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PATIENTS AND METHODS |
The following variables were analysed in a cross-over study in 27 patients with collagenosis and Raynaud's phenomenon: plasma viscosity and erythrocyte aggregation (rheological variables), partial pressure of oxygen and laser Doppler flowmetry in the finger region, and lymphocyte phenotyping and interleukin (IL) determ... |
RESULTS |
Laser Doppler flowmetry revealed significant differences between patients with secondary Raynaud's phenomenon and a control group of 25 healthy subjects. Laser Doppler readings did not change significantly as a result of the treatments. Therapy with iloprost produced a reduction in IL-1beta, L-selectin (CD 62 L) and IL... |
CONCLUSION |
The change in immunological variables due to iloprost may explain the long-term effects of prostaglandins in the treatment of Raynaud's phenomenon. From our results it is not possible to infer any preference for iloprost or alprostadil.IMPACT ON LONG TERM RENAL TRANSPLANT FUNCTION OF TWO PREDNISONE-FREE MAINTENANCE IMM... |
1331 Poster Board #-Session: P126-I IMPACT ON LONG TERM RENAL TRANSPLANT FUNCTION OF TWO PREDNISONE-FREE MAINTENANCE IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE COMBINATIONS WITH TACROLIMUS (Tac)/MYCOPHENOLATE MOFETIL (MMF) VERSUS TACROLIMUS/SIROLIMUS (SLR) IN RECIPIENT OF SPK. Lorenzo Gallon, Joseph Leventhal, Johan Winoto, Michelle Parker, Di... |
Background: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the world's fifth most frequent malignancy and the main cause of cancer-related fatalities. Early diagnosis of residual tumour or recurrence following TACE is crucial for patients' disease burden to be reduced and their survival prognosis to be improved. Imaging is critical... |
Dynamic Route Guidance (DRG) system, which determines the traveling routes of vehicles, alleviates traffic problems in urban areas. On the other hand, ad-hoc network composed of vehicles, called VANET attracts attention from many researchers and VANET-based DRG systems are proposed. However, the existing DRG systems do... |
A five-layer simulation model of OSI protocols is described and applied to predict transport performance on a local area network (LAN). Emphasis is placed on time-critical applications typical of a small, flexible manufacturing system. The results predict that, with current technology, OSI protocols can provide 1.5 Mbp... |
In those days, commercial and cultural exchanges between South Korea and North Korea become more active than before. But in medicine, there has been no activities of exchange and we don't know much about medicine in North Korea. We have some information on medical systems in the North, but we know little about how the ... |
BACKGROUND |
Insulin-dependent or Type 1 diabetes mellitus (IDDM) has been associated with an increased severity of periodontal disease. Because periodontal ligament (PDL) cells play a significant role in maintenance and regeneration of mineralized tissue, the success of procedures, such as guided tissue regeneration, is directly r... |
METHODS |
PDL cells were isolated from 4 patients with IDDM treated with insulin for at least 5 years and from systemically healthy donors. The cell isolates were tested for their ability to form mineralized nodules in vitro and to express alterations in alkaline phosphatase activity in response to exogenously added growth facto... |
RESULTS |
Although all PDL cell isolates formed mineralized nodules in vitro, PDL cells from diabetics formed mineralized nodules more slowly than did the controls. Alkaline phosphatase activity was not altered by exposure of diabetic PDL cells to TGF-beta for 9 days. In contrast, non-diabetic isolates exhibited increased levels... |
CONCLUSIONS |
These results suggest that the populations of PDL cells in insulin-dependent diabetics may be altered in their ability to form mineralized tissue and to respond to growth factors, functions affecting the maintenance and regeneration of the periodontium.The credibilistic fuzzy c means clustering algorithm |
Since the introduction of fuzzy clustering by Ruspini (1970), fuzzy logic has provided a family of interesting clustering algorithms which expanded the abilities of 'crisp' techniques. The most popular among these algorithms is the fuzzy c means algorithm (FCM). However, FCM and most of its variants are sensitive to th... |
The influence of parasitism on host biogenic amine levels was investigated in Nippostrongylus brasiliensis infected rats. Amine levels were estimated in tissues surrounding Nematods in their biological environment: the lung and intestinal mucus. D0 being the day of infestation, tissues were obtained at 24, 30 and 45 hr... |
Our patient with prolapsed intervertebral disc at L3–L4 was given lumbar epidural steroid injection using loss of resistance to air technique with 3 ml of air. After 5–6 h, she developed severe frontal and temporal headache with few episodes of nonprojectile vomiting, followed by disorientation and agitation. An urgent... |
In logic program-based updates, contradictory information elimination, conflict resolution, and syntactic representation are three major issues that interfere with each other and significantly influence the update result. We observe that existing approaches of logic program-based updates, in one way or another, are pro... |
The model we have been discussing is static in the sense that the interaction be tween the two actors occurs once and for all. Although useful in highlighting some f eatures (like the ones we discussed), the model might obscure others. Relations among g roups happen continuously and there are many occasions for conflic... |
: Stakeholders’ participation is a major concern in this modern global economy whenever it comes to the sustainability of community development projects. The international community is constantly pushing the less developed world to engage community members in deliberations concerning problems that impact their well-bei... |
