OBJECTIVES Some large population-based studies have reported a dose-related increased risk of cataracts and glaucoma associated with use of inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) in patients with asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). We evaluated the association between use of ICS-containing products, specifically fluticasone propionate/salmeterol fixed-dose combination (FSC), and inci...

PURPOSE Retinoblastoma (Rb) is an intraocular tumor that grows rapidly and poses a threat to sight and life. Similar to other tumors, there is increasing speculation that the Rb tumor also contains cancer stem-like cells that could influence the prognosis and response to therapy. This study was undertaken in an attempt to identify putative stem-like cells by characterizing different subpopulati...

PURPOSE In the epidermis, the highest clonogenicity, a feature of stem cells (SCs), is found in the smallest keratinocyte. In the limbal-corneal (LC) epithelium the SCs are exclusively localized in the basal epithelial layer of the limbal domain. The current study was conducted to determine whether this spatial SC arrangement is reflected in differences in the cell size between limbal and corne...

We report the results of our CO J = 4 ! 3 line and rest frame 650 m continuum observations of the z=0.93 hyperluminous infrared galaxy FSC 15307+3252 using the Owens Valley Millimeter Array. No line or continuum emission was detected, but the derived limits provide a useful constraint on the temperature, emissivity, and mass of the cold dust associated with FSC 15307+3252 and its molecular gas ...

Rice, James C., Jeff S. Spence, Judit Megyesi, Randall M. Goldblum, and Robert L. Safirstein. Expression of the polymeric immunoglobulin receptor and excretion of secretory IgA in the postischemic kidney. Am. J. Physiol. 276 (Renal Physiol. 45): F666–F673, 1999.—The humoral mucosal immune response of the kidney involves the transport of secretory IgA (S-IgA) through renal epithelial cells by th...

Onion peel contains a high concentration of quercetin and other flavonoids. In this study, the potential immune-enhancing effects of an onion peel water extract (OPE) supplement were investigated by the rat forced swimming test. OPE was prepared using hot water. Thirty-six male Sprague Dawley rats were fed a pellet diet for 1 week and were then randomly divided into six groups: normal control (...

Snow cover is an essential indicator of global climate change. The composition the underlying surface in Pan-Arctic region complex; forest and other areas with high vegetation coverage have a significant influence on retrieval accuracy fractional snow (FSC). Therefore, to explore impact extraction FSC algorithm, this study developed normalized difference index (NDVI)-based Bivariate Linear Regr...

The adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the food supply chains (FSC) can address unique challenges safety, quality and wastage by improving transparency traceability. However, technology literature FSC is still infancy stage, meaning little known about critical success factors (CSFs) that could affect AI FSC. Therefore, this study makes a pioneering attempt examining CSFs influencing Fo...

The food supply chain (FSC) is considered to be a critical infrastructure by all governments, and multiple strategies have been proposed make FSCs more resilient towards disruptions. However, major disasters such as COVID-19 exposed the vulnerabilities in FSC that were previously invisible (or easily solved) during normal operation but become challenge disaster situation. Researchers quickly re...

The food supply chain (FSC), being a complex network, faces major issues such as traceability, security, safety and sustainability. Blockchain technology (BLCT) is regarded an innovative that can transform FSC by means of its traceable, irrevocable, tamperproof network. BLCT new technology, little work has been carried out on the domain. purpose study to examine most recent trends, benefits, ch...