Intact FGF23 in the cord blood, the 5-day-old infants and the healthy adults were 3.9+/-1.6, 21.8+/-17.6, and 27.6+/-7.3 pg/ml, respectively. 
Analyses were also performed considering three groups formed according to BF (mm) at mating: BFI (10-15 mm; n = 405); BFII (16-17 mm; n = 649)and BFIII (18-23 mm; n = 367). These results show that there is no advantage, in terms of farrowing rate and number of born alive, in performing the first mating of gilts with GR> 770 g/d and BF > 17 mm..
A total of 22 patients (34%) developed cancer recurrence during the follow-up period (median, 10 months), 17 (77%) of whom presented with recurrent disease at the time of temporal bone resection.
J Clin Psychol 66:1-17, 2010..
Karyotype analysis revealed that two thirds of the cell lines carry a normal euploid karyotype, while one third remained aneuploid throughout the derivation, resulting in 8 hESC lines carrying either trisomy 13 (Patau Syndrome), 16, 17, 21 (Down Syndrome), X (Triple X Syndrome), or monosomy X (Turner Syndrome). Our analysis allowed us to determine which tissues are most affected by the presence of a third copy of either chromosome 13, 16, 17 or 21 and highlighted the effects of trisomies on embryonic development.
The mean follow-up for the group was 10.2 years (range: 5-17.5, median: 9.7).
The rates of spontaneous preterm birth <35 weeks were similar between each group: 24, 17, and 10%, respectively ( P = 0.38).
Thirty adolescents with vertically acquired HIV (aged 11-17) filled in questionnaires of coping and psychological adjustment and a correlational design was used to determine if specific coping styles were related to quality of psychological adjustment.
31.9%), but the estimated intervention effect of 6.5% (95% CI: -4.6 to 17.6%) was not statistically significant, p=0.13.
Biomarkers were measured in an observational cohort of 49 SpA patients (ankylosing spondylitis, n = 32, and psoriatic arthritis, n = 17) initiating TNFalpha inhibitor therapy (infliximab, n = 38; etanercept, n = 8; and adalimumab, n = 3) and compared with levels in healthy subjects.
RESULTS: The volumes of non-calcified, calcified and mixed coronary plaques significantly (P < 0.001) increased from baseline (medians/interquartile ranges = 21/15-39, 7/3-20 and 36/16-69 mm(3)) to follow-up (29/17-44, 13/6-29 and 41/20-75 mm(3)).
RAPD markers were used to study 17 hawthorn genotypes belonging to Crataegus monogyna ssp.
Firstly, LapSVM was trained as a fully-supervised learning classifier to predict diabetes dataset and 79.17% accuracy was obtained.
METHODS: We performed a retrospective study of 30 Japanese children (18 males, 12 females, aged 1-14 years) who had been treated with glucocorticoids for steroid-sensitive nephrotic syndrome and 32 control children (17 males, 15 females, aged 1-15 years).
Insulin blood concentration decreased to 3.9 +/- 1.2 mU/ml following STZ-injection resulting in hyperglycemia (17.9 +/- 0.7 mmol/l).
117 out of 209 (55.9%) articles on people diagnosed with the disorder were in news section of which 57 (48.7%) referred to homicides, 17 (14.5%) to other assaults by the person, and 33 (28.2%) to assaults directed at the person.
At hospital admission, these patients showed a significant higher prevalence of cardiovascular diseases (56.3% vs 53.4%; p = 0.007), neoplasias (32.3% vs 13.7%; p < 0.001), and lower prevalence of neurodegenerative diseases (17.7% vs 20.7%; p < 0.001) than survived patients.
Setting The study was conducted in the capital of the United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi, and involved 17 randomly selected private pharmacies.
The rate of embryo development to the blastocyst stage in the vitrified oocytes also significantly declined following the increase in maternal age (71.8% +/- 8.8, 66.4% +/- 10.7, 64.2% +/- 17.4 and 4.1% +/- 8.3 respectively). There were no such differences in the rates of embryo development to the blastocyst stage among the control groups following the increase in maternal age (75.9% +/- 12.2, 79.5% +/- 28.9, 70.2% +/- 17.4 and 69.3% +/- 19.0 respectively).
The primary objective of this epidemiological surveillance study was to estimate the incidence of intussusception (IS) associated with hospitalisation in children <1, <2 and <17 years of age in Germany.
scyllarus hemocyanin translate into polypeptides of 650-662 amino acids, which include signal peptides of 16 or 17 amino acids.
