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2,314,300 | Vasomotor symptoms and cardiovascular risk. | Climacteric complaints are the main indication for hormone replacement therapy (HRT) in the clinical practice. Observational studies demonstrating a protective effect of HRT on cardiovascular disease (CVD) were conducted in early menopausal, young, symptomatic women. Vasomotor symptoms correlate with lower level of pla... |
2,314,301 | Estrogen actions in the cardiovascular system. | This brief review summarizes the current state of the field for estrogen receptor actions in the cardiovascular system and the cardiovascular effects of hormone replacement therapy (HRT). It is organized into three parts: a short Introduction and overview of the current view of how estrogen works on blood vessels; a su... |
2,314,302 | Relationship between pattern electroretinogram, standard automated perimetry, and optic nerve structural assessments. | To examine the relationship between retinal ganglion cell function measured using pattern electroretinogram optimized for glaucoma screening (PERGLA), retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thickness, and optic nerve head topography.</AbstractText>Twenty-nine normal, 28 glaucoma, and 37 glaucoma suspect volunteers were enrol... |
2,314,303 | Optic disk size variability between African, Asian, white, Hispanic, and Filipino Americans using Heidelberg retinal tomography. | To compare the optic disk size of African, Asian, white, Hispanic, and Filipino-American patients in a multiethnic glaucoma practice.</AbstractText>Five hundred seventy-six eyes of 319 patients who had consecutively received Heidelberg retinal tomography 2 (HRT) from February 2006 to October 2007 in a glaucoma clinic t... |
2,314,304 | Treatment of municipal solid waste leachate using a submerged anaerobic membrane bioreactor at mesophilic and psychrophilic temperatures: analysis of recalcitrants in the permeate using GC-MS. | This study investigated the performance of two submerged anaerobic membrane bioreactors (SAMBRs) operating at a mean solids residence time (SRT) of 30 (SAMBR30) and 300 days (SAMBR300) at mesophilic and psychrophilic temperatures. At 35 degrees C results showed that SAMBR30 and 300 could achieve 95% soluble chemical ox... |
2,314,305 | Genetic analysis of canine group 2 coronavirus in Korean dogs. | Three out of 109 mixed lung and tracheal tissue extracts originating from Korean dogs tested positive for infection with canine respiratory coronavirus (CRCoV) of Coronaviridae group 2. The three CRCoV-positive samples were found to be competent for viral propagation and isolation, using human rectal tumor cells (HRT-1... |
2,314,306 | Study of operational conditions of simultaneous nitrification and denitrification in a Carrousel oxidation ditch for domestic wastewater treatment. | The study on the operational conditions of simultaneous nitrification and denitrification (SND) in the channel of oxidation ditch (OD) without the need for a special anoxic tank was carried out based on lab-scale and pilot-scale experiments using real domestic wastewater. The influence of sludge loading and component p... |
2,314,307 | Implications of reactor type and conditions on first-order hydrolysis rate assessment of maize silage. | The biodegradability and first-order hydrolysis coefficient of maize silage have been assessed from batch experiments using different types of inoculum and substrate to inocula (S/I) ratios, and from CSTRs working at different hydraulic retention times (HRTs). In the batch experiments, the assessed maximum biodegradabi... |
2,314,308 | Fractional analysis of arsenic in subsurface-flow constructed wetlands with different length to depth ratios. | Arsenic (As) removal in subsurface-flow constructed wetlands (CW) planting with vetiver grasses was experimented by comparing between two different configurations; (i) deep-bed units (dpCW) with length to depth (L:D) ratio=2 and (ii) shallow-bed units (shCW) with L:D ratio=8; operating at hydraulic retention time (HRT)... |
2,314,309 | Enhanced ammonium removal from liquid anaerobic digestion residuals in an advanced sequencing batch reactor system. | When treating effluents from anaerobic processing of organic wastes, the challenge lies in the large quantity of recalcitrant COD and in the high nitrogen content. The data presented in this study illustrate an advanced SBR concept that is able to significantly reduce the organic load. It was found that undigested mash... |
2,314,310 | Effect of coagulation and flocculation conditions on water quality in an immersed ultrafiltration process. | The removal of natural organic matter under variable coagulation and flocculation pretreatment conditions was evaluated for three surface waters in an immersed ultrafiltration (UF) process. Coagulation with alum, flocculation and UF treatment were conducted in a bench-scale test apparatus designed to simulate pilot- an... |
2,314,311 | Effects of diverse dietary phytoestrogens on cell growth, cell cycle and apoptosis in estrogen-receptor-positive breast cancer cells. | Phytoestrogens have attracted attention as being safer alternatives to hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and as chemopreventive reagents for breast cancer because dietary soy isoflavone intake has been correlated with reduction in risk. To identify safe and effective phytoestrogen candidates for HRT and breast cancer p... |
2,314,312 | Pulsar perimetry in the diagnosis of early glaucoma. | To assess the ability of Pulsar perimetry (Pulsar) in detecting early glaucomatous visual field (VF) damage in comparison with Frequency Doubling Technology (FDT), Scanning Laser Polarimetry (SLP, GDx VCC), and Heidelberg Retina Tomography (HRT).</AbstractText>Prospective observational cross-sectional case study.</Abst... |
