The aim of this study was to establish a five-year cumulative incidence of arterial hypertension (hereinafter 5-CIAH) and its dependence on initial prehypertension, body weight, age and gender "Croatian Adult Health Cohort Study (CroHort)" data collected during 2003 and 2008 for the 1383 subjects aged 18 + with initially normal blood pressure (systolic < 140 mmHg and diastolic < 90 mmHg, and no...

To reduce perioperative hemorrhage following heart-lung transplantation, several technical modifications were introduced in June 1988 to secure better posterior mediastinal hemostasis. The intraoperative and postoperative use of blood and blood products, as well as the chest tube drainage in the first 24 hours postoperatively, were compared in the seven patients operated on since June 1988 with...

Although the glycoprotein MFG-E8 (milk fat globule-epidermal growth factor-factor 8) has been investigated extensively as an anti-inflammatory and homeostatic molecule, a possible role in bone homeostasis and disease was not addressed until recently. Our group has now shown that MFG-E8 is expressed by human and mouse osteoclasts and regulates their differentiation and function (Abe et al., J Im...

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Multiple sequence alignment is an essential tool in many areas of biological research, and the accuracy of an alignment can strongly affect the accuracy of a downstream application such as phylogenetic analysis, identification of functional motifs, or polymerase chain reaction primer design. The heads or tails (HoT) method (Landan G, Graur D. 2007. Heads or tails: a simple reliability check for...

[PDF] [Full Text] [Abstract] , April 1, 2002; 92 (4): 1383-1392. J Appl Physiol N. A. Maffiuletti, M. Pensini and A. Martin Activation of human plantar flexor muscles increases after electromyostimulation training [PDF] [Full Text] [Abstract] , April 1, 2004; 38 (2): 173-176. Br. J. Sports Med. A Robertson, J M Watt and S D R Galloway Effects of leg massage on recovery from high intensity c...

Methotrexate and 6-mercaptopurine, important components of acute lymphoblastic leukemia treatment, are substrates for multidrug resistance-associated protein MRP4. Eight single nucleotide polymorphisms were analyzed in MRP4 gene, and 4 variants were identified as tagSNPs with frequency more than or equal to 5%. They were investigated for association with treatment responses in 275 children with...