Uncomplicated crown fracture (without pulp exposure) (502; 26.95%), avulsion (341; 18.30%) and complicated crown fracture (with pulp exposure) (330; 17.71%) were the most prevalent TDI.
Among anaesthesia related critical incidents (42.85% n=48/112), respiratory events were maximum (66.66%) mainly at induction (37.5%) and emergence (43.75%), and factors responsible were human error (85.41%), pharmacological factors (10.41%) and equipment error (4.17%).
After treatment by Tan-I for 48 h, Western blotting showed cleavage of the caspase-3 zymogen protein with the appearance of its 17-kD subunit, and a 89-kD cleavage product of poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP), a known substrate of caspase-3, was also found clearly.
The numbers of patients shivering on arrival in the recovery room at 15 minutes after operation were significantly less in Group P (7%) and Group G (17%) than in Group S (60%).
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For the first time, an error measure is computed from a large, representative manually segmented data set (466 B-scans from 17 eyes, segmented twice by different operators) and compared to the automatic segmentation with a difference of only 2.6% against the inter-observer variability..
Neurological disorders are identified in 79 (87,7%) patients including 17 (18,9%) patients with akinetic-rigid syndrome, 25 (27,8%) with primary walking disturbances and postural instability, 69 (76,6%) with pseudobulbar syndrome, 41 (45,6%) with stereotypy, 11 (12,2%) with pyramidal syndrome and 6 (6,7%) with epileptic seizures.
Approximately 17.3% were hypertensive; 4.5% were diabetic and 2.9% were proteinuric.
Among the patients who agreed for a second OGTT (n=40) during discharge, 11(28%) had normal OGTT at both events, 22(55%) revert to normal on second OGTT while 7(17.5%) persisted abnormal glucose intolerance.
At 1st 6-hours, most of the children 24(80%) of group A had moderate pain whereas 17(56.7%) children of group B had severe pain (p<0.001). At 24 hours most of the patient 17(56.7%) of group A had mild pain compared to 27 (90%) patients of group B had moderate pain (p<0.0001).
KP were found 17.5% patients in grade-I of group-A & 20% patients in grade-I of group-B.
METHODS:: Fifty-eight female patients were divided into three groups and underwent one of the following procedures: group A (n=21), abdominoplasty without quilting sutures; group B (n=17), abdominoplasty with quilting sutures; and group C (n=20), lipoabdominoplasty.
Paediatric-onset patients were further divided into age brackets (0-5, 6-12, and 13-17 year-olds). Among the 179 adult patients (55.3% with diagnosis of ulcerative colitis, 36.3% with CD, and 8.3% with unclassified IBD) instead, severe abdominal pain (P = 0.008), diarrhoea (P = 0.005), and anorexia (P < 0.0001) were more frequently observed.
These systemic T cells from MR mice produced more interleukin-4 and less interferon-gamma and IL-17, indicative of maintenance of the fetal, T-helper cell type 2 phenotype.
17 [ 0-26]; p = .008) and pressor/inotrope-free days (median and [ interquartile range], 23 [ 0-28] vs.
Several variables were independently associated with a delay in defecation: a Pao2/Fio2 ratio of less than 150 mm Hg (adjusted hazard ratio 1.40; 95% confidence interval: 1.06-1.60; p = .0073), a systolic blood pressure between 70 and 89 mm Hg (adjusted hazard ratio 1.48; 95% confidence interval: 1.17-1.79; p = .002), and systolic blood pressure <68 mm Hg (adjusted hazard ratio 1.29; 95% confidence interval: 1.01-1.60; p = .03).
Among the 33 included patients, 17 (52%) were nonresponders.
Knowledge of medications, disease complications, and gastrointestinal structure and function was gained and retained upon retesting at 9 months with a mean Crohn's and Colitis Knowledge questionnaire score of 17.5 (standard deviation 3.9, range 12-26), which was still an improvement over the mean pretest knowledge score of 12.2 (P < 0.001).
Patients and Methods: A group of 68 patients with CKD (stages 2-5; mean age 57 +/- 12 years, 46% male, 34% diabetics) and another group of 21 patients who underwent living donor kidney transplantation (mean age 36 +/- 17 years, 50% male, 10% diabetics, and 9 +/- 2 months after renal transplantation) were included in the study.