2,314,313 | Malignant transformation of residual endometriosis after hysterectomy: a case series. | To explore the role of long-standing hormone replacement therapy (HRT) in the malignant transformation of endometriosis.</AbstractText>Short case series. Three cases of women with pelvic clearance receiving long-standing HRT studied in detail.</AbstractText>Teaching hospital in the United Kingdom (Gynaecological Cancer... |
2,314,314 | [Start-up of EGSB for biohydrogen production from compost leachate]. | An expanded granular sludge bed reactor (EGSB) was employed to evaluate the start-up process of fermentative biohydrogen production from compost leachate. The removal performance of COD, total nitrogen, total phosphorus in leachate as well as the hydrogen production ability of EGSB was investigated. The results showed ... |
2,314,315 | [Effects of enhanced dephosphorization in the constructed wetland using water-granulated slag as matrix]. | The phosphorus adsorption and desorption effects of water-granulated slag (WGS) were studied. A simulated vertical flow constructed wetland system was constituted using WGS as the main matrix. The influences of hydraulic residence time (HRT) and pollution load on phosphorus removal were investigated. The contributions ... |
2,314,316 | Sunlight, hormone replacement status and colorectal cancer risk in postmenopausal women. | A reanalysis of the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) randomized clinical trial found a significant interaction between supplementation with vitamin D/calcium and estrogen therapy and the risk of colorectal cancer risk, with reduced risks from supplementation limited to the placebo arms of the estrogen trials. To explore... |
2,314,317 | [Impact of hydraulic retention time (HRT) in ABR on its operation performance and granular sludge characteristics when treating low-strength wastewater]. | The impact of hydraulic retention time (HRT) in an anaerobic baffled reactor (ABR) on its operation performance and granular sludge characteristics was investigated through both testing its operation and analyzing the particle size distribution (PSD) and fractal dimensions of these sludge granules when treating low-str... |
2,314,318 | A pilot observational study to assess the safety and efficacy of Menoprogen for the management of menopausal symptoms in Chinese women. | Over the past 5 years, the interest in alternative therapies for menopause has increased dramatically due to the findings of the Women's Health Initiative (U.S. National Institutes of Health). Menoprogen, a traditional Chinese medicine formulation is an herbal remedy that has been used in China for the management of me... |
2,314,319 | Two-phase (acidogenic-methanogenic) anaerobic thermophilic/mesophilic digestion system for producing Class A biosolids from municipal sludge. | Two different arrangements of two-phase anaerobic sludge systems were operated treating a mixture of primary and secondary sludge. Two steady state periods were evaluated: the first acidogenic thermophilic phase was operated at hydraulic retention times of 3 and 2 days and the second methanogenic (mesophilic and thermo... |
2,314,320 | Ultrasound pre-treatment for anaerobic digestion improvement. | Prior research indicates that ultrasounds can be used in batch reactors as pre-treatment before anaerobic digestion, but the specific energy required at laboratory-scale is too high. This work evaluates both the continuous ultrasound device performance (efficiency and solubilisation) and the operation of anaerobic dige... |
2,314,321 | Comparison of biological activated carbon (BAC) and membrane bioreactor (MBR) for pollutants removal in drinking water treatment. | Biological activated carbon (BAC) and membrane bioreactor (MBR) were systematically compared for the drinking water treatment from slightly polluted raw water under the same hydraulic retention time (HRT) of 0.5 h. MBR exhibited excellent turbidity removal capacity due to the separation of the membrane; while only 60% ... |
2,314,322 | Obesity, coffee consumption and CRP levels in postmenopausal overweight/obese women: importance of hormone replacement therapy use. | <AbstractText Label="BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES" NlmCategory="OBJECTIVE">Obesity is associated with an inflammatory state that is often characterized by elevated plasma C-reactive protein (CRP) levels. Although coffee is broadly consumed in Western societies, few studies have examined the relationship between obesity, coffe... |
2,314,323 | Characteristics associated with mammography screening among both Hispanic and non-Hispanic white women. | This study explores whether certain population characteristics are associated with adherence to mammography screening guidelines among Hispanic and non-Hispanic white (NHW) women living in the southwestern United States.</AbstractText>Participants in a population-based study (4-Corners' Breast Cancer Study) included in... |
2,314,324 | Microbial enzymatic activities in a pilot-scale MBR experimental plant under different working conditions. | Phosphatases, glucosidase, protease, esterase and dehydrogenase activities in a MBR (membrane bioreactor) system equipped with ultrafiltration membranes for the treatment of real urban wastewater were measured at different volatile suspended solid (VSS) concentrations, total suspended solid (TSS) concentrations, hydrau... |
