BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Differentiating treatment effects from RPT is a common yet challenging task in a busy neuro-oncologic practice. PS probably represents a different aspect of angiogenesis and vasculature and can provide additional physiologic information about recurrent/progressive enhancing lesions. The purpose of the study was to use PS measured by using PCT to differentiate TIN from RPT...

Mycobacterium leprae (M. leprae) as alternative to current WHO MDT. Individual drugs tested were Rifampicin (RMP), Rifapentine (RPT) and Moxifloxacin (MOXI). Drug combinations were RMP, Clarithromycin (CLARI), Minocycline (MINO) and RMP, MINO and Ofloxacin (OFLO). RPT drug combinations were RPT, CLARI, MINO and RPT, OFLO, MINO. Both the drugs and drug combinations were used as daily regimen and...

Five biopsy specimens of morphologically normal human breast tissues, obtained from the margins of five benign human breast tumors, were processed into slices (4.0 x 4.0 x 0.1 mm) and transplanted s.c. dorsally (eight to ten slices/mouse) into forty-three 6- to 8-week-old female BALB/c athymic nude mice. Each individual human breast tissue specimen was transplanted into seven to ten mice. After...

Five biopsy specimens of morphologically normal human breast tissues, obtained from the margins of five benign human breast tumors, were processed into slices (4.0 x 4.0 x 0.1 mm) and transplanted s.c. dorsally (eight to ten slices/mouse) into forty-three 6to 8-week-old female BALB/c athymic nude mice. Each individual human breast tissue specimen was trans planted into seven to ten mice. After ...

Reversible integer wavelet transforms are increasingly popular in lossless image compression, as evidenced by their use in the recently developed JPEG2000 image coding standard 1]. In this paper, a projection technique is described that exploits non-orthogonality among transform basis vectors to derive nal lifting steps for wavelet transforms. Additionally , projection-based predictions of deta...

Lead (Pb) is a known nephrotoxic element. Recently we have proved that subcellular Ca2+ redistribution is involved in Pb-induced apoptosis in primary cultures of rat proximal tubular (rPT) cells, but the underlying mechanism remains to be elucidated. Firstly, data showed that Pb triggers endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress response in rPT cells, as evidenced by the elevations of ER stress markers...

Residual pleural thickening (RPT) develops in some patients after metapneumonic pleural effusion (MPE). Our aim was to identify factors that predict the development of RPT by retrospectively analyzing patients with MPE secondary to bacterial pneumonia in our practice from 1992 through April 1997. Patients were assigned to groups based on the presence or not of RPT (> 10 mm) three months or more...

Lead (Pb) is a known nephrotoxicant that causes damage to proximal tubular cells. Autophagy has an important protective role in various renal injuries, but the role of autophagy in Pb-elicited nephrotoxicity remains largely unknown. In this study, Pb promoted the accumulation of autophagosomes in primary rat proximal tubular (rPT) cells, and subsequent findings revealed that this autophagosome ...