AIMS Different echocardiographic techniques are available for assessing right ventricular (RV) volumes but their clinical validity has not been well established. We compared the feasibility, reproducibility and accuracy of three different echocardiographic techniques for measuring RV volumes and ejection fraction (EF) in children after tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) repair. METHODS AND RESULTS Sev...

The formation of methylglyoxal from triose phosphates was studied in dialyzed whole cell homogenates of rat liver. In the cell-free system, methylglyoxal is largely derived from dihydroxyacetone phosphate (DHAP). The addition of the cofactor of glyoxalase activity, reduced glutathione (GSH), to the system inhibits the accumulation of methylglyoxal from DHAP, whereas the absence of GSH promo...

The initial state selected time-dependent wave packet method was employed to calculate the integral cross sections for the H(2) + D(2) reaction with and without the centrifugal sudden (CS) approximation by including all important K (the projection of the total angular momentum on the body-fixed axis) blocks. With a full-dimensional model, the first fully converged coupled-channel (CC) cross sec...

Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is an organelle that has an elaborate and continuous membrane system composed of sheet-like cisternae and a network of interconnected tubules. The ER tubules are shaped by reticulons, a conserved ER membrane protein family. However, how the membrane-shaping activity is regulated remains to be elucidated. To understand the mode of action of reticulons, we isolated TMEM...

The aim in this project was to synthesize and to study fluorine-18 labeled analogues of l-deprenyl which bind selectively to the enzyme monoamine oxidase B (MAO-B). Three fluorinated l-deprenyl analogues have been generated in multistep organic syntheses. The most promising fluorine-18 compound N-[(2S)-1-[(18)F]fluoro-3-phenylpropan-2-yl]-N-methylprop-2-yn-1-amine (4c) was synthesized by a one-...

A series of novel salicylanilide ester derivatives were synthesized, characterized, and evaluated for cercaricidal potential against Schistosoma japonicum and molluscicidal potential against Oncomelania hupensis. Four derivatives exhibited remarkable cercaricidal activity superior to that of niclosamide. Among them, the most active compound, 4-chloro-2-((2-methoxy-4-nitrophenyl)carbamoyl)phenyl...

We report Chandra ACIS observations of the fields of 4 QSOs showing strong extended optical emission-line regions. Two of these show no evidence for significant extended X-ray emission. The remaining two fields, those of 3C 249.1 and 4C 37.43, show discrete (but resolved) X-ray sources at distances ranging from ∼ 10 to ∼ 40 kpc from the nucleus. In addition, 4C 37.43 also may show a region of d...

Spatial 4C mechanisms are two degree of freedom kinematic closed-chains consisting of four rigid links simply connected in series by cylindrical(C) joints. In this work we are concerned with the design of spatial 4C mechanisms which move a rigid body through a finite sequence of prescribed locations in space. This task is referred to as rigid-body guidance by Suh and Radcliffe (20) and as motio...