The instrumentation, methods and applications of near-infrared spectroscopy has advanced remarkably in the last decade, which successfully progressed at multiple directions faced new challenges. Thus, gaps inevitably appeared coverage provided by renowned handy cornerstone textbooks focused on that were published past. A demand grew community for a state-of-the-art textbook. With aim to satisfy...

Teachers in nursing schools, unlike those in nursing faculties in universit ies, have to play mult iple roles, which causes frequent burnout and a potential turnover problem. A measure of job satisfaction is thus needed to obtain clear and subjective perceptions of the work environment and to develop better working conditions. We transformed the Revised Attitude Scale Items to Measure Occupatio...

CLEC-2 has been described recently as playing crucial roles in thrombosis/hemostasis, tumor metastasis, and lymphangiogenesis. The snake venom rhodocytin is known as a strong platelet activator, and we have shown that this effect is mediated by CLEC-2 (Suzuki-Inoue, K., Fuller, G. L., García, A., Eble, J. A., Pöhlmann, S., Inoue, O., Gartner, T. K., Hughan, S. C., Pearce, A. C., Laing, G. D., T...

Reperfusion of ischemic tissue results in the generation of reactive oxygen species that contribute to tissue injury. The sources of reactive oxygen species in reperfused tissue are not fully characterized. We hypothesized that the small GTPase Rac1 mediates the oxidative burst in reperfused tissue and thereby contributes to reperfusion injury. In an in vivo model of mouse hepatic ischemia/repe...

In small samples of the siganid fishes Siganus rivulatus Forsskål et Niebuhr and S. luridus Rüppel (Teleostei) from off the Saudi coast of the Red Sea, some individuals of each fish were found infected with a new intestinal trematode. Those of S. rivulatus were infected with Hexangium saudii sp. n. (Trematoda: Microscaphidiidae), whereas those of S. luridus with Progyliauchen magnacetabulum sp....

Abstract Background Intracranial arterial aneurysms in the paediatric age group constitute less than 5% of all aneurysms. The most common form is spontaneous dissecting (SDAs) (Peron et al. Acta Neurochir 152(9):1511–1517, 2010; Huang Surg Neurol 63(5):424–432, 2005; Krishna 147(5):469–476, Ihn and Jung J Korean Soc Radiol 65(5):441–445, 2011). It occurs commonly posterior circulation rarely an...

H. Azechi, K. Mima, Y. Fujimoto, S. Fujioka, H. Homma, T. Jitsuno, T. Johzaki, M. Koga, J. Kawanaka, N. Miyanaga, M. Murakami, H. Nagatomo, K. Nagai, M. Nakai, T. Nakamura, K. Nishihara, H. Nishimura, T. Norimatsu, K. Shigemori, H. Shiraga, K. Tsubakimoto Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka Univ., 2-6 Yamada-oka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871 Japan e-mail: [email protected] A. Iwamoto, T. Mito...

1. Cole LA, Shahabi S, Oz UA, Rinne KM, Omrani A, Bahado-Singh RO, Mahoney MJ. Urinary screening tests for fetal Down syndrome: II. Hyperglycosylated hCG. Prenat Diagn 1999;19:351–9. 2. Kovalevskaya G, Birken S, Kakuma T, Ozaki N, Sauer M, Lindheim S, et al. Differential expression of human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) glycosylation isoforms in failing and continuing pregnancies: preliminary ch...

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