BACKGROUND Surgical site infection (SSI) is a feared complication in hip arthroplasty, especially following femoral neck fracture in the elderly, associated with substantially increased morbidity, mortality, and costs. Gentamicin-containing collagen sponges are widely used for prevention of SSIs, but their effectiveness in joint replacement surgery remains unclear. METHODS We performed a mult...

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Late gadolinium enhancement magnetic resonance imaging (LGE-MRI) has been established as a modality to detect myocardial infarction (MI). However, the use of gadolinium contrast is limited in patients with advanced renal dysfunction. Although the signal intensity (SI) of infarct area assessed by cine MRI is low in some patients with prior MI, the prevalence and clinical significance of low SI h...

Peatlands of all latitudes play an integral role in global climate change by serving as a carbon sink and a primary source of atmospheric methane; however, the microbial ecology of mid-latitude peatlands is vastly understudied. Herein, next generation Illumina amplicon sequencing of small subunit rRNA genes was utilized to elucidate the microbial communities in three southern Appalachian peatla...

Background: Asparaginase is a key component of chemotherapy protocols for the treatment lymphoblastic malignancies among children. Adequate asparagine depletion an important factor to achieve optimal therapeutic outcomes. Methods: Over 3.5 year period, 106 patients were monitored asparaginase activity (329 samples) in single center Hungarian Pediatric Oncology–Hematology Group. In Hungary, thre...

We regret that Remarks (3), (4), (5), and (6) appeared out of context on pp. 328 and 329. They should have been placed between Remarks (2) and (7) on p. 331 .

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Arcuate Na+,K+-ATPase senses systemic energy states and regulates feeding 1 behavior through glucose-inhibited neurons 2 3 Hideharu Kurita, Kai Y. Xu, Yuko Maejima, Masanori Nakata, Katsuya Dezaki, Putra 4 Santoso, Yifei Yang, Takeshi Arai, Darambazar Gantulga, Shinji Muroya, Alan K. Lefor, 5 Masafumi Kakei, Eiju Watanabe, Toshihiko Yada* 6 7 Department of Physiology, Division of Integrative Ph...

The synchronization induced by suprathreshold inputs with the spatial variability has been discussed in N -unit coupled bistable Langevin models subjected to cross-correlated additive and multiplicative noise. We have employed numerical simulations and the semi-analytic augmented moment method (AMM) which is the second-order moment approximation for local and global variables [H. Hasegawa, Phys...

In the present study the effects of both CCK receptor agonists and antago­ nists on antinociception induced by morphine in the tail-flick test have been evalu­ ated. M orphine induced dose-dependent antinoci�eption in mice. The response of morphine was potentiated by sulfated cholecystokinin-8 (CCK-8S) but not by unsulfated cholecystokinin-8 (CCK-8U). The CCK receptor antagonists MK-329 and L-3...