Contamination of folic acid assay medium with oleate led to a lag phase when Lactobacillus casei cultures were grown on folic acid but not when whole serum provided the folate source. This led to high assay values when using 20-hour incubation periods but satisfactory results were obtained after 48 hours' incubation. The addition of Tween 80 to the medium eliminated the lag phase and the assay ...

Alkaline phosphatase activity and calbindin-D9K immunoreactivity are decreased in the intestines of spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHRs). To investigate the potential role of altered gene expression in these decreases, we measured, by Northern blot analyses, the abundances of alkaline phosphatase and calbindin-D9K mRNAs in the proximal regions of the small intestines of 14-week-old SHR and co...

To identify genetic determinants of lipoprotein levels, we are performing quantitative trait locus (QTL) analysis on a series of mouse intercrosses in a "daisy chain" experimental design, to increase the power of detecting QTL and to identify common variants that should segregate in multiple intercrosses. In this study, we intercrossed strains CAST/Ei and 129S1/SvImJ, determined HDL, total, and...

A retrospective study from two centers March 2017 to January 2020. For 97 patients who had undergone transcarotid artery revascularization (TCAR), the average duplex ultrasound (DU) findings at 12 months after procedure (36% of reached this time point date) were a peak systolic velocity (PSV) 167 ± 153 cm/s, end-diastolic (EDV) 51 55 and internal carotid artery/common (ICA/CCA) ratio 2.3 1.9. F...

CM: Problem Management is a detailed problem management process model to be utilised within corrective maintenance. It has been developed at ABB and evaluated for its industrial relevance within 17 non-ABB organisations. In this paper, we present the evaluation results of CM: Problem Management. Our primary goal is to confirm its industrial relevance. Our secondary goal is to establish current ...

Analyses of National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) and National Automotive Sampling System (NASS)/General Estimates System (GES) data from 2002 – 2006 revealed specific performance errors and combinations of driver, vehicle, and roadway/environmental characteristics associated with older drivers’ crashes at intersections. For subsets of the tw...