OBJECTIVES Host immunity likely plays a role in preventing progression of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL). Analysis of host immune cells may provide useful information for assessing prognosis or possibly clinical management. METHODS Peripheral blood samples from 77 patients with DLBCL and 30 healthy volunteers were analyzed using flow cytometry immunophenotyping. CBC counts, T-cell subs...

During the last decade, many European countries have faced sizeable immigration inflows accompanied by high prevalence of negative sentiments toward immigrants among majority members of the host societies. We propose that basic human values are one important determinant of such negative attitudes, and we seek to explain variation across countries in the strength of the effects of values. Based ...

BACKGROUND Malaria and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection during pregnancy affect the transplacental transfer of antibodies against several pathogens from mother to fetus, although the effect of malaria and HIV infection on the transfer of antimalarial antibodies remains unclear. METHODS Levels of total immunoglobulin G (IgG), immunoglobulin M (IgM), and IgG subtypes against the fol...

Previous studies have demonstrated that the illness perceptions of doctors can affect treatment outcomes. This is likely to be particularly relevant in chronic disorders such as epilepsy or nonepileptic attack disorder (NEAD) in which treatment success depends on adherence to tablet treatments with significant side effects or a potentially difficult process of engagement in psychological treatm...

Previous studies have revealed a diagnostic role of pathogen-specific IgA in respiratory infections. However, co-detection serum specific for severe acute syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and common pathogens remains largely unexplored. This study utilizes protein microarray technology simultaneous quantitative measurements IgAs eight different including adenovirus, syncytial virus, influenz...

Este estudio se orientó a adaptar lingüísticamente la versión corta de Escala Procrastinación Académica (APS-S) McClosky y obtener evidencias validez, confiabilidad equidad en universitarios limeños. Participaron 4534 estudiantes, siendo 2052 mujeres (45.3%) varones 2482 (54.7%). El análisis factorial confirmatorio escala alcanzó un ajuste adecuado al modelo medida hipotetizado (CFI= .994, TLI=...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS To compare the eustachian tube (ET) angle (ETa) and length (ETl) of ears with and without chronic otitis media (COM), and to determine the relationship between ET anatomy and the development of COM. STUDY DESIGN A retrospective case-control study. METHODS The study group comprised 125 patients (age range, 8-79 years; 64 males and 61 females) with 124 normal ears and 12...

Robert Laskowski,1 Niels Egede Christensen,2 Peter Blaha,1 and Balan Palanivel3 1Institute of Materials Chemistry, Technische Universität Wien, Getreidemarkt 9/165TC, A-1060 Vienna, Austria 2Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Aarhus, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark 3Department of Physics, Pondicherry Engineering College, Puducherry 605 014, India Received 15 January 2009; revised manu...

The solution of the Muskhelishvili-Omnes Integral Equation is ambiguous by a real polynomial. The coefficients of this polynomial can be fixed either by the knowledge of the low energy parameters or by the asymptotic behavior of the form factor. The role of the contact terms of the low energy effective Lagrangian is explicitly analysed. ∗unité propre 014 du CNRS