The mean age of the patients with disorders of pregnancy was 17.52 +/- 1.16 years, which is significantly higher than that of groups A, C and E (p = 0.007, 0.0001 and 0.05). The main presenting symptoms at admission were vaginal bleeding: 31 (57.4%), abdominal pain: 17 (31.5%), abdominal mass: 10 (18.5%), and vomiting: 10 (18.5%).
Results: 32 (24.6%) patients (95% CI 17.5-32.9%) were nasal carriers of S.
However, 76 (91.6%), a majority, agreed that they needed more information on HIV-related issues, with 59 (71.1%) specifying a single area of need and 17 (20.5%) more than one area of need.
The patients' median age was 32 years (range: 17-61).
Urological complications such as gross hematuria (17.9%), acute urinary retention (8.9%) and acute urinary tract infection (7.1%) were noticed.
When possible, we will try to achieve this goal also by providing some results from our personal experience regarding: some aspects of CYP21A2 gene analysis, with basic genotype/phenotype relationships; its crucial role in both genetic counselling and in prenatal diagnosis and treatment in families at risk for 21-OHD; its help in the comprehension of the severity of the disease in patients diagnosed by neonatal screening and possibly treated before an evident salt-loss crisis or before performing adequate blood sampling; its usefulness in the definition of post ACTH 17-hydroxyprogesterone values, discriminating between non-classic, heterozygote and normal subjects; and finally the contribution of genes other than CYP21A2 whose function or dysfunction could influence 21-hydroxylase activity and modify the presentation or management of the disease..
Expression of differentially expressed genes was validated by real-time PCR.Results: Unsupervised hierarchical clustering showed clustering of multiple samples from the same case in 14/17 cases and identified subgroups associated with tumor grade and 1p/19q status. 176 genes were differentially expressed, 164 being associated with 1p/19q loss (86% not on 1p or 19q).
This anomalous behavior is observed when the [ 002] texture axis is tilted approximately 17 degrees from the substrate normal in the direction towards the glancing incident flux..
The proportion spent on generic ARVs increased from 9.17% (95% confidence interval [ CI], 9.17%-9.18%) in 2005 to 76.41% (95% CI, 76.41%-76.42%) in 2008 (P < .001), and the proportion of generic packs procured increased from 14.8% (95% CI, 14.79%-14.84%) in 2005 to 89.33% (95% CI, 89.32%-89.34%) in 2008 (P < .001).
RESULTS: The 632 patients provided 740.7 person-years of follow-up; 119 (18.8%) met World Health Organization failure criteria after a median 11.9 months following the start of second-line therapy (interquartile range [ IQR], 8.7-17.0 months), and 34 (5.4%) died after a median 15.1 months (IQR, 11.9-25.7 months). Failure rates were lower in those who changed 2 nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs) instead of 1 (179.2 vs 251.6 per 1000 person-years; incidence rate ratio [ IRR], 0.64; 95% confidence interval [ CI], 0.42-0.96), and higher in those with lowest adherence index (383.5 vs 176.0 per 1000 person-years; IRR, 3.14; 95% CI, 1.67-5.90 for <80% vs >/=95% [ percentage adherent, as represented by percentage of appointments attended with no delay]). Failure rates increased with lower CD4 cell counts when second-line therapy was started, from 156.3 vs 96.2 per 1000 person-years; IRR, 1.59 (95% CI, 0.78-3.25) for 100 to 199/muL to 336.8 per 1000 person-years; IRR, 3.32 (95% CI, 1.81-6.08) for less than 50/muL vs 200/muL or higher; and decreased with time using second-line therapy, from 250.0 vs 123.2 per 1000 person-years; IRR, 1.90 (95% CI, 1.19-3.02) for 6 to 11 months to 212.0 per 1000 person-years; 1.71 (95% CI, 1.01-2.88) for 12 to 17 months vs 18 or more months.
The median CD4 cell count for those with new HIV diagnoses in the opt-out phase (including those diagnostically tested) and in the diagnostic phase was 69/muL (IQR, 17-430) and 13/muL (IQR, 11-15) , respectively (P = .02).
