BACKGROUND Exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) is associated with depressive symptomatology. A cause of depressive symptoms is a disturbance in the neurotransmitter system of dopamine (DA). Animal as well as human studies report that PCBs can influence the DA system. This study examined whether PCB-related depressive symptoms are affected by DA metabolites in humans with high PCB body ...

Perkerasan jalan di Indonesia umumnya menggunakan Lataston atau dikenal dengan istilah Hot Rolled Sheet – Wearing Course (HRS WC) dimana pada campurannya aspal, agregat kasar, abu batu, dan bahan pengisi (filler). Pada penelitian ini daun bambu sebagai filler,karena tanaman banyak ditemui terutama Pulau Jawa. Berdasarkan studi literature, memiliki kandungan silika yang hampir sama sekam padi.&#...

Engineered cementitious composites (ECC) is a durable material with high tensile ductility and strain-hardening characteristics. Although considered as cost-effective fiber for ECC, polypropylene (PP) reportedly difficult to disperse in mortar matrix due its aspect ratio hydrophobicity. In this study, the viscosity of low-carbon ECC based on limestone calcined clay cement was tailored variable ...

This paper aims to determine the Marshall properties of Asphalt Concrete-Wearing Course (AC-WC) and Hot Rolled Sheet-Wearing (HRS-WC) with utilization concrete waste also percentage added into AC-WC HRS-WC as substitute for coarse aggregates. During manufacture asphalt mixtures, aggregates, fine aggregates are required in large quantities. To reduce fresh mixtures road pavement, has become an a...

Five different methods for the determination of 3-methoxy-4-hydroxymandelic acid (vanilmandelic acid, VMA) in urine were compared: a GLC-FID catecholamine metabolite profiling method, an HPLC method with electrochemical detection, the method of Pisano et al. [1962) Clin. Chim. Acta 7, 285-291), a one dimensional paper chromatographic method with diazotized p-nitroaniline staining and the commer...

It is known that visual performance is better on the horizontal than the vertical meridian, and in the lower than the upper region of the vertical meridian (Vertical Meridian Asymmetry, "VMA"), and that exogenous spatial attention increases the apparent contrast of a stimulus. Here we investigate whether the VMA also leads to differences in the subjective appearance of contrast between the uppe...

270 Influence of Wilbraham-Gibbs Phenomenon on Digital Stochastic Measurement of EEG Signal Over an Interval P. Sovilj, M. Milovanović, D. Pejić, M. Urekar, Z. Mitrović 1 Department of Power, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Trg Dositeja Obradovića, 6, 21000, Novi Sad, Serbia, [email protected] Military Health Academy, Crnotravska,...

one of the rarest tumors involving the urinary bladder is the pheochromocytoma. a case of pheochromocytoma of the urinary bladder in a young female suffering from headache and cystitis for many years is reported. twenty-four hour urine vma was normal. the patient was never hypertensive except during surgical manipulation of the tumor. biopsy of the bladder resulted in massive hemorrhage.

UNLABELLED The purpose of this study was to evaluate the usefulness in a clinical setting of iodine-123-metaiodobenzylguanidine (123I-MIBG) scintigraphy, planar and single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) images, in patients with neuroblastoma as detected by a mass screening survey. METHODS 123I-MIBG planar whole body images, and regional SPECT images of patients with neuroblastoma...

We wanted to examine the cellular locations of four Neurospora crassa proteins that transport calcium. However, the structure and distribution of organelles in live hyphae of N. crassa have not been comprehensively described. Therefore, we made recombinant genes that generate translational fusions of putative organellar marker proteins with green or red fluorescent protein. We observed putative...