Methods 6 turkish patients with the clinical diagnosis of FMF exhibiting homocygous or combined heterozygous mutations within the MEFV gene were included. Patients still exhibited clinical symptoms and elevated inflammation markers despite sufficient colchicine therapy (“instable disease”). Healthy probands served as controls. Their health status was assessed by a standardized questionnaire. Al...

Pair-fed rats were given diets containing 250 ppm added Cu with or without 5% Senecio jacobaea (S J), a poisonous plant containing the highly toxic pyrrolizidine alkaloids (PA). Levels of Cu, Zn and Fe were determined in whole liver, kidney, spleen, serum and subcellular fractions of liver. Serum ceruloplasmin and hematocrit values were also obtained. At 5 wk, a 7.5-fold increase in liver Cu wa...

This work deals with the H1 condition numbers and the distribution of the ~ N;Msingular values of the preconditioned operators f~ 1 N;M WN;M ÂN;Mg. ÂN;M is the matrix representation of the Legendre Spectral Collocation discretization of the elliptic operator A de ned by Au := u + a1ux + a2uy + a0u in (the unit square) with boundary conditions: u = 0 on 0; @u @ A = u on 1. ~ N;M is the sti ness ...

Increased permeability of the blood-brain barrier (BBB) is a characteristic of the demyelinating disease multiple sclerosis and the animal counterpart experimental allergic encephalomyelitis (EAE). In physically traumatized cerebral tissue neurovascular damage, linked with activation of the cerebroendothelial-bound N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor, can be treated with the antagonist MK-801. We hav...

Five trials were conducted to evaluate the energy value of corn wet milling by-products in finishing diets. In trials 1 (45 finishing lambs, 34 kg) and 2 (70 digestion wethers, 32 kg), Rambouillet X Suffolk lambs fed corn gained faster (P less than .10), more efficiently (P less than .10) and had higher (P less than .01) digestibilities of neutral and acid detergent fiber (NDF, ADF) and starch ...