RESULTS: Among 2176 participants free of HIV infection who received a vaccine product, 908 (41.7%; 95% confidence interval [ CI], 39.6%-43.8%) had VISP, but the occurrence of VISP varied substantially across different HIV vaccine product types: 399 of 460 (86.7%; 95% CI, 83.3%-89.7%) adenovirus 5 product recipients, 295 of 552 (53.4%; 95% CI, 49.2%-57.7%) recipients of poxvirus alone or as a boost, and 35 of 555 (6.3%; 95% CI, 4.4%-8.7%) of DNA-alone product recipients developed VISP. Overall, the highest proportion of VISP (891/2176 tested [ 40.9%]) occurred with the HIV 1/2 (rDNA) EIA kit compared with the rLAV EIA (150/700 tested [ 21.4%]), HIV-1 Plus O Microelisa System (193/1309 tested [ 14.7%]), and HIV 1/2 Peptide and HIV 1/2 Plus O (189/2150 tested [ 8.8%]) kits. Only 17 of the 908 participants (1.9%) with VISP tested nonreactive using the HIV 1/2 (rDNA) kit.
Herein we show that GAM/ZFp/ZNF512B works within an intricate gene regulatory network involving cell-cycle regulators, TGFbeta effectors and oncogenic miRNAs of the miR-17-92 cluster. Thus, GAM impairs the transcriptional activation of the miR-17-92 promoter by c-Myc, downregulates miR-17-92 miRNAs differentially, and limits the activation of genes responsive to TGFbeta canonical pathway. In contrast, TGFbeta decreases GAM transcripts levels while differentially upregulating miR-17-92 miRNAs. In turn, miR-17, miR-20a and miR-92a-1 target GAM transcripts, thus establishing a feedback autoregulatory loop.
Consequently, we expressed 17 mutant proteins with amino acid substitutions in the active site of D10 and found that eight are critical for the decapping activity.
Finally, our results clearly show that although CCR5 ligands induced cosignaling for IL-2 production is directed by CCR5, other proinflammatory properties of these ligands, such as TNF-alpha, IL-17, and IFN-gamma production, are CCR5 independent and therefore likely to be mediated by the other receptors for these ligands.
Twenty nulliparous participants were studied before pregnancy; 17 had normal pregnancies (control; CTL) and 3 CH.
Average daily core T(b) ranged from 34.7+/-0.6 to 37.3+/-0.8 degrees C (mean +/- s.d.) over an average daily T(a) range of 17.1+/-1.1 to 23.5+/-1.8 degrees C.
Significant associations were observed at UGT1A1 (rs11891311, P = 4.78 x 10(-148)) and SLCO1B3 (rs2417940, P = 1.03 x 10(-17)), which are two previously identified loci. The two single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were replicated (rs11891311, P = 3.18 x 10(-15)) or marginally significant (rs2417940, P = 8.56 x 10(-4)) in an independent cohort of 1096 individuals. The SLCO1B3 variant (rs2417940, P = 1.67 x 10(-18)) remained significant in a conditional analysis for the top UGT1A1 variant. While the variant rs2417940 at intron 7 of SLCO1B3 was more significantly associated in Koreans, variants rs17680137 (P = 0.584) and rs2117032 (P = 2.76 x 10(-5)), two of the top-ranked SNPs in European-derived populations, did not reach the genome-wide significance level.
Learning was evaluated using a multiple schedule of repeated learning and performance in female rats subjected to lifetime Pb exposure (0 or 50 ppm Pb in drinking water beginning in dams 2 mos prior to breeding; blood Pb levels approximately 10 mug/dl), to prenatal restraint stress on gestational days 16 and 17, or to both.
Major cellular fatty acids detected were iso-C(16:0), anteiso-C(17:0) and iso-C(18:0), and major menaquinone was MK-9(H(8)).
Stimulation of isolated cardiac preparations by isoproterenol increased phospholamban phosphorylation at the serine 16 and threonine 17 sites.
Cumulative appropriate shock incidence for patients with RV threshold >/=1 V (n = 166) was 16% at 1 year, 24% at 3 years and 34% at 5 years compared with 4, 11 and 17% for patients with an RV-threshold <1 V (n = 523).
We describe a 28-year-old patient with childhood KD having coronary complications at the age of 17 now presenting with sustained atrial tachycardia.
An average bit rate of more than 37 bits/minute was achieved with just one and a half minutes of training, achieving an increase of about 17 bits/minute compared to the fully supervised classification in one of the configurations.
RESULTS: The systematic literature search identified 217 individual systematic reviews, of which 57 ultimately met study eligibility criteria. Ten (17.5%), 20 (35.1%) and 27 (47.4%) systematic reviews were published in 1998 to 2001, 2002 to 2005 and 2006 to 2008, respectively.
