an
additional 40–60 tons/day not being collected ...
is just at the initial trial period, with many diffi culties being
experienced due to the waste generators’ inexperience; edu-
cation needs to be carried out with a view to “learning from
the...
... annua L. (sweet wormwood),
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Botanical Garden, and the University of Chicago have all contracted with private
pharmaceutical companies ... nutri-
tional plants are regarded still with reverence and typically are guarded with ferocity.
DENALI, Alaska’s only biotechnology company, is working with Native orga-
nizations throughout the ... to the ground
for reseeding. That noted, individual, established plants within a stand appear to be
15 Risks Associatedwith Overcollection of Medicinal Plants 367
Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew,...
... GM rapeseed oil with high erucic acid content. This oil is used in
plastics and in high-grade industrial lubricants.
ã To develop plants with higher carbon xation rates via photosynthesis.
ã ... xation rates via photosynthesis.
ã To introduce into C-3 plants C-4 photosynthesis capabilities.
13 Risks and Benefits Associatedwith GM Plants 343
Q8. Are GM foods safe?
Different GM organisms ... GMOs?
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...
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Without loss of ... M. Ngai, Iterated function systems with overlaps, Asian
J. Math. 4(2000), 527 - 552.
5. T. Hu, The local dimensions of the Bernoulli convolution associatedwith the golden
number, Trans. Amer. ... fractal probability measures associated
with equal probability weight, Preprint.
7. T. Hu, N. Nguyen and T. Wang, Local dimensions of the probability measure asso-
ciated with the (0, 1, 3) - problem,...
... is also associatedwith oral and
other anogenital malignancies, however, it is most commonly
associated with cervical cancer; in fact, over 99% of all cervical
cancers are associatedwith high-risk ... tumor viruses
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 ... often is the virus associatedwith the tumor?)
2. Consistency (has the association been observed repeatedly?)
3. Specificity of association (is the virus uniquely associatedwith the tumor?)
4....