PURPOSE To investigate the amount of single-stranded DNA breaks in circulating leukocytes of primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) patients. METHODS A comparative quantification of DNA breaks was performed in circulating leukocytes of POAG patients and healthy controls. The following groups of subjects were compared: (1) POAG patients having primary vascular dysregulation (PVD), (2) POAG patient...

BACKGROUND In patients with end-stage renal disease, peripheral vascular disease (PVD) is prevalent. We assessed the extent to which severity of PVD predicts mortality, hospitalizations and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in hemodialysis (HD) patients enrolled in the Hemodialysis (HEMO) Study. METHODS We performed a subanalysis of the HEMO Study, a randomized controlled trial. Adjusted...

PVD and FLP sensory neurons envelope the body of the C. elegans adult with a highly branched network of thin sensory processes. Both PVD and FLP neurons are mechanosensors. PVD is known to mediate the response to high threshold mechanical stimuli. Thus PVD and FLP neurons are similar in both morphology and function to mammalian nociceptors. To better understand the function of these neurons we ...

Abstract Plasma spray-physical vapor deposition (PS-PVD) as a novel process was used to prepare feather-like columnar thermal barrier coatings (TBCs). This special microstructure shows good strain tolerance and non-line-of-sight (NLOS) deposition, giving great potential application in aero-engine. However, due serious service environment of aero-engine, particle erosion performance is weakness ...

Wavelet Transform was applied to Acoustic Emission (AE) signals from Scratch Tests (ST) on stainless steel samples with Cr and Ti nitride surface coatings obtained by PVD. The implementetion of the signal processing method was aimed at characterizing the coating failure stages and evaluating the quality of and the differences between both type of coatings. In previous work we had identified dif...

Coexisted peripheral vascular disease (PVD: ankle/brachial pressure index A/PBI less than 0.75) or carotid artery disease (CTD: Brochenbrough's supraorbital Doppler flow analysis) were diagnosed by non-invasive testings, and correlated with clinical pictures and coronary backgrounds in 121 consecutive patients with confirmed coronary artery disease. PVD were found in 16.5%, CTD in 33.1% and bot...