Dermatitis herpetiformis (DH) is an autoimmunity-driven inflammatory blistering dermatosis associated with a gluten-dependent enteropathy. Tissue transglutaminase (tTG) and nonapeptides of gliadin (npG) are considered in its pathomechanism/diagnostics. Here, the diagnostic accuracy of anti-tTG/anti-npG IgA ELISAs in Slavic DH patients with active skin rash was assessed through creating receiver...

Let n ≥ 2, let K,K′ be fields such that K′ is a quadratic Galoisextension of K and let θ denote the unique nontrivial element in Gal(K′/K). Suppose the symplectic dual polar space DW (2n− 1,K) is fully and isometrically embedded into the Hermitian dual polar space DH(2n − 1,K′, θ). We prove that the projective embedding of DW (2n − 1,K) induced by the Grassmann-embedding of DH(2n − 1,K′, θ) is ...

End-substitution of quarterthiophene and sexithiophene with hexyl groups leads to highly soluble conjugated oligomers, -dihexylquarterthiophene (DH-4T) and -dihexylsexithiophene (DH-6T). We have characterized these oligomers for optical and electrical properties. We fabricated an organic thin film transistor (OTFT) using the above two air-stable p-type organic semiconductor materials. We obtain...

Closely related words tend to be close together in monolingual language use. This paper suggests that this is different in bilingual language use. The Distance Hypothesis (DH) proposes that long dependency distances between syntactically related units facilitate bilingual code-switching. We test the DH on a 9,023 word German/English and a 19,766 word Chinese/English corpus. Both corpora support...

dentin hypersensitivity (dh) is a relatively common painful condition among dental problems. although many studies have been performed regarding the diagnosis and treatment of dh, dental practitioners are still confused about the definite diagnosis and treatment.the use of lasers as a treatment for dentin hypersensitivity was first introduced in 1985. laser treatment in dentin hypersensitivity ...

This paper introduces digital pulse interval modulation with dual header, a new form of digital pulse time modulation scheme offering increase transmission capacity, requiring less transmission bandwidth, and it has built-in frame and slot synchronisation capability. Theoretical expressions are describing the code characteristics and showing the advantages of this new scheme. Matlab is used to ...

Certain glycolipid antigens for natural killer T (NKT) cells can direct the overall cytokine balance of the immune response. However, the molecular mechanism of Th1- or Th2-biased cytokine secretion by NKT cells is still unknown. Previously, we synthesized isoglobotrihexosylceramide (iGb3) analogues by introducing a hydroxyl group at C4 on the ceramide portion of iGb3 to produce 4-HO-iGb3 or to...

Background: This study was done to assess dentinal hypersensitivity in a population and related risk factors that enhance its prevalence. Aim: This cross-sectional study aimed to demonstrate the prevalence of buccal cervical dentine hypersensitivity (DH) and related risk factors. Materials and Methods: The total number of 135 subjects, aged 20-65 years was diagnosed with DH included in the stud...

Diuresis in the blood-gorging hemipteran Rhodnius prolixus is under neurohormonal control and involves a variety of processes and tissues. These include ion and water movement across the epithelium of the crop and the Malpighian tubules, and muscle contractions of the crop, hindgut and dorsal vessel, which facilitate mixing of the blood-meal, mixing of the haemolymph, as well as the expulsion o...

BACKGROUND Offloading plantar pressure is a key strategy for the prevention or healing of neuropathic plantar ulcers in diabetes. Non-removable walking casts, such as total contact casts, are currently considered the gold-standard for offloading this type of wound. However, alternative methods for offloading that are more cost effective and easier to use are continually being sought. The aim of...