A retrospective study aims to explore differences in spinopelvic sagittal alignment between thoracolumbar disc herniation (TLD) and lower lumbar disc herniation (LLD).A total of 185 patients included 26 with TLD and 129 with LLD and 30 asymptomatic volunteers in normal group (NG). Each individual took full spine X-ray to evaluate pelvic incidence (PI), pelvic tilt (PT), sacral slope (SS), lumba...

The use of the diamine rac-trans-1,2-diaminocyclohexane (LL) as a major component of the solvent system allows the isolation of crystalline silver complexes with higher ratios of LL to silver (up to 4 : 1, compared to the previously obtained 1 : 1 in ethanolic solution). The complexes obtained and crystallographically characterized were (LL)2AgNO3 (1), (LL)3Ag(OAc)(H2O)2 (2) and (LL)4AgBr(H2O)3...

Human LL-37, a cationic antimicrobial peptide, was recently shown to have antiviral activity against influenza A virus (IAV) strains in vitro and in vivo. In this study we compared the anti-influenza activity of LL-37 with that of several fragments derived from LL-37. We first tested the peptides against a seasonal H3N2 strain and the mouse adapted H1N1 strain, PR-8. The N-terminal fragment, LL...

This study aimed to investigate the effects of heme oxygenase-1 recombinant Lactococcus lactis (LL-HO-1) on the intestinal barrier of rats with hemorrhagic shock. One hundred Sprague-Dawley male rats (280-320 g) were randomly divided into healthy control group (N group) and hemorrhagic shock group (H group). Each group was subdivided into HO1t, HO2t, HO3t, PBS and LL groups in which rats were i...

Metal complexes of 5-carboxy-2-thiouracil with Mn(ll), Co(ll), Ni(ll), Cu(ll), Zn(ll) and Cd(ll) ions were synthesized, characterized, and subjected to a screening system for evaluation of antitumour activity against Sarcoma-180 (S-180) tumour cells. The complexes were characterized by elemental analysis, infrared, electronic spectra, room temperature magnetic measurements and powder X-ray diff...

OF THE DISCUSSION. DB. MARTIN L. HOLBROOK: In listening to the able and interesting lecture of Prof. Cope, I could not help wishing that he had given us more detailed information about the personal life of Mr. Wallace. Knowledge of the personal characteristics of a writer often greatly helps us to an understanding of his thought and to a due appreciation of the value of his opinions. From a fri...

Usually, a parser for an LL(k)-grammar G is a deterministic pushdown transducer which produces a leftmost derivation for a given input string x 2 L(G). Ukkonen 5] has given a family of LL(2)-grammars proving that every parser for these grammars has exponential size. If we add to a parser the possibility to manipulate a constant number of pointers which point to positions within the constructed ...

LL-37 is a human cationic host defense peptide (antimicrobial peptide) belonging to the cathelicidin family of peptides. In this study, LL-37 was shown to kill stimulated and nonstimulated CD4(+)CD25(+)FoxP3(+) T cells (regulatory T cells; Tregs) through apoptosis, while having no cytotoxic effect on CD4(+)CD25(-) T cells at the same LL-37 concentrations. Of interest, Tregs were much more sensi...

BACKGROUND The authors tested the effects of LL-37 prophylaxis or therapy on the outcome after intraabdominal sepsis and examined whether hyperthermic preconditioning plus LL-37 therapy augments host immune response and improves survival. METHODS A rat model of peritoneal contamination and infection (PCI) with human stool was used to simulate clinical conditions. In trial 1, the authors compa...