... D, Fanning A, Yuan L, FitzGerald JM: Hospital ventilation and risk for tuberculous infection in canadian health care workers Canadian Collaborative Group in Nosocomial Transmission of TB Ann Intern ... tuberculosis In Advances in statistical methods for the health sciences applications to cancer and AIDS studies, genome sequence analysis, and survival analysis Edited by Jean-Louis A, Balakrishnan N, ... the data and performed the preliminary analysis, AR-N discussed and made changes to the study project, performed orientation during the data collection and preliminary analysis; ALK discussed and...
... mechanotransduction pathway that results in membrane depolarisation In contrast, in the presence of SE 5A5 , an antibody against SIRPα, a statistically significant change in membrane potential – ... and 5'-CACAAGTGTATTCCTTTCACGTCTTACTACTC-3'; glyceraldehyde-3phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH), 5'-CCACCCATGGCAAATTCCATGGCA-3' and 5'-TCTAGACGGCAGGTCAGGTCCACC-3'; and aggrecan, 5'TGAGGAGGGCTGGAACAAGTACC-3' ... transfection studies were undertaken witha human ovarian carcinoma cell line and a mouse lung fibroblast cell line, rather than human chondrocytes, inan attempt to provide additional understanding...
... varies according to authors, the actual standard karyotype description by GTG- and RBG-banding for the chicken, established by the International Committee for the Standardization of the Avian ... chromosome banding in inbred chicken: quinacrine bands, sequential chromomycin and DAPI bands, Theor Appl Genet 71 (1985) 408-412 [31] Girard-Santosuosso 0., Bumstead N., Lantier I., Protais J., Colin ... chiasma frequencies [8] These values could be due to the one 27, 36J Indeed, chiasma analyses = intense selection effort on small livestock populations sometimes changing allelic associations...
... returned to the clinic one week later complaining that the pain in his left calf area persisted and could be further aggravated by tiptoeing and weight bearing maneuvers Again, US examination in the ... muscle Am J Sports Med 1977, 5:191-193 Takebayashi S, Takasawa H, Banzai Y, Miki H, Sasaki R, Itoh Y, Matsubara S: Sonographic findings in muscle strain injury: clinical and MR imaging correlation ... ultrasound examinations and wrote the initial draft of the manuscript ST was a major contributor in the writing of the manuscript C-CH was a major contributor in the reading of the sonographic images...
... can provide results in hours [12], is not available at every center Levels of ALT and AST correlate with survival A greater than 100-fold increase in ALT and AST was associated with fatality in ... nonspecific clinical and laboratory presentation Patients with HSV hepatitis can present witha wide range of symptomatology, from mild constitutional symptoms to severe coagulopathy with loss of consciousness ... and ALT of 4000 U/liter The following day, her lab values increased toan AST of 9200 U/liter and an ALT of 4400 U/ liter Bilirubin and alkaline phosphatase were within normal limits Other laboratory...
... Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2008, 50:27 Introduction Human and canine malignant mammary tumors share some epidemiological and clinicopathological features Incidence in both species increases ... molecular analysis Infiltrative cancer was represented on all samples analyzed as verified by histological analysis Response was evaluated by cell counting in paraffin embedded and hematoxilin-eosin ... detection of Bcl2, p53 and cytokeratins, in human and canine tumors and corresponding adjacent tissues, have been similar [8] In dogs, standard treatment for mammary gland cancer is surgical excision...
... to thank Dr Andres Martin, for his assistance and sup- Association AP: Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, 4th edition, text revision Washington, DC , American Psychiatric ... the individual minority categories (African American, Hispanic and Multi-racial) on the internalizing ratio score were evaluated to identify if collapsing the categories into a minority variable ... http://www.capmh.com/content/1/1/9 variable Similar to the analysis for gender, a factorial ANOVA with minority status (minority versus Caucasian) and the low and high mental age categories were used as...
... and perfused at a flow rate of mLÆmin)1 witha mobile phase containing solvent A (5 mM ammonium acetate, pH in 5% acetonitrile), and a linear gradient from to 20% of solvent B (5 mM ammonium acetate, ... converted into upper distance bounds with the routine CALIBA of the program package DYANA [29] After discarding redundant and duplicated constraints, the final list included 130 intraresidue and 283 interresidue ... sequential and 134 medium range) constraints, which were used to generate an ensemble of 100 structures by the standard protocol of simulated annealing in torsion angle space implemented in DYANA (using...
... Mid-range indices such as ~-5 and ~-9 in Figure are r e a l i z e d as changes in pitch range High indices are realized with modulations in both pitch range and duration Thus the hierarchical organization ... following Finally than following man If we exclude any effects of grammatical functions and assume a simple l.eft -to- right attachment of the three constituents Finally, the stranee voune man and ... the head Adjuncts and modifiers Constituent Length While we may view each boundary as having an intrinsic strength based on constituency and grammatical function, the determination of actual strengths...
