Although many studies have analyzed HLA allele frequencies in several ethnic groups in patients with scleroderma (SSc), none has been done in French Caucasian patients and none has evaluated which one of the common amino acid sequences, (67)FLEDR(71), shared by HLA-DRB susceptibility alleles, or (71)TRAELDT(77), shared by HLA-DQB1 susceptibility alleles in SSc, was the most important to develop...

Recently Federici and Scherer [1] proposed an ideal model of an Assistive Technology Assessment (ATA) process that provides reference guidelines for professionals of a multidisciplinary team of assistive technology (AT) service delivery centers to compare, evaluate, and improve their own matching models. The ATA process borrows a user-driven working methodology from the Matching Person and Tech...

To determine the HbO(2) oxygenation level at the microcirculation, we used the hyperbaric chamber. The effects of hyperbaric oxygenation (HBO) were tested on vitality parameters in the brain at various pressures. Microcirculatory hemoglobin oxygen saturation (HbO(2)), cerebral blood flow (CBF) and mitochondrial NADH redox state were assessed in the brain of awake restrained rats using a fiber o...

Yersinia are causative agents in human diseases ranging from gastrointestinal syndromes to Bubonic Plague. There is increasing risk of misuse of infectious agents, such as Yersinia pestis, as weapons of terror as well as instruments of warfare for mass destruction. YopH is an essential virulence factor whose protein-tyrosine phosphatase (PTP) activity is required for Yersinia pathogenicity. Con...

Purpose: to determine the consistency of HVID/WTW measurements on 5 devices, and their correspondence distance from angle (ATA). Methods The relevant information 30 right eyes was obtained volunteers. A prospective study conducted using Wavelight Topolayzer Vario (Alcon), IOL Master 700 (Zeiss), OA2000 (Tomey), AS-OCT Casia 2 Zeiss Atlas 9000 (Carl Zeiss) instruments. Agreement between measurem...

El objetivo de la presente investigación fue analizar los cambios en las redes confianza técnica Asistentes Técnicos Agropecuarios (ATA), después un proceso gestión y difusión una cultura del riesgo agroclimático durante periodo dos años departamentos Cundinamarca, La Guajira Valle Cauca, Colombia. Se realizaron entrevistas a ATA, momentos observación: al inicio (2015) finalizar intervención pr...

Hydrostatic pressure antagonizes some, but not all, of the phenomena associated with general anaesthesia. For example, while unconsciousness produced by general anaesthesia in a wide variety of species is reversed by compression, anaesthetic-induced inhibition of synaptic transmission is potentiated by application of pressure. To date, the effect of pressure on analgesia has not been evaluated....

The need for air-to-ground missiles with Autonomous Target Acquisition (ATA) seekers is in large part driven by the failure of pilot-guided bombs in cloudy conditions (such as demonstrated in Kosovo). Passive-millimeter wave (PMMW) sensors have the ability to see through clouds; in fact, they tend to show metallic objects (such as mobile ground targets) in high contrast regardless of weather co...

Experimental middle ear barotrauma was studied morphologically. White guinea pigs were placed in an experimental hyperbaric chamber, and middle ear barotrauma was created by increasing the pressure in the hyperbaric chamber from 1 atmosphere absolute (ATA) to 2 ATA using pure oxygen, maintaining the pressure at 2 ATA for 10 minutes, then again reducing the pressure to 1 ATA. Selected experiment...

Aurintricarboxylic acid (ATA), an inhibitor of endonuclease activity and other protein-nucleic acid interactions, blocks apoptosis in several cell types and prevents delayed death of hippocampal pyramidal CA1 neurons induced by transient global ischemia. Global ischemia in rats and gerbils induces down-regulation of GluR2 mRNA and increased alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic ac...