1Division of Anesthesia Critical Care, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, VA 23298, USA 2Division of Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, VA 23298, USA 3Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, VA 23298, USA *Corresponding author Alpha A. ...

PURPOSE To assess quality and cut-off point (VA <0.7) of the examinations performed by teachers to detect reduced visual acuity (VA) in schoolchildren participants of the project called "Eye in eye " in Marilia-SP, Brazil. METHODS Visual acuity measurements were performed by trained teachers using Snellen's chart. The children with VA <0.7 in one of the eyes were referred to an ophthalmic exa...

BACKGROUND In a previous study a decline of T-lymphocyte function was observed within a 6-month period of Viscum album extract (VA-E) application which did not occur in those patients with dose adaptation in response to strong local reactions (LR) or in those with moderate LR. To further investigate the immunological prerequisites of these differences in the VA-E susceptibilities, an analysis w...

Search for a New Vector Boson A′ Decaying to e+e− J. D. Bjorken∗, R. Essig (spokesperson), P. Schuster (spokesperson) Theory Group, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 94025 M. Graham, J. Jaros, T. Maruyama, K. Moffeit, A. Odian, R. Partridge SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 94025 N. Toro (spokesperson) Theory Group, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305 P...

BACKGROUND Extracts from Viscum album (VA-E) have been shown to induce apoptosis and immunoactivation. To exclude possible B-CLL propagating effects, the in vitro reactions of cultured peripheral blood B-CLL cells were analysed. PATIENTS AND METHODS Intracellular expression of apoptosis-associated mitochondrial Apo2.7 and proliferation-associated Ki-67 molecules in B-CLL cells from patients t...

D. Anez,1 E. Brash,2, ∗ D. Day,3 C. Djalali,4 R. Ent,5 D. Gaskell,5 S. Gilad,6 R. Gilman,7 D. Higinbotham,5 G.M. Huber,8, ∗ Y. Ilieva,4 X. Jiang,9 M. Jones,5 C.E. Keppel,10 M. Kohl,10 W. Li,8 G.J. Lolos,8 S. Malace,11 P.E.C. Markowitz,12 M. Paolone,4 Z. Papandreou,8 C. Perdrisat,13 E. Piasetzky,14 I. Pomerantz,14 A. Puckett,9 V. Punjabi,15 R. Ransome,7, ∗ G. Rosner,16 A.J. Sarty,1 A. Semenov,8 ...

Three trials using 240 weanling pigs were conducted during winter months to determine the influence of nursery temperature ("comfortable" vs "cold") on the response of weanling pigs to added vitamin C (700 ppm) or E (55 IU/kg) to a corn-soybean meal diet. A "comfortable" temperature schedule (27 C initially with a weekly 2 C drop) was maintained in one nursery, with the temperature schedule in ...

BACKGROUND The food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) is the most efficient and cost-effective method to investigate the relationship between usual diet and disease in epidemiologic studies. Although FFQs have been validated in many adult populations worldwide, the number of valid FFQ in preschool children is very scarce. The aim of this study was to evaluate the reproducibility and validity of a s...