... Hemoglobin 2005, 29:91-106 Giardine B, van Baal S, Kaimakis P, Riemer C, Miller W, Samara M, Kollia P, Anagnou NP, Chui DH, Wajcman H, Hardison RC, Patrinos GP HbVar database of human hemoglobin variants ... these Hb variants are inherited in an autosomal dominant manner High affinity Hb variants release oxygen in the tissue relatively slowly and create relative tissue hypoxia This leads to increased ... easily available in routine and even reference laboratories Lichtman and colleagues have reported a mathematical formula which can be used to calculate P50 reliably [5] Calculating P50 using this...
... flies and gad flies that transmit tripanosomiasis - Exterminating flies and gad flies by changing their habitat, clearing plants in each area, not letting water stagnate; composting manure in order ... Viet Nam and show that trypamidium, berenil, trypazen are high effective and safe in treating trypanosomiasis in cattle and buffaloes 22 + Examination and treatment for trypanosomiasis in buffaloes ... evansi are higher than that of healthy mice * In rabbits: - Appearance time of T evansi in the blood of rabbit earliest on day and latest on day 14 after being experimentally infected Appearance...
... one associated with A. xylosoxidans that causes post-ERCP bacteremia Table 1: Key characteristics of A. xylosoxidans Tests Oxidase Catalase OF xylose OF glucose Arginine Citrate Ketoglutaric acid ... profile of A. xylosoxidans Antimicrobial agent Susceptibility Amikacin Cefoperazone/sulbactam Cefotaxime Ceftazidime Ceftriaxone Ciprofloxacin Imipenem Piperacillin/tazobactam Tobramycin Trimethoprim/sulfametoxazole ... imipenem, piperacillin/tazobactam and trimethoprim/sulfametoxazole and resistant to the third generation cephalosporins with the exception of the cefoperazone/sulbactam, amikacin and tobramycin In previous...
... Tobias JS, Baum M: Effect of anastrozole and tamoxifen as adjuvant treatment for early-stage breast cancer: 100-month analysis of the ATAC trial Lancet Oncol 2008, 9:45-53 Coates AS, Keshaviah A, ... this article as: Zhou et al.: Innegligible musculoskeletal disorders causedby zoledronic acid in adjuvant breast cancer treatment: a metaanalysis Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research ... G, Papadiamantis J, Zobolas V, Misitzis J, Kalogerakos K, Sarantopoulou A, Siasos N, Koukouras D, Antonopoulou Z, Lazarou S, Gogas H: Management of anastrozole-induced bone loss in breast cancer...
... Labarca JA, Sader HS, Peterson CL, Carson LA, Holt SC, Arduino MJ, Meylan M, Mascola L, Jarvis WR: A multistate nosocomial outbreak of Ralstonia pickettii colonization associated with an intrinsically ... this article as: Pan et al.: Lobar pneumonia causedby Ralstonia pickettii ina sixty-five-year-old Han Chinese man: a case report Journal of Medical Case Reports 2011 5:377 • Immediate publication ... biopsy and the histological examination of the lung All authors read and approved the final manuscript Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests Received: 14 April...
... doi:10.1186/1752-1947-5-460 Cite this article as: Mathuram Thiyagarajan et al.: A nodulo-cystic eumycetoma causedby Pyrenochaeta romeroi ina renal transplant recipient: A case report Journal of Medical Case Reports ... were involved in drafting the manuscript MLN revised the manuscript All authors have read and approved the final manuscript All three were involved as part of team management Competing interests ... histopathological appearance of this lesion was closely similar to those causedby Exophiala jeanselmei or Phialophora richardsiae Microscopy showed dematiaceous hyphae with yeast-like cells and...
... hydrophila was resistant to penicillin, ampicillin, ampicillin-sulbactam, and first- and second-generation cephalosporins, and susceptible to piperacillin, third-generation cephalosporins, aminoglycosides, ... biliary tract caused sepsis with ascending infection of Klebsiella pneumoniae No other infectious pathway seems likely In healthy individuals, bacteria are not found in the gall bladder, but in patients ... with a heart rate of 96 bpm She was jaundiced, but had no signs of palmar erythema, ankle edema, finger clubbing, spider nevi or evidence of skin injury or infection She had abdominal pain with...