... additional monitoring probes The back-end was programmed in Java using the Java Enterprise Edition 5 framework and the standard Sun Application server witha Derby database The communication between ... evaluated a mobile web-browsing application (Wapedia) ona PDA inan indoor IEEE 802.11b/g Wireless LAN environment The aim was to assess and model the relation between the subjective evaluation ... 6) at a simultaneous significance level of 5% A significant difference in Q2, Q4, and Q6 was found between positions and 4, and 4, and and 4, demonstrating that for these questions, the average ratings...
... cautious approach to prescribing Z-drugs to patients witha dual diagnosis and that particular attention be paid to any request for an increase in the daily dose Conclusion We have described an ... dependence, a 34-year old woman was taking zolpidem equivalent to 200 and when abruptly discontinuing the drug, suffered withdrawal seizures [16] In the Dublin sample, the mean age of onset and duration ... physical health screen did not reveal any abnormalities She had a long history of both anorexia nervosa and alcohol dependence Anorexia was first diagnosed in 1994, and when she was 17 years old...
... the dominance of a welladapted variant in these sites of replication AA: amino acids; ALT: alanine aminotransferase; AP: alkaline phosphatase; AST: aspartate aminotransferase; D: aspartic acid; ... strand and relaxed circular (RC)-DNA [4] means that it plays a pivotal role in HBV replication alanine aminotransferase (ALT) 2317 IU/litre, lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) 1395 IU/litre and alkaline ... liver transplantation or prevent a fatal outcome Carman WF, Fagan EA, Hadziyannis S, Karayiannis P, Tassopoulos NC, Williams R, Thomas HC: Association of a pre-core genomic variant of hepatitis...
... flucytosine, and P aeruginosa susceptible to amikacin, aztreonam, cefepime, ciprofloxacin, imipenem, piperacillin/tazobactam and tobramycin A 49-year-old man witha history of intravenous drug abuse, ... physical examination revealed a 3/6 systolic murmur in the aortic area with radiation to the precordium, and a 2/6 diastolic murmur over the mitral area without radiation His initial laboratory investigations ... PubMed indexing • Inclusion in Cases Database Any patient, any case, can teach us something References Mathew J, Addai T, Anand A, Morrobel A, Maheshwari P, Freels S: Clinical features, site of involvement,...
... to seven years after INF administration Most present with arthralgia and a highly elevated ANA Changes in type I IFN levels and pDC redistribution and activation are important in pathogenesis ... resistant hypertension Case presentation A 47-year-old Caucasian man presented in May 2006 with abdominal pain, headache for six weeks an undiagnosed truncal rash for eight months witha background ... viral and mammalian DNA can trigger toll-like receptor (TLR) ligation and IFN production by plasmacytoid dendritic cells (pDC) [9] HCV is a potential aetiological factor for SLE and alone can...
... dothiepin and thioridazine (three patients) Descriptive data for patients with arrhythmias (cases) and controls are presented in Table The cases and controls had a similar age, a similar gender and a ... negative rates • These measures had a much weaker association with arrhythmia in thioridazine than in TCA overdose (although numbers were small) Any predictive strategy needs validation in each ... ventricular tachycardia [VT]), complete heart block or asystole Another problem with ECG indicators of risk is that many studies have used nonstandardised observations As there is substantial inter-rater...
... neurones, along with the synapses and weights, correspond to the instructions ina traditional program Use of ANNs as clinical prediction models has been explored in many areas of medicine, including ... temperature The final meaningful variables are summarized in Table according to their levels and relative weights In this way the final scale of severity was a range between and 12 With these data, ... Nimgaonkar A, Karnad D, Sudarshan S, Ohno-Machado L, Kohane I: Prediction of mortality inan Indian intensive care unit Comparison between APACHE II and artificial neural networks Intensive Care Med...
... presentation to hospital: an international derivation and validation study Thorax 2003, 58:377-382 Restrepo MI, Anzueto A: The role of gram-negative bacteria in healthcareassociated pneumonia Seminars ... 128:3854-3862 Shindo Y, Sato S, Maruyama E, Ohashi T, Ogawa M, Hashimoto N, Imaizumi K, Sato T, Hasegawa Y: Health-care-associated pneumonia among hospitalized patients ina Japanese community hospital Chest ... Ortega M, Bilbao A, Quintana JM: Development and validation of a clinical prediction rule for severe community-acquired pneumonia American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 2006,...
... remains pain-free with good function and a 0-125 degree range of flexion years later In January 2005 the patient began to develop similar medial pain and swelling in the left knee A bone scan ... tion rate and C-reactive protein was normal Plain radiographs revealed areas of periprosthetic osteolysis in the femur and the tibia, and a CT scan demonstrated an extensive lytic area measuring ... material and the wear particle generator [8] Indeed modular polyethylene exchange is a reasonable option when dealing withpolyethylenewear and osteolysis in patients with well-fixed knee components...
... bone mineral density, secondary to anticonvulsant bone disease, makes internal fixation less stable than in normal bone Further complications after open reduction and internal fixation ina previous ... levetiracetam (Keppra 1000 mg, UCB Pharma S .A. , Belgium) was added in the anticonvulsant therapy The patient was instructed in pin care cleaning and hygiene and discharged from the hospital days after ... reaming and exchange nailing [24] This can easily be explained biomechanically by the absence of axial loading in the humerus and the presence of greater torsional and distractive forces than in tibia...