To determine the effect of varying the duration of electrocardiographic recording on the detection of high premature ventricular complex (PVC) rates (30 or more PVCs/hour) and/or complex PVCs (multiform PVCs, couplets or runs) in survivors of myocardial infarction, we evaluated 175 24-hour ECG tapes with such arrhythmias for their occurrences detected in the first 1, 2, 6, 12 and 18 hours of th...

Transport between the trans-Golgi network (TGN) and late endosome represents a conserved, clathrin-dependent sorting event that separates lysosomal from secretory cargo molecules and is also required for localization of integral membrane proteins to the TGN. Previously, we reported a cell-free reaction that reconstitutes transport from the yeast TGN to the late endosome/prevacuolar compartment ...

This study examined whether an aqueous solution that contained 18 organic chemicals that are either solvents or good swelling agents of PVC are able to cause softening when combined in a solution, with each solute at an activity of 0.05. This activity was selected because there is no evidence that an individual organic solute with an activity of 0.05 can soften PVC. However, we found that this ...

Golgi-mediated transport to the lytic vacuole involves passage through the prevacuolar compartment (PVC), but little is known about how vacuolar proteins exit the PVC. We show that this last step is inhibited by overexpression of Arabidopsis thaliana syntaxin PEP12/SYP21, causing an accumulation of soluble and membrane cargo and the plant vacuolar sorting receptor BP80 in the PVC. Anterograde t...

Thermooxidative degradation of poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC) is inevitable during processing of PVC. Recycling of this polymer requires reprocessing in most of the cases, and due to the low thermal stability of PVC, it is of paramount importance to reveal the effect of thermooxidation on the thermal stability of this commercially important polymer. However, detailed systematic investigations are l...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com PVC has significant defects due to its quick decomposition at temperature higher than 130°C [3-5]. This process results in a significant change in color, reducing the mechanical properties and the generated HCl exacerbates the decomposition of PVC, so the usage of PVC thermal stabilizers is inevitable [4,6]. Our group had synthesized pentaerythritol...

This paper presents an approach to the suppression of the emission of dioxin and its precursors as a result of the co-incineration of poly (vinyl chloride) (PVC) with TiO2-encapsulating polystyrene (TEPS), in which TiO2 nanoparticles with the capacity to adsorb dioxin and its precursors are encapsulated without significant agglomeration. Field-emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM) and ...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com PVC has significant defects due to its quick decomposition at temperature higher than 130°C [3-5]. This process results in a significant change in color, reducing the mechanical properties and the generated HCl exacerbates the decomposition of PVC, so the usage of PVC thermal stabilizers is inevitable [4,6]. Our group had synthesized pentaerythritol...

BACKGROUND Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) materials have been linked to asthma in several epidemiologic studies, but the possible causal factors remain unknown. PARTICIPANTS We challenged 10 subjects experimentally to degraded PVC products under controlled conditions. All of the subjects had previously experienced respiratory symptoms suspected to be caused by this kind of exposure in their work pl...

Accurate quantification of tracer uptake in small tumors using PET is hampered by the partial-volume effect as well as by the method of volume-of-interest (VOI) delineation. This study aimed to investigate the effect of partial-volume correction (PVC) combined with several VOI methods on the accuracy and precision of quantitative PET. METHODS Four image-based PVC methods and resolution modeli...