Radiofrequency catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation (AF) is an effective rhythm control strategy, and its efficacy has been proved to be superior to anti-arrhythmic drugs.1-3) Recently, the European Society of Cardiology’s 2010 revised guidelines for AF management suggested catheter ablation as the firstline treatment in patients with paroxysmal lone AF.4) When Haissaguerre et al.5) initial...

Mutations in the thyroid hormone receptor beta (TRbeta) gene result in resistance to thyroid hormone. However, it is unknown whether mutations in the TRalpha gene could lead to a similar disease. To address this question, we prepared mutant mice by targeting mutant thyroid hormone receptor kindred PV (PV) mutation to the TRalpha gene locus by means of homologous recombination (TRalpha1PV mice)....

INTRODUCTION The significance of intermittent tachycardia within a pulmonary vein (PV) during an episode of atrial fibrillation (AF) is unclear. The aim of this study was to determine the role that intermittent PV tachycardias play in AF. METHODS AND RESULTS In 56 patients with AF, segmental ostial ablation guided by PV potentials was performed to isolate the PVs. The characteristics of inter...

Solar photovoltaic (PV) arrays are providing an increasing fraction of global electrical demand, with an accelerating rate of new installations. Most of these employ conventional glass-fronted panels, but this type of PV array does not satisfy applications that require a light-weight, flexible PV generator. An option discussed in this article is to consider textiles for such solar cell substrat...

In this paper, we prove that S 2 can prove consistency of PV−, the system obtained from Cook and Urquhart’s PV [3] by removing induction. This apparently contradicts Buss and Ignjatović [2], since they prove that PV 6⊢ Con(PV−). However, what they actually prove is unprovability of consistency of the system which is obtained from PV− by addition of propositional logic and BASICe-axioms. On the ...

Voltage boosting from CMOS photovoltaic device (PV) is achieved by implementing multiple PV units on single CMOS chip and are series connected by an external integrated passive device. Localized substrate removal process is developed to electrically isolate the PV units. Four-cell cascaded CMOS PV module provides an open-circuit voltage of 2.05 V while maintaining its superior PV performance.

ABSTRACT Common bacterial blight (CBB), caused by Xanthomonas campestris pv. phaseoli and X. campestris pv. phaseoli var. fuscans, is one of the most important diseases of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) in East Africa and other bean-growing regions. Xanthomonad-like bacteria associated with CBB in Malawi and Tanzania, East Africa, and in Wisconsin, U.S., were characterized based on brown pigm...

Plasmalemma vesicle protein-1 (PV-1) is an integral membrane protein associated with endothelial cell caveolae and fenestrae. Since endocrine glands are enriched with fenestrated endothelium, we examined the distribution of PV-1 mRNA and protein in endocrine glands and determined its cellular localization. A single transcript was detected by RT-PCR in all endocrine glands examined. A synthetic ...

BACKGROUND Circumferential pulmonary vein (PV) isolation for atrial fibrillation (AF) is occasionally difficult to achieve because electrical breakthrough sites (EBSs) between the left atrium (LA) and PVs cannot be identified during ablation especially in the carina regions. METHODS The left PVs (Lt.PVs) of 60 AF patients and the right PVs (Rt.PVs) of 37 patients undergoing PV isolation were ...

Thyroid hormone (T(3)) acts in chondrocytes and bone-forming osteoblasts to control bone development and maintenance, but the signaling pathways mediating these effects are poorly understood. Thrb(PV/PV) mice have a severely impaired pituitary-thyroid axis and elevated thyroid hormone levels due to a dominant-negative mutant T(3) receptor (TRβ(PV)) that cannot bind T(3) and interferes with the ...