... (TaKaRa, Dalian, China) using the primers 5’-TAC CAT GGA CAT GTT TAC TAT GAA TCA ATT-3’ (Nco I site underlined) and 5’-ATA CTA GTT TAA AAT GAG TAA CTC CAC A- 3’ (Spe I site underlined) An NcoI-SpeI ... threat and maintain osmotic balance, such as the anthocyanin and isoflavone pathways were induced, indicating an active response and defense mechanism protects the plant against external abiotic ... fragment containing MtCBF4 cDNA was inserted into pCAMBIA1302 containing the 35S CaMV promoter and a hygromycin (kanamycin) resistance marker The plasmid was introduced into Agrobacterium EHA105...
... (approx 12 mm diameter) Plain abdominal radiography confirmed a dense radio-opaque object consistent with amalgam dental filling in the right lower quadrant A percutaneous pigtail drain was inserted ... as: Ariyaratnam et al.: Liver and brain abscess causedby Aggregatibacter paraphrophilus in association with a large patent foramen ovale: a case report Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:69 ... guidance after six days This drained 30 ml of pus from our patient Gram stain showed no organisms and culture was negative He continued to have upper abdominal pain and high fever A repeat abdominal...
... Well-differentiated fetal adenocarcinoma (WDFA) is classified by the World Health Organisation as a variant of adenocarcinoma When fetal adenocarcinoma is associated with primitive blastemal stroma, it ... months after delivery Chest 2006, 130:1620-1623 Nakatani Y, Masudo K, Nozawa A, Inayama Y, Yamanaka S, Ito T, Kitamura H, Notohara K, Kashima K, Yokoyama S, Tsujimoto M, Tamai S, Abe Y, Resl M, Mark ... logical explanation, it is important to seek advice from a senior respiratory physician, and consider undertaking a CTPA, both of which can play a vital role in identifying rare but life threatening...
... nurture in vitamin B12 deficiency Archives of Disease in Childhood 2002, 87:75-76 Akaike A, Tamura Y, Sato Y, Yokota T: Protective effects of a vitamin B12 analog, methylcobalamin, against glutamate ... participated in the patient management and the sequence alignment AA participated in the sequence alignment NR carried out the patient management and made the final diagnosis MK participated in the manuscript ... neutrophils (6 and segments) Case presentation A 14-year-old girl presented with complaints of fatigue, inability to walk, urinary incontinence, dysarthria, and ataxia that had worsened in the last three...
... Erythematous macular non-blanching skin rash Erythematous macular non-blanching skin rash S aureus is an aggressive pathogen and bacteremia with this organism can infect healthy heart valves Neurological ... Endocarditis in Adults N Engl J Med 2001, 345:1318-1330 Harada M, Nishi Y, Tamura S, Iba Y, Abe K, Yanbe Y, Akimoto T, Takao N, Watanabe S, Hayashida N, Koyanagi H: Infective endocarditis with a ... grew Staphylococcus aureus sensitive to gentamicin and flucloxacillin The patient was commenced on intravenous gentamicin and flucloxacillin and later teicoplanin After 48 hours he became afebrile;...
... change the parameters ina proper way, the ACF of a weak EMW ina quantum wire in the presence of laser radiation will have a negative value; if this effect does not appear, the fabrication has ... shows that a resonant peak appears for Ω2 = ω0 and that many smaller resonant peaks appear for Ω2 = ω0 Figure shows that the ACF of a weak EMW has many maxima (peaks) These results show that under ... the ACF of a weak EMW in the presence of laser radiation ina RQW and to show clearly that the ACF can have negative values, in this section, we numerically calculated the ACF for the specific case...
... preserved because the patient had hemoperitoneum In addition, the remaining colon wall was normal, but the bowel preparation was poor The invagination of diverticulum has an advantage over diverticulectomy ... of a monolayer of inner circular muscle, which makes its wall weak, as compared to the small intestine that is formed of the inner circular and outer longitudinal muscle layers The vasa recta, ... Int J Med Sci 2011, copy owing to incomplete bowel preparation The bleeding was controlled by #3-0 Vycryl intracorporeal suture, and the invagination of the diverticulum was performed laparoscopically...