2,314,325 | Comparison of retinal nerve fiber layer thickness values using Stratus Optical Coherence Tomography and Heidelberg Retina Tomograph-III. | To evaluate the usefulness of retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thickness measurements using the Heidelberg Retina Tomograph-III (HRT-III) in normal, ocular hypertensive, and glaucomatous eyes and compare the thickness measurements using HRT-III and Stratus Optical Coherence Tomography-3 (OCT-3).</AbstractText>Sixty-nin... |
2,314,326 | Waste activated sludge fermentation: effect of solids retention time and biomass concentration. | Laboratory scale, room temperature, semi-continuous reactors were set-up to investigate the effect of solids retention time (SRT, equal to HRT hydraulic retention time) and biomass concentration on generation of volatile fatty acids (VFA) from the non-methanogenic fermentation of waste activated sludge (WAS) originatin... |
2,314,327 | Hormonal replacement therapy may reduce the risk for RA in women with early arthritis who carry HLA-DRB1 *01 and/or *04 alleles by protecting against the production of anti-CCP: results from the ESPOIR cohort. | To assess the effect of reproductive factors, especially hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and its interaction with HLA-DRB1 *01 and/or *04 alleles on the diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and the presence of anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide (CCP) antibodies in women included in the ESPOIR cohort (early arthritis... |
2,314,328 | Estimating normative limits of Heidelberg Retina Tomograph optic disc rim area with quantile regression. | To investigate why the specificity of the Moorfields Regression Analysis (MRA) of the Heidelberg Retina Tomograph (HRT) varies with disc size, and to derive accurate normative limits for neuroretinal rim area to address this problem.</AbstractText>Two datasets from healthy subjects (Manchester, UK, n = 88; Halifax, Nov... |
2,314,329 | Optic disc morphology in open-angle glaucoma compared with anterior ischemic optic neuropathies. | Purpose. To compare optic disc topography performed by confocal laser ophthalmoscopy in eyes with nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (NAION), arteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (AAION), and open-angle glaucoma (OAG), adjusting for the amount of retinal ganglion cell (RGC) loss, as measured by ner... |
2,314,330 | Relationship between higher estradiol levels and 9-year mortality in older women: the Invecchiare in Chianti study. | To investigate the relationship between total estradiol (E2) levels and 9-year mortality in older postmenopausal women not taking hormone replacement therapy (HRT).</AbstractText>Population-based study of persons living in the Chianti geographic area (Tuscany, Italy).</AbstractText>Community.</AbstractText>A representa... |
2,314,331 | Lower levels of prepulse inhibition in luteal phase cycling women in comparison with postmenopausal women. | Menopause denotes the end of the reproductive period in a woman's life and is characterized by gradually declining plasma levels of ovarian hormones. Mounting evidence suggests that prepulse inhibition (PPI) is sensitive to fluctuations in estradiol and progesterone. Deficits in PPI are associated with conditions chara... |
2,314,332 | Effectiveness of domestic wastewater treatment using microbial fuel cells at ambient and mesophilic temperatures. | Domestic wastewater treatment was examined under two different temperature (23+/-3 degrees C and 30+/-1 degrees C) and flow modes (fed-batch and continuous) using single-chamber air-cathode microbial fuel cells (MFCs). Temperature was an important parameter for treatment efficiency and power generation. The highest pow... |
2,314,333 | Back propagation neural network (BPNN) prediction model and control strategies of methanogen phase reactor treating traditional Chinese medicine wastewater (TCMW). | Based on the prototype experiment of treating herb wastewater by Up flow Anaerobic Sludge Bed and Anaerobic Filter reactor (UASBAF), an artificial neural network (ANN) model which adopts a back propagation algorithm with momentum and adaptive learning rate was established. And the effect of each parameter to the perfor... |
2,314,334 | Predicting progression to glaucoma in ocular hypertensive patients. | To assess the ability of Heidelberg Retina Tomograph (HRT) Moorfields Regression Analysis (MRA) and Glaucoma Probability Score (GPS) classifications at baseline to predict glaucomatous progression in ocular hypertensive eyes.</AbstractText>One hundred ninety-eight ocular hypertensive subjects underwent regular HRT and ... |
2,314,335 | Kinetic evaluation of the psychrophylic anaerobic digestion of synthetic domestic sewage using an upflow filter. | A study of the anaerobic digestion process of synthetic domestic sewage (total COD: 705 mg/L) was carried out. The digestion was conducted in an upflow anaerobic filter with corrugated plastic rings as packing media at psychrophilic temperature (15-17 degrees C). For HRTs of between 10.0 and 17.1h, the total COD remova... |
2,314,336 | Ribozyme to TGF-beta1 mRNA abrogates immunosuppressive effects of human colorectal adenocarcinoma HRT-18 cells in vitro and in vivo. | Transforming growth factor-beta1 (TGF-beta1) is overexpressed in a variety of malignant epithelial tumors and was suggested to be a marker of colorectal cancer. Moreover, there is growing evidence that TGF-beta1 contributes to tumor progression by regulating tumor cell proliferation and differentiation, inducing a favo... |