Patients were divided according to the type of suburethral sling into the transobturator tape group (15 patients) and the tension-free vaginal (retropubic) tape group (17 patients).
CONCLUSIONS: The incidence of laparoscopic bowel injury has increased in the last 17 years.
Meanwhile, the incubation with plasmids caused significant reduction of mitochondrial membrane potential (31.44+/-2.17% vs.
Intact FGF23 in the cord blood, the 5-day-old infants and the healthy adults were 3.9+/-1.6, 21.8+/-17.6, and 27.6+/-7.3 pg/ml, respectively.
Thirteen peptides containing all immunoreactive regions were constructed and used in paired serum and CSF of MS patients (n=17) and controls (n=18).
In multivariate analysis, after adjustment with a propensity score analysis, preoperative statin therapy was associated with a significant reduction of postoperative mortality in patients with high risk (odds ratio = 0.41; 95% confidence interval, 0.17-0.97; p = 0.04).
The median age was 74 years (IQR 68-77), and 17 (63%) patients were male.
ENS to ECRL exhibited force of 15-20% of maximal E (15-20%Max-E) and 19-29%Max-AB, that to ECRB 24-32%Max-E, and that to ECU 17-30%Max-AD.
RESULTS: The most frequently mutated gene was DNAPKcs (n=14, 34%) followed by RAD50 (n=7, 17%), MRE11, ATR and BRCA1 (n=6, 15%), and by CtIP and MCPH1 (n=5, 12%).
In the subgroup analysis for different tumour types, Arg(388) allele had an effect of increasing the risks of breast (homozygote comparison OR=1.57, 95% CI=1.04-2.37, P(heterogeneity)=0.83 and the recessive model OR=1.51, 95% CI=1.02-2.24, P(heterogeneity)=0.80) and prostate cancer (Gly/Arg versus Gly/Gly: OR=1.16, 95% CI=1.02-1.32, P(heterogeneity)=0.74; Arg versus Gly: OR=1.17, 95% CI=1.07-1.29, P(heterogeneity)=0.18 and the dominant model: OR=1.20, 95% CI=1.06-1.35, P(heterogeneity)=0.89).
This system was able to remove 63% of chemical oxygen demand (COD), 53% of total organic carbon (TOC), 42% of aromatic content (UV(254)) and increased the leachate 5-day biochemical oxygen demand (BOD(5)) to COD ratio from 0.01 to 0.17.
I find that rich patients are more likely than other patients to bribe in public health care: doubling household expenditure increases the bribery probability by 1.2 percentage points compared to a bribery rate of 17%.
There was a significant difference (p<0.05) between the retention of the MTLP-Zn (39.0+/-6.4%) and MRG+exo-Zn (17.2+/-3.7%) and of this zinc retained by the zebrafish a significantly greater proportion of the MTLP-Zn feed had been transported away from the site of uptake.
The hydrochemistry is dominated by HCO(3)(-) (208 to 440mg/L), Ca(2+) (79 to 178mg/L) and Mg(2+) (17 to 45mg/L) ions along with high concentrations of As(T) (As total, below detection limit to 0.29mg/L), Fe(T) (Fe total, 1.2 to 16mg/L), and Fe(II) (0.74 to 16mg/L).
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In total, 394 of 2057 men (19%) and 499 of 2889 women (17%) stopped smoking or smoked fewer cigarettes per day.
By age group, the greatest MRSA rate increase was for individuals 17 years and younger.
The aim of the present study was to compare primary resistance rates in 501 Helicobacter pylori strains in 2007 to 2009 to those in 1990 to 1995 (179 strains) and the antibiotic MICs to detect the 20-year resistance evolution. In 2008 to 2009, more children (29.3%) harbored clarithromycin-resistant strains compared to the adults (17.4%).
Wound infections occurred in 14% (n = 17). The addition of oral antibiotics to the standard regimen of mechanical bowel preparation with intravenous antibiotics did not alter infection rate (13% versus 17%, P = .64).
After therapeutic antibiotics (2-5 days), 11% (2/18) had some degree of wound infection, versus 41% (7/17) after either no antibiotics or after prophylactic antibiotics (24 hours).
Tumors were benign in 58 cases and malignant in 17 cases.
