Essential thrombocythemia (ET), polycythemia vera (PV), and primary myelofibrosis (PMF) are Philadelphia chromosome-negative myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs) characterized by increased myeloid proliferation. The gain of function induced by the Janus kinase 2 mutation, JAK2 V617F , has been reported in most PV and in more than half of ET and PMF cases. 1 However, the presence of different dis...

UNLABELLED Acute intermittent hypoxia (AIH) induces phrenic long-term facilitation (pLTF), a form of spinal motor plasticity. Competing mechanisms give rise to phrenic motor facilitation (pMF; a general term including pLTF) depending on the severity of hypoxia within episodes. In contrast, moderate acute sustained hypoxia (mASH) does not elicit pMF. By varying the severity of ASH and targeting ...

OBJECTIVE The JAK2V617F mutation is present in the majority of patients with essential thrombocythemia (ET) and primary myelofibrosis (PMF). The impact of this mutation on disease phenotype in ET and PMF is still a matter of discussion. This study aims to determine whether there are differences in clinical presentation and disease outcome between ET and PMF patients with and without the JAK2V61...

We propose and demonstrate a novel photonic phase shifter based on vector summation technique using polarization maintaining fibers (PMF). The phase change is achieved by controlling the modulator bias point and the polarization state of the signal injected into PMF. By controlling PMF length, 2π phase change is possible at microwave and millimeter wave frequencies.

recommended the use of the name primary myelofibrosis (PMF) for the clinicopathologic entity otherwise known as chronic idiopathic myelofibrosis, agnogenic myeloid metaplasia, or myelofibrosis with myeloid metaplasia. The deliberations of the expert panel took into account the fact that the key pathogenetic process in PMF is no longer idiopathic or agnogenic; PMF is now known to constitute a cl...

MOTIVATION Mass Spectrometry (MS)-based protein identification via peptide mass fingerprinting (PMF) is a key component in high-throughput proteome research. While PMF was the first commonly used protein identification method, provided higher throughput than the tandem MS-based method, its accuracy is lower than that of the tandem MS method. Thus, it is desirable to develop PMF-based algorithm ...

Spinal serotonin type 7 (5-HT7) receptors elicit complex effects on motor activity. Whereas 5-HT7 receptor activation gives rise to long-lasting phrenic motor facilitation (pMF), it also constrains 5-HT2 receptor-induced pMF via "cross-talk inhibition." We hypothesized that divergent cAMP-dependent signaling pathways give rise to these distinct 5-HT7 receptor actions. Specifically, we hypothesi...

PURPOSE In the WHO diagnostic classification, prefibrotic myelofibrosis (pre-MF) is included in the category of primary myelofibrosis (PMF). However, strong evidence for this position is lacking. PATIENTS AND METHODS We investigated whether pre-MF may be aligned along a clinical and biological continuum in 683 consecutive patients who received a WHO diagnosis of PMF. RESULTS As compared wit...

The M13 phage procoat protein requires both its signal sequence and its membrane anchor sequence in the mature part of the protein for membrane insertion. Translocation of its short acidic periplasmic loop is stimulated by the proton motive force (pmf) and does not require the Sec components. We now find that the pmf becomes increasingly important for the translocation of negatively charged res...

A protonmotive force (pmf) across the cell's inner membrane powers the flagellar rotary motor of Escherichia coli. Speed is known to be proportional to pmf when viscous loads are heavy. Here we show that speed also is proportional to pmf when viscous loads are light. Two motors on the same bacterium were monitored as the cell was slowly deenergized. The first motor rotated the entire cell body ...