BACKGROUND The mechanisms behind natural control of HIV replication are still unclear, and several studies pointed that elite controllers (ECs) are a heterogeneous group. METHODS We performed analyses of virologic, genetic, and immunologic parameters of HIV-1 controllers groups: (1) ECs (viral load, <80 copies/mL); (2) ebbing elite controllers (EECs; transient viremia/blips); and viremic cont...

Introduction. Although commonly classified as a Negative Concord (NC) language since it readily allows single negation readings of Negative Concord Items (NCI) sequences (1c), French has widely been acknowledged to also tolerate Double Negation (DN) or Negative Discord, albeit as a marked option (De Swart, Corblin, 1996). This DN tolerance, diagnosed by Zeijlstra (2004) as a symptom of the stil...

BACKGROUND Clinical diagnosis of neurocysticercosis (NC) is established by CT scan and MRI. However, absolute diagnosis is not possible in a fair number of cases, and serological assays are used as adjunct. Besides, CT scan and MR imaging are resource-intensive tests and not practical for screening in endemic areas. AIM To provide a low-cost, efficient, and reproducible assay for the detectio...

Objective: To investigate the effect of small nucleolar host gene 12 (SNHG12) on migration and invasion human lung cancer cells by regulating angiostatin binding protein through microribonucleic acid (microRNA)-497. Methods: A549, H1299, PC9 were cultured in Roswell Park Memorial Institute (RPMI)-1640 medium containing 10% fetal bovine serum, bronchial epithelial (HBE) Dulbecco’s modified eagle...

INTRODUCTION Based on the potential interest in sodium lactate as an energy substrate and resuscitative fluid, we investigated the effects of hypertonic sodium lactate in a porcine endotoxic shock. METHODS Fifteen anesthetized, mechanically ventilated pigs were challenged with intravenous infusion of E. coli endotoxin. Three groups of five animals were randomly assigned to receive 5 mL/kg/h o...

A total of 150 weanling pigs [(Yorkshire × Landrace) × Duroc] with an average BW of 7.22 ± 0.80 kg (21 d of age) were used in a 28-d trial to determine the effects of dietary fructan and mannan oligosaccharides on growth performance, nutrient digestibility, blood profile, and diarrhea score in weanling pigs. Pigs were allotted randomly to 1 of 5 dietary treatments: 1) negative control (NC), bas...

BACKGROUND Patients with narcolepsy-cataplexy (NC) mostly exhibit undetectable hypocretin levels. Hypocretin system is one of the key players in the complex interaction between sleep and the cardiovascular system. We tested the hypothesis that hypocretin deficiency affects cardiovascular risk factors by measuring nighttime and daytime ambulatory blood pressure (BP) and the night-to-day BP ratio...

The present study explored the effect of long non-coding RNA-human ovarian cancer-specific transcript 2 (LncRNA-HOST2) on cell proliferation, migration, invasion and apoptosis of human hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) cell line SMMC-7721. HCC tissues and adjacent normal tissues from 162 HCC patients were collected. The HCC cell lines were assigned into the control group (regular culture), negativ...

objective: the neck circumference (nc) as an index of obesity and upper-body subcutaneous adipose tissue distribution is recently used. this alternative screening tool is reliable, simple, quick and acceptable for assessment of overweight and obesity. the objectives of this study were to examine the correlation between nc measurement and diagnosis of general/visceral obesity and determining the...

This paper reports dynamical effects in one-dimensional locally resonant piezoelectric metastructures leveraged by nonlinear electrical attachments featuring either combined quadratic and quartic, or essentially quartic potentials. The electromechanical unit cell is built upon a linear host oscillator coupled to circuit via piezoelectricity. Semi-analytical harmonic balance (HB)-based dispersio...