OBJECTIVE It is established that external pituitary irradiation (EPI) effectively reduces serum GH levels in acromegaly. However, its effect in normalising serum IGF1 has been disputed. We looked at the number of our patients who achieved persistently normal IGF1 levels whilst free of adjunctive treatment for at least 1 year after EPI. PATIENTS AND DESIGN We identified 63 acromegalic patients...

PURPOSE A ghost correction strategy for Simultaneous Multi-Slice (SMS) EPI methods that provides improved ghosting artifact reduction compared to conventional methods is presented. Conventional Nyquist ghost correction methods for SMS-EPI rely on navigator data that contain phase errors from all slices in the simultaneously acquired slice-group. These navigator data may contain spatially nonlin...

The genome-sequenced, Gram-positive bacterium Streptomyces avermitilis harbours an orthologue (SAV_3032) of the previously identified epi-isozizaene synthase (SCO5222) in Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2). The sav3032 is translationally coupled with the downstream sav3031 gene encoding the cytochrome P450 CYP170A2 analogous to SCO5223 (CYP170A1) of S. coelicolor A3(2), which exhibits a similar tran...

purpose : to compare the postoperative results of epi-lasik and photorefractive keratectomy-mitomycin (prk-mitomycin) in patients with moderate to high myopia methods : for this double-blind clinical trial, samples were randomly selected among those subjects above 20 years of age who were visited for myopia correction and had a spherical equivalent between -4 to -8 d. we randomly performed prk-...

introduction echo-planar imaging (epi) is a group of fast data acquisition methods commonly used in fmri studies. it acquires multiple image lines in k-space after a single excitation, which leads to a very short scan time. a well-known problem with epi is that it is more sensitive to distortions due to the used encoding scheme. source of distortion is inhomogeneity in the static b0 field that ...

Abstract Mistletoes have much higher transpiration rates than their hosts. This is the basis for ecological “compatibility hypothesis” host choice. The inability of mistletoes to penetrate a and connect its vascular system competing “immunity hypothesis”. Epi‐parasites would transpire faster mistletoe, which must host. Therefore, epi‐parasites should be able parasitise host's I surveyed epi‐par...

MED1 (Mediator complex subunit 1) is a co-activator of various transcription factors that function in multiple transcriptional pathways. We have already established keratinocyte-specific MED1 null mice (Med1(epi-/-)) that develop epidermal hyperplasia. Herein, to investigate the function(s) of MED1 in skin wound healing, full-thickness skin wounds were generated in Med1(epi-/-) and age-matched ...

The two-location field experiment was conducted to study the possible alleviation of droughtstress effects on red bean by ultrasonication and 24-epi-brassinolid. Locations were AgriculturalResearch Center in Shahrood, Iran and the other in bean farm, 40 km off Shahrood city in 2015.Experiment factors included irrigation of main plots at three levels of normal irrigation (60 mmevaporation from e...

A partir das raízes de Jatropha weddelliana foram isolados os diterpenóides jatrogrossidiona, 4Z-jatrogrossidentadiona, 15-epi-4Z-jatrogrossidentadiona, 4E-jatrogrossidentadiona,15-epi-4Ejatrogrossidentadiona, 2-hidroxiisojatrogrossidiona, 2-epi-hidroxiisojatrogrossidiona e jatrowediol. A elucidação da estrutura do jatrowediol, um novo diterpenóide latirânico, foi realizada por meio de análises...