A questionnaire was sent to 104 Chamber of Commerce executives in states and cities in the South and Southwest to evaluate the factors they perceive to be important in recruiting business and industrial migrants from the North. 81 respondents rates 33 locational factors on a scale of 1 to 5. Results show variation in t... |
Developing efficient and low-cost bifunctional electrocatalysts as candidates for Pt-based materials to satisfy commercial applications in the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) is still very challenging. Herein, we show that Co,N-codoped porous vanadium nitride (VCoN) nanoplates are ... |
Background Mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD) and undifferentiated connective tissue disease (UCTD) are heterogeneous diseases which clinical manifestations are considerable overlapped with other connective tissue disease. Clinical diagnosis is usually depended on rheumatologists’ perception and experiences, though... |
Research QuestionAmong Southampton-area males arrested for and admitting to low-risk intimate partner violence as a first domestic offence and receiving a conditional caution, did a randomly assigned requirement to attend (with four to seven other male offenders), two weekend day-long Cautioning and Relationship Abuse ... |
Recent innovations in the Geospatial Web represent a paradigm shift in Web mapping by enabling educators to explore geography in the classroom by dynamically using a rapidly growing suite of impressive online geospatial tools. Coupled with access to spatial data repositories and User-Generated Content, the Geospatial W... |
Aging is accompanied by a deterioration in the regenerative and repair potential of stem cell niches in the brain1–5. However, the mechanisms underlying this decline are largely unknown. Here we characterize genome-wide chromatin accessibility in young and old neurogenic niche cells in vivo, revealing defects in neural... |
Abstract. This study investigated the statistics of eddy splitting and |
merging in the global oceans based on 23 years of altimetry data. Multicore |
structures were identified using an improved geometric closed-contour |
algorithm of sea surface height. Splitting and merging events were discerned |
from continuous time series maps of sea level anomalies. Multicore |
structures represent an intermediate stage in the process of eddy evolution, |
similar to the generation of multiple nuclei in a cell as a preparatory |
phase for cell division. Generally, splitting or merging events can |
substantially change (by a factor of 2 or more) the eddy scale, amplitude, and |
eddy kinetic energy. Specifically, merging (splitting) generally causes an |
increase (decrease) of eddy properties. Multicore eddies were found to tend |
to split into two eddies with different intensities. Similarly, eddy merging |
is not an interaction of two equal-intensity eddies, and it tends to |
manifest as a strong eddy merging with a weaker one. A hybrid tracking |
strategy based on the eddy overlap ratio, considering both multicore and |
single-core eddies, was used to confirm splitting and merging events |
globally. The census revealed that eddy splitting and merging do not always |
occur most frequently in eddy-rich regions; e.g., their frequencies of |
occurrence in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current and western boundary |
currents were found to be greater than in midlatitude regions |
(20–35∘) to the north and south. Eddy splitting and merging |
are caused primarily by an unstable configuration of multicore structures |
due to obvious current– or eddy–topography interaction, strong current |
variation, and eddy–mean flow interaction. |
An Overlap-Windowed-OQAM-DFTs-OFDM Scheme to Achieve Low PAPR and ACLP |
mMTC (massive Machine Type Communications) for IoT (Internet of Things) services needs flexible wireless access techniques to support various types of IoT services without sacrifice of performance degradation, while satisfying low ACLP (Adjacent Channel Leakage Power) and low PAPR (Peak to Average Power Ratio) requirem... |
A widening disconnect is emerging between the real economy and the financial sector that precipitated this calamitous downturn. While the unprecedented financial bailout measures by the Treasury and the Federal Reserve have not fixed the financial system's myriad problems, they have restored profitability on Wall Stree... |
Publishing an informative, useful, and attractive journal has been a difficult task throughout the history of scientific communications. Print publishing has had its own hardships that kept editors and publishers busy with time-consuming technological processes, requiring specific skills and abundant financial investme... |
Software engineering is a research area that covers theories and technologies of various aspects of software lifecycle including development and maintenance. In recent years, requirements to software quality and productivity are being changed in response to rapid chanages in IT environment as social infrastructure. Sof... |
Apparatus capable of objectively evaluating the laxity of the knee in vivo has been developed. The equipment consisted of a microcomputer-controlled machine, into which the leg was firmly clamped. The mechanical properties of the knee were measured by slowly applying a load to the tibia, while the femur was held statio... |
Patterns of population subdivision and the relationship between gene flow and geographical distance in the tropical estuarine fish Lates calcarifer (Centropomidae) were investigated using mtDNA control region sequences. Sixty-three putative haplotypes were resolved from a total of 270 individuals from nine localities w... |
This paper is concerned with the stabilisation of linear time-delay systems by tuning a finite number of parameters. Such problems typically arise in the design of fixed-order controllers. As time-delay systems exhibit an infinite amount of characteristic roots, a full assignment of the spectrum is impossible. However,... |
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