BACKGROUND Radiation pneumonitis (RP) and organizing pneumonia (OP) are the two main types of lung damage that can occur after lung irradiation. The goal of this study was to evaluate the relationship between RP and OP after irradiation for breast cancer. METHODS Four hundred and twenty-eight patients who underwent radiotherapy for breast cancer were identified. The whole breast was irradiate...

Relapsing polychondritis (RP) is an extremely rare multisystemic disease thought to be of autoimmune origin. In order to assess if RP is associated with anti-phospholipid antibodies (aPL), clinical data and sera of 21 patients with RP were collected in a multicentre study. Concentration of anti-cardiolipin antibodies (aCL) (IgG-, IgM- and IgA-isotypes), anti-phosphatidylserine-antibodies (aPS) ...

Readiness potential (RP) based on electroencephalograms (EEG) has been studied extensively in recent years, but no studies have investigated the influence of the reference electrode on RP. In order to investigate the reference effect, 10 subjects were recruited and the original vertex reference (Cz) was used to record the raw EEG signal when the subjects performed a motor preparation task. The ...

Let Bn(RP ) (respectively Pn(RP )) denote the braid group (respectively pure braid group) on n strings of the real projective plane RP 2 . In this paper we study these braid groups, in particular the associated pure braid group short exact sequence of Fadell and Neuwirth, their torsion elements and the roots of the ‘full twist’ braid. Our main results may be summarised as follows: first, the pu...

Parameter Estimate Reaction k1f 0.01 nM−1 s−1 S+L → SL k1b 0.059 s−1 SL → S+L k2 0.1 s−1 SL (+ATP) → SLP (+ADP) k3f 0.001 s−1 SLP → SP k3b 0.001 s−1 SP → SLP k4f 0.0238 nM−1 s−1 SLP+R → SLP·R k4b 0.001 s−1 SLP·R → SLP+R k5f 0.0238 nM−1 s−1 SP+R → SP·R k5b 0.001 s−1 SP·R → SP+R k6f 19.8 s−1 SLP·R → SL+RP k6b 0.001 nM−1 s−1 SL+RP → SLP·R k7f 19.8 s−1 SP·R → S+RP k7b 0.001 nM−1 s−1 S+RP → SP·R k8f...

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of stabilization of retinyl palmitate (RP) on its skin permeation and distribution profiles. Skin permeation and distribution study were performed using Franz diffusion cells along with rat dorsal skin, and the effect of drug concentration and the addition of pectin on skin deposition profiles of RP was observed. The skin distribution of RP in...

The transcriptional repressor for rat vasoactive-intestinal-polypeptide receptor 1 (VIPR-RP) is a recently characterized transcription factor that belongs to a family of proteins, which include components of the DNA replication factor C complex. In this study, I investigated the mechanisms by which VIPR-RP represses transcription. I show here that transcriptional repression by VIPR-RP is mediat...