BACKGROUND Angiogenesis is crucial for wound healing and exogenous supplements of the angiogenic growth factors have been known to promote cutaneous wound healing. Angiopoietin (Ang) 1 is a recently discovered angiogenic factor and there have been few studies of its effect on cutaneous wound healing. OBJECTIVE We examined the effect of Ang 1 on cutaneous wound healing. METHODS Cartilage oli...

The oxidation of atmospheric CH4 in upland soils is mostly mediated by uncultivated groups of microorganisms that have been identified solely by molecular markers, such as the sequence of the pmoA gene encoding the β-subunit of the particulate methane monooxygenase enzyme. The objective of this work was to compare the activity and diversity of methanotrophs in Amazonian Dark Earth soil (ADE, Ho...

Intracoronary continuous thermodilution is a novel technique to quantify absolute coronary flow (Q) and resistance (R) has potential advantages over current methods such as reserve (CFR) index of microvascular (IMR). However, no data are available in patients with ischemia nonobstructive artery disease (INOCA). This study aimed assess the relationship Q R established CFR/IMR INOCA patients, exp...

Adverse drug events (ADEs) are responsible for unnecessary patient deaths making them a major public health issue. Literature estimates 1% of ADEs recorded in Electronic Health Records (EHRs) are reported to federal databases making EHRs a vital source of ADE-related information. Using Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC)'s EHRs, we developed an algorithm to mine for vaccine-related ADEs o...

INTRODUCTION Adverse drug events (ADEs) have been highlighted as a major patient safety and public health challenge by the National Action Plan for Adverse Drug Event Prevention (ADE Action Plan), which was released by the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP) in August 2014. The ADE Action Plan focuses on surveillance, evidence-based prevention, incentives, and oversights, ...

This paper investigates the complex dynamics induced by antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE) in multiserotype disease models. ADE is the increase in viral growth rate in the presence of immunity due to a previous infection of a different serotype. The increased viral growth rate is thought to increase the infectivity of the secondary infectious class. In our models, ADE induces the onset of osc...

It has been suggested that Humphrey's ADE system may be an improvement on the Bain system. To compare their efficiencies we have studied 20 anesthetized adults who had controlled ventilation established with a circle absorber system at a VE sufficient to maintain normocapnia. Patients were then randomly allocated to either a Bain or an ADE system. Fresh gas flow was sufficient to keep PE'CO2 co...

Multistrain diseases are diseases that consist of several strains, or serotypes. The serotypes may interact by antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE), in which infection with a single serotype is asymptomatic, but infection with a second serotype leads to serious illness accompanied by greater infectivity. It has been observed from serotype data of dengue hemorrhagic fever that outbreaks of the f...