... Academy of Medical Sciences Diagnostic andTherapeutic Problems of Pulmonary Tuberculosis inElderly PatientsTo identify differences in the clinical, radiologic, and microbiologic features of pul-monary ... ChungDivision of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine,Department of Internal Medicine; Department of Radiology*, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul; Department of Radiology, ... (<64 yr) and elderly (≥65 yr), we performeda retrospective analysis of the medical charts and chest radiographs of 207 young and 119 elderly pulmonary TB patients. Hemoptysis and a febrile...
... central part of South-East Asia and occupies a total land area of 330,434 square kilometres. The land mass comprises three main components: Peninsular Malaysia and the two states of Sabah and Sarawak, ... overall development plans and land use decisions. • Department of Town and Country Planning (Ministry of Local Government) Controls land use patterns and pace of development as the Department ... the standards and procedures for handling the various types of domestic and industrial wastes. Stakeholders and Water Resource Management The conservation, use, and management of water...
... a shift of the labour supply curve, and this may tend to increase or decrease the effects of the tax rate increase on the quantity of labour supplied and the quantity of leisure demanded. ... to the economy of displacing $50 worth of private consumption and $50 worth of private investment:• the loss of $50 worth of private consumption costs $50• the $50 worth of private investment ... estimate of the valueof information.The valueof information rises as:• the initial capital cost, K, rises;• the return in the low price environment, RL, falls;• the probability of a low...
... Society and the Centers for Disease Con-trol and endorsed by the Infectious Disease Society of America.The Diagnostic Standards are intended to provide a frameworkfor and understanding of the diagnostic ... (148–150). Genetic variability of thesubjects vaccinated, the nature of the mycobacteria endemicin different parts of the world, the use of different strains of BCG for immunization, and the use of ... focus of such studies has been rifampin re-sistance because of the pivotal role of rifampin in the treat-ment of tuberculosis, the conserved nature of the genetic basisfor resistance (Ͼ 96% of...
... control ofgene expression. Aseach step of the RNA metabolism is tightly regulated,the regulation of mRNA export, stability and transla-tion rate is essential for the control of the expression of ... wasrecovered and mixed with an equal volume of SDS buffer(0.2 m Tris, pH 7.5, 0.3 m NaCl, 25 mm EDTA, 2% SDS) and twice extracted with phenol ⁄ chloroform, once extractedwith chloroform, and precipitated ... thenucleus and the cytoplasm. Genes Dev 12, 55–66.31 Gui JF, Tronche`re H, Chandler SD & Fu XD (1994)Purification and characterization of a kinase specific forthe serine- and arginine-rich...
... neuron degenerationIn 2001, Oosthuyse et al. [18] reported that deletion of the hypoxia-response element of the VEGF-A gene promoter and a reduction in VEGF-A expressioncause the degeneration of ... form of Ras is less frequent. Gene amplification and activation of EGFR occur in more than one third of cases, thehighest incidence among human tumors.Malignant glioma cells secrete a variety of ... theMinistry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan, a grant from the program‘Research for the Future’ of the Japan Society for thePromotion of Science, and the program...
... Kishi1 and Toshihiro Yasuda21 Department of Legal Medicine and Medical Genetics, Gunma University, Japan2 Division of Medical Genetics and Biochemistry, University of Fukui, Japan3 Division of ... exon 7 of fragment C represents a dele-tion of 39 bp. The thick lines indicate intron 6 of 75 bp in fragmentsB and C, 3¢ portion of 35 bp in intron 5 in fragments C and D, and 3¢ portion of 25 ... PCR and quantitativereal-time RT-PCR, the locations of the primers DN)105 and DN)9used in ChIP assays, the locations of the primers DN+232 and DN+254 utilized in 5¢-RACE, and the locations of...
