... 60% ormoreof these strains the DHA proportion was higher than 5% In the single studied dinophyte strain of Ceratium horridum the DHA proportion was even 29.3% In the other groups DHA was found ... patterns of FAs among and within the 17 groups (phyla or classes) of microalgae and the cyanobacteria comprised by the examined strains was investigated in more detail for four PUFAs which are of high ... analysis has been carried out on a large scale basis on either the profiles of lipids or FAs in microalgae Therefore, we determined the FA profiles of all available microalgal strains of the SAG...
... single genes in either S cerevisiae or D melanogaster genomes We wished to investigate whether the known function of the single yeast or fly gene was a good predictor of the RNAi phenotype identified ... phenotypes as for nonduplicated genes; 61% of C elegans single copy orthologs of S cerevisiae essential genes have nonviable RNAi phenotypes, as compared with 20% of orthologs of yeast nonessential ... being morphologically very similar, last shared a common ancestor 80-110 million years ago [35] It is extremely unlikely that the redundancy between these 14 genes has been maintained for more than...
... proportion of CT to APP) was set as ―Proportion‖ In the Specifications tab, ―Shift data points‖ was set as ―0‖, ―Number of Joinpoints‖ ranged from ―0‖ to ―3‖, ―Heteroscedastic Errors Option‖ was ... growth rate has been slow (APC = 5.6%) As mentioned above, the recorded period for PGL was relatively short, and PGL currently has the lowest total number of publications In the initial phase of ... periods: 1977–2012 for CR, 1961–2012 for CT, 1966– 2012 for CCT, 1966–2012 for RCT, 1973–2012 for GL, 1978–2012 for PGL, 1945– 2012 for SRV, 1990–2012 for MA, and 1945–2012 for APP (as that is the...
... Obama Favorability Asked of Registered Voters Question Wording: Overall, you have a favorable or an unfavorable impression of Barack Obama? President Obama Favorability (Over Time) Asked of Registered ... Question Wording: Overall, you have a favorable or an unfavorable impression of Barack Obama? Registered Voters Overall, you have a favorable or an unfavorable impression of Barack Obama? Favorable ... Approval Rating Asked of Registered Voters Question Wording: Do you approve or disapprove of the job Barack Obama is doing as president? President Obama Approval Rating (Over Time) Asked of Registered...
... outside creditors to monitor managers’ use of corporate assets and enabling regulators to assess whether rates charged were fair The messiness of depreciation foreshadowed more complex reporting problems ... residual claims on corporate profits in exchange for voting rights to elect directors and approve changes to corporate charters Corporate governance covers details of apportioning cash flows and voting ... 1890s.3 The corporate form was so effective in meeting society’s commercial needs that venerable organizations like Lloyd’s of London and Goldman Sachs chose to incorporate.4 Healthy corporations...
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... FPS Figure FPS is more effective than FP or Sal alone in reducing viral exacerbation of asthma FPS is more effective than FP or Sal alone in reducing viral exacerbation of asthma Mice were sensitized ... superior to either of them alone [16,17] The combination is also significantly more effective than montelukast plus FP or monotherapy with inhaled budesonide [18] The increased effectiveness of ... inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) has emerged as an effective asthma management strategy to control persistent asthma [15] A combination of salmeterol (Sal) and fluticasone propionate (FP) was found...
... wall, and associated with vasogenic edema There is 0.9 cm of rightward Figure Coronal view of brain Figure Transverse view of brain subfalcine shift, with effacement of the posterior horn of the ... third of cases); from contiguous infections of the middle ear, sinus, or teeth (one third of cases); or by direct implantation by neurosurgery or penetrating trauma (approximately 10% of cases) ... parents of the patient for publication of this Case report and any accompanying images A copy of the written consent is available for review by the Editor-in-Chief of this journal Authors’ contributions...
... product formation than Gxf1 The presence of mXR doubled the xylose uptake, decreased the xylitol yield by half and as a result increased the obtained ethanol yield in SSCF by about 20% In contrast, ... the forerunner of SSCF was originally designed as a means to generate low glucose concentration in the reactor to overcome glucose inhibition of cellulose hydrolysis (Takagi et al 1977) It was ... increase in the ethanol yield It will be important to increase the final ethanol concentration further by increasing the WIS-content with a maintained ethanol yield for the economic viability of...
... of the previous proof yields the result the electronic journal of combinatorics 14 (2007), #R19 Numerators and Denominators of Fw Using (8), we will now derive a linear recurrence relation for ... implies (8) Remarks For the sake of completeness, we give references to the number of such basketball games for various values of w For w = 2, · · · , and w = ∞, the sequence of games ending at ... generating function for the corresponding irreducible version of the walk Note that, at the end of [00] the day, we need a recurrence relation for Fw := fw Theorem Let Fw be defined as above Then it...
... study of cardiac rate in 134 healthy newborn infants during a 24-hour period showed that mean lowest heart rate was 85 beats/min, and sinus bradycardia was diagnosed in 109 healthy infants at their ... exhibited recovery of the shortening fraction None of the 16 myocardial biopsies showed an active inflammatory infiltrate, and immunofluorescence studies were unrevealing The authors found an ... complete CHB The date of diagnosis was prenatal in halfof the cases, and postnatal in the other half Severe ventricular dysfunction was present in all cases, leading to death (n = 9) or cardiac transplantation...
