BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The pressure-flow velocity relationship in the cerebral circulation is characterized by the critical closing pressure (CCP), which is the pressure at which flow ceases, and the linear slope of a plot between pressure and flow velocity. It has been suggested, but not validated, that CCP can be determined from arterial blood pressure (ABP) and transcranial Doppler (TCD) rec...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the fluctuation in serum levels of anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide antibody (anti-CCP) retrospectively in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). METHODS Serum levels of anti-CCP were measured retrospectively in 131 patients with RA and 90 patients with non-RA rheumatic diseases using a commercially available kit. All sera were collected from patients during the 22...

A Banach space X has the complete continuity property (CCP) if each bounded linear operator from L1 into X is completely continuous (i.e., maps weakly convergent sequences to norm convergent sequences). The main theorem shows that a Banach space failing the CCP has a subspace with a nite dimensional decomposition which fails the CCP. If furthermore the space has some nice local structure (such ...

Colitis cystica profunda (CCP) is a benign disease characterized by mucin‐filled cysts beneath the muscularis mucosa.[1] CCP can present in a localized form with a polypoid lesion, or as a more diffuse process involving a variable length of the rectal mucosa or colon.[2] Cysts, which may be quite large, are localized to the rectosigmoid region and are usually 6 to 7 cm from the anal verge. CCP ...

The objective of this experiment was to evaluate the effect of BW and physiological status of a beef animal on forage intake. The experiment was repeated over 2 yr with 6 replications of 3 treatments per year: cow-calf pair (CCP, BW = 629 kg), nonlactating cow (NLC, BW = 503 kg), and yearling steer (YS, BW = 305 kg). The CCP was treated as one unit, with the sum of cow BW and calf BW comprising...

Osteoporosis is associated with delayed and/or reduced fracture healing. As cervus and cucumis are the traditional Chinese treatments for rheumatoid arthritis, we investigated the effect of supplementation of these peptides (CCP) on bone fracture healing in ovariectomized (OVX) osteoporotic rats in vitro and in vivo. CCP enhanced osteoblast proliferation and increased alkaline phosphatase activ...

A specific covalently cross-linked complex between redox partners yeast cytochrome c peroxidase (CCP) and cytochrome c (cyt. c) has been made by engineering cysteines into CCP and cyt. c that form an intermolecular disulfide bond in high yield. The crystal structure of the cross-linked complex has been solved to 1.88-A resolution and closely resembles the structure of the noncovalent complex [P...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the durability over time of the reduction of resource utilization after implementing a clinical care pathway (CCP) for head and neck cancer surgery. DESIGN Cohort study. SETTING A tertiary care academic medical center. PATIENTS We studied control subjects from 1995 (pre-CCP) (n = 87), a cohort from July 1, 1996, through July 31, 1997 (the first year after CCP impleme...

Pancreatic stones of patients with chronic calcifying pancreatitis (CCP) are mostly made up of CaCO3 crystals. Formation and growth of such crystals is inhibited in vitro by lithostathine, a protein present in normal pancreatic juice. Decreased lithostathine activity was therefore suspected in patients with CCP, but comparison by immunoassay of lithostathine concentrations in the pancreatic jui...