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...

UNLABELLED The aim of this study was to identify changes of sleep spindles (SS) in the EEG of patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). Five sleep experts manually identified SS at a central scalp location (C3-A2) in 15 PD and 15 age- and sex-matched control subjects. Each SS was given a confidence score, and by using a group consensus rule, 901 SS were identified and characterized by their (1) d...

OBJECTIVE To address the association between a history of tuberculosis (TB) or nontuberculous mycobacterial (NTM) infection and the risk of newly diagnosed Sjögren's syndrome (SS). METHODS Using a nationwide, population-based, claims dataset, and after excluding those who had rheumatoid arthritis or systemic lupus erythematosus, we identified 5,751 newly diagnosed SS cases during 2007-2012, a...

Squalene synthase (SS) represents a putative branch point in the isoprenoid biosynthetic pathway capable of diverting carbon flow specifically to the biosynthesis of sterols and, hence, is considered a potential regulatory point for sterol metabolism. For example, when plant cells grown in suspension culture are challenged with fungal elicitors, suppression of sterol biosynthesis has been corre...

With great interest, we read the recent review article by Kumar entitled “Neuroimaging in Superficial Siderosis: An In-Depth Look,” published on-line ahead of print in the American Journal of Neuroradiology in September 2009. The author provides a thorough review of neuroimaging in superficial siderosis (SS) of the central nervous system and details important underlying causes of this phenomeno...

Spectral reflectance is an inherent property of objects that is useful for many computer vision tasks. The spectral reflectance of a scene can be described as a spatio-spectral (SS) datacube, in which each value represents the reflectance at a spatial location and a wavelength. In this paper, we propose a novel method that reconstructs the SS datacube from raw data obtained by an image sensor e...

Saikosaponin (SS) A is a compound with various pharmacological properties and is easily degraded into SS-B1 and SS-G under acid conditions. In the present work, two new degradation products of SS-A, formed under acid hydrolytic conditions, were detected and isolated using analytical and semi-preparative liquid chromatography technology; furthermore, their structures were characterized as hydrox...

PURPOSE To measure the effects from a single vectored thermal pulsation treatment of the meibomian glands on dry eye signs and symptoms in patients who tested positively versus negatively for novel Sjögren's syndrome (SS) biomarkers. METHODS The retrospective study included the deidentified data of 102 eyes of 59 patients with dry eye and meibomian gland dysfunction (MGD), who were also teste...

Brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) increases the levels of somatostatin (SS) and its mRNA. To test the hypothesis that the regulation of SS synthesis by BDNF occurs at the transcriptional level and requires specific promoter sequences, cerebrocortical and PC12trkB neurons were transiently transfected with different constructs of the SS promoter fused to the luciferase and CAT reporter gen...