The initial draft of this commentary was prepared by Ronald Goldenberg MD, FRCPC, FACE, Maureen Clement MD, CCFP, Amir Hanna MB, BCh, FRCPC, FACP, William Harper MD, FRCPC, Andrea Main BScPhm, CDE, Ravi Retnakaran MD, MSc, FRCPC, Diana Sherifali RN, PhD, CDE, Vincent Woo MD, FRCPC, Jean-Francois Yale MD, CSPQ, FRCPC, and Alice Y.Y. Cheng MD, FRCPC, on behalf of the Steering Committee for the Ca...

She was booked at about five weeks' gestation in a small general hospital and transferred to Royal Maternity Hospital, Belfast, at 24 weeks' gestation when quadruplet pregnancy was confirmed. She remained in hospital for six weeks and four days until delivery. There was no past medical history of note, blood group was O-Rh(D) negative and anti-D antibodies were detected (Table). The husband's b...

Wohlford-Lenane, Christine L., Daniel C. Deetz, and David A. Schwartz. Cytokine gene expression after inhalation of corn dust. Am. J. Physiol. 276 (Lung Cell. Mol. Physiol. 20): L736–L743, 1999.—To characterize the time course and localize the production of proinflammatory cytokines after inhalation of corn dust, we exposed mice (C3H/HeBFeJ) by inhalation challenge to sterile corn dust extract ...

We develop a temporal correlation transfer equation (CTE) and a temporal correlation diffusion equation (CDE) for ultrasound-modulated multiply scattered light. These equations can be applied to an optically scattering medium with embedded optically scattering and absorbing objects to calculate the power spectrum of light modulated by a nonuniform ultrasound field. We present an analytical solu...

OBJECTIVE To explore the feasibility of using four-dimensional echocardiography with B-flow and spatiotemporal image correlation (4DBF-STIC) imaging technology to detect fetal ductus venosus (DV), and establish the normal reference range for the ductus venosus diameter at 18-40 weeks gestation. METHODS This was a prospective observational study to detect the DV in 354 normal fetuses at 18-40 ...

Infection by oncogenic viruses is a frequent cause for tumor formation as observed in cervical cancer. Viral oncoproteins cause inactivation of p53 function and false transcriptional regulation of central cell cycle genes. Here we analyze the regulation of Plk4, serving as an example of many cell cycle- and p53-regulated genes. Cell cycle genes are often repressed via CDE and CHR elements in th...

Background Enterobacter aerogenes is a facultative anaerobe and is one of the most widely studied bacterial strains because of its ability to use a variety of substrates, to produce hydrogen at a high rate, and its high growth rate during dark fermentation. However, the rate of hydrogen production has not been optimized. In this present study, three strategies to improve hydrogen production in ...

This paper presents a novel Ku wideband circularly polarized (CP) antenna array composed of crossed-dipole element (CDE) and fed through sequential rotation (SR) feeding technique. Unlike the traditional CP-CDE by coaxial cable that usually works at low frequencies, proposed CDE consists two orthogonal heart-shaped patch dipoles can work frequencies as high Ku-band, same time achieving larger b...