OBJECTIVE Sympathetic activity increases in patients with mitral stenosis (MS). The association between prolonged Tpeak-Tend (Tp-e) interval and increased sympathetic activity has been demonstrated. This study aimed to evaluate Tp-e interval, Tp-e/QT ratio, and Tp-e/corrected QT interval (QTc) ratio in patients with MS before and after balloon valvuloplasty. METHODS Thirty patients with sever...

Aspirin has emerged as a remarkably safe, inexpensive, and effective drug for the secondary prevention of the complications of atherosclerotic disease. It acts by inhibiting the enzyme prostaglandin (PG) G/H synthase, actually a bifunctional protein that sequentially catalyzes the conversion of arachidonic acid to the highly reactive endoperoxide intermediates PGG2 and PGH2 via its cyclooxygena...

The Tensor Product model transformation is a numerical method that is capable of uniformly transforming LPV (linear parameter-varying) dynamic models into polytopic forms, both in a theoretical and algorithmic context. Using the TP model transformation, different optimization and convexity constraints can be considered, and transformations can be executed without any analytical interactions, wi...

Table 1: The TAG table for a two-input AND gate. cir-unit delay uit power estimation run time % speed ss tp err. ss tp up s349 265. Run-time under a unit delay model: ss : using symbolic simulation, tp : using transition probability. cir-fixed binary inertial delay uit power estimation run time % speed ss tp err. ss tp up s349 231.

BACKGROUND Equine neuroaxonal dystrophy/equine degenerative myeloencephalopathy (NAD/EDM) is a neurodegenerative disorder affecting genetically predisposed foals maintained on α-tocopherol (α-TP)-deficient diet. OBJECTIVE Intramuscular α-TP and selenium (Se) administration at 4 days of age would have no significant effect on serum or cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) α-TP in healthy foals. Serum and ...

In this paper, we develop a theory of the integration of fibring neural networks (a generalization of conventional neural networks) into model-theoretic semantics for logic programming. We present some ideas and results about the approximate computation by fibring neural networks of semantic immediate consequence operators TP and TP , where TP denotes a generalization of TP relative to a many-v...

OBJECTIVE To review and compare the complications of percutaneous tracheotomy (TP) and cricothyroidotomy (CT) used to perform tracheal intubation in patients requiring prolonged mechanical ventilation. DESIGN A prospective, observational study performed from October 2004 to October 2006, and follow-up of course until May 2007. SETTING Intensive care service from a university-affiliated teac...

Triptolide (TP), the main bioactive component of Tripterygium wilfordii Hook F, can cause severe hepatotoxicity. Isoliquiritigenin (ISL) has been reported to be able to protect against TP-induced liver injury, but the mechanisms are not fully elucidated. This study aims to explore the role of nuclear transcription factor E2-related factor 2 (Nrf2) and hepatic transporters in TP-induced hepatoto...

OBJECTIVE Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) as a common genetic heart disease characterized by ventricular hypertrophy and myocardial fibrosis is significantly associated with a higher risk of fatal ventricular arrhythmic events (VAEs). We aimed to assess the interval between the peak and the end of the electrocardiographic T wave (Tp-e) and Tp-e/corrected QT (QTc) ratio as candidate markers of...