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KEY RESULTS |
We report evidence for significant genetic variability in resistance and various tolerance-related traits but low broad-sense heritability (H(2) < 0.14) for all traits. For all traits examined, no correlation existed between trait levels of parent ramets (measured in their field of origin) and daughter ramets (measured... |
CONCLUSIONS |
Our study suggests that herbivores impose selection favoring increased tolerance and reduced resistance in goldenrods. In this environment, we expect that over time, resistant genets will decrease in frequency. Despite strong selection pressures, the evolution of tolerance in this environment may be constrained by the ... |
In this work, we propose the construction of the Moiré-Ronchigram as a pattern obtained from simple Ronchigrams, superposed and with a slight degree of rotation, to obtain a 3D wavefront. The aberrations in the obtained wavefront are fitted to the aberration Zernike polynomial of degree 12 in order to obtain a polynomi... |
We show that a class of divergence-form elliptic problems with quadratic growth in the gradient and non-coercive zero order terms are solvable, under essentially optimal hypotheses on the coefficients in the equation. In addition, we prove that the solutions are in general not unique. The case where the zero order term... |
Introduction: Elastofibroma dorsi (ED)is a rare, benign, connective tissue tumour typically occurring in the posterior thoracic wall between serratus anterior and lattismus dorsi muscle adjacent to the inferior angle of the scapula. Actual aetiology remains unknown, and classical clinical features, which include swelli... |
Methods: In our study, we described 11 patients with elastofibroma dorsi from 2014 to 2021 identified retrospectively treated with marginal excision. The patient’s age, gender, lesion side, tumour size, and location were analysed in addition to intraoperative and postoperative complications. |
Results: The median age in our study was 58 years, with a male: female ratio of 0.57:1.The tumour was more commonly present on the left side, with pain being the most common symptom. The median size of the tumour was 7 cm. There were no intraoperative or postoperative complications. No recurrence was reported in any of... |
Conclusion: Elastofibroma dorsi is an uncommon benign soft tissue tumour occurring in the infrascapular region of elderly |
patients. Typical MRI findings especially confirm benign elastofibroma. Excellent results with minimum morbidity are obtained with marginal excision. Prognosis is usually good with no recurrence.Crude extracts of bacterially-expressed dsRNA protect orchid plants against Cymbidium mosaic virus during transplantation fro... |
Summary Cymbidium mosaic virus (CymMV) is one of the most prevalent viruses infecting and causing damage to orchids. As tissue culture methods are widely used for commercial orchid production, CymMV infection commonly occurs during transplantation and pruning, so the protection of plants during these stages would be of... |
BackgroundMultiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 (MEN1) is an autosomal dominant tumor syndrome with neuroendocrine tumorigenesis of the parathyroid and pituitary glands and pancreatic islet cells. This hereditary cancer is caused by germline mutations in the MEN1, located on chromosome 11q13. Among the approximately 3,0... |
ABSTRACT A method of recovering sublethally heat-injured bacteria was developed. The procedure (termed the agar underlay method) uses a nonselective agar underlaid with a selective medium. In a two-chambered petri dish, the Lutri plate (LP), a nonselective agar is inoculated with a population of sublethally heat-injure... |
In this paper the improvement of a preliminary design process based on an iterative and interactive synthesis is proposed. The problem concerns the determination of dimentionnal parameters of a manipulator able to follow a trajectory deened by a parametric curve under kinematic performances (requested velocity at end-e... |
The early twentieth century found American suffragists experimenting with a diverse array of techniques to argue their cause. Among those who gave their talents to this effort was a skilled theatrical professional, Hazel MacKaye (1888–1944). A radical suffragist, MacKaye was a charter member of the Congressional Union,... |
INTRODUCTION |
We present a rare variety of adrenocorticotrophic hormone (ACTH)-independent Cushing's syndrome known as primary pigmented nodular adrenocortical disease (PPNAD). |
CLINICAL PICTURE |
