BACKGROUND The clinical characteristics of autoimmune autonomic neuropathy are only partially defined. More than 50% of patients with high levels of ganglionic acetylcholine receptor (AChR) autoantibodies have a combination of sicca complex (marked dry eyes and dry mouth), abnormal pupillary light response, upper gastrointestinal tract symptoms, and neurogenic bladder. OBJECTIVE To compare pa...

This review considers many new basic and clinical aspects of parathyroid hormone (PTH). We focus especially on the identification of PTH fragments and how they may relate to renal failure, diagnosis, and treatment of secondary hyperparathyroidism and renal osteodystrophy. The biosynthesis and metabolism of PTH, measurement of circulating forms of PTH, the effects of PTH on receptor activation a...

We report millimeter-VLBI results of low-luminosity active galactic nuclei (M 84 and M 87) up to 88 GHz with source-frequency phase-referencing observations. detected the weak VLBI core obtained first image at GHz. The derived brightness temperature was about 7.2$\times$10$^9$ K, which could serve as a lower limit down 30 Schwarzschild radii still un-resolved in our successfully determined core...

Sensitivity/specificity A cut-off score of 67% on the ABC resulted in 84% sensitivity and 87% specificity in correctly classifying fallers and non-fallers in a cross-sectional study of older people living in the community (Lajoie and Gallagher 2004). Reliability High retest reliability for the overall scale and most of the individual items has been reported in samples of community dwelling olde...

Museum skins of the Black-eared Wheatear Oenante hispanica from the eastern Adriatic coast were examined in order to identify subspecies. All 91 examined skins belong to O. h. melanoleuca. Wing lengths (88-96 mm in adult males, 87-93.5 mm in 2nd year males and 84-92 mm in females) are among the longest for this species. The proportion of the black-throated morph was 56.5% in males and 40.9% in ...

This section focuses on recent work on temporal fluctuations of the intensity of multiply scattered light which are caused by motion of the scatterers. While parts ofthe underlying physics had already been discussed in 1983/84 [85, 86], dynamic multiple scattering of light was introduced by the work on calibrated colloidal latex particles in aqueous suspensions [29, 30, 87], and has since rapid...

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