BACKGROUND The epidemiology of Functional abdominal bloating (FAB) and its impact on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in Chinese people remains unclear. METHODS Randomised, stratified, multi-stage sampling methodology was used to select a representative sample of the general population from five cities in China (n = 16,078). All respondents completed the modified Rome II questionnaire; ...

background : acute myeloid leukemia (aml) is a disease in elderly patients, with a mean age of diagnosis of 70 years. we have analyzed the clinicopathology features and experimental variables in aml patients in eastern iran and the correlation between survival and fab subgroups of aml. materials and methods : during 2009 to 2014 in a retrospective study, 98 patients with aml referred to the cli...

multi drug resistance(mdr) is a major problem in the treatment of cancer and hemalological malignancies. this resistance is multi factorial and is the result of decreased intra cellular drug accumulation. this is partly due to the presence of a 170kd intra membranous protein termed p-glycoprotein(p-gp) that is an energy-dependent efflux pump which has increased expression on drug-resistance cel...

Single-chain urokinase plasminogen activator (scu-PA) that had been modified with N-succinimidyl-3-(2-pyridyldithio)propionate was covalently linked by disulfide bonds to the Fab' of a monoclonal antibody specific for the beta-chain of fibrin (antibody 59D8). scu-PA-59D8 Fab' conjugate was separated from free scu-PA and two-chain urokinase coupled to 59D8 Fab' by two-step affinity chromatograph...

The Drosophila bithorax complex Abdominal-B (Abd-B) gene specifies parasegmental identity at the posterior end of the fly. The specific pattern of Abd-B expression in each parasegment (PS) determines its identity and, in PS10-13, Abd-B expression is controlled by four parasegment-specific cis-regulatory domains, iab-5 to iab-8, respectively. In order to properly determine parasegmental identity...

BACKGROUND Studies indicate that digoxin toxicity often results in lengthy hospitalizations and considerable costs, both of which may be decreased through the routine use of digoxin immune Fab (FAB). METHODS A computer-based decision analysis model was developed to compare the treatment of non-life-threatening digoxin toxicity with either FAB or standard therapy from the hospital perspective....

Insect flight muscle has a large component (Tn-H) in the tropomyosin-troponin complex that is not present in vertebrate striated muscle thin filaments. Tn-H is shown by gold/Fab labelling to be present at regular intervals in insect flight muscle thin filaments. The Fab fragment of a monoclonal antibody to Tn-H was conjugated directly with colloidal gold and this probe used to label isolated th...

BACKGROUND Current therapy for crotaline snakebite includes antivenin (Crotalidae) polyvalent, an antivenom with numerous adverse effects. We compared the efficacy and safety of 2 dosing regimens with a new antivenom, Crotalinae polyvalent immune Fab (Fab AV). METHODS A single dose of Fab AV alone (as-needed [PRN] group) was compared with an initial dose plus repeated treatments during 18 hou...

in this study we produced and purified a high titer of specific and high affin¬ity fab fragments of anti-digoxin antibody. immunization of rabbits with a conju¬gate of the cardiac glycoside digoxin, coupled by a periodate oxidation method to the amino group of lysine in bovine serum albumin resulted in the production of this type of high titer digoxin-specific antibodies with exceptionally high...