The patient initially underwent unilateral adrenalectomy for what was thought to be a left adrenal adenoma. |
OUTCOME |
Partial resolution of symptoms and demonstrable persistent hypercortisolism after surgery prompted further evaluation with findings leading to the diagnosis of Carney complex. A review of the adrenal histology was consistent with PPNAD. |
CONCLUSION |
This entity of PPNAD, which has rarely been reported in Asians, forms part of the Carney complex. The diagnosis may not be simple and straightforward, as illustrated in this patient.Clinical and Quality of Life Predictors of Failure to Achieve Event Free Survival at 24 Months in Patients Aged 70 Years and Older with Di... |
Background |
Age has long been recognized as a poor prognostic factor in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) and more recently, a lower baseline quality of life (QOL) in patients with aggressive lymphomas has been associated with an inferior overall survival (OS) (Thompson et al, 2018). Older patients with DLBCL are a heterogene... |
Methods |
Newly diagnosed lymphoma patients were prospectively enrolled within 9 months of diagnosis into the University of Iowa/Mayo Clinic Lymphoma SPORE Molecular Epidemiology Resource (MER). Patients ≥70 years of age with DLBCL were utilized in this study. All pathology was reviewed by a lymphoma hematopathologist. Clinical... |
Results |
A total of 389 patients ≥70 years were identified with DLBCL in the MER from 2002-2015; patient characteristics are described in the Table. In the entire study population, univariate predictors of EFS24 failure included age (OR per 10 years=1.85, 95% CI: 1.26-2.71), ECOG PS ≥2 (OR=4.78, 95% CI: 2.92-7.83), elevated LD... |
Conclusions |
In patients aged 70 years and older, ECOG PS and LDH were the strongest independent predictors of failure to achieve EFS24. As expected, physical and functional scores were lower in patients who completed their QOL after initiation of treatment. Restricting the analysis to patients with pre-treatment data, QOL was not... |
Reagan: Seattle Genetics: Research Funding. Maurer:Morphosys: Research Funding; Celgene: Research Funding; Nanostring: Research Funding. Cerhan:Celgene: Research Funding; Nanostring: Research Funding; Jannsen: Other: Scientific Advisory Board. |
DEVELOPMENT OF AN ALGORITHM TO ESTIMATE EYE LENS DOSE IN TERMS OF OPERATIONAL QUANTITY Hp(3) USING HEAD TLD BADGE |
In view of the recommendations of International Commission on Radiological Protection for reduction of the occupational annual dose limit for eye lens from 150 mSv to 20 mSv/y, questions have been raised on the adequacy of monitoring for the quantities Hp(10) and Hp(0.07). As an immediate requirement, in the present si... |
Brain functions are highly dependent on a fine regulation of cerebral blood flow by a mechanism known as neurovascular coupling. This mechanism is mediated by astrocytes, which are located between neurons and parenchymal arterioles. Neurotransmitters released during an increase in synaptic activity activate receptors l... |
We examined the thermodynamic properties of 2',4'-bridged nucleic acid containing 2-pyridone as a nucleobase (PB) to recognize a C interruption in the homopurine strand of the target duplex for pyrimidine motif triplex formation at neutral pH. The triplex formation involving triplex-forming oligonucleotide with PB is h... |
For systemic infection of a host plant, viruses multiply in the initially infected cell and spread to the neighbouring cells through plasmodesmata (cell-to-cell movement), to eventually reach the vascular system and use the phloem to spread to other plant parts (long-distance movement). To achieve cell-to-cell transpor... |
Neutrophils are key players of innate immunity and influence inflammatory and immune reactions through the production of numerous cyto‐kines. Interleukin‐18 (IL‐18) is known to stimulate several neutrophil responses, and recent evidence sug‐gests that neutrophils might represent a source of IL‐18. Here, we show that ne... |
Human umbilical vein endothelial (HUVE) cells plated on plastic or gelatin-coated dishes grow as a "cobblestone" monolayer. By contrast, endothelial cells cultured on a complex matrix (e.g., Matrigel) form three-dimensional, capillary-like structures. In the current study, we verified the capillary phenotype of the lat... |
A convenient method has been developed for the synthesis of α-carbonyl selenocyanates from aryl methyl ketones/styryl methyl ketones using selenium dioxide as the selenating agent under simple reaction conditions. This reaction has notable advantages over the traditional methods in terms of accessibility and affordabil... |
