Background and Objectives: Breast cancer is the most common malignancy among women in the world. The aim of this study was to assess estrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PR) and HER-2/neu of infiltrating ductal carcinoma (IDC) with tumor size, histologic grade, lymph node metastasis and age. Methods: This study was carried out on 300 tissue blocks ofpatients with ID...

This paper describes a weak sense majority-vote technique for a k symbol function g(z) as follows. If a probabilistic polynomial time algorithm A exists such that Pr[A(z) = g(z)] 1=k + , then s 4 = 2 k 1 1 probabilistic polynomial time algorithms f ^ A 1 ; : : : ; ^ A s g exist such that for 8z 2 f0; : : : ; k 1g , there exists ^ A i 2 f ^ A 1 ; : : : ; ^ A s g such that Pr[ ^ A i (z) = g(z)] 1...

The proline-arginine (PR) -rich antibacterial peptide, PR-39, kills bacteria by a non-pore-forming mechanism. Because this neutrophil peptide possesses several distinct functional properties and because other antimicrobial peptides are chemoattractants, we sought to determine whether PR-39 was a chemoattractant for porcine leukocytes. The peptide was synthesized by the solid-phase method using ...

Fisher’s phenomenological renormalization method is used to calculate the mass gap and the correlation length of the O(N) nonlinear σ model on a semi-compact space S1 ×R2. This shows that the ultraviolet momentum cut-off does not conflict with the infrared cut-off along the S1 direction. The mass gap on S2 × R1 is also discussed. ∗e-mail address: [email protected] 1 The O(N) nonlinear σ (NLσ...

Progestins bind to the progestin receptor (PR) isoforms, PR-A and PR-B, in brain to influence development, female reproduction, anxiety, and stress. Hormone-activated PRs associate with multiple proteins to form functional complexes. In the present study, proteins from female mouse hypothalamus that associate with PR were isolated using affinity pull-down assays with glutathione S-transferase-t...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the outcomes of a large cohort of patients undergoing fertility treatment with clomiphene citrate and intrauterine insemination. DESIGN A retrospective cohort study. SETTING Boston IVF, a large university-affiliated reproductive medicine practice. PATIENT(S) A total of 4,199 cycles performed in 1,738 infertility patients between September 2002 and July 2007. INTERV...

BACKGROUND Livestock-associated Staphylococcus aureus (LA-SA) has been documented worldwide. However, much remains unknown about LA-SA colonization and infection, especially in rural environments. METHODS We conducted a large-scale prospective study of 1342 Iowans, including individuals with livestock contact and a community-based comparison group. Nasal and throat swabs were collected to det...

A series of uranyl(VI) dihalide complexes UO2X2L2 (X = Cl, Br) supported by organic amide ligands (L = R'C(O)NR2; R' = i-Pr; R = i-Pr, i-Bu, s-Bu) offers the versatile combination of facile synthesis using benchtop methods, air-stable crystalline solids obtained in high yield, high solubility in common organic solvents and tunable steric/electronic properties.

The reduction of a redox-active ligand is shown to drive reversible switching of a Cu(I) [2]pseudorotaxane ([2]PR(+)) into the reduced [3]pseudorotaxane ([3]PR(+)) by a bimolecular mechanism. The unreduced pseudorotaxanes [2]PR(+) and [3]PR(2+) are initially self-assembled from the binucleating ligand, 3,6-bis(5-methyl-2-pyridine)-1,2,4,5-tetrazine (Me(2)BPTZ), and a preformed copper-macrocycle...