INTRODUCTION Acute traumatic coagulopathy (ATC) is defined as having evidence of coagulopathy in patients with severe trauma. The aim of this preliminary study was to assess the prevalence and associated factors of ATC in severely traumatic patients presenting to emergency department (ED). METHODS In this retrospective cross sectional study, all patients with severe traumatic injury and avail...

We have previously shown that miR-146a, a NF-κB-regulated microRNA, is strongly expressed in human specimens and cell lines derived from anaplastic thyroid carcinomas (ATC) where it mediates some of the NF-κB pro-tumorigenic functions. By using a bioinformatic analysis, we identified the chemokine scavenger receptor D6/ ACKR2 as a target of miR146a in human ATC. We found that the expression of ...

BACKGROUND Oncofetal fibronectin (onfFN) is a fetal protein, the expression of which is observed in papillary thyroid carcinomas but not in follicular tumors or in normal thyroid. Its expression in anaplastic thyroid carcinoma (ATC), however, has not been clarified, since only a few cases had been examined in previous studies. METHODS We examined the expression levels of onfFN mRNA in ATC tis...

PURPOSE To develop an orthotopic model of anaplastic thyroid carcinoma (ATC) in athymic nude mice. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN Various thyroid carcinoma cell lines were injected into the thyroid gland of athymic nude mice to determine whether such injection was technically feasible. ATC cells were then injected into the thyroid gland or the subcutis of nude mice at various concentrations, and the mic...

PURPOSE The Notch signaling pathway is widely expressed in normal, reactive, and neoplastic tissues; however, its role in thyroid tissues has not been fully elucidated. Therefore, this study was conducted to characterize the expression of the Notch signaling pathway in papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) cells and anaplastic thyroid cancer (ATC) cells. MATERIALS AND METHODS Expression of activated...

OBJECTIVE To compare performance of flow-adapted compensation of endotracheal tube resistance (automatic tube compensation, ATC) between the original ATC system and ATC systems incorporated in commercially available ventilators. DESIGN Bench study. SETTING University research laboratory. SUBJECTS The original ATC system, Dräger Evita 2 prototype, Dräger Evita 4, Puritan-Bennett 840. INT...

A method of calculating Available Transfer Capability (ATC) and the exploration of the relative effects of certain computational issues are described in this paper. Specifically, the calculation of ATC is laid out for the purposes of pointing out the various computational aspects that affect it such as algorithmic tolerances and source/sink composition among others. Test cases from the Pennsylv...

Molecular pathways regulating rapid proliferation and persistence are fundamental for pathogens but are not elucidated fully in Toxoplasma gondii. Promoters of T. gondii ribosomal proteins (RPs) were analyzed by EMSAs and ChIP. One RP promoter domain, known to bind an Apetela 2, bound to nuclear extract proteins. Promoter domains appeared to associate with histone acetyl transferases. To study ...

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to evaluate if the combination of pressure-support ventilation (PSV) and automatic tube compensation (ATC) is superior to PSV alone in weaning patients with severe neurotoxic snake envenoming receiving mechanical ventilation. METHODS Forty-one patients on volume controlled continuous mandatory ventilation were randomized to weaning with PSV alone (PSV group, 18 pati...

PURPOSE Cancer immunotherapy has been limited by anergy of patient T cells, inadequate numbers of precursor tumor-specific CTL, and difficulty in producing therapeutic doses of CTL. To overcome these limitations, bispecific antibodies have been used to create artificial antibody receptors that direct polyclonal activated T cells (ATC) to target tumor antigens. Studies reported herein were desig...