A common ancestor of two vertices u, v in a directed acyclic graph is a vertex w that can reach both. A {u, v}-junction is a common ancestor w so that there are two paths, one from w to u and the other from w to v, that are internally vertex-disjoint. A lowest common ancestor (LCA) of u and v is a common ancestor w so that no other common ancestor of u and v is reachable from w. Every {u, v}-LC...

A study of 101 sera from 69 Malay, 14 Chinese and 18 Indian healthy adult Malaysians was undertaken to determine the frequency of antinuclear antibodies (ANA), antimitochondrial antibodies (AMA), antismooth muscle antibodies (SMA) and antiparietal cell antibodies (APCA). There were 67 females and 34 males with a mean age of 31.7 years (+/-8.6). ANA was assayed by immunofluorescence (IF) using b...

OBJECTIVES To compare the therapeutic effects of gemcitabine (GEM) monotherapy with GEM-cisplatin (DDP) combination chemotherapy in patients with advanced stage pancreatic cancer (APCa) through meta-analysis. METHODS MEDLINE and EMBASE searches were supplemented by information from trial registers of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) for GEM-DDP combination chemotherapy and GEM alone in APC...

BACKGROUND We investigated the safety and efficacy of bevacizumab combined with gemcitabine followed by infusional 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) in patients with advanced pancreas cancer (APCA). DESIGN Patients with untreated APCA received bevacizumab 10 mg/kg, gemcitabine 1000 mg/m(2) over 100 min, and 5-FU 2400 mg/m(2) over 48 h on days 1 and 15 of each 28-day cycle. The primary end point was the p...

The nonspecific immune response plays an important role in organism's defense against a variety of pathogens. Two major factors this process are blood serum lysozyme and alternative pathway complement activation (APCA). Over the past few decades, application various substances, targeting improved levels natural immunity have become part mainstream trends livestock rearing programs. current stud...

In addition to ultrasonographic monitoring of folliculogenesis, urinary luteinizing hormone testing, luteal phase endometrial biopsy, serum antiphospholipid antibodies, etc., immunologic tests are recently being used to evaluate reproductive disorders. In this study, sharing of HLA-A, B, C and DR antigens and the presence of antipaternal cytotoxic antibody (APCA) was assessed using microcyt...