... January 2005 Patients were hospitalized inthe Department of Critical Care of the 'Evangelismos' General Hospital and inthe 2nd Department of Critical Care of the 'ATTIKON' University Hospital ... pointed towards a predominance of Gram-negative bacteria as responsible pathogens and towards a monomicrobial cause of VAP (Table 1) It was proved that apoptosis isa phenomenon taking place in ... requiring the administration of vasopressors [12] Sedation was achieved in all patients with the intravenous administration of midazolame and propofol 1% Upon enrolment inthe study, quantitative...
... exist rather inthe timid brains of alarmists than inthe stern tables of statistical investigation Having thus discussed the different cases in which health is said to have suffered from a hard-rowing ... service in maintaining the theory of rowing being injurious to the health At the same time I have never doubted that his early death, at the age of twenty-nine, was due to boatracing No other member ... extraordinary fatality should befall them, itis certain that any Insurance Company which accepted the 16 lives inthe year 1829 would have found ita very profitable venture Apparently the best...
... either in uenza vaccination and their patients unvaccinated (S0P0), staff vaccinated and patients unvaccinated (SVP0), staff unvaccinated and patients vaccinated (S0PV), and both staff and patients ... hospital, and these values were included ina multiple linear-regression analysis The response variable in these analyses was the empirical logit of each hospital’s mortality rate that is, the natural ... vaccinated and patients not vaccinated Performance bias: 67% of staff in active arm and 43% in active arm were vaccinated There is no description of the vaccines administered, vaccine matching...
... domain B) from AMY2 (in green) and TAA (in black) The superimpositioning was guided by the catalytic acids (D179AMY2, E204AMY2, and D289AMY2 and D206TAA, E230TAA, and D297TAA) The invariant Y51AMY2 ... conserved in plant a- amylases, has a role in substrate binding and activity This local region was different in structures of nonplant a- amylases having a longer ba loop which typically contained aromatic ... [17] and in contrast to Tyr51AMY2 and Tyr82TAA, the geometry differed of the Met52AMY2 (Met53AMY1) and Trp83TAA (Fig 1A) Also the larger TAA loop in TAA appeared to hinder binding of the substrate...
... significant association and linkage for the rs3738919-C allele of the ITGAV gene with RA inthe European Caucasian population, suggesting ITGAV as a new minor RA susceptibility gene in this population ... http://arthritis-research.com/content/9/4/R63 Arthritis Families contributed to the recruitment of families and to the acquisition of clinical data All authors read and approved the final manuscript Acknowledgements The authors thank the ... C allele of rs3738919 ina first sample of French Caucasian families, the same trend in replication sample 2, and again a significant association in replication sample (European Caucasian families)...
... Kizawa H, Kou I, Iida A, Sudo A, Miyamoto Y, Fukuda A, Mabuchi A, Kotani A, Kawakami A, Yamamoto S, Uchida A, Nakamura K, Notoya K, Nakamura Y, Ikegawa S: An aspartic acid repeat polymorphism in ... Arthritis Research & Therapy Vol 11 No Gruber et al Spanish Caucasians [8] and work by Mustafa et al in British Caucasians [9] Our laboratory has become interested in asporin inthe human intervertebral ... Arthritis Res Ther 2006, 8:R55 Mustafa Z, Dowling B, Chapman K, Sinsheimer JS, Carr A, Loughlin J: Investigating the aspartic acid (D) repeat of asporin as a risk factor for osteoarthritis in a...
... species In addition, the four factors have many domains in common A GTP binding domain (Domain I) is present in all factors, while TypA, LepA and EF-G share an additional three domains (Domains II, ... kb and 2.4 kb) have an increased abundance In addition, close examination of the blot revealed that there isa shadowy band (indicated by the asterisk) below the 2.9 kb processing Liu et al BMC ... contains a unique domain, which might mediate factor specific interactions with the ribosome and facilitate different roles in translation Inthe case of SVR3/AtcpTypA, the C-terminal domain may...
... were treated with escitalopram and the remaining 141 (50.7%) received citalopram Item-level analysis No missing values were observed, indicating a high level of patient acceptability of the questionnaire ... unidimensionality of the MADRS-S: each item contributed to the first factor axis with a factor loading of at least 0.50, explaining 45% of the total variance The MADRS-S score was moderately correlated ... revealed inthe ROC analysis, were also compared using a logistic model with the same explanatory factors and covariate as those used inthe ANCOVA model described above Cronbach's alpha coefficient...
... variables measured at day 1, day 6, and the change in value between day and Stata 9.0 (StataCorp, College Station, Texas) computer software was used for statistical analysis All interval data ... collated, analyzed and interpreted the data ES created the figures and wrote the manuscript HJ and ME helped with the statistical analysis RK and MAM oversaw the research, helped analyzed the data and ... data in tables and text are presented as mean with standard deviation in parentheses Data presented in graphs are mean with error bars indicating the standard error of the mean (SEM) The odds ratios...
... Luciferase Assay System and luminometer (VICTOR3, Perkinelmer, Waltham, MA, USA) And the relative luciferase activity was normalized to the protein concentration and b-galactosidase activity Statistics ... chi-square (MHC) tests were used to test for trend inthe categorical analysis The data were managed and analyzed using SAS version 9.1 (SAS Inc., Cary, NC, USA) Statistical power of single associations ... this limit were assumed to be pg/mL for the statistical analysis The inter- and intraassay coefficients of variance were below 10% Protein concentration of BAL samples was measured for standardization...
