Background and Aims. This study evaluated the prognostic accuracy of BUN for severe acute pancreatitis (SAP) and in-hospital mortality (IHM) in terms of the best timing for BUN measurement and the optimal BUN cutoff points. Methods. BUN determinants at the time of admission and 24 hrs after hospital admission were recorded and analyzed statistically. The ability of BUN in predicting the SAP and...

Hot cross bun sign refers to the cruciform-shaped hyperintensity on T2W axial magnetic resonance images (MRI) in multisystem atrophy due to the selective loss of myelinated transverse pontocerebellar fibers and neurons in the pontine raphe and sparing of the pontine tegmentum and corticospinal tracts [Figure 1, Figure 2].[1] The name derives from a sweet spiced bun baked by the Christian church...

The bunched (bun) gene encodes the Drosophila member of the TSC-22/GILZ family of leucine zipper transcriptional regulators. The bun locus encodes multiple BUN protein isoforms and has diverse roles during patterning of the eye, wing margin, dorsal notum and eggshell. Here we report the construction and activity of a dominant negative allele (BunDN) of the BUN-B isoform. In the ovary, BunDN exp...

It is the common practioe that one, makes sweet-potato Shochu by fermenting the first mash consisting only of rice Koji for about 7 days and then by further fermentation of the second mash prepared by addition of the steamed, crushed sweet-potatoes to the first mash. The authors changed the process in several points: (1) Sweet-potatoes were used as cut, steamed pieces and added on the 9 th, and...

In vitro, 7 days of high blood urea nitrogen (BUN) inhibits endothelial L-arginine transport and nitric oxide synthase (NOS) activity. The present study investigates whether 7 days of high BUN in vivo influences renal hemodynamics, blood pressure (BP), and/or the nitric oxide (NO) system. Normal rats were fed low-nitrate food containing 30% urea for 7 days, which increased BUN (15 +/- 1 to 69 +...

AIMS Recent observations in chronic stable heart failure suggest that high-dose loop diuretics (HDLDs) have detrimental prognostic effects in patients with high blood urea nitrogen (BUN), but recent findings have also indicated that diuretics may improve renal function. Carbohydrate antigen 125 (CA125) has been shown to be a surrogate of systemic congestion. We sought to explore whether BUN and...