... by the two observers were concordant in morethan 95% of cases In the event of discordant scores, which differed by a maximum of point, the mean of the two scores was used Statistics Because the ... joints As shown in more detail in Table 1, six out of 22 PsA patients, eight out of 28 AS USpA patients, and 25 out of 52 RA patients were treated with DMARDs and /or systemic corticosteroids For ... histological markers are more abundant than others, the scoring system was caliR572 brated for each marker separately by examining a representative number of samples The scores obtained by the two...
... reinforce the importance of patient selection for curative intervention A review of comorbidity assessment in prostate cancer [14] suggests that comorbidity assessments should be used more frequently ... comorbidity; whereas at age 74 years, comorbidity was no longer a significant factor in life expectancy These results must be interpreted with some caution, as the mean follow-up was only 2.9 years; ... basis That decision will consider not only tumor-risk grouping based upon initial PSA test results, Gleason score and stage, but must also consider an assessment of life expectancy, as well as...
... 1:50 ormore for a linear recovery at different dilutions; at dilutions below 1:50 the signal was reduced due to unknown matrix effects (results not shown) With a linear measuring range for the ... injury, a majority of the aggrecan fragments were indeed shown to be the result of aggrecanase IGD activity, whereas the other groups had much lower proportions These results corroborate those ... sensitivity of ARGS fragment concentration as a marker for joint disease was 67% with a specificity of 92% (Table 4) We found no significant influence of age or sex on the SF levels of ARGS fragments...
... 2001 [19] WHO [20] EGIR [22] IDF [21] Number of criteria Three ormore of: Three ormore of: And two ormore of: And two ormore of: And two ormore of: Obesity WC ≥ 102 cm (men), WC ≥ 88 cm (women) ... and was defined as the presence of diabetes mellitus or HOMA IR of 2.5 ormoreor QUICKI of 0.333 or less Renal function assessment was made by estimation of glomerular filtration rate according ... females (282/387) and had a median age of 63.1 years Patients had a median disease duration of 10 years, and had moderate disease activity (mean DAS28 score 4.2) Disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs...
... of patients and assessors, use of placebo, informed consent, a priori sample size estimations, use of intention-to-treat, and sources of funding In addition, we contacted the study authors for ... for by the risk of postnatal transmission in populations in which breastfeeding is common MTCT is responsible for 5–10% of the total of new HIV infections in many developing countries, with more ... Outcomes measured were the number of live births, not number of pregnancies Our primary endpoint for meta-analysis of MTCT was children's infection status at the latest time point reported In order...
... 17 days of culture The overall morphology of the organ was preserved after 17 days of culture despite a loss of stromal cells in some areas (F) The markers used for the characterization of prostatic ... maintained at 37°C for 14 days Culture medium was changed every days and stored frozen at -80°C for subsequent RT assay Measurement of HIV-1 DNA using TaqMan real-time PCR Total DNA was extracted using ... various extent of inflammatory infiltrates, most commonly composed of a majority of stromal T cells (reviewed in [12,28] The source of intraprostatic inflammation is often unknown but might be...
... acid length, MS2 score of at least 15 or 16, and a sum of MS2 score of at least 50 or 52 resulting in an expected false-positive rateof 0.25% or in 400 For counting the number of identified proteins ... phosphatase activity Phospholipase inhibitor activity Oxidoreductase activity, acting on the CH-CH group of donors, NAD or NADP as acceptor Isoprenoid binding Retinoid binding Aldo-keto reductase ... Hydrolase activity, hydrolyzing O-glycosyl compounds Exopeptidase activity Oxidoreductase activity, acting on CH-OH group of donors Oxidoreductase activity, acting on the CH-OH group of donors,...
... METFORMIN – MORETHAN ‘GOLD STANDARD’ IN THE TREATMENT OF TYPE DIABETES MELLITUS DISCOVERY OF METFORMIN The work of Dr Jean Sterne, a French clinician and his colleagues led to the discovery of ... a combination of treatments is more effective than metformin alone (65) METFORMIN AND ITS POTENTIAL FOR THE TREATMENT OF NEOPLASTIC DISEASE Experimental studies suggest a role for the enzyme ... effect of metformin in patients with a high prevalence of cardiovascular disease, including patients with prior coronary heart disease events, heart failure, or symptomatic angina pectoris (37,38)...
... Therefore, the search of the in vivo counterpart of MSC is an important ongoing research topic both for elucidating on the identity of MSCs as well as for improving the clinical outcome of MSC-based ... was performed for Pl-Prc with an older passage (Figure 3a) The percentage of CD146 positive cell in pericyte population decreased drastically with increasing cell passage Only 11.6% of cells of ... different morphology, as shown by Alizarin Red staining (Figure 7) Instead of the typical mineral nodules as for Pl-Prc and MSCs, fibroblasts showed a more uniform Ca2+ deposit pattern with occasional...