... siRNAZF5 (5¢-GAGGAAGCAUGA GAAACUCUU-3¢ and 5¢-GAGUUUCUCAUGCUUCCU CUU-3¢) matched bases 945–963; and the third siRNA ZF5 (5¢-GGUCCUGAACUACAUGUACUU-3¢ and 5¢-GUAC AUGUAGUUCAGGACCUU-3¢) matched bases 333–351 ... harvested after additional incubation for h, and the recombinant protein was purified by standard glutathione-agarose bead binding procedures Cell transfection, b-galactosidase and luciferase assays ... human lactoferrin binding sites (nonspecific DNA substrate) The DNA-binding activity analysis results are summarized in Fig 3D The final fraction containing unbound last stage proteins was analyzed...
... embedded in GaAlAs The carriers (electron gas) are assumed to be confined by an infinite potential in the ( x, y ) plane and are free in the z direction in Cartesian coordinates ( x, y , z ) The laser ... (in the expressions of the nonlinear absorption coefficient of a strong EMW) tend toward zero, the nonlinear result will turn back to a linear result Numerical results obtained for a GaAs/GaAsAl ... numerically calculate the nonlinear absorption coefficient of a strong EMW for a GaAs/GaAsAl RQW The parameters of the CQW The parameters used in the numerical calculations [6,13] are ξ = 13.5 eV , ρ =...
... uncrosslinked PVC samples This is explained by the crosslinking PVC in the presence of DAPC and TMPTMA as mentioned above At any concentration of TMPTMA, a maximum of the PVC samples also appears at ... Thermomechanical analysis A thermomechanical analyzer (Mettler TA4000, Switzerland) with a flat-ended, loaded probe (dia mm) is used for thermomechanical analysis PVC samples are heated at 10oC/min from ... samples crosslinked by DAPC and TMPTMA is higher than that of the uncrosslinked samples It reflects an useful increase in service temperature of the material At any concentration of TMPTMA, a...
... repivarin, fondaparinux, and enoxaparin requires dose reductions in patients with renal impairment Because of increased intracranial bleeding risk (41), enoxaparin is also given in reduced doses in ... time point of angiography and eventually PCI The pharmacoinvasive treatment strategy is supported by recent registry data (82-84) and study data (85) Facilitated PCI In contrast to pharmacoinvasive ... myocardial area at risk and may ease routine immediate PCI, e.g by increasing already re-opened culprit coronary vessels Reperfusion may then be accomplished and stabilised by additional routine...
... Najmabadi H, Nishimura C, Kahrizi K, Riazalhosseini Y, Malekpour M, Daneshi A, Farhadi M, Mohseni M, Mahdieh N, Ebrahimi A, Bazazzadegan N, Naghavi A, Avenarius M, Arzhangi S, Smith RJ: GJB2 mutations: ... DJ, Pandya A, Siemering KR, Chamberlin GP, Ballana E, Wuyts W, Maciel-Guerra AT, Alvarez A, Villamar M, Shohat M, Abeliovich D, Dahl HH, Estivill X, Gasparini P, Hutchin T, Nance WE, Sartorato ... profound bilateral sensorineural hearing impairment on audiograms Careful medical examinations revealed no clinical features other than hearing impairment DNA was extracted from the peripheral blood...
... osteoblast-related transcriptionfactor Matrix Biol 2006, 25:47-58 26 Xing W, Singgih A, Kapoor A, Alarcon CM, Baylink DJ, Mohan S: Nuclear factor- E2-related factor- 1 mediates ascorbic acid induction ... surrounding Figure1 Domain structure of osteoblast-specific transcriptionfactor Osx The DNA-binding domain of Osx is located at its C terminus containing three Z-finger domains and there is a proline-rich ... Fukai N, Rawadi G, Roman-Roman S, Reginato AM, Wang H, Cundy T, Glorieux FH, Lev D, Zacharin M, Oexle K, Marcelino J, Suwairi W, Heeger S, Sabatakos G, Apte S, Adkins WN, Allgrove J, Arslan-Kirchner...