Meticulous blood pressure control, particularly with antiproteinuric medications, such as ACE inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs), have proven to be effective in slowing the progression of kidney disease and are pillars in the modern management of chronic kidney disease (CKD). However, despite careful attention to blood pressure lowering and the use of ACEi and/or ARBs, progress...

BACKGROUND Alix/Bro1p family proteins have recently been identified as important components of multivesicular endosomes (MVEs) and are involved in the sorting of endocytosed integral membrane proteins, interacting with components of the ESCRT complex, the unconventional phospholipid LBPA, and other known endocytosis regulators. During infection, Alix can be co-opted by enveloped retroviruses, i...

We introduce and discuss a number of reenements for restart model elimination (RME). Most of these reenements are motivated by the use of RME as an interpreter for disjunctive logic programming. Especially head selection function, computation rule, strictness and independence of the goal clause are motivated by aiming at a procedural interpretation of clauses. Other reene-ments like regularity ...

AIM To investigate the effect of rapid maxillary expansion (RME) and/or transpalatal arch (TPA) therapy in combination with deciduous canine extraction on the eruption of palatally displaced canines (PDCs). SUBJECTS AND METHODS Hundred and twenty subjects were enrolled in an RCT based on PDCs diagnosed on panoramic radiographs and they were randomly assigned to one of four study groups. Three...

INTRODUCTION The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of vertical-pull chincup (VPCC) therapy during an initial rapid maxillary expansion (RME) phase, followed by a second phase of comprehensive orthodontic therapy in growing subjects with mild-to-severe hyperdivergent facial patterns. METHODS The records of 29 subjects treated with bonded RME combined with VPCC followed by ...

The ability to read mental states from subtle facial cues is an important part of Theory of Mind, which can contribute to children's daily life social functioning. Mental state reading performance is influenced by the specific interactions in which it is applied; familiarity with characteristics of these interactions (such as the person) can enhance performance. The aim of this research is to g...

Rapid maxillary expansion (RME) is a dentofacial orthopedic treatment procedure which has been routinely used to correct transversal maxillary skeletal and/or dental constriction. Application of RME not only expands the constricted maxilla but also results in an increase in nasopharyngeal airway dimensions, improvement in nasal respiration in patients with abnormal breathing patterns, and bette...

At the previous conference KONES’2004 emission characteristics of C.I. engine fuelled with either rape oil methyl ester (RME) or diesel fuel (DF) as a main fuel and ethanol as additional fuel were presented. Comparison of emission and brake fuel conversion efficiency (BFCF) of the engine fuelled with both main fuels showed that fuelling with RME and ethanol is more advantageous on account of bo...