Various authors (1,2) have tried to ascertain whether CA 125 concentrations in PF samples were significantly higher in patients with endometriosis than in control subjects. So far, these studies have not shown any significant difference in CA 125 values obtained from undiluted PF samples. In our study, using diluted samples in one-step assay, we found that CA 125 concentrations differed between...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether changes in serum KL-6 levels reflect the activity of pulmonary fibrosis (PF) in patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc). METHODS KL-6 levels were determined by ELISA in 39 SSc patients. In a retrospective longitudinal study, 250 serum samples were analyzed during a follow-up period of 0.3-6.1 years. RESULTS KL-6 levels at the first visit were higher in patients...

Previously, we identified the failure-induced receive buffer (rbuf) blocking problem in Concurrent Multipath Transfer using SCTP multihoming (CMT), and proposed CMT with a Potentially-failed destination state (CMT-PF) to alleviate rbuf blocking. In this paper we complete our evaluation of CMT vs. CMT-PF. Using NS-2 simulations we first show that CMT-PF performs on par or better than CMT during ...

Study of the afferents of the rat globus pallidus (GP) with Fluoro-gold, a retrograde tracer, revealed retrogradely labeled neurons in the ipsilateral parafascicular nucleus of the thalamus (PF), a previously undescribed afferent of the rat GP. We used the anterograde tracer, Phaseolus vulgaris-leucoagglutinin (PHA-L), to confirm and extend our findings. After injections of PHA-L in the PF, lab...

We conducted a controlled clinical comparison of PF Plus, the new pediatric medium with adsorbent polymeric beads, versus the charcoal-containing PF medium in the BacT/Alert blood culture system. A total of 2,381 pediatric cultures were enrolled, and 1,703 (71.5%) were deemed to be compliant and acceptable for analysis. Seventy-two cultures (4.2%) had a positive result with 80 clinically signif...

Abstract Plasmodium spp. cause more than half a million malaria deaths annually and the only approved vaccine, RTS,S, based on P.falciparum (Pf) circumsporozoite protein (CSP), confers incomplete non-durable protection. A strategy to improve vaccines involves combining Ags of different stages such as sporozoite (spz) liver stage (LS). This promises broader repertoire specific antibodies (Ab), C...

Paeoniflorin (PF) is an active monoterpene glycoside extracted from Paeonia lactiflora Pall. PF has exhibited antitumor effects in various cancer types. However, the effects of PF in pancreatic cancer are largely unexplored. Here, we showed that PF suppressed growth of pancreatic cancer cell lines Capan-1 and MIAPaCa-2 and profoundly sensitized these cells to X-ray irradiation. Through microarr...

ISSN 0973-2063 Bioinformation 1(9): 351-355 (2007) www.bioinformation.net Given f:R(A1, ...,An)→Y and S ⊆ Y, the (uncompressed, single node-level) Predicate-tree Pf, S is the bitmap, Pf,S(x)=1 (i.e., true) iff f(x)∈S, ∀x∈R. Note that Pf,S bitmaps the set, F-contour({1}) under the function, F(x) = 1 if f(x)∈S else F(x)=0. In Mathematical terms, F is the Characteristic function of the contour, f(...

Background Pulmonary fibrosis (PF) is an increasing cause of morbidity and mortality with five million people affected worldwide and a median survival time of less than three years. Effective anti-fibrotic agents for PF are currently lacking. The majority of patients with PF develop pulmonary hypertension (PH) and right heart failure. Impaired production of endogenous nitric oxide (NO) plays an...

The highly specific relationships between parallel fiber (PF) and climbing fiber (CF) receptive fields in Purkinje cells and interneurons suggest that normal PF receptive fields are established by CF-specific plasticity. To test this idea, we used PF stimulation that was either paired or unpaired with CF activity. Conspicuously, unpaired PF stimulation that induced long-lasting, very large incr...