BACKGROUND Patients with sarcoidosis, many of whom are African American, may require lung transplantation (LT). Little is known about survival following LT for sarcoidosis. OBJECTIVE To determine short-term mortality following LT for sarcoidosis, to evaluate if survival after LT for sarcoidosis is similar to outcomes after LT for other diseases, and to investigate the impact of race on the re...

OBJECTIVE A lateral tunnel-total cavopulmonary connection (LT-TCPC) using a right atrial (RA) free wall is the first choice of treatment for patients with a small body weight in this institute. Whether the growth of the LT is appropriate or not according to the growth of the body remains controversial. In addition, the optimal initial diameter of an LT is unknown. The purpose of this study was ...

Anthrax lethal toxin (LT) induces vascular insufficiency in experimental animals through unknown mechanisms. In this study, we show that neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS) deficiency in mice causes strikingly increased sensitivity to LT, while deficiencies in the two other NOS enzymes (iNOS and eNOS) have no effect on LT-mediated mortality. The increased sensitivity of nNOS-/- mice was indep...

BACKGROUND Liver transplantation (LT) is the treatment of choice for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The aim of this study was to investigate the recurrence rate of HCC after LT and prognostic factors for recurrence by comparing LT with non-transplanted resection. METHODS The participants were 338 patients who underwent LT between 1996 and 2012 at Seoul National University Hospital (LT group)...

Cyperus scariosus R.Br is a valuable multipurpose medicinal herb, which belongs to family Cyperaceae. It possesses astringent, anti-inflammatory, diaphoretic, diuretic, cordial and stomach ache properties. An attempt has been made to study in vitro regeneration, floral bud induction, multiple shooting and multiple rooting has been achieved via healthy, moderate axillary buds as explants. The ax...

Murine macrophages have been classified as either susceptible or nonsusceptible to killing by anthrax lethal toxin (LT) depending upon genetic background. While considered resistant to LT killing, we found that bone marrow-derived macrophages (BMMs) from DBA/2, AKR, and C57BL/6 mice were slowly killed by apoptosis following LT exposure. LT killing was not restricted to in vitro assays, as splen...

هدف: به‌کارگیری فناوری رایانش ابری، روند جدیدی در جهان امروز می‌باشد. ابری یکی از فناوری‌های اطلاعاتی نسل جدید است که روز به بیشتر کشورها محبوبیت بیشتری پیدا می‌کند. سال‌های اخیر سازمان‌ها شروع انتخاب مدل‌های خود می‌کنند. مؤسسات آموزشی، به‌ویژه دانشگاه‌ها و مدارس، نمی‌توانند مزایای قابل توجهی را برای آن‌ها همراه دارد، نادیده بگیرند با توجه رو رشد استفاده آن غفلت نمایند. هدف اصلی این پژوهش شناسا...

The present study tested whether exposure of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) to glucose at different concentrations in the media results in increased bacterial adherence to host cells through increased heat-labile enterotoxin (LT) production, thereby suggesting the effects are physiological. Porcine-origin ETEC strains grown in Casamino acid yeast extract medium containing different con...

Incident ESRD after liver transplantation (LT) is associated with high post-transplant mortality. We constructed and validated a continuous renal risk index (RRI) to predict post-LT ESRD. Data for 43,514 adult recipients of deceased donor LT alone (February 28, 2002 to December 31, 2010) were linked from the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid ...

Elite rowers use lactate threshold (LT) estimates as a basis for training intensity in order to achieve the greatest training volume. For convenience, LT is usually determined in a maximal LT/VO2max test. This simultaneous test is problematic because it requires a large power increment, which may not give the most accurate LT. PURPOSE To challenge the validity of a simultaneous LT/VO2max test...