2,314,337 | Association among menopause, hormone replacement therapy, and periodontal attachment loss in southern Brazilian women. | The aim of the present study was to evaluate the association among menopause, hormone replacement therapy (HRT), and periodontal attachment loss (PAL).</AbstractText>Three hundred twenty-eight women (40 to 69 years old) who participated in a previous oral survey in South Brazil were included. Women who reported not hav... |
2,314,338 | Motives for initiation, temporary discontinuation, and permanent discontinuation of hormone replacement therapy use among Norwegian women. | The use of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) declined strongly in many countries after publication of the WHI-study. The purpose of the present study was to investigate HRT usage patterns and motives for initiation, temporary discontinuation, and permanent discontinuation of HRT use among Norwegian women.</AbstractText... |
2,314,339 | Will testing for apolipoprotein E assist in tailoring dementia risk reduction? A review. | This paper aims to systematically review the influence of apolipoprotein E (ApoE) on the effects of potentially modifiable mid and late life risk factors for dementia. Scopus, Medline, PubMed, PsycINFO, and HuGE databases were searched up to November 2008. Two independent reviewers selected 94 articles from 13,122 resu... |
2,314,340 | GRP-78 secreted by tumor cells blocks the antiangiogenic activity of bortezomib. | Antiangiogenic effects of the proteasome inhibitor bortezomib were analyzed on tumor xenografts in vivo. Bortezomib strongly inhibited angiogenesis and vascularization in the chicken chorioallantoic membrane. Bortezomib's inhibitory effects on chorioallantoic membrane vascularization were abrogated in the presence of d... |
2,314,341 | Biodegradation of Reactive blue 13 in a two-stage anaerobic/aerobic fluidized beds system with a Pseudomonas sp. isolate. | Pseudomonas sp. strain L1 capable of degrading the azo textile dye Reactive blue 13, was isolated from activated sludge in a sequencing batch reactor. A continuous two-stage anaerobic/aerobic biological fluidized bed system was used to decolorize and mineralize Reactive blue 13. The key factors affecting decolorization... |
2,314,342 | The incidence of breast cancer and changes in the use of hormone replacement therapy: a review of the evidence. | Even though a link between hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and breast cancer has been well documented in the epidemiological literature since the 1980s, it was not until publication of the results of the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) study in 2002 and the Million Women Study in 2003 that women and doctors started r... |
2,314,343 | Hormone therapy, mammographic density, and breast cancer risk. | Percent mammographic density (PMD) is a strong independent risk factor for breast cancer. The effects of age, parity and menopause on PMD are consistent with it being a marker of susceptibility to breast cancer. In this review, we describe the association of PMD with breast cancer, the biological plausibility of this a... |
2,314,344 | The involvement of the Arabidopsis CRT1 ATPase family in disease resistance protein-mediated signaling. | Resistance (R) gene-mediated immunity provides plants with rapid and strain-specific protection against pathogen infection. Our recent study using the genetically tractable Arabidopsis and turnip crinkle virus (TCV) pathosystem revealed a novel component, named CRT1 (compromised for recognition of the TCV CP), that is ... |
2,314,345 | Use of hormone replacement therapy and the risk of colorectal cancer. | Estrogen/progestin replacement therapy is prescribed to women in menopause for purposes of postmenopausal symptom control or prevention of hormone deficiency-related diseases such as osteoporosis. Such treatments have formerly been shown to be associated with lower colorectal cancer risk in an as yet unknown mechanism.... |
2,314,346 | The impact of sex hormone changes on bone mineral deficit in chronic renal failure. | In chronic renal failure several factors affect bone homeostasis leading to the development of renal osteodystrophy. Common calcitropic hormone derangements in renal failure play a central role in bone structure and mineral defects, which in turn accompany osteodystrophy frequently resulting in low bone mineral density... |
2,314,347 | Bone loss in relation to serum levels of osteoprotegerin and nuclear factor-kappaB ligand: the Tromsø Study. | In this longitudinal study of 4,137 persons, bone mineral density was negatively associated with osteoprotegerin at baseline in both genders. In postmenopausal women not using hormone replacement therapy (HRT), bone-loss increased with increasing osteoprotegerin levels, whereas no relationship was found in men, premeno... |
2,314,348 | Clinical measurement and categorization of optic disc in glaucoma patients. | Assessment of optic disc size is an important component of optic nerve head examination. Agreement between different methods of disc size measurements is not very good.</AbstractText>To assess the agreement between the disc size assessed by Heidelberg retina tomograph (HRT) and stereobiomicroscopy with a 90 diopter (D)... |
2,314,349 | Model-based evaluation of control strategies for phosphorus removal in a full-scale advanced phase isolation ditch process. | A model-based evaluation of operation conditions and control strategies was conducted for phosphorus removal in a full-scale Advanced Phase Isolation Ditch (APID) process. The APID process is an alternating type and does not have a separated anaerobic reactor. We suggested that it would be a suitable operational option... |
