Results: Of the 14 Middle East countries, attention was focused on 10 countries with similar renal care systems: 7 Arabian Peninsula countries and 3 eastern Mediterranean countries. Collectively, they have a population of 72.5 million. Incidence of ESRD ranged between 64 and 212 patients per million population (pmp) with an average of 93 patients pmp. The lowest prevalence was 320, the highest ...

As an alternative to electrophysiological procedures, fluorescent probes have been widely used to assess modifications in the plasma membrane potential (PMP) of living cells, mostly via spectrophotometric or spectrofluorimetric analysis of samples of suspended cells. Another suggested procedure for the quantitative study of PMP changes using fluorescent probes utilizes confocal microscopy and i...

Pseudomyxoma peritonei (PMP) is a clinical condition characterized by diffuse intraabdominal spread of mucinous tumor implants that form on peritoneal surfaces. To complement the efficacy of cytoreductive surgery, an effective cytotoxic drug is required as an intraperitoneal agent for microscopic cytoreduction locoregionally. To develop a model for drug discovery, human pseudomyxoma peritonei t...

The polymorphic membrane protein (Pmp) paralogous families of Chlamydia trachomatis, Chlamydia pneumoniae and Chlamydia abortus are putative targets for Chlamydia vaccine development. To determine whether this is also the case for Pmp family members of C. psittaci, we analyzed transcription levels, protein production and localization of several Pmps of C. psittaci. Pmp expression profiles were ...

The world is facing an epidemic of chronic kidney disease (CKD). This report discusses the present state of chronic kidney disease care in Brazil. We report frequency of dialysis treatment and prevalence of kidney transplantation throughout Brazil. We estimated the number of CKD patients in the country through a mathematical extrapolation based on data generated by the NHANES. On January 2007, ...

This paper addresses the problem of navigation of complex systems in dynamic environments under uncertainty. Such environments impose a hard real time constraint. However, computing a complete motion to the goal within a limited time is impossible to achieve in most real situations. The Partial Motion Planning (PMP) approach presented in [1] is used to address the planning problem. However, for...

A simple capillary electrophoretic method based on 1-phenyl-3-methyl-5-pyrazolon (PMP) derivatization has been developed for simultaneous separation and determination of nine aldoses (xylose, arabinose, glucose, rhamnose, fucose, galactose, mannose, glucuronic acid and galacturonic acid). The separation of PMP-labeled monosaccharide derivatives was carried out in uncoated capillary (48.5 cm x 7...

Pseudomyxoma peritonei (PMP) is known to originate in the appendix and peritoneal tissue, including the ovary. The pathogenesis of PMP is less understood than that of colon and ovarian cancer. Lynch syndrome (LS), or hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (CRC), is characterized by mutations in the mismatch repair (MMR) genes and by its development in multiple extracolonic sites (mostly endo...

PEX19 is a chaperone and import receptor for newly synthesized, class I peroxisomal membrane proteins (PMPs). PEX19 binds these PMPs in the cytoplasm and delivers them to the peroxisome for subsequent insertion into the peroxisome membrane, indicating that there may be a PEX19 docking factor in the peroxisome membrane. Here we show that PEX3 is required for PEX19 to dock at peroxisomes, interac...

This paper investigates the simulation behaviour of different PMP methods being developed in the past. About 800 of identical farms for eight years from the German FADN 1 were used to aggregate 45 farm groups. The aggregated farms were calibrated for 1996/97 and the observed prices, direct payments and yields for 2002/03 were applied. The ex-post simulation results underline that the simulation...