The chemokine IP-10 (CXCL10) is a candidate marker for hepatitis C virus (HCV) fibrosis monitoring. The aim of this proof-of-concept study is to assess if IP-10 measurements from dried plasma spots (DPS) are accurate in HCV-infected patients with either minimal or significant fibrosis. We measured IP-10 levels in plasma and DPS of 21 HCV-infected patients with cirrhosis and 19 patients with no/...

People with some residual vision though still classified as blind may be able to read on screen patterns presented via a computer program whereby such a pattern can represent a textual character and a presentation of sequences of such patterns can represent words. These patterns can be adjusted to utilize the user’s remaining vision capacity. Previous research has shown that volunteers who wher...

The kinetics of inhibition of human thrombin and Factor Xa by antithrombin III or heparin cofactor II were examined under pseudo-first-order conditions as a function of the concentration of naturally occurring oversulphated chondroitin and dermatan sulphates. The sulphated glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) studied were chondroitin sulphate D (CSD) (GlcA-2-SO4-GalNAc-6-SO4), chondroitin sulphate K (CSK)...

Abstract Paper reports the main results of a systematic study on longitudinal train dynamics (LTD) long freight trains, equipped with radio communication. The simulation have been used to prepare an experimental test campaign Distributed Power System (DPS) technology. simulations refer up/down and level track they compare LTD trains without DPS, for different operations link conditions. DPS tec...

In this study, the analgesic potency of constant rate infusion of tramadol hydrochloride and as adjunct to ketoprofen on laparotomy-induced pain was evaluated. Dogs were randomly assigned to 4 groups (n=5). Groups 1, 2 and 3 received 0.5mg/kg/hr, 1.0mg/kg/hr and 2.0mg/kg/hr IV; CRI of tramadol hydrochloride respectively while group 4 which served as control received normal saline. Infusions wer...

We study the contribution from double parton scattering (DPS) to four-jet production at LHC, both leading order accuracy and after incorporating effects of QCD radiation. Apart DPS, we also include discuss single (SPS). find that radiation impacts theoretical predictions significantly, with DPS contributions more affected than SPS. examine a number observables in regard their effectiveness for ...

BACKGROUND AND STUDY AIMS  Endoscopic ultrasound-guided drainage of symptomatic walled-off pancreatic necrosis (WON) usually has been performed with double pigtail plastic stents (DPS) and more recently, with lumen-apposing metal stents (LAMS). However, LAMS are significantly more expensive and there are no comparative studies with DPS. Accordingly, we compared our experience with combined endo...

Automatic simpliication of polyhedral objects is a major topic in many computer graphics applications. This work discusses simpliication algorithms for the generation of a multiresolution family of solid representations from an initial polyhedral solid. We introduce the Discretized Polyhedra Simpliication (DPS), a framework for polyhedra simpliication using space decomposition models. The DPS i...

STUDY OBJECTIVES Poor dental hygiene has been linked to respiratory pathogen colonization in residents of long-term care facilities. We sought to investigate the association between dental plaque (DP) colonization and lower respiratory tract infection in hospitalized institutionalized elders using molecular genotyping. METHODS We assessed the dental status of 49 critically ill residents of lo...

The Helicobacter pylori neutrophil-activating protein (HP-NAP), a member of the Dps family, is a fundamental virulence factor involved in H.pylori-associated disease. Dps proteins protect bacterial DNA from oxidizing radicals generated by the Fenton reaction and also from various other damaging agents. DNA protection has a chemical component based on the highly conserved ferroxidase activity of...