Black Americans experience a disproportionate burden of ESRD compared with whites. Whether this is caused by the increased prevalence of chronic renal insufficiency (CRI) among blacks or by their increased progression from CRI to ESRD was investigated. A birth cohort analysis was performed using data from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey and the United States Renal Dat...

OBJECTIVE To examine the association between injection cocaine use, hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, and chronic renal impairment (CRI). DESIGN Prospective observational cohort study of HIV-HCV coinfected patients. METHODS Data from 1129 participants in the Canadian Co-Infection Cohort with baseline and follow-up serum creatinine measurements between 2003 and 2014 were analyzed. Prevalent...

A generalization of the known results in fusion frames and $g$-frames theory to continuous fusion frames which defined by M. H. Faroughi and R. Ahmadi, is presented in this study. Continuous resolution of the identity (CRI) is introduced, a new family of CRI is constructed, and a number of reconstruction formulas are obtained. Also, new results are given on the duality of continuous fusion fram...

Background: Response rates such as overall response rate (ORR), complete response (CR) and complete response with incomplete blood recovery (CRi) can be evaluated in a much shorter period of time than overall survival (OS), potentially accelerating decision making during drug development. The objective of this work was to evaluate the relationship between ORR, CR, CRi or better (CRi+CR) rates a...

In addition to the changes in various biochemical parameters chronic renal insufficiency (CRI) leads to progressive behavioral disturbances both in humans and rats. To further characterize these changes, the present study aimed to investigate locomotor, exploratory and emotional activity of rats with experimental CRI. Our experiments with the open field test have shown a marked decrease in loco...

OBJECTIVE To generate estimates of the burden of UK-acquired foodborne disease accounting for uncertainty. DESIGN A modelling study combining data from national public health surveillance systems for laboratory-confirmed infectious intestinal disease (IID) and outbreaks of foodborne disease and 2 prospective, population-based studies of IID in the community. The underlying data sets covered t...

C57BL mice, upon immunization with chicken ),-globulin conjugated with (4hydroxy-3-nitrophenyl) acetyl (NP), a produced anti-NP antibodies having higher affinity for a cross-reactive analogue, (4-hydroxy-5-iodo-3-nitrophenyl) acetyl (NIP), than for NP itself (1). Furthermore, these "heteroclitic" antibodies share a set of common idiotypes, the predominant idiotype in primary B6 anti-NP antibodi...

We have examined an unselected series of 72 lymphomas of diverse histologies with a panel of mouse monoclonal antibodies specific for human B-lymphoma-derived Ig idiotypes (anti-ids) to determine the nature and extent of id/anti-id crossreactivity. The anti-id antibodies were prepared from Ig isolated from seven follicular center cell lymphomas by heterohybridoma technique. Thirty-six of 75 ind...

The expression of shared idiotypes (Slds) has been studied on malignant CD5+B cells from patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and small lymphocytic lymphoma (SLL) using a panel of 37 murine monoclonal antibodies previously demonstrated to be reactive with Slds derived from follicular B-cell lymphomas. Thirteen anti-Slds identified tumor cells from 31 of 105 (30%) CLL patients and 4 ...