OBJECTIVE Occult clinical presentations usually hinder the early detection and management of patients with bone metastases from thyroid carcinoma. We retrospectively investigated the clinical outcomes of such patients from 1993 to 2004 and analyzed the prognostic parameters. DESIGN The basic demographic data and manifestations of 44 patients who had thyroid carcinoma with bone metastases were...

Percoll density-gradient separation, combined with peanut lectin agglutinin (PNA) binding and magnetic bead separation, was used to separate dispersed fish gill cells into sub-populations. Functional characterization of each of the sub-populations was performed to determine which displayed acid-activated phenamil- and bafilomycin-sensitive Na(+) uptake. Analysis of the mechanism(s) of (22)Na(+)...

JUAN FRANCISCO ARAYA 2,3 & JUAN ANTONIO ALIAGA 1Universidad de Atacama, Copayapu 485, Copiapó, Region of Atacama, Chile and Programa de Doctorado en Sistemática y Biodiversidad, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile orcid.org/0000-0002-4087-9641 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:author:443B4F42-FB13-42A6-B92B-1B0F835698A9 2Laboratorio de Química Inorgánica y Electroquímica, Departamento de Química, F...

Permeability and gating properties of single, non-inactivating, K+ channel currents in cultured Drosophila neurons were studied using the gigaohm-seal patch-clamp technique. The non-inactivating K+ currents were activated by depolarizing the membrane to -30 mV or to more positive potentials. The slope conductance of the channel was estimated to be 17.6 +/- 3.70 pS when the cytoplasmic side of t...

Sequencing for somatic alterations in patients' tumors is being increasingly clinically implemented to detect mutations that may guide therapy. Germline analysis of a cohort of patients undergoing tumor sequencing with matched normal has revealed that a small but significant percentage of these patients have germline variants that confer cancer susceptibility. Clin Cancer Res; 22(16); 3987-8. ©...

An iterative algorithm is introduced to solve the split common fixed point problems for asymptotically quasi-nonexpansive mappings in Hilbert spaces. The strong and weak convergence of the presented algorithm to some split common fixed point are obtained. The results presented in this paper improve and extend some recent results of Moudafi [Nonlinear Anal. 74 (2011), 4083-4087], Xu [Inverse Pro...

the effect of different concentration of salicylic acid (0, 1 and 2 mmoll-1) and chitosan (0, 0.5 and 1 percent) on postharvest life and quality of selva strawberry fruit during storage at 2.5±0.5°c with 85-95% rh for 7 and 14 days was studied. decay incidence, marketability, total soluble solids, total acidity, vitamin c content and total antioxidant activity were evaluated during storage. chi...

This memo defines a Management Information Base (MIB) module for use with network management protocols in the Internet community. In particular, it describes managed objects used for managing tunnels of any type over IPv4 and IPv6 networks. Extension MIB modules may be designed for managing protocol-specific objects. Likewise, extension MIB modules may be designed for managing security-specific...

To study both temporal and quantitative effects of hypercapnia on the extent of pH compensation in the arterial blood, specimens of carp (Cyprinus carpio) were exposed to a PCO2 of about 7.5 mmHg (1 mmHg = 133.3 Pa) (1% CO2) in the environmental water for several weeks, and a second group of animals was subjected to an environmental PCO2 of about 37 mmHg (5% CO2) for up to 96 h. A third series ...