Chlormadinone acetate (CMA) and cyproterone acetate have been used in medicaltreatment of human benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) or prostatic carcinoma [2,3,8,9]. The atrophic effects of CMA on the prostate of rats and dogs have been previously reported from our laboratory[5,6]. Using spontaneous BPH dogs we found that immunostaining of androgen receptor (AR) in both epithelial and stromal fi...

A code-aided constant modulus algorithm (CMA) based approach is presented for blind detection of asynchronous short-code DS-CDMA (direct sequence code division multiple access) signals in intersymbol interference (ISI)/multipath channels. Only the spreading code of the desired user is assumed to be known; its transmission delay may be unknown. A linear equalizer is designed by minimizing the Go...

The shape of the main arc formed by the Canis Major clouds has been suggested to result from a supernova explosion possibly triggering the recent star formation activity. The presence of dozens of OB stars and reflection nebulae forms the CMa OB1/R1 associations. More than a hundred emission line stars are found in this region, including the famous Z CMa, a binary system containing a Herbig Be ...

86 http://e-aair.org Cow’s milk allergy (CMA) accounts for most diagnosed food allergies, mainly in the first year of life. CMA can cause severe anaphylaxis. CMA management is based on strict avoidance and the prescription of rescue medication. Cow’s milk (CM) contains more than 40 proteins, including casein (Bos d 8), -lactalbumin (Bos d 4), and -lactoglobulin (Bos d 5), identified as major mi...

BACKGROUND Although considerable efforts have been made to develop diagnostic tools for predicting the outcome of oral food challenges, tests for predicting the outgrowth of food allergies are lacking. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to assess the diagnostic value of the wheal size and skin index (SI) (the ratio of an allergen-induced wheal to a histamine-induced wheal diameter) of the sk...

BACKGROUND IgE-mediated cow's milk allergy (CMA) is one of the most common food allergies in infants. It is still controversial whether the early introduction of cow's milk formula (CMF) prevents the development of CMA. OBJECTIVE We aimed to evaluate the duration and frequency of CMF ingestion as compere with exclusive breast-fed for preventing CMA in high-risk infants. METHODS We enrolled ...

BACKGROUND Amino acid-based formulas (Aaf) are increasingly used in children with cow's milk allergy (CMA). To be labeled hypoallergenic these formulas must demonstrate in clinical studies that they don't provoke reactions in 90% of subjects with confirmed CMA with 95% confidence when given in prospective randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled challenge (DBPCFC) trials. The majority of av...

BACKGROUND Developmental disorders (DD), including autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and intellectual disability (ID), are a common group of clinical manifestations caused by a variety of genetic abnormalities. Genetic testing, including chromosomal microarray (CMA), plays an important role in diagnosing these conditions, but CMA can be limited by incomplete coverage of genetic abnormalities and l...

Huntington Disease (HD) is caused by an abnormal expansion of polyQ tract in the protein named huntingtin (Htt). HD pathology is featured by accumulation and aggregation of mutant Htt in striatal and cortical neurons. Aberrant Htt degradation is implicated in HD pathogenesis. The aim of this study was to investigate the regulatory role of chaperone-mediated autophagy (CMA) components, heat shoc...

The multi-tier Covariance Matrix Adaptation Pareto Archived Evolution Strategy (m-CMA-PAES) is an evolutionary multi-objective optimisation (EMO) algorithm for real-valued optimisation problems. It combines a nonelitist adaptive grid based selection scheme with the efficient strategy parameter adaptation of the elitist CovarianceMatrix Adaptation Evolution Strategy (CMA-ES). In the original CMA...