... of anovel transcriptional silencer in the protein-coding region of thehuman CYP2C9 gene. Gene. 209, 123–129.59. Willis, A .E. (1999) Translational control of growth fa ctor and proto-oncogene ... Jingyue Yang1,2 and Richard W. Gross1,2,3,41Division of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, and Departments of 2Medicine,3Chemistry and 4Molecular Biology and Pharmacology, ... min at 50 °C and 10 m in at 95 °C, followed by a total of 40 two-temperature cycles (15 s at 95 °C and 1 min at 60 °C). Forthe generation o f s tandard curves, s erial dilutions of acDNA sample...
... that sensitivity and specificity of Doppler US for the diagnosis of rejection was 43 and 67%, respectively, with a threshold RI of 0.90. The complex and heterogeneous nature of rejection physiopathology ... rate of volume change of a vessel as a function of pressure. A pulsating artery expanding in systole and contracting in diastole is a visual manifestation of the effect of compliance. The aim of ... circulation), REFLEX-1 and REFLEX-2 (the activities of sympathetic nerve and vagus nerve, and heart rate), TEMP (heat generation and consumption in body temperature), EXER (control of exercise), DRUGS...
... with Kivalues of 190 nM and 160 nMfor ATP and AMP, respectively. Ap5A also inhibited growth of L. donovani promastigotes in vitro (Fig. 7) with IC50 value of 27 ± 5 lM. The effect of Ap5A ... 29,24 and 12 h at temperatures of 4, 13 and 26.5 °C,respectively.Inhibition of AK by the specific inhibitor Ap5A and itseffect on growth of L. donovanipromastigotesin vitroThe effect of the ... inhibitor of AK, competitively inhibitedactivity of the recombinant enzymes with estimated Kivalues of 190 nM and 160 nMfor ATP and AMP, respectively.Ap5A also inhibited the growth ofL. donovani...
... Global and simul-taneous analysis of the experimental data by grafit soft-ware allowed computation of the pKavalues of the twogroups both in the free and substrate-bound species of thrombin ... Kdvalues of 22 ± 1.5 and 24 ± 2.6 mM for WT and DK9 thrombin, respectively. The verticalbars are the standard errors of the measurements.Functions of the thrombin A-chain R. De Cristofaro ... in the A-chain of thrombin [1,2]. Measure-ments of the pH dependence of both steady-state ami-dase activity and binding of the high-affinity inhibitora-NAPAP showed pKavalues of the catalytic...
... their BIS values. For propofol,midazolam, and isoflurane, BIS values were significantly correlated withlevel of consciousness and with recall. The BIS values at which 50% and 95% of volunteers ... study of 72 healthy volunteers, the develop-ers of BIS measured: i) blood concentrations of propofol, midazolam, and alfentanil, and end tidal concentrations of isoflurane; ii) sedation level, and iii) ... herein are the views of the authors and may not necessarily reflect the officialpolicy of the National Institute on Drug Abuse or any other parts of the US Department of Health and Human Services....
... aggregate high -value and low -value poultry products. If the aggregate price of high -value poultry, which is a function of the price of imports and the domestic price of high -value poultry, ... aggregate price of low -value poultry, consumers will increase their consumption of low -value poultry and decrease their consumption of high -value poultry. At the top-level of the demand system, ... assumed values of 2σ, 3σ, and 4σ are 0.5, 2.5 and 10 respectively. b The abbreviations DHV, IHV, DLV, and ILV stand for domestic high -value poultry products, imported high -value poultry...
... Expressing all of the values that are exchanged in terms of a common medium of exchange, or money, allows differentsets of products or services to be compared in terms of a single standard ofvalue (e.g., ... goods and services now rather than in the future. Time Valueof Money and Investment Analysis:Table of ContentsPart I.Introduction 1Basic Concepts and Terminology 3Categories of Time Valueof ... 168Conceptualization and Solution of Time Valueof Money ProblemsThe two necessary phases of solving time valueof money problems are: 1) correctly identifyingwhich type of problem exists and what factor...