Key words: FcaR; FcR c chain; IgA nephropathy; mesangial cells; physical association Background. Most intensive investigations on the pathogenesis of IgA nephropathy have focused on the process before IgA deposition and the characteristics of IgA/IgA immune complex (IgA IC), but it still Introduction remains uncertain whether mesangial IgA ICs may cause glomerular injuries directly or are only ...

BACKGROUND In this retrospective study, we investigated the efficacy and safety of radioimmunotherapy with (90)Yttrium- ibritumomab tiuxetan ((90)Y-RIT) in 9 patients with recurrent follicular lymphoma (FL) who were treated in a consolidation setting after having achieved complete (CR) or partial remission (PR) with Fludarabine, Cyclophosphamide and Rituximab (FCR). METHODS The median age was...

Improvement of feed efficiency in pigs has been achieved essentially by increasing lean growth rate, which resulted in lower feed intake (FI). The objective was to evaluate the impact of strategies for improving feed efficiency on the dynamics of FI and growth in growing pigs to revisit nutrient recommendations and strategies for feed efficiency improvement. In 2010, three BWs, at 35±2, 63±9 an...

When the British arrived at North-West Frontier, it adopted several special measures to crush resistance from Pashtun tribes and safeguard colonial interests. One of these was introduction FCR, which introduced increase conviction rate in criminal cases without requirements due process law. This paper tries present a detailed account FCR its abolition. It highlights circumstances led FCR. furth...

Objective—The study of PPARactivation on apoA-I production in humans has been limited to fibrates, relatively weak PPARagonists that may have other molecular effects. We sought to determine the effect of a potent and highly specific PPARagonist, LY518674, on apoA-I, apoA-II, and apoB-100 kinetics in humans with metabolic syndrome and low levels of HDL cholesterol (C). Methods and Results—Subjec...

We previously demonstrated reduced levels of low density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol in association with increased total fractional catabolic rates (FCR( of LDL apoprotein B (apo B) in individuals with myeloproliferative diseases (MPD). The removal of LDL from plasma and interstitial fluid is mediated via receptor and nonreceptor pathways. We attempted to quantitate LDL catabolism via each of...

Functional communication training (FCT) is an established treatment for destructive behavior that missucceeds in about 37% of cases when the reinforcement schedule for the functional communication response (FCR) is thinned using multiples schedules (mult FCT; Hagopian, Boelter, & Jarmolowicz, 2011). In this investigation, we evaluated the use of response restriction FCT (RR FCT) in a cohort of ...

Development of ef cient medium access control (MAC) protocols which provide both high throughput performance for data traf c and good quality of service (QoS) support for real-time traf c is the current major focus in distributed contention-based MAC research. In this paper, we propose an ef cient contention algorithm for wireless local area networks, namely the Fast Collision Resolution (FCR) ...

Abstract: In this paper, I apply the decision theory and empirical Bayesian approach to construct confidence intervals for selected populations when true parameters follow a mixture prior distribution. A loss function with two tuning parameters k1 and k2 is coined to address the mixture prior. One specific choice of k2 can lead to the procedure in Qiu and Hwang (2007); the other choice of k2 pr...

Resistive static contraction facilitation technique applied by manual resistance using a proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation patternin the mid-range pelvic posterior depression technique(RSCPDT) or anterior elevation technique (RSCAET) with the subject on the affected side produces greater increase in range of motion of remote parts.However, few studies have providedevidences for neurophy...