In a study of the occurrence of detectable antibodies to SS-A and SS-B in 300 randomly selected mother-infant pairs, three (1%) mother-infant pairs were positive for precipitating antibodies to SS-A. No matched pairs were positive for SS-B. Review of the clinical history of the mother-infant pairs with SS-A antibodies failed to reveal evidence of connective tissue disease or the neonatal lupus ...

This paper proposes several systems using OFDM and DS/ SS for power line communications and evaluates their BER performances. As for the transmission lines, three kinds of power line models in which several electric apparatus are connected and an LC resonance model with a large degradation at narrow bandwidth are adopted. For the noise model, a peculiar colored noise of power line and a burst n...

Many human diseases, including Fanconi anemia, hemophilia B, neurofibromatosis, and phenylketonuria, can be caused by 5'-splice-site (5'ss) mutations that are not predicted to disrupt splicing, according to position weight matrices. By using comparative genomics, we identify pairwise dependencies between 5'ss nucleotides as a conserved feature of the entire set of 5'ss. These dependencies are a...

The present study tested the hypothesis that the Dahl SS (salt-sensitive) rat has vascular dysfunction due, in part, to the up-regulation of the CYP4A/20-HETE (cytochrome P450 ω-hydroxylase 4A)/20-hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid) system. To assess the role of vascular 20-HETE, SS rats were compared with SS-5(BN) consomic rats, carrying CYP4A alleles on chromosome 5 from the normotensive BN (Brown ...

In RNA interference (RNAi), double-stranded short interfering RNA (ds-siRNA) inhibits expression from complementary mRNAs. Recently, it was demonstrated that short, single-stranded antisense RNA (ss-siRNA) can also induce RNAi. While ss-siRNA may offer several advantages in both clinical and research applications, its overall poor activity compared with ds-siRNA has prevented its widespread use...

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Sjögren syndrome (SS) is commonly known to be correlated with lymphoma. This study included 16,396 individuals in the SS cohort and 65,584 individuals in the non-SS cohort, all of whom were enrolled in the Taiwan National Health Insurance database between 2000 and 2010. We evaluated the risk factors of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) in the primary SS cohort by applying a Cox multivariable proport...

The aim of this study is to examine the influence of depression on headache onset following laboratory stress and on psychophysiological variables associated with tension-type headaches (TTHs). Diagnostic interviews identified three groups: headache prone and depressed (HP/D, N = 13); headache prone not depressed (HP/ND, N = 22); and healthy controls (HC, N = 13). Ss completed a laboratory stre...

OBJECTIVES Few studies have evaluated the association between Sjogren's syndrome (SS) and respiratory failure (RF). Thus, we conducted a retrospective national cohort study to investigate whether Sjogren's syndrome (SS) increases the risk of respiratory failure (RF). METHODS The cohort consisted of 4954 newly diagnosed patients with SS but without a previous diagnosis of RF, and 19816 patient...