Games consoles are becoming more versatile with the addition of hardware such as hard discs, modems and USB ports. With all these additions, they are beginning to encroach on the home computer (PC) market. The boundaries between the two groups are becoming blurred, and in the case of the Playstation2 shipping with Linu... |
Gradient-based local descriptors have received more attention these years and have been successfully used in many applications such as human detection and face recognition. The advantages of the local descriptors are the resistance to the local geometric and photometric errors and the robustness to the expression varia... |
Neuroblastoma (NB), which is a malignant tumor of young children derived from neural crest cells that occurs in children, exhibits a wide range of clinical behaviors, from spontaneous regression to rapid progression. Advanced NB patients have a poor prognosis, and recently, autologous bone marrow transplantation (BMT) ... |
Regional blood centers recently increased the number of tests used to protect transfusion recipients from infectious disease. The Food and Drug Administration has noted that computer systems for managing these data have lost donor data or failed to recognize all deferrals. Of 118,396 consecutive donations, including 4,... |
Erythrocyte participation in the transfer and exchange of amino acids with tissues has been recently demonstrated. In this study, we show changes in erythrocytes, leukocytes and plasma free amino acid content, from peripheral blood in a group of 10 women after 25 weeks of gestation. Also tryptophan determinations in pl... |
Genome-wide characterization of AGO4-dependent siRNAs revealed that AGO4 is required for the accumulation of a small subset of heterochromatic siRNAs in Arabidopsis thaliana. These AGO4-depdenent siRNAs are likely secondary het-siRNAs produced by a self-reinforcing loop of RdDM. Slicing-defective AGO4 is unable to full... |
New amphiphilic ABC triblock copolymers have been designed and self-assembled into water-dispersible and biodegradable polymer micelles, which exhibit good antibacterial activities without quaternary ammonium moieties or the loading of any external antibiotics due to the increased local concentration of cationic charge... |
Objective: The aim of the current study is to report the long–term follow–up of women treated with the In–Flow™ device for periods longer than 1 year.AbstractMethods: The efficacy of the intraurethral insert was evaluated in 92 women. Data regarding their urodynamic diagnosis, complications and satisfaction were collec... |
Alkaline phosphatase (ALP) activity has been demonstrated in periodontal ligament (PDL). On the basis of electron microscopic study, distribution of the enzyme in PDL tissue has also been indicated not only as a cell associated activity but also as an extracellular matrix associated activity. This study is concerned wi... |
ABSTRACT Debates over billeting and martial law arose in the parliament of 1628 in conjunction with such other grievances as the forced loan and discretionary imprisonment employed by royal servants from 1626 onward to keep alive the war effort against the monarchs of Spain and France. Both houses dealt with billeting ... |
Economic and environmental concerns over fossil fuels encourage the development of renewable energy. But to allow the penetration of intermittent energy sources, optimal sizing of hybrid renewable energy systems is quite necessary. This paper presents an optimal sizing algorithm which estimates the sizes of different c... |
To investigate the surface morphology of peripheral blood cells, venous blood specimens drawn from 16 normal healthy subjects were studied with scanning electron microscopy. Blood cells were fixed with 2% glutaraldehyde and stained with Riu's A and B solutions. Red blood cells, platelets and specific types of leucocyte... |
Epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG), which is the main polyphenolic constituent of green tea, has emerged as a promising candidate for potential applications in selected anticancer therapeutics. Generally, tumor metastasis is known to be correlated with the alterations in cell adhesion and migration of normal cells. Neve... |
Luminescence emission and excitation spectra as well as decay kinetics of Y2O3-Yb nanoparticles elaborated by the polyol mediated synthesis method have been measured at liquid helium temperature under VUV excitation. In nanoparticles the ratio of intensities of Charge Transfer Luminescence (CTL) and exciton excitation ... |
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