Nested reverse transcription (RT)-PCR for prostate-specific antigen (PSA) and prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSM) can detect circulat ing prostatic cells in patients with prostate cancer. We evaluated the role of a combined screening approach for PSA and PSM in prostate cancer staging. We examined the peripheral blood samples from 136 patients with adenocarcinoma of the prostate (PCA), 15 ...

The purported antiparasitic properties of plant secondary metabolites (PSM) have been the cause of controversy amongst the scientific community. Despite long-standing knowledge of the prophylactic and therapeutic properties of PSM-rich extracts, which comes mainly from ethnoveterinary sources, the scientific evidence of the antiparasitic effects of PSM is inconsistent. In the first part of the ...

INTRODUCTION Although improved anticoagulation therapy outcomes have been demonstrated in clinical trials evaluating warfarin patient self-management (PSM) programs, these studies did not provide detailed information regarding PSM program development and patient training. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the feasibility of and methods for developing and administering an education program to support a no...

PROPRIOSPINAL MYOCLONUS (PSM) IS CHARACTERIZED BY FLEXION OR EXTENSION RHYTHMICARRHYTHMIC JERKS ARISING IN AXIAL MUSCLES AND SPREADING TO MORE CAUDAL AND ROSTRAL SEGMENTS. In PSM a spinal generator is believed to recruit axial and limb muscles via slowly conducting propriospinal pathways to produce the myoclonic jerks.1 Several cases of PSM have been reported and multiple sclerosis, cervical tr...

According to PSM, each station must announce traffic before its transmission. PSM requires for this purpose a rather large handshaking period to complete the required announcements. This functional behavior puts a heavy constraint on the size of the announcement period and consequently on throughput, delay and more importantly on power consumption. This paper proposes an optimization of some fu...

Makgeolli is a traditional Korean rice wine, reported to have various biological functions. In this study, the immunostimulatory activity of a polysaccharide from makgeolli (PSM) was investigated. The polysaccharide fraction was isolated from makgeolli by hot water extraction, ethanol precipitation, dialysis, and lyophilization. The major constituents in PSM were neutral sugars (87.3%). PSM was...

Although much has been written about validating DSS and other ‘hard’ OR models, less has been written about validating ‘soft’ OR models. This paper seeks to determine which contingency factors known to influence DSS validation are also important factors influencing PSM (problem structuring methods) validation. In addition, after consultation with PSM experts other contingency factors influencin...

Somites form along the embryonic axis by sequential segmentation from the presomitic mesoderm (PSM) and differentiate into the segmented vertebral column as well as other unsegmented tissues. Somites are thought to form via the intersection of two activities known as the clock and the wavefront. Previous work has suggested that fibroblast growth factor (FGF) activity may be the wavefront signal...

INTRODUCTION The aim of this study was to assess how mean systemic pressure (Psm) and resistance to venous return (Rvr) behave during passive leg raising (PLR) in cases of fluid responsiveness and fluid unresponsiveness. METHOD In 30 patients with an acute circulatory failure, in order to estimate the venous return curve, we constructed the regression line between pairs of cardiac index (CI) ...

Plant secondary metabolites (PSM) have many ecological functions, but have long been considered as defences against pathogens or herbivores (vertebrate or invertebrate), reducing the likelihood and extent of attack. However, mammalian herbivores ingest many foods containing PSM and use both behavioural methods and physiological strategies to limit their negative effects. Most physiological coun...