BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Thrombolysis for acute ischemic stroke saves societal costs, but hospitals that practice acute stroke care appear to shoulder the burden of the cost, which exceeds reimbursement. With creation of the diagnosis-related group (DRG) 559, the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services pays hospitals approximately US $6000 more per case when thrombolysis is administered. We...

A haemoprotein was purified to apparent homogeneity from Bengal-gram seeds. The purified protein exhibited an absorption maximum at 412 nm (Soret band) that upon reduction with dithionite gave rise to a shift in the Soret band to 426 nm with concomitant appearance of an alpha-band at 559 nm and a beta-band at 530 nm. In the reduced state the Bengal-gram haemoprotein showed reactivity towards CO...

Key words Palladium-catalyzed oligocyclization - pyrenylenes Kobayashi-type aryne pentaphenylene

Photosystem II (PSII) is the site of action of a large number of commercial herbicides and it is the site, where photoinhibition appears when plants are exposed to high light intensities. It is known that manganese, calcium and chloride ions are essential for optimal electron flow within PSII. Recently we have found that at very low concentrations (1-1.5 Cu 2+ / reaction center) copper improves...

The documentation process is very important for identifying yield constraint factors and yield gap. For this purpose, all managing practices were recorded by monitoring of paddy rice fields in Sari region, Iran from 2015 to 2016. Field identifications were undertaken in such a way that they included all the main production procedures with variations in management viewpoints. The results reveale...

Ca(2+)/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase phosphatase (CaMKP/PPM1F) and its nuclear homolog CaMKP-N (PPM1E) are Ser/Thr protein phosphatases that belong to the PPM family. CaMKP-N is expressed in the brain and undergoes proteolytic processing to yield a C-terminally truncated form. The physiological significance of this processing, however, is not fully understood. Using a wheat-embryo cell-fr...

Spinal Cord GABA Receptors Modulate the Exercise Pressor Reflex in 1 Decerebrate Rats 2 3 Han-Jun Wang, Wei Wang, Kaushik P. Patel, George J. Rozanski, Irving H. Zucker 4 5 Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology 6 University of Nebraska Medical Center, NE 68198-5850, USA 7 8 Running Title: GABA receptors and Exercise Pressor Reflex 9 10 Address for correspondence: 11 Irving H. Zucker...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommend human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) screening for all persons aged 13 to 64 years who present to a health care provider. We sought to improve adherence to the CDC guidelines on the Internal Medicine Resident Hospital Service. We surveyed residents about the CDC guidelines, sent email reminders, provided education, and engaged them...

A total of 559 methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates were investigated for heterogeneous vancomycin-intermediate S. aureus (hVISA) by population analysis profile area under the curve. Our results suggested that the incidence of hVISA increased rapidly when vancomycin MIC shifted from 1 to 2 μg/mL, and at vancomycin MIC of 2 μg/mL, the incidence of hVISA was nearly 40%.