BACKGROUND Artificial neural network (ANN)-based bone scan index (BSI), a marker of the amount of bone metastasis, has been shown to enhance diagnostic accuracy and reproducibility but is potentially affected by training databases. The aims of this study were to revise the software using a large number of Japanese databases and to validate its diagnostic accuracy compared with the original Swed...

Two experiments were conducted to determine how steroid milieus and pregnancy affect sexual behavior. Experiment 1 was arranged as a Latin square with five ovariectomized cows and five steroid milieus: no steroid (N); progesterone (P4); estradiol benzoate (EB); P4 + EB; and P4 followed by EB (P4:EB). Progesterone was administered via pessary (2 g of P4) for 5 d and EB was injected (1 mg i.m.) o...

This study evaluated the effect of metabolic, endocrine and energy status on onset of ovarian cycle, days open (DO), and conception at first service in 90 multiparous Holstein cows, housed at a research farm. Dry matter intake, milk yield and body weight were measured daily from Week 2 antepartum (a.p.) to Week 20 postpartum (p.p.). Milk composition was determined four times per week and milk a...

Embryoid bodies (EB) derived from teratocarcinoma (TC) OTT6050 were cultured with ascitic liquids (AL) from animals carrying 16-, 22- and 35-day evolved EB. At the same time the presence of fibronectin (FN) in AL were analyzed by immunoblotting. Results indicate the probable existence of growth-stimulatory factors for EB, as well as the presence of FN in the 22-day AL.

As a relatively young additive manufacturing technology, Electron Beam Powder Bed Fusion (EB-PBF) attracts increasing attention in academics and industry. Especially, the last five years have seen an explosion machine process development as well material research for EB-PBF. Compared to other approaches, e.g., more widely used laser powder bed fusion, EB-PBF shows various unique features advant...

BACKGROUND Disease manifestations in neurocysticercosis (NCC) are frequently due to inflammation of degenerating Taenia solium brain cysts. Exacerbated inflammation post anthelmintic treatment is associated with leakage of the blood brain barrier (BBB) using Evans blue (EB) staining. How well EB extravasation into the brain correlates with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) using gadolinium (Gd) ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the metabolic topography of essential blepharospasm (EB). BACKGROUND EB is a cranial dystonia of unknown etiology and anatomic localization. The authors have used 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) and PET with network analysis to identify distinctive patterns of regional metabolic abnormality associated with idiopathic torsion dystonia (ITD), as well as sleep induction durin...

With a reported prevalence of 4.6 per million, Epidermolysis bullosa (EB) is a rare disease comprising a clinically as well as genetically heterogeneous group of inherited mechano-bullous disorders. Minor trauma leads to blisters and erosions on skin and mucous membranes. Based on mutations in genes encoding for structural proteins of basal keratinocytes or within mucocutaneous basement membran...

it has been proved that kindling model of amygdala is sensitive to estradiol because the latter accelerates the overall rate of kindling. however the effect of estrogen on the seizure process has not been investigated. in this study fully kindled male rats were treated with different doses (10, 30, and 50 µg/kg, i.p.) of estradiol benzoate (eb) daily and such kindling parameters as seizure stag...