Twenty-six children experienced 29 (59%) surgical complications: portacaval shunt thrombosis (n = 2, none alive); graft duodenal stump leakage (n = 3, 2 alive); spontaneous bowel perforation(n = 6, 2 alive); sub-acute bowel obstruction (n = 6, all alive); abdominal compartment syndrome ([ ACS], n = 4, 2 alive); pancreatic leak (n = 3, 2 alive); biliary complications (n = 22, 17 alive ) failed staged abdominal closure with wound sepsis requiring skin grafting into the bowel (n = 1, alive), wound dehiscence (n = 1, alive), anastomotic leak (n = 1, alive) and intra-abdominal bleeding (n = 1,alive), primary nonfunction (n = 1, 1 died).
RESULTS: Fifty-three patients (31 female, 22 male; approximately 2.6 years; range, 0-17 years) were reviewed.
In infants less than 1000 g birth weight, the prevalence was 14% (12-16), and in less than 26 weeks of gestation, 14% (11-17).
The detection limits of polyphenols at 450nm (in the range of 0.17-3.46muM) after post-column derivatization were comparable to those at 280nm UV detection without derivatization.
Detection limits for the phthalate samples were within the range of 2.17-20.84ngL(-1).
The GC inlet temperature was optimized to 170 degrees C held for 0.1min, then 1 degrees Cs(-1) ramp to 250 degrees C where it was held for 40min.
vivax exposed individuals were 182.02, 60.3, 62.84, 196.01 and 177.17 pg/ml against PvTRAg 35.2 and 185.27, 58.15, 64.56, 142.01 and 157.2 pg/ml against PvTRAg 80.6 showing mixed immune response with distinct biased towards anti-inflammatory Th2 phenotype.
METHODS: An open-labelled phase I trial was conducted in children aged 3-11 years to receive aluminum-adjuvated, split-virion H5N1 vaccine (5-30mug) and in children aged 12-17 years to receive aluminum-adjuvated, whole-virion H5N1 vaccine (5-15mug). Then a randomized phase II trial was conducted, in which 141 children aged 3-11 years received the split-virion vaccine (10 or 15mug) and 280 children aged 12-17 years received the split-virion vaccine (10-30mug) or the whole-virion vaccine (5mug). FINDINGS: 5-15mug adjuvated split-virion vaccines were well tolerated in children aged 3-11 years and 5-30mug adjuvated split-virion vaccines and 5mug adjuvated whole-virion vaccine were well tolerated in children aged 12-17 years. In 12-17 years children, the 30mug split-virion vaccine induced the highest immune response with 71% seroconversion and seroprotection rates.
Intermediate precision, expressed as relative standard deviation, was 17%.
24% had received foot assessment within 3 months of diagnosis of IA and 17% yearly review thereafter.
Compared with 8-Methoxypsoralen (EC(50), 35.94muM for stimulating pigmentation), apigenin (EC(50), 17.46muM) and icariin (EC(50), 32.77muM) showed better melanogenic activity, while hyperosid (EC(50), 70.4muM) was less potent.
STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING: We used a 5% random sample of adult patients (969 patients) within a convenience sample of 17 primary care physicians using Practices Solutions EMR in Ontario.
IL-2 production was significantly enhanced (p<0.05) in lymphocytes from rats treated with DOXO (169.17+/-21.73 pgmL10(5) cell) as compared to cells from SAL (45.92+/-10.53pgmL10(5) cell).
The following reflux in 1417 venous segments was treated: primary great saphenous vein (GSV) (n = 745); recurrent GSV (n = 286), primary small saphenous vein (SSV) (n = 189), recurrent SSV (n = 50); primary anterior accessory saphenous vein (AASV) (n = 93); recurrent AASV (n = 46); vein of the popliteal fossa (VOPF) (n = 5), and Giacomini vein (GV) (n = 3). During a mean (range) follow-up of 28 (<1 to 68) months, 161 (12.9%) legs underwent a further session of UGFS for truncal VV at a mean (range) of 17 (<1 to 63) months following the first treatment.
A pressurized liquid extraction and on-line SPE-HPLC method was developed for simultaneous determination of six polyynes, including falcarindiol, oplopandiol, (11S,16S,9Z)-9,17-octadecadiene-12,14-diyne-1,11,16-triol,1-acetate, oplopandiol acetate, oplopantriol A, oplopantriol B, and one polyene, (S,E)-nerolidol, in Oplopanax horridus and Oplpanax elatus.
The tumor recurrence was detected in 7 of the 39 lesions (7/39, 17.9%) which had no significant enhancement 1 week after HIFU.