2,314,350 | Biodegradation of 1,1,2,2-tetrachloroethane in Upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactor. | This study examines the performance of bench-scale Upflow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket (UASB) reactor in treating simulated wastewaters containing 1,1,2,2-tetrachloroethane (TeCA). Reactors R1 (control) and R2 (containing TeCA) were operated at Hydraulic Retention Times (HRTs) of 36, 30, 24, 18 and 12 h. The removal of TeC... |
2,314,351 | Influence of hormone replacement therapy on eccentric exercise induced myogenic gene expression in postmenopausal women. | Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is used in postmenopausal women to relieve symptoms of menopause and prevent osteoporosis. We sought to evaluate changes in mRNA expression of key myogenic factors in postmenopausal women taking and not taking HRT following a high-intensity eccentric resistance exercise. Fourteen postm... |
2,314,352 | Treatment of oilfield produced water by waste stabilization ponds: biodegradation of petroleum-derived materials. | This study evaluated the biological treatability of produced water (PW), the water separated from oil at the wellhead which contains both dispersed oil and low levels of heavy metals, using waste stabilisation ponds (WSPs). We examined both chemical oxygen demand (COD) and oil and grease (O&G) removal using differe... |
2,314,353 | Scan quality effect on glaucoma discrimination by glaucoma imaging devices. | To evaluate, within ocular imaging scans of acceptable quality as determined by manufacturers' guidelines, the effects of image quality on glaucoma discrimination capabilities.</AbstractText>One hundred and four healthy and 75 glaucomatous eyes from the Advanced Imaging in Glaucoma Study (AIGS) were imaged with GDx-VCC... |
2,314,354 | The sensitivity and specificity of Heidelberg Retina Tomograph parameters to glaucomatous progression in disc photographs. | To determine the sensitivity and specificity of the stereometric optic nerve head (ONH) parameters of the Heidelberg Retina Tomograph (HRT) to detect an event of progression verified in serial stereoscopic ONH photography.</AbstractText>A retrospective study of 476 eyes of 342 patients with more than 18 months of follo... |
2,314,355 | The value of calcaneal bone mass measurement using a dual X-ray laser Calscan device in risk screening for osteoporosis. | To evaluate how bone mineral density in the calcaneus measured by a dual energy X-ray laser (DXL) correlates with bone mineral density in the spine and hip in Turkish women over 40 years of age and to determine whether calcaneal dual energy X-ray laser variables are associated with clinical risk factors to the same ext... |
2,314,356 | RBC electrophoresis with discontinuous power supply - a newly established hemoglobin release test. | In this paper, we aimed to introduce a newly established red blood cells (RBCs) electrophoresis method hemoglobin release test (HRT) and tried to determine its significance. Human blood samples from beta-thalassemia patients and healthy controls were analyzed with HRT, which was carried out on starch-agarose mixed gel.... |
2,314,357 | Diagnostic accuracy of Heidelberg Retina Tomograph III classifications in a Turkish primary open-angle glaucoma population. | This study aimed to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of Moorfields regression analysis (MRA) and the glaucoma probability score (GPS) in primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) and to measure the level of agreement between the two algorithms in classifying eyes as normal or abnormal in a Turkish population.</AbstractText>We... |
2,314,358 | Complex training in professional rugby players: influence of recovery time on upper-body power output. | After a bout of heavy resistance training (HRT), skeletal muscle is in both a fatigued and potentiated state. Subsequent muscle performance depends on the balance between these 2 factors. To date, there is no uniform agreement about the recovery time required between the HRT and subsequent muscle performance to gain pe... |
2,314,359 | New nonlinear multivariable model shows the relationship between central corneal thickness and HRTII topographic parameters in glaucoma patients. | In this paper a new nonlinear multivariable regression method is presented in order to investigate the relationship between the central corneal thickness (CCT) and the Heidelberg Retina Tomograph (HRTII) optic nerve head (ONH) topographic measurements, in patients with established glaucoma.</AbstractText>Forty nine eye... |
2,314,360 | Biological denitrification of high-nitrate wastewater in a modified anoxic/oxic-membrane bioreactor (A/O-MBR). | A modified anoxic/oxic-membrane bioreactor has been applied to the denitrification of a high strength nitrate waste (about 3600 mg/L nitrate-N) generated from an initiating explosive factory. Nitrate removal efficiency and nitrite accumulation in the treated water were investigated under various conditions set by sever... |
2,314,361 | [Partial nitrification of digested sludge liquor with low C/N and high-concentration ammonia]. | The experimental system consisted of anoxic filter and aerobic suspended carrier biofilm reactor. The partial nitrification was achieved and maintained stably in the aerobic reactor under normal temperature (15-29 degrees C) and high DO (6-9 mg/L). The nitritation with 70%-80% nitrite accumulation efficiency was obtain... |
2,314,362 | [Glaucoma diagnosis and follow-up using the Heidelberg Retina Tomograph]. | The Heidelberg Retina Tomograph (HRT) is a glaucoma diagnosis system that provides fast, noninvasive topographic information about the optic nerve head, the neuroretinal rim, and the thickness of the nerve fiber layer. With these capabilities, it is one of the leading laser systems for detecting glaucoma. Statistical m... |