... M, Hirai M, Tominaga N, Nakajima H, Elisseeva OA, Masuda T, Nakano A, Kawakami M, Oji Y, Ikegame K, Hosen N, Udaka K, Yasukawa M, Ogawa H, Kawase I, Sugiyama H: Wilms tumor gene peptide-based ... peptide vaccine and the resultant cancer regression Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2004;101:13885-13890 Kawakami M, Oka Y, Tsuboi A, Harada Y, Elisseeva OA, Furukawa Y, Tsukaguchi M, Shirakata T, Nishida ... from the 12th administration Although bcr-abl transcripts increased considerably after the 12th administration of WT1 peptides, there was a gradual decrease of the transcripts thereafter to the...
... on the scores and the data of the questionnaire, several findings answering collocability of Ditransitive, Transitive, Intransitive, Monotransitive the four research questions are summarized as ... *It is important maintaining the bounce height up to your hip level only” instead of “… Itis important to maintain the bounce …” [75] Athletics, Boxing, Swimming, Basketball, Football, Handball ... and the grammar- production of collocations, we examined the lexical and grammatical translation approach has played a key role inthe teaching of English collocation competence of students at...
... amounts in both yeast strains Therefore, the reason for the disappearance of the bc1 dimer inthe yeast strain in which Qcr10p is missing remains unknown On the basis of all the above reported results, ... assistance of specific chaperone proteins is also required The available data indicate that the accessory factor Bcs1p is involved inthe binding of ISP to an immature bc1 intermediate Yeast cytochrome ... mitochondrial membrane Indeed, the wide distribution of this sub-complex in distinct yeast deletion strains, and its stability, strongly argues against the possibility that it may represent a degradation...
... of the CYP4x1 RNA in brain and in aorta, and this was confirmed by analysis of the EST database; this showed significant numbers of CYP4x1 ESTs in brain and aorta An unexpected finding is that there ... specific binding, the antisera were preincubated with purified recombinant Cyp4x1 protein, resulting inthe ablation of detection of the 55-kDa protein in brain (Fig 5C) This shows that the antisera specifically ... that the oxidation of these is not directed, as is usually the case inthe CYP4s, to the terminus of their carbon chain, but rather to some position mid-way along the chain Northern blot analysis...
... to any other sequences available in FASTA and BLAST database programs at the DNA Data Bank of Japan Recently, we reported the cloning and sequencing of the gene encoding 4-amino-3-hydroxybenzoate ... decarboxylase) and a deamination step (2-aminomuconic 6-semialdehyde deaminase) in P fluorescens strain KU-7 [7] The decarboxylation mechanism inthe metabolic pathways for 3-hydroxyanthralinic acid ... 2-aminomuconase deaminases in substrate specificity, thermostability, subunit structure, and N-terminal amino acid sequence [5,6] The native enzyme of Pseudomona sp strain A- 3 has a molecular mass...
... opistoporin Also with magainin analogs, an increase in antibacterial activity against Gram-negative bacteria with increasing angle subtended by the cationic residues was observed [42] Parabutoporin is ... Gram-negative bacteria, while melittin and mastoparan are more active against Gram-positive bacteria As it has been described that the NH2-terminal a- helical domain of dermaseptin S (amino acids ... pandinin contains only one charged amino acid in this fragment Parameters that might in uence antibacterial activity that differ between opistoporin and pandinin are the hydrophobicity (pandinin...
... synthesis inthe absence of concomitant amylopectin synthesis (reviewed in [41]) In vitro synthesis of amylose Because in Chlamydomonas amylose synthesis remains active when amylopectin synthesis ... of amylose synthesis accounts for most polysaccharide synthesis At this stage the rate of amylopectin synthesis has become minimal and itis difficult to say if the residual amylopectin synthesis ... of the mature algal enzyme When the specific activities (activity vs amount of starch) were measured in comparison with potato, cassava, taro and wheat, the Chlamydomonas enzyme appeared at least...
... map and change its topological type if itis not an Axiom A map We want to the same with an arbitrary unimodal map of an interval So the first reasonable question one may ask is “What makes quadratic ... domain of RT , the map RT : J → T is called a branch of RT If a domain contains the critical point, itis called central Let T0 be a small nice interval around the critical point c of the map ... Figure A connected component of the domain A0 At the point b the angle is not zero 25 AXIOM A MAPS If b isa singularity of the domain A \ B where this domain has a nonzero angle (i.e b isa point...
... exhibited a local system E , for which the functor Avd was zero.1 E In particular, we obtain that inthe -adic situation over a finite field the vanishing of the Euler-Poincar´ characteristics takes place ... E, the Euler-Poincar´ characteristics of the stalks e of Avd (F) vanish E When we are working inthe -adic situation over a finite field, the required fact was established in [7] where we exhibited ... global fields of positive characteristic; cf [9] *The author isa prize fellow at the Clay Mathematics Institute 618 D GAITSGORY The proof to be given in this paper treats the cases of various...
... estimate the impact on the probability of increasing savings, and the probability of increasing savings by at least 20 percent This enables a substantial increase in savings by a wealthy individual ... visit from the Bank “Active” (row 2) defined as having had a transaction in their account inthe past six months Mean balances of savings accounts include empty accounts Barangays are the smallest ... Treatment P-value A VARIABLES AVAILABLE AT TIME OF RANDOMIZATION Client savings balance (hundreds) Active account Barangay’s distance to branch Bank’s penetration in barangay Standard deviation...