To compare the results of laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) and open cholecystectomy (OC) for symptomatic cholelithiasis in elective surgery we performed a prospective matched-cohort study. Hundred consecutive patients who underwent LC in the period Sept. 1990-June 1992, and 100 patients who were age and sex matched and underwent an elective OC in the foregoing two years (1989-1990) were studie...

Parainflammation is a unique variant of inflammation, characterized by epithelial-autonomous activation of inflammatory response. Parainflammation has been shown to strongly promote mouse gut tumorigenesis upon p53 loss. In a recent study, we explored the prevalence of parainflammation in human cancer and determined its relationship to certain molecular and clinical parameters affecting treatme...

Influenza A virus exerts a large health burden during both yearly epidemics and global pandemics. However, designing effective vaccine and treatment options has proven difficult since the virus evolves rapidly. Therefore, it may be beneficial to identify host proteins associated with viral infection and replication to establish potential new antiviral targets. We have previously measured host p...

The relative efficlency (RE) ofN2 fxation (RE -1 H2 evolved In airl /[acetylene reducedi) was Investigated In a Rhizobiwm strain lackng uptake hy se actMity (Hup-). Vadation in RE of such strains presmably reflects changes In the electron allocation coefficient of nitrogenase. By artificially exteming the normal dark period of 24day-old Pism sativwn L cv 'Alaska' inoculated with the HupR. kgwni...

Different image pairs of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) from tandem satellites (i.e. ERS2 and EnviSat) sunglint optical images Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), Visible Infrared Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) Medium Spectrometer (MERIS) between December 2002 May 2016 are investigated used to estimate the propagation speed Internal Solitary Waves (ISWs) in Andaman Sea. 426 ISWs id...

We have developed a model-independent analytical method for debiasing the four-dimensional (a, e, i, H) distribution obtained in any asteroid observation program and have applied the technique to results obtained with the 0.9m Spacewatch Telescope. From 1992 to 1995 Spacewatch observed ∼ 3740 deg 2 near the ecliptic and made observations of more than 60,000 asteroids to a limiting magnitude of ...

In the following GR9 (1980) Conference abstract, we briefly considered a covariant reformulation of the GR from three points of view: geometrodynamics, Lagrange-Euler field theory, and gauge field theory. From a perspective of geometrodynamics, a definition of a reference frame as a differential manifold with an affine connection results in separation of the respective contributions of inertial...

The Energy Problem (EP) in General Relativity (GR) is analyzed in the context of GR’s axiomatic inconsistencies. EP is classified according to its local and global aspects. The local aspects of the EP include noncovariance of the energy-momentum pseudotensor (EMPT) of the gravitational field, non-uniqueness of the EMPT, asymmetry of EMPT and vanishing metric energy-momentum tensor. The global a...

Two sets of seven pulse oximeters (Criticare CSI-502; Nellcor-N200; Datex-Satlite; Physio-Control-Lifestat 1600; Critikon-Oxyshuttle; Ohmeda-Biox 3700; Ohmeda-Biox 3740; Radiometer-Oxi; Spectramed-Pulsat; Kontron-7840; Biochem-Ox2000; Invivo-4500; Engström-EOS; Novametrix-505) were studied in two groups of eight healthy subjects, aged 26-50 yrs. The transcutaneous oxygen saturation (SpO2) was c...

To assess the prognostic relevance of mutations in the NPM1 gene encoding a nucleocytoplasmic shuttle protein in younger adults with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and normal cytogenetics, sequencing of NPM1 exon 12 was performed in diagnostic samples from 300 patients entered into 2 consecutive multicenter trials of the AML Study Group (AMLSG). Treatment included intensive double-induction thera...