Every so often, individuals and organizations should spend time in self-reflection and analyze what is working and what is not, what the challenges, are and how these can be turned into new opportunities. Last fall, the American Physiological Society (APS) took just such an initiative. APS employed a branding firm from Chicago, called Minding Your Business (MYB), to evaluate the way APS does bu...

Antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) is a systemic autoimmune disease characterised by recurrent thromboembolic events (arterial or venous) and/or morbidity in pregnancy (fetal loss, premature birth, or recurrent embryonic losses) in the presence of laboratory evidence of antiphospholipid antibodies (aPL). APS is a multisystem disorder. Several lung manifestations may develop in patients with APS in...

Almost 30 years after it was first described as a discrete clinical entity, the antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) remains a challenge for clinicians in a wide range of specialities. There remain ongoing issues regarding nomenclature, the expanding range of clinical manifestations, and management of certain APS patient subgroups. In addition to the presence of appropriate clinical features, the di...

P2glycoprotein I ((32GPI) is a phospholipid-binding protein of the coagulation system. In patients with the antiphospholipid syndrome (APS), antibodies to 02GPI contribute to the population of “antiphospholipid antibodies” measured in the anticardiolipin antibody (aCL) assay. In fact, both IgG and IgM antibodies from patients with APS bind (32GPI in the absence of anionic phospholipids if the a...

Electrodermal screening (EDS) is based on three commonly held assumptions: acupuncture points (APs) have lower electrical resistance than non-APs; resistance at APs varies with health and disease; and effective acupuncture treatments are associated with normalization of resistance at APs. Although evidence confirming these assumptions is limited, EDS is frequently practiced worldwide. Researche...

INTRODUCTION the correlation between primary antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) and cardiovascular events is well known, but the correlation between APS and sudden death is not clear; it probably correlates with sympathetic alterations of the autonomic system. AIM To compare the autonomic nervous system (ANS) in a group of subjects suffering from APS against that of a control group with no cardi...

As the pixel counts of digital imagers increase, the challenge of maintaining high yields and ensuring reliability over an imager’s lifetime increases. A fault tolerant active pixel sensor (APS) has been designed to meet this need by splitting an APS in half and operating both halves in parallel. The fault tolerant APS will perform normally in the no defect case and will produce approximately h...

Astragalus Polysaccharide (APS) is an important feed additive due to its immunomodulatory functions. Previous studies have proven that miRNAs play important roles in posttranscriptional gene regulation. Our goals were to identify differentially expressed miRNAs in testes in responses to APS dietary supplements and to find the effects of APS on breeder cock testes. We measured several enzymatic ...

BACKGROUND Data on pediatric antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) are very sparse. OBJECTIVES To describe the main clinical characteristics, laboratory data and complications of pediatric APS patients, and to analyze the differences between primary APS and APS associated with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). METHODS We retrospectively reviewed clinical and laboratory data of 32 children at th...