2,314,363 | Clinical evaluation of the proper orthogonal decomposition framework for detecting glaucomatous changes in human subjects. | To evaluate the new proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) framework for detecting glaucomatous progression from HRT topographies of human subjects and compare it with HRT topographic change analysis (TCA).</AbstractText>Of 267 eyes of 187 participants with > or =4 retinal tomographic examinations in the University o... |
2,314,364 | Discontinuation of hormone replacement therapy in young GH-treated hypopituitary women increases liver enzymes. | Hypopituitarism, often characterized by hypogonadism, is associated with central obesity, increased cardiovascular and endocrine morbidity and mortality. In Turner syndrome, which is also characterized by hypogonadism liver enzymes are often elevated, but readily suppressed by a short course of hormone replacement ther... |
2,314,365 | Sensitivity and specificity of the Heidelberg Retina Tomograph II Version 3.0 in a population-based study: the Tajimi Study. | To evaluate the sensitivity and specificity of the 3 glaucoma classification programs, the FS Mikelberg discriminant function (FSM), Moorfields Regression Analysis (MRA), and Glaucoma Probability Score (GPS) of version 3.0 of the Heidelberg Retina Tomograph (HRT) II (Heidelberg Engineering, Dossenheim, Germany), in a p... |
2,314,366 | Eye damage control by reduced blue illumination. | The aim of this study was to demonstrate that a blue light and ultraviolet cut-off filter (blue filter) could reduce short-wavelength retina/RPE damage threshold by a continuous spectrum source. Sixteen normal eyes of two rhesus monkeys and six cynomolgus monkeys were subjected to macular irradiation of 20, 24, 27.4, 3... |
2,314,367 | Alcohol and breast cancer: the mechanisms explained. | Breast cancer is a leading cause of death amongst women, several studies have shown significant association between alcohol consumption and breast cancer. The aim of this overview is to highlight some of the mechanisms by which alcohol consumption could increase the risk of developing breast cancer. Using online Medlin... |
2,314,368 | [Biochemical markers of bone turnover. New aspect. Effects of androgen and estrogen on biochemical markers of bone turnover]. | Both androgen and estrogen play important roles in bone metabolism. As estrogen has a potent inhibitory effect on bone resorption, bone turnover increases in postmenopausal osteoprosis caused by estrogen deficiency. Treatment with selective estrogen receptor modulator (SERM) as well as hormone replacement therapy (HRT)... |
2,314,369 | Effect of hormone replacement therapy on inflammatory biomarkers. | Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death among women. Inflammation plays a central role in the pathogenesis of many forms of vascular disease, including atherosclerosis. Women present with cardiovascular disease a decade after men and this has been attributed to the protective effect of female ovarian sex h... |
2,314,370 | Effect of hydraulic retention time on the hydrogen yield and population of Clostridium in hydrogen fermentation of glucose. | The conversion of glucose to hydrogen was evaluated using continuous stirred tank reactor at pH 5.5 with various hydraulic retention times (HRT) at 30 degrees C. Furthermore, the population dynamics of hydrogen-producing bacteria was surveyed by fluorescence in-situ hybridization using probe Clost IV targeting the genu... |
2,314,371 | Changing pattern of age-specific breast cancer incidence in the Swiss canton of Geneva. | Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) use declined sharply after mid-2002, when the Women's Health Initiative trial reported an association between breast cancer occurrence and HRT. Hypothesized mechanism behind this association is that HRT promotes growth of pre-existing small tumors, leading to earlier tumor detection. W... |
2,314,372 | Combined treatment of leachate from sanitary landfill and municipal wastewater by UASB reactors. | Landfills are among the most affordable and acceptable methods in terms of public health and environmental protection for the final disposal of solid waste. Leachate treatment incorporated into anaerobic domestic wastewater systems could be a viable and efficient alternative which would allow minimizing implementation ... |
2,314,373 | Optical coherence tomography and Heidelberg retina tomography for superior segmental optic hypoplasia. | To describe the clinical characteristics of the patients with superior segmental optic hypoplasia (SSOH) and quantitatively assess the structural abnormalities with optical coherence tomography (OCT) and Heidelberg retina tomography (HRT).</AbstractText>Twenty-three eyes from 23 patients (11 men and 12 women, mean age ... |
2,314,374 | Effect of adding carbon fiber textiles to methanogenic bioreactors used to treat an artificial garbage slurry. | To compare the performances and microbial populations of methanogenic reactors with and without carbon fiber textiles (CFT), we operated small-scale (200 ml) reactors using a slurry of artificial garbage. For both types of reactors, the organic loading rate (OLR) was stepwisely and rapidly increased in the same manner.... |
