OBJECTIVES This study sought to evaluate graft outcome of kidneys from deceased-donor pediatric donors in adult recipients, and compare it with outcomes of kidney transplants from adult donors. MATERIALS AND METHODS This historical cohort study involved 2 groups. Group 1 included 23 first kidney adult recipients who received their first renal transplant from pediatric deceased-donor donors. G...

BACKGROUND To date, donor-specific markers to predict outcome after heart transplantation (HTx) are unknown. Increased procalcitonin (PCT) levels have been found in infectious inflammation with systemic reactions and/or poor organ perfusion but have not been studied in heart donors. We evaluated PCT as a predictor of early graft failure-related mortality after HTx. METHODS AND RESULTS PCT and...

Global convergence results are derived for well-known conjugate gradient methods in which the line search step is replaced by a step whose length is determined by a formula. The results include the following cases: 1. The Fletcher-Reeves method, the Hestenes-Stiefel method, and the Dai-Yuan method applied to a strongly convex LC objective function; 2. The Polak-Ribière method and the Conjugate ...

perfused organs to examine sugar catabolism and metabolism, Holmes underscores the relationship between the laboratory elucidation of a significant intermediate compound like acetone and the clinical knowledge of ketone body production in diabetes. But, he concludes, the early-twentieth-century integrative optimism evaporated, to be re-formulated in the 1930s with the announcement of the "Embde...

The object of this paper is the theta divisor of the compactified Jacobian of a nodal curve of genus g. We determine its irreducible components and give it a geometric interpretation. A characterization of hyperelliptic irreducible curves in M g is appended as an application.

In this paper (part three of the trilogy) we use low degree G 1 and G 2 continuous regular algebraic spline curves deened within parallelograms, to interpolate an ordered set of data points in the plane. We explicitly characterize curve families whose members have the required interpolating properties and possess a minimal number of innection points. The regular algebraic spline curves consider...

Although recent studies suggest involvement of glutathione transferase (GST) of blood vessels in vasodilation by nitroglycerin, GST forms in blood vessels remain to be studied. In this study, three GST forms (p1 values 8.3,6.6, and 4.8) were purified from human aorta and four (PI values 6.0, 5.6, 5.3, and 4.6) from the heart by affinity chromatography followed by chromatofocusing. The major for...

Quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs), which are a new kind of X-ray bursts with recurrence time several hours, have been detected from supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in galactic nuclei. Recently, the two QPEs discovered by \textit{eROSITA} show asymmetric light curves fast rise and slow decline. Current models cannot explain observational characteristics QPEs. Here we that can be generated Roche l...

Let M be a right R-module. We call M Rad-H-supplemented iffor each Y M there exists a direct summand D of M such that(Y + D)/D (Rad(M) + D)/D and (Y + D)/Y (Rad(M) + Y )/Y .It is shown that:(1) Let M = M1M2, where M1 is a fully invariant submodule of M.If M is Rad-H-supplemented, thenM1 andM2 are Rad-H-supplemented.(2) Let M = M1 M2 be a duo module and Rad--supplemented. IfM1 is radical M2-...

Objective(s) There are some reports in recent years indicating that renal ischemia - reperfusion (IR) induces deleterious changes in remote organs such as liver. The aim of this study was to investigate whether leukocytes have a role on the induction of oxidative stress in liver after renal IR. Materials and Methods Inbred mice in IR donor group were subjected to renal IR injury. In sham don...