BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE To examine the effect of thermal stimulation (TS) on upper extremity (UE) motor recovery in patients at least 3 months after stroke. METHODS Participants were randomly assigned to either the experimental group or the control group. In addition to regular rehabilitation programs, the experimental group received an UE-TS protocol for 30 minutes per day (3 days/week for 8 ...

Background: Thermal stability (TS) is a part of the BCG vaccine characterization by which the consistency of process in BCG vaccine production could be confirmed. To enhance the TS of the vaccine, some prevalent stabilizers in different concentrations were added to the final formulation of BCG bulk prior to Freeze-drying process. We found a formulation more effective than the current stabilizer...

CONTEXT No randomized, controlled, prospective study has evaluated the effect of growth hormone (GH) on the rates of middle ear (ME) disease and hearing loss in girls with Turner syndrome (TS). DESIGN A 2-year, prospective, randomized, controlled, open-label, multicenter, clinical trial ('Toddler Turner Study'; August 1999 to August 2003) was carried out. SETTING The study was conducted at ...

Thymidylate synthase (TS), the target enzyme of the fluoropyrimidine class of drugs, has a 28-bp repeat polymorphism in the promoter region that has been associated with response of tumors to 5-fluorouracil-based therapy. Patients homozygous for the double repeat (2R/2R) in the TS gene have an overall better outcome from treatment than patients homozygous for the triple repeat (3R/3R). However,...

28 The glycocalyx is a key mechanosensor on the surfaces of vascular cells (EC/SMC), 29 and recently, we reported that the redistribution of the hemodynamic factors in 30 tail-suspended (TS) hindlimb-unloaded rats induces the dimensional adaptation of the 31 endothelial glycocalyx in a regional-dependent manner. In the present study, we 32 investigated the coverage and gene expression of the gl...

BACKGROUND Bioethanol production from biomass is becoming a hot topic internationally. Traditional static solid state fermentation (TS-SSF) for bioethanol production is similar to the traditional method of intermittent operation. The main problems of its large-scale intensive production are the low efficiency of mass and heat transfer and the high ethanol inhibition effect. In order to achieve ...

Five Escherichia coli type 1 pilus mutants that had point mutations in fimH, the gene encoding the type 1 pilus adhesin FimH, were characterized. FimH is a minor component of type 1 pili that is required for the pili to bind and agglutinate guinea pig erythrocytes in a mannose-inhibitable manner. Point mutations were located by DNA sequencing and deletion mapping. All mutations mapped within th...

Pulmonary lymphangioleiomyomatosis (PLAM) is a rare disease, characterized by an abnormal proliferation of smooth muscle throughout the lung; it occurs exclusively in women, generally of reproductive age [1]. The muscle cells proliferating in PLAM show little or no atypia at histological level. Therefore, PLAM has been considered to be a hamartomatous lesion rather than a true neoplastic proces...

The HKαα allele is a rearrangement occurring in the α-globin gene cluster containing both the -α(3.7) and ααα(anti4.2) unequal crossover junctions. The anti-HKαα allele is the reciprocal product containing both the -α(4.2) and ααα(anti3.7) unequal crossover junctions, which had been predicted but had not been detected previously. The phenotypic feature and population frequency of these two unus...