2,314,375 | No evidence for variation in colorectal cancer risk associated with different types of postmenopausal hormone therapy. | Little is known about the effects of various types, modes, and routes of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) on the risk of colorectal cancer (CRC) among postmenopausal women. We conducted a population-based case-control study with validation of self-reported hormone use and no upper age limit. In 1,456 postmenopausal wo... |
2,314,376 | Anaerobic co-digestion of poultry blood with OFMSW: FTIR and TG-DTG study of process stabilization. | The potential of anaerobic digestion for the treatment of poultry blood has been evaluated in a co-digestion process. The organic fraction of municipal solid waste (OFMSW) was employed as the co-substrate to avoid digestion inhibition by dilution of nitrogen content and improvement of biodegradability. A semi-continuou... |
2,314,377 | Quantification of the inert chemical oxygen demand of raw wastewater and evaluation of soluble microbial product production in demo-scale upflow anaerobic sludge blanket reactors under different operational conditions. | This paper investigates the production of soluble microbial products (SMPs) in demonstration-scale upflow anaerobic sludge blanket reactors operated under different conditions and fed with raw wastewater. The results showed that 9.2 +/- 1.3% of the influent soluble chemical oxygen demand (COD) could be considered inert... |
2,314,378 | Does use of estrogens decrease the Breslow thickness of melanoma of the skin? Oral contraceptives and hormonal replacement therapy. | Recently, we showed there was a cumulative dose-dependent association between the use of estrogens and the incidence of cutaneous melanoma (CM). This association was shown for both oral contraceptives (OC) and hormonal replacement therapy (HRT). Some in-vitro studies, however, have suggested a direct inhibitory effect ... |
2,314,379 | Hygienic effects and gas production of plastic bio-digesters under tropical conditions. | Plastic plug-flow bio-digesters have been promoted as a good option for improved treatment of manure and wastewater in developing countries although minimal information has been published on their hygienic status. This bench-scale study replicates bio-digester conditions to evaluate the reduction of pathogen and indica... |
2,314,380 | [Can HRT be a useful tool in differentiating lamellar macular holes from full-thickness macular holes?]. | The aim of this prospective study was to analyze the specificity and sensitivity of HRT 3 compared with spectral optical coherence tomography (SOCT) in differentiating full-thickness macular holes, lamellar macular holes, and macular pseudoholes.</AbstractText>In 128 patients with a diagnosis made by SOCT of full-thick... |
2,314,381 | [Breast density: a major parameter to follow during hormone replacement therapy]. | Mammographic density is a risk factor for breast cancer and it reflects variations in the tissue composition of the breast. It is notably influenced by body mass index and by endogenous hormones as well as hormone replacement therapy (HRT). The pathways that are responsible for the increase in mammographic density foll... |
2,314,382 | Effects of hormone replacement therapy on magnetic resonance imaging of brain parenchyma hyperintensities in postmenopausal women. | To apply 3.0 magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to study the effects of long-term, low dose hormone replacement therapy (HRT) on the brain parenchyma of postmenopausal women.</AbstractText>A total of 155 postmenopausal healthy female medical staff members from Peking Union Medical College Hospital were enrolled. The HRT ... |
2,314,383 | Conjunctival characteristics in primary open-angle glaucoma and modifications induced by trabeculectomy with mitomycin C: an in vivo confocal microscopy study. | To evaluate the microscopic epithelial features seen with in vivo confocal microscopy (IVCM) of bulbar conjunctiva in glaucomatous patients undergoing trabeculectomy with mitomycin C in order to elucidate modifications.</AbstractText>Fifteen eyes of 15 consecutive Caucasian patients affected with primary open-angle gla... |
2,314,384 | Proteomic identification of aldo-keto reductase AKR1B10 induction after treatment of colorectal cancer cells with the proteasome inhibitor bortezomib. | Targeting the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway with the proteasome inhibitor bortezomib has emerged as a promising approach for the treatment of several malignancies. The cellular and molecular effects of this agent on colorectal cancer cells are poorly characterized. This study investigated the antiproliferative effect of... |
2,314,385 | Treatment of synthetic glucose media by an integrated process of anaerobic digestion and reverse osmosis. | A bio-kinetic study was conducted on a laboratory scale to evaluate the performance of an indigenously fabricated fixed film anaerobic reactor operated in upward flow mode for the treatment of synthetic glucose medium. The feasibility of using a combination of anaerobic treatment and reverse osmosis (RO) for generation... |
2,314,386 | Risk of cardiovascular outcomes in users of estradiol/dydrogesterone or other HRT preparations. | Use of postmenopausal hormone replacement therapy (HRT) used to be promoted to reduce the risk of ischemic cardiovascular diseases, a concept which has been challenged by results of the large Women's Health Initiative trial in users of estrogen and progestin. It is postulated that the type of progestin used in HRT affe... |
2,314,387 | Population screening for osteoporosis risk: a randomised control trial of medication use and fracture risk. | Randomised control trial of osteoporosis screening in 4,800 women aged 45-54 years was carried out. Screened group observed an increase of 7.9% in hormone replacement therapy (HRT) use (p < 0.001), 15% in other osteoporosis treatments (p < 0.001) and a 25.9% reduction in fracture risk compared with control. Scree... |
