Abstract Background Chest radiography is the most common diagnostic imaging test in clinical medicine, and cardiothoracic ratio (CTR) a readily available non-invasive tool with which to assess volume status cardiomegaly. However, it remains unknown whether CTR on chest associated incidence of HF hospitalization AF patients unclear. Methods The Fushimi Registry community-based prospective survey...

Receptor activity-modifying proteins (RAMP13) determine the selectivity of the class B GPCRs calcitonin receptor (CTR) and the CTR-like receptor (CLR), for calcitonin (CT), amylin (Amy), CGRP, and adrenomedullin (AM) peptides. RAMP1/2 alter CLR selectivity for CGRP/AM in part by RAMP1 W84 or RAMP2 E101 contacting the distinct CGRP/AM C-terminal residues. It is unclear if RAMPs use a similar mec...

The uncertainty in time of particle detection within a scintillator detector, characterised by the coincidence time resolution (CTR), is explored with respect to the interaction position within the scintillator crystal itself. Electronic collimation between two scintillator detectors is utilised to determine the CTR with depth of interaction (DOI) for different materials, geometries and wrappin...

Immunohistochemical techniques were used to investigate the relation between retinal pigment epithelial cells (RPE), traction retinal detachment (TRD) membranes, and combined traction rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (CTR) membranes in proliferative diabetic retinopathy. Seven CTR and five TRD membranes were obtained during closed microsurgery. Six of the seven CTR membranes and one of the fiv...

BACKGROUND Vitamin D sterols may modulate vascular response to inflammation and vascular calcification (VC). METHODS Rat aortic rings (RARs) and human vascular smooth muscle cells (HVSMCs) were treated in vitro with phosphate (P), tumour necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α), calcitriol (CTR) and paricalcitol (PCT). Rats having undergone subtotal nephrectomy (Nx) (n = 66) on a high-phosphorus diet we...

Background Despite the bulk of studies on fatty acid supplementation in maternal diet and confirmed the positive effects on brain and vision, these effects on offspring reproductive organs have not been tested. The aim of the present study was to stereological evaluate the effect of feeding Fish Oil (FO) for mothers on the testis structure of offspring. MaterialsAndMethods Sixty mature female N...

Macrophages exposed to 10 mug/mL citrinin (CTR) or 0.01 mug CTR mixed with 0.04 mug aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) for a period of 2 h at 37 masculine C, were infected with 10(6) Toxoplasma gondii tachyzoites/muL. The parasites were treated with mycotoxins (2 h at 37 masculine C) before being added to the macrophage culture. The number of tachyzoites was quantified 2, 24, 48, 72 and 96 h after infection. ...

Relationship between hyperfibrinogenemia (HF), oxidative stress, and atherogenesis was established. Effect of atorvastatin (Ator) was assessed. Wistar male (6 months) rats were studied: Ctr, control, without HF induction; Ctr-Ator, without HF treated with atorvastatin; AI, atherogenesis induced, and AI-Ator, atherogenesis induced and treated with atorvastatin. Atherogenesis was induced by daily...

While no supervised learning algorithm can do well over all functions, we show that it may be possible to adapt a given function to a given supervised learning algorithm so as to allow the learning algorithm to better classify the original function. Although this seems counterintuitive, adapting the problem to the learner may result in an equivalent function that is "easier" for the algorithm t...