Endocrine pancreas from pregnant rats undergoes several adaptations that comprise increase in β-cell number, mass and insulin secretion, and reduction of apoptosis. Lactogens are the main hormones that account for these changes. Maternal pancreas, however, returns to a nonpregnant state just after the delivery. The precise mechanism by which this reversal occurs is not settled but, in spite of ...

Alpha-fetoprotein (AFP), Lens culinaris-agglutinin-reactive fraction of AFP (AFP-L3), and protein induced by vitamin K absence or antagonist-II (PIVKA-II) are widely used as tumor markers for the diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). This study compared the diagnostic values of AFP, AFP-L3, and PIVKA-II individually and in combination to find the best biomarker or biomarker panel.Seventy...

We establish theoretical recovery guarantees of FIHT for multi-dimensional spectrally sparse signal reconstruction problems, which are straightforward extensions of what we have proved for one-dimensional signals in [1]. Assume the underlying multi-dimensional spectrally sparse signal is of model order r and total dimensionN . We show that O(r log(N)) number of measurements are sufficient for F...

We report an 85-year-old woman with an L3 vertebral body fracture who presented with back pain, bilateral leg pain, and weakness after four months of conservative treatment. Because of unstable pseudoarthrosis, the L3 vertebral body collapsed in the standing position and the L3 nerve root was compressed. The indicated surgery decompressed the L3-L4 foramen and fused the unstable segment. The ba...

Third stage larvae (L3) from Angiostrongylus costaricensis were incubated in water at room temperature and at 5 degrees C and their mobility was assessed daily for 17 days. Viability was associated with the mobility and position of the L3, and it was confirmed by inoculation per os in albino mice. The number of actively moving L3 sharply decreased within 3 to 4 days, but there were some infecti...

A stock of Trichostrongylus colubriformis infective larvae (L3) was stored for up to 15 weeks at 24 degrees C. At three weeks intervals, samples of L3 were taken to assess exsheathment rate and enzyme activity Leucine Amino Peptidase (LAP) and Alkaline Phosphatase (AP). From 0 to 9 weeks of storage, a decrease in enzyme activity was observed correlated with a decrease in exsheathment rate (perc...

For every mV 3, let n ˆ R…L3…m†† be the least integer such that for every 2-coloring of the set S ˆ f1; 2; . . . ; ng, there exists in S a monochromatic solution to the following system. L3…m†: x1 ‡ x2 ‡ ‡ xmÿ1 < xm x1 < x2 < < xm: The main result of this paper is that R…L3…m†† ˆ 9 16 m ÿm2 ‡m‡ 1 if m1 0 …mod 4† 9 16 m ÿm2 ‡ 13 16 m‡ 13 8 if m1 1 …mod 4† 9 16 m ÿm2 ‡m‡ 1 2 if m1 2 …mod 4† 9 16 ...

A cDNA library constructed from 3 day post-infective L3 of the filarial nematode Brugia pahangi was screened by differential hybridization with cDNA probes prepared from different life-cycle stages. Five cDNA clones hybridizing selectively to the mosquito-derived L3 probe were isolated and characterized. Northern blot analysis of 4 of the clones confirmed that each was most highly expressed in ...