They underwent two gadobenate dimeglumine-enhanced MR examinations (interval 24-48h) using short-axis inversion-recovery gradient-echo sequences, with the following two different protocols, in randomized order: 0.05mmol/kg and imaging at the 2.5th, 5th, 7.5th and 10th minute plus 0.05mmol/kg and imaging at the 12.5th, 15th, 17.5th and 20th minute; the same as before but using 0.1mmol/kg for both contrast injections. The CNR between infarcted myocardium and the left ventricle cavity obtained at the 20th minute with 0.05 plus 0.05mmol/kg resulted significantly higher than all other measured values (P17).
Multivariate analyses showed high perceived stress scores were associated with an increased risk of elevated total cholesterol (OR=2.10; 95% CI=1.17-3.77) and elevated low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) (OR=2.39; 95% CI=1.36-4.21).
METHODS: Partial ulnar nerve transfer was performed in 23 patients, and intercostal nerve transfer was performed in 17 patients. Ten of 17 patients recovered useful elbow flexion force (British Medical Research Council grade >M3) in the intercostal nerve transfer group, compared with 20 of 23 patients in the ulnar nerve transfer group.
In 17 of 24 cases in which full-thickness skin grafts from the groin region were used, patients reported commissural hair growth in the grafted region.
The mean length of exposed bone (D) was 17 +/- 8 mm as primary endpoint, and the mean Subjective, Objective, Management, and Analytic evaluation of injury (SOMA) score was 16 +/- 4.
METHODS AND MATERIALS: Free-breathing four-dimensional computed tomography (CT) data sets and CT data sets during breath hold were acquired weekly for 17 patients undergoing treatment for non-small-cell lung cancer.
RESULTS: In the test group, 6-month IC rates were 17% for 14-18 points, 49% for 19-23 points, and 77% for 24-27 points (p <0.0001).
Adjusting for traditional and nontraditional risk factors and C-reactive protein, cardiac troponin T, and N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide levels, a doubling in plasma MPO level was associated independently with a 46% (95% CI, 1.02-2.08; P = 0.04) and 60% (95% CI, 1.17-2.18; P = 0.003) increase in risks of mortality and cardiovascular events, respectively.
For prevention of CVC colonisation, adjusted silver iontophoretic catheters (odds ratio: 0.58; 95% confidence interval: 0.33-0.95), chlorhexidine and silver sulfadiazine catheters (0.49; 0.36-0.64), chlorhexidine and silver sulfadiazine blue plus catheters (0.37; 0.17-0.69), minocycline-rifampicin catheters (0.28; 0.17-0.43) and miconazole-rifampicin catheters (0.11; 0.02-0.33) were associated with a significantly lower rate of catheter colonisation compared with standard catheters.
Mortality was strongly associated with high baseline CD4 cell count (>/=200 cells per muL vs <25; adjusted hazard ratio 0.21, 95% CI 0.17-0.27), WHO clinical stage (stages III-IV vs I-II; 3.45, 2.43-4.90), bodyweight (>/=60 kg vs <45 kg; 0.23, 0.18-0.30), and anaemia status (none vs severe: 0.27, 0.20-0.36).
hydrated ash) in two onsite pilot-scale experiments (with subsurface flow filters) in Estonia: one using pre-treated municipal wastewater with total phosphorus (TP) concentration of 0.13-17.0 mg L(-1) over a period of 6 months, another using pre-treated landfill leachate (median TP 3.4 mg L(-1)) for a total of 12 months.
Sediments from Jobos Bay area (n=14) had higher overall average concentrations than those from La Parguera area (n=5, used as reference site), in mug/g dw, for As (17 vs 9), Cu (29 vs 14), Pb (11 vs 4), and Zn (64 vs 28); and in %, for Fe (2.6 vs 0.6).
Twelve-month values (mean percent +/- SD) were as follows: Forced expiratory volume in 1 second fell from 95 +/- 19 to 89 +/- 16 (P = .02); forced expiratory volume in 1 second/forced vital capacity ratio was unchanged, 95 +/- 12 versus 94 +/- 13 (P = .9); total lung capacity fell from 106 +/- 19 to 98 +/- 12 (P = 0.002); vital capacity fell from 100 +/- 22 to 96 +/- 16 (P = .05); residual volume fell from 126 +/- 32 to 107 +/- 29 (P = .002); and diffusion capacity for carbon monoxide corrected for alveolar volume was unchanged, 88 +/- 15 versus 91 +/- 17 (P = .07).
