The Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment (MC3E) took place during the spring of 2011 centered in north-central Oklahoma, USA. The main goal of this field campaign was to capture the dynamical and microphysical characteristics of precipitating convective systems in the US Central Plains. A major component of the campaign was a six-site radiosonde array designed to capture the lar...

OBJECTIVE To review evidence for the efficacy of biofeedback in the treatment of gastrointestinal problems. DATA SOURCES Studies were identified through a search of MEDLINE, HealthSTAR, EMBASE, Allied and Complementary Medicine, MANTIS, PsycINFO, Social Science Citation Index, Science Citation Index, and CINAHL. STUDY SELECTION Studies were selected if they used biofeedback as the intervent...

INTRODUCTION Cost management has been identified as an essential tool for the general control and evaluation of health organizations. OBJECTIVES To identify the coverage percentage of transferred funds from the Unified Health System for coronary artery bypass grafts in a philanthropic hospital having a consolidated costing system in the municipality of São Paulo. METHODS A quantitative, des...

We hypothesized that the pathogenesis of diabetic vasculopathy involves the abnormal regulation of vascular smooth muscle cell (VSMC) apoptosis. In nondiabetic mice, a reduction in carotid artery blood flow resulted in a significant loss of medial VSMCs via apoptosis (normal flow 8461 viable VSMCs, reduced flow 7065 viable VSMCs; n512, P,0.01). In contrast, flow-induced VSMC apoptosis was marke...

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) causes chronic hepatitis in hundreds of millions of people worldwide, which can eventually lead to hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The molecular mechanisms underlying HBV persistence are not well understood. In this study, we found that HBV inhibited the chemotherapy drug etoposide-induced apoptosis of hepatoma cells. Further analysis revealed that HBV mRNAs possess a mi...

aminobutyric acid in amino acid position 2 of the molecule. In animnig CyG retains the immunosuppressive properties of CyA but is less nephrotoxic (Hiestand et al., Transplant Proc 1985;17:1362-4; Caine et al., Lancet 1985i:1342). Future studies in humans are planned but a method for quantifying CyG is required. We assessed a radioimmunoassay for CrG in plammi, using CyG standards, CyA antibody...

Conclusion This conference reflected a growing recognition that a fundamental knowledge and understanding of neuroendocrine interactions with the immunological and nervous systems need to be further acquired and related directly to basic and clinical aspects of rheumatic diseases. Clinically productive research on these complex mechanisms necessitates collaboration between investigators from ma...

OBJECTIVE To analyse patterns of patient utilisation of the after hours service at Sydney Sexual Health Centre (SSHC). METHOD A retrospective cross sectional database study compared all new daytime and after hours patients who registered for a medical consultation at SSHC between August 1994 and February 1995. Daytime and after hours attenders were compared using demographic and behavioural f...

[PDF] [Full Text] [Abstract] , May 1, 2007; 19 (5): 1362-1399. Neural Comput. P. A. Appleby and T. Elliott Multispike Interactions in a Stochastic Model of Spike-Timing-Dependent Plasticity [PDF] [Full Text] [Abstract] , September 5, 2007; 27 (36): 9711-9720. J. Neurosci. J.-t. Lu, C.-y. Li, J.-P. Zhao, M.-m. Poo and X.-h. Zhang Interneurons Depends on Target Cell Type Spike-Timing-Dependen...