The pathological mechanism of restenosis is primarily attributed to excessive proliferation of vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMC). The preventive effects of ethanol extract of Dunaliella salina (EDS) on balloon injury-induced neointimal formation were investigated. To explore its molecular mechanism in regulating cell proliferation, we first showed that EDS markedly reduced the human aortic sm...

Silicone based oil is heated in the boiler of the diffusion pump and the vaporized oil rises in the central tower and streams out of directional flutes directed downward in the pump throat. This allows air molecules to dissolve in the gaseous oil (gas dissolved in gas). As the oil-air mixture cools (due to water cooling coils wrapped around the pump throat) the oil condenses and returns to liqu...

Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) is an inheritable connective tissue disorder with a broad clinical heterozygosis, which can be complicated by other connective tissue disorders like Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS). OI/EDS are rarely documented. Most OI/EDS mutations are located in the N-anchor region of type I procollagen and predominated by glycine substitution. We identified a c.3521C>T (p.A1174V) h...

Until recently, measurement of trace elements with ppm concentrations has been inaccessible to STEM EDS. Development of fast SDD detectors with solid angles > 1/2 steradian and faster processors are now making such measurements a reality. STEM EDS measurements already have a low brehmsstrahlung background owing to thin samples. However, the combination of high beam currents required to attain s...

Pramod Kumar, MS, MCh, DNB, MBA King Abdulaziz Specialist Hospital Sakaka, Al-Jouf, Saudi Arabia Sir: A Hippocrates described the features of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS), it was named after 2 physicians, viz., Edvard Ehlers from Denmark and Henri-Alexandre Danlos from France, who described it at the turn of the 20th century.1 It is an inherited disorder of collagen biosynthesis and structure i...

OBJECTIVE To develop and validate a new instrument, the Family Coping Questionnaire for Eating Disorders (FCQ-ED), specifically designed to assess the coping strategies of relatives of patients with eating disorders (EDs). METHOD The study was articulated in the following seven stages: (1) in-depth analysis of scientific literature; (2) focus groups with expert researchers and clinicians in t...

OBJECTIVE Little is known about availability of resources for managing intimate partner violence (IPV) at rural hospitals. We assessed differences in availability of resources for IPV screening and management between rural and urban emergency departments (EDs) in Oregon. METHODS We conducted a standardized telephone interview of Oregon ED directors and nurse managers on six IPV-related resour...

This paper introduces Explicit Dynamic Scheduling (EDS), a practical implementation of dataaow on a chip. By combining RISC design principles with well-known compiler dependence analysis techniques, EDS combines a straightforward hardware design, suitable for high speed implementation, with the performance advantages of dataaow at the instruction level. EDS uniies pipeline and memory latency to...