2,314,388 | Treatment of sanitary landfill leachates in a lab-scale gradual concentric chamber (GCC) reactor. | Sanitary landfill leachates are a major environmental problem in South American countries where sanitary landfills are still constructed and appropriate designs for the treatment of these leachates remain problematic. The performance of a lab-scale Gradual Concentric Chamber (GCC) reactor for leachates treatment is pre... |
2,314,389 | Landfill leachate treatment with microbial fuel cells; scale-up through plurality. | Three Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs) were fluidically connected in series, with a single feed-line going into the 1st column through the 2nd column and finally as a single outflow coming from the 3rd column. Provision was also made for re-circulation in a loop (the outflow from the 3rd column becoming the feed-line into t... |
2,314,390 | [Characterisation of excess sludge reduction in an anoxic + oxic-settling-anaerobic activated sludge process]. | An energy balance analysis method with auto calorimeter being adopted was introduced to determine calorific values of sludge samples in influent and effluent of uncoupling tank in an anoxic (A) + oxic-settling-anaerobic (OSA) process and a reference system. The affiliation of sludge amount change and its energy content... |
2,314,391 | [Treatment of ANAMMOX technique on treating high concentration poultry wastewater]. | Taking the effluent of the UASB-shortcut nitrification technique of typical high concentration poultry wastewater as the object, it is discussed that the ANAMMOX is applicable as a treatment of denitrification. Firstly, it successfully starts ANAMMOX reactor by the denitrifying activated sludge, on this basis, finding ... |
2,314,392 | Effect of COD/SO(4)2- ratio and Fe(II) under the variable hydraulic retention time (HRT) on fermentative hydrogen production. | The effect of chemical oxygen demand/sulfate (COD/SO(4)(2-)) ratio on fermentative hydrogen production using enriched mixed microflora has been studied. The chemostat system maintained with a substrate (glucose) concentration of 15 g COD L(-1) exhibited stable H(2) production at inlet sulfate concentrations of 0-20 g L... |
2,314,393 | Continuous hydrogen and butyric acid fermentation by immobilized Clostridium tyrobutyricum ATCC 25755: effects of the glucose concentration and hydraulic retention time. | The effects of the hydraulic retention time (HRT=8, 10, 12 or 16.7 h) and glucose concentration (30, 40 or 50 g/L) on the production of hydrogen and butyrate by an immobilized Clostridium tyrobutyricum culture, grown under continuous culturing conditions, were evaluated. With 30 g/L glucose, the higher HRTs tested led ... |
2,314,394 | Environmental health impacts of equine estrogens derived from hormone replacement therapy. | Many factors have been considered in evaluations of the risk-benefit balance of hormone replacement therapy (HRT), used for treating menopausal symptoms in women, but not its potential risks for the environment We investigated the possible environmental health implications of conjugated equine estrogens (CEEs), the mos... |
2,314,395 | Research on sludge-fly ash ceramic particles (SFCP) for synthetic and municipal wastewater treatment in biological aerated filter (BAF). | Sludge-fly ash ceramic particles (SFCP) and clay ceramic particles (CCP) were employed in two lab-scale up-flow biological aerated filters (BAF) for wastewater treatment to investigate the availability of SFCP used as biofilm support compared with CCP. For synthetic wastewater, under the selected hydraulic retention ti... |
2,314,396 | HRT-3 Moorfields reference plane: effect on rim area repeatability and identification of progression. | To assess the effect of the Moorfields Reference Plane on Heidelberg Retina Tomograph (HRT) rim area repeatability and its effect on progression rates using an event analysis.</AbstractText>The HRT reference plane (RP) defines structures above as "rim" and below as "cup." The Moorfields RP applies the Standard RP (loca... |
2,314,397 | Mechanistic model for the reclamation of industrial wastewaters using algal-bacterial photobioreactors. | A mechanistic model describing the steady-state biodegradation of inhibitory pollutants by algal-bacterial consortia in enclosed chemostat photobioreactors was developed. The modelwasthenvalidated againstexperimentaldataonsalicylate removal by a Chlorella Sorokiniana/Ralstonia basilensis consortium cultivated without e... |
2,314,398 | Combining functional and structural tests improves the diagnostic accuracy of relevance vector machine classifiers. | To investigate whether combining optic disc topography and short-wavelength automated perimetry (SWAP) data improves the diagnostic accuracy of relevance vector machine (RVM) classifiers for detecting glaucomatous eyes compared with using each test alone.</AbstractText>One eye of 144 glaucoma patients and 68 healthy co... |
2,314,399 | Hormone replacement therapy and survival in lung cancer in postmenopausal women in a rural population. | Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) may play a role in the development of lung cancer and subsequent survival. Results from studies exploring these issues are inconsistent. A retrospective study in a rural population was conducted to determine whether a history of HRT use is associated with survival of postmenopausal wom... |
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