BACKGROUND It is not understood why only a subset of individuals infected with Trypanosoma cruzi develop chronic Chagas cardiomyopathy (CCC). Patients with CCC display high levels of circulating proinflammatory cytokines. Heart-infiltrating lymphocytes from patients with CCC also express proinflammatory cytokines (tumor necrosis factor- alpha and interferon- gamma ) that are detectable in biops...

BACKGROUND We aimed to investigate the clinical features associated with development of coronary collateral circulation (CCC) in patients with acute non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) and to develop a scoring model for predicting poor collateralization at hospital admission. METHODS The study enrolled 224 consecutive patients with NSTEMI admitted to our coronary care unit. Patien...

Let I be an ideal of subsets of a Polish space X, containing all singletons and possessing a Borel basis. Assuming that I does not satisfy ccc, we consider the following conditions (B), (M) and (D). Condition (B) states that there is a disjoint family F ⊆ P (X) of size c, consisting of Borel sets which are not in I . Condition (M) states that there is a Borel function f : X → X with f[{x}] / ∈ ...

Regions with excessive cloud cover lead to limited feasibility of applying optical images monitor crop growth. In this study, we built an upsampling moving window network for regional growth monitoring (UMRCGM) model estimate the two key biophysical parameters (BPs), leaf area index (LAI) and canopy chlorophyll content (CCC) during main period winter wheat by using Sentinel-1 Synthetic Aperture...

OBJECTIVES To compare the clinicopathologic features and prognosis of Chinese patients with ovarian clear cell carcinoma (CCC) and serous carcinoma (SC). METHODS A retrospective cohort study was designed to investigate the clinicopathologic characteristic and prognosis of patients with CCC and SC who were diagnosed and treated in in a tertiary referral center (Peking Union Medical College Hos...

We have developed a 1:30000 winding ratio cryogenic current comparator (CCC) for measurement of small currents, e.g., generated by a single electron transport device. A dedicated low-noise SQUID is used for the readout, which allows reaching a sensitivity close to ideal, that is without loss of sensitivity in the flux transformer coupling the CCC and the SQUID. The CCC-SQUID equivalent current ...

Bacterial keratitis is a serious ocular infectious disease that can threaten vision. The disease generally progresses rapidly and can lead to corneal scar, stromal abscess formation, perforation, and dissemination to adjacent tissues if not treated properly. Recent studies showed that corneal collagen crosslinking (CCC) using ultraviolet-A/riboflavin is effective in the treatment of bacterial k...

Endoscopic and video-endoscopic visual acuity and color discrimination were investigated using a standard disk for testing visual acuity and a color discrimination test. A 1-chip-CCD-Camera (CCC) or 3-chip-CCD-Camera plus digital image processing (digivideo) on the endoscope and a 15 inch high resolution video monitor were used. Color discrimination was investigated by comparing the ability to ...

We construct a family of 2א1 trees of size א1 and no uncountable branches that in a certain way codes all ω1sequences of infinite subsets of ω. This coding allows us to conclude that in the presence of the club guessing between א1 and א0, these trees are pairwise very different. In such circumstances we can also conclude that the universality number of the ordered class of trees of size א1 with...

Countercurrent chromatography (CCC) is a liquid chromatography technique in which the stationary phase is also a liquid. The solute separation is based on partitioning between the two immiscible liquid phases: the mobile phase and the support-free liquid stationary phase. Octanol-water partition coefficients (Po/w) of 17 βblockers and 17 sulphonamides were determined by CCC. Some of the Po/w co...