BACKGROUND Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) has become the treatment of choice in patients with severe aortic valve stenosis who are not eligible for operative replacement and an alternative for those with high surgical risk. Due to high age and smoking history in a high proportion of TAVI patients, suspicious findings are frequently observed in pre-procedural chest computer tomog...

During health surveys of 7- to 9-week-old goldfish (Carassius auratus L.) fingerlings in a fish farm near Budapest, Hungary, myxosporean plasmodia were observed on the fins. Plasmodia were most frequently found at the intersegmental joints of the finrays. Spores of Myxobolus diversus Nie et Li, 1973 known from China, were detectable in the mature plasmodia located within the lumen, and less oft...

Sphingolipids inhibit the activation of the neutrophil (PMN) NADPH oxidase by protein kinase C pathway. By electron spin resonance spectroscopy (ESR) and chemiluminescence (CL), we studied the effects of sphingosine (SPN) and ceramide analogues on phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA, 5x10(-7) M) stimulated PMN (6x10(6) cells). By ESR with spin trapping (100 mM DMPO: 5,5-dimethyl-1-pyrroline-No...

survey on developmental stages of myxobolus karuni and m. persicus in the gills of barboid fishes from mezopotamian part of iran was done. a total 296 fish specimences were examined. random sampling was carried out during 2002- 2004 from karoun, karkheh rivers and shadgan lagoon. the fishes transported alive to the laboratory, their gills were fixed and stained. myxobolus karuni developed histo...

BACKGROUND & AIMS Nutritional support for patients in the intensive-care unit (ICU) is a part of standard care which promotes medical quality and decreases nosocomial infection. Supplemental parenteral nutrition (SPN) approach (enteral nutrition (EN) combined with parenteral nutrition (PN) when EN alone is insufficient) has become one major concern in nutrition research field. This research aim...

In humans, Streptococcus pneumoniae (SPN) is the leading cause of bacterial meningitis, a disease with high attributable mortality and frequent permanent neurological sequelae. The molecular mechanisms underlying the central nervous system tropism of SPN are incompletely understood, but include a primary interaction of the pathogen with the blood-brain barrier (BBB) endothelium. All SPN strains...

The scaffold protein Spinophilin (SPN) is a regulatory subunit of phosphatase1a located at 17q21.33. This region is frequently associated with microsatellite instability and LOH containing a relatively high density of known tumor suppressor genes, including BRCA1. Several linkage studies have suggested the existence of an unknown tumor suppressor gene distal to BRCA1. Spn may be this gene, but ...

This study was performed to determine infection and pathologies of the parasites (Myxobolus cyprini Lamproglena pulchella) on three different fish species (Barbus lacerta, Capoeta trutta umbla) caught in Wildlife. The for this were transported laboratory accordance with ethical rules investigated parasites. According results, two parasite identified. Myxobolus found soft tissue pectoral fins as...

The stochastic Petri net (SPN) model is well suited to formal representation of concurrency, synchronization, and communication. In this paper we focus on discrete event simulation methods for SPN models with special structure and define a symmetric SPN. Exploiting properties of a symmetric SPN and underlying regenerative process structure, we establish steady state estimation procedures based ...