METHODS: We evaluated 400 randomly selected public MySpace profiles of self-reported 17- to 20-year-olds from zip codes, representing urban, suburban, and rural communities in one Washington county.
Most common AEs reported in subjects who received TB-402 were headache (11 [ 29%]), vessel puncture-site hematoma (7 [ 18%]), and traumatic hematoma (5 [ 13%]); with placebo, these AEs were vessel puncture-site hematoma (4 [ 22%]), headache (3 [ 17%]), vasovagal reaction (3 [ 17%]), and hematuria (3 [ 17%]).
Results: A total of 17,579 patients were included in the analysis (10,694 tamoxifen users, 6885 nonusers). Tamoxifen use among those with either ER+ or PR+ status (but not both) remained cost-effective: $1217 to $3107 for 1 life-year gained.
Cohort 1 had significant reductions from baseline to the end of follow-up in mean scores on the MAS for the right hemibody (from 1.85 [ 0.61] to 1.18 [ 0.60]; P = 0.002) and left hemibody (from 1.86 [ 0.55] to 1.27 [ 0.65]; P = 0.045), PSFS (from 2.00 [ 0.91] to 0.36 [ 0.81]; P = 0.002), and GPS (from 47.69 [ 13.94] to 24.09 [ 17.15] mm; P = 0.002).
The rates of treatment-related AEs between the first and second doses of study medication were significantly lower for FDC ibuprofen 400 mg/paracetamol 1000 mg (8/149 patients [ 5.4%]) than for placebo (14/73 [ 19.2%]; P < 0.01) and paracetamol 1000 mg (10/74 [ 13.5%]; P < 0.05); and also lower for FDC ibuprofen 200 mg/paracetamol 500 mg (9/143 [ 6.3%]) compared with ibuprofen 200 mg (12/75 [ 16.0%]; P < 0.05) and paracetamol 500 mg (17/76 [ 22.4%]; P < 0.001).
Adverse effects of the regimen included supportive transfusions required in 31 (20%) patients, and fevers requiring hospitalization or intravenous antibiotics in 26 (17%) patients.
During a median follow-up of 25 months, seven (30%) of patients experienced GvHD (acute II-IV: n=4, 17%; acute III-IV: n=2, 8%; chronic limited: n=2, 8%; chronic extensive: n=1, 4%).
The serum lysozyme activities of fish fed diets T1 and T2 were significantly higher than that of fish fed control diet, and had respectively increased by 34.7% and 17.4% compared to the control after 60 days of feeding.
The hypothalami of prepubertal (17-week-old) and peripubertal (32-week-old) female lambs were compared using single and double-labelling immunohistochemistry, and hybridization in situ for NPY.
After positive selection by magnetic cell separation, a 60-fold increase with a purity of up to 17.79% in the lymphocyte gate and 86.18% in the CD8+ T cell gate could be achieved for CD8(+)WT1streptamer(+)CD28(+/-)CD45RA(+)CCR7(-) effector T cells.
LC-SF detected 17/32 pathogens recovered from blood cultures (BC) and 11/23 pathogens not recovered from BC; 12 microorganisms were detected neither by BC nor by LC-SF.
The perfusion rates of the lower extremities with severe PAOD (n=25 legs, 16.6+/-8.3 %/min) were significantly lower than those of normal controls (38.1+/-17.3 %/min, p <0.001).
At 17 weeks after infection all the badgers were examined post-mortem to assess the pathological and bacteriological responses to challenge.
METHODS: : This study employed the somatostatin-secreting TGP52 cell line maintained in DMEM:F12 (17.5 mM glucose) or DMEM (25 mM glucose) culture media.
SM analogs with a single methyl-branching at carbon 15 (of a 17:0 acyl chain; anteiso) had a lower gel-liquid transition temperature as compared to an isobranched SM analog.
112 patients (41%; group 1) had abnormalities detected (17 hydrosalpinx, 11 intrauterine pathology, 63 congenital thrombophilia, 21 acquired thrombophilia) and the remaining 161 (59%; group 2) had normal work-up.
The antimicrobial activity of 1 and a series of its familiar symmetric heptaaza [ 15]pydieneN(5), [ 16]pydieneN(5), and [ 17]pydieneN(5)-based bis-(2-aminoethyl) pendant armed Schiff base macrocyclic complexes of Mn(II) were tested against Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus and Candida albicans. The results showed that the symmetric heptaaza [ 16]pydieneN(5), