The prevalence of asthma keeps on increasing worldwide, especially in western societies over last 40 years. The mechanism of asthma is unclear. Recently, concern about indoor air pollution as a risk factor for asthma has been arisen. In present study, 25 Kun Ming male mice were placed in an air chamber containing respective formaldehyde (FA) concentration of 0, 0.5, 1.0, 3.0 mg/m3,and 3.0 mg/m3...

PurposeAccurate glioma grading and IDH mutation status prediction are critically essential for individualized preoperative treatment decisions. This study aims to compare the diagnostic performance of magnetic resonance (MR) amide proton transfer (APT) diffusion kurtosis imaging (DKI) in prediction.MethodFifty-one patients without were retrospectively included. APT-weighted (APTw) effect DKI in...

Fanconi anemia (FA) is a human genetic disease characterized by congenital defects, bone marrow failure, and increased cancer risk. FA is associated with mutation in one of 24 genes. The protein products of these genes function cooperatively in the FA pathway to orchestrate the repair of DNA interstrand cross-links. Few model organisms exist for the study of FA. Seeking a model organism with a ...

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The sensitivity of diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) for detecting microstructural white matter alterations has motivated the application of voxel-based statistics (VBS) to fractional anisotropy (FA) images (FA-VBS). However, detected group differences may depend on the spatial registration method used. The objective of this study was to investigate the influence of spatial registration on detecti...

The FOGT (Study Group for GI-Oncology) was formed among clinicians and scientists with the aim of testing innovative scientific concepts in gastrointestinal tumors, especially colorectal cancers, within controlled clinical studies. In the FOGT-1 trial (n=813stage III or II(T4N0) colon cancer patients) the effect on recurrence-free and overall survivalwas tested by an adjuvant chemotherapy proto...

In the title compound, [Zn(C(7)H(4)FO(2))(2)(C(5)H(6)N(2))(2)] or [Zn(fa)(2)(2-pa)(2)] (Hfa is 2-fluoro-benzoic acid and 2-pa = pyridin-2-amine), the asymmetric unit contains one Zn(II) cation, two fa ligands and two 2-pa ligands, wherein the Zn(II) displays a distorted tetra-hedral geometry, being surrounded by two monodentate fa ligands with Zn-O distances of 1.962 (2) and 1.976 (3) Å, and by...

Transfer efficiencies of rumen-protected n-3 fatty acids (FA) to milk are low, thus we hypothesized that rumen-protection technologies allow for biohydrogenation and excretion of n-3 FA. The objectives of this study were to i) investigate the ruminal protection and post-ruminal release of the FA derived from the lipid-encapsulated echium oil (EEO), and ii) assess the bioavailability and metabol...

The estimation of individual fitness and quality are important elements of evolutionary ecological research. Over the past six decades, there has been great interest in using fluctuating asymmetry (FA) to represent individual quality, yet, serious technical problems have hampered efforts to estimate the heritability of FA, which, in turn, has limited progress in the investigation of FA from an ...

Background Fusidic acid (FA)an inhibitor of protein synthesis has been used for treating superficial and some systemic infections caused by Staphylococcus aureus. Fusidic acid resistance in S. aureus has been reported throughout the world with prevalence ranging from 0.5% to 50% and is due to i) point mutation in bacterial fusA or fusE gene and ii) by acquired FA resistance determinants fusB, C...