BACKGROUND The mechanism for the contribution of eosinophils (EOS) to asthma pathophysiology is not fully understood. Genome-wide expression analysis of airway EOS by microarrays has been limited by the ability to generate high quality RNA from sufficient numbers of airway EOS. OBJECTIVE To identify, by genome-wide expression analyses, a compendium of expressed genes characteristic of airway ...

Introduction: Accurate evaluation of femoral and tibial torsion is essential for children or adult with legs deformity, becuse incorrect legs morphogenesis can lead to pathological situation. CT scan is commonly used for the measurement of skeletal bone parameters. But, disability in imaging from standing and sitting posture and absorb dose of patients are deficits of this meth...

BACKGROUND Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients with blood eosinophil (EOS) count ≥ 2% benefit from exacerbation reductions with inhaled corticosteroids (ICSs). We conducted post hoc analyses to determine if EOS count ≥ 2% is a marker for greater responsiveness to the bronchodilators umeclidinium (UMEC; long-acting muscarinic antagonist), vilanterol (VI; long-acting β2-agonist)...

We report quantum Monte Carlo QMC , plane-wave density-functional theory DFT , and interatomic pair-potential calculations of the zero-temperature equation of state EOS of solid neon. We find that the DFT EOS depends strongly on the choice of exchange-correlation functional, whereas the QMC EOS is extremely close to both the experimental EOS and the EOS obtained using the best semiempirical pai...

Eosinophils (EOS) may play an important role in the pathophysiology of bronchial asthma because they can release oxygen free radicals and several basic proteins which are cytotoxic to bronchial epithelium. We have studied the response of EOS isolated from the blood of atopic subjects with symptoms of asthma (AS, n = 7) or rhinitis (AR, n = 4) or without symptoms (AA, n = 5) and of subjects with...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS It is well known that the interaction between platelets (PLTs), endothelial cells, and leukocytes contributes to thrombosis in patients with acute coronary syndrome. The aim of this study was to investigate the significance of PLTs and eosinophils (EOS) in coronary arterial thrombi. METHODS PLT count, mean PLT volume, PLT mass, EOS count, EOS percentage, and troponin I lev...

This Note investigates the approximation of phase change in compressible fluids with complex equation of state (EOS). Assuming a local and instantaneous equilibrium with respect to phasic pressures, temperatures and chemical potentials when both phases are present leads to the classical definition of an equilibrium EOS for the two-phase medium. Unfortunately, there is no explicit expression of ...

  Background: This study has aimed to measure the patient dose in entire spine radiography by EOS system in comparison with the digital radiography. Methods: EOS stereo-radiography was used for frontal and lateral view spine imaging in 41 patients in a prospective analytical study. A calibrated dose area product (DAP) meter was used for calibration of the DAP in EOS system. The accuracy and pr...

A new isothermal equation of state (EOS) for solids is derived by starting from the theory of lattice potential and using an analytical function for the volume dependence of the short-range force constant. A critical analysis of the isothermal EOSs: Murnaghan EOS, Vinet EOS, and the new EOS derived here, is presented by investigating the pressure-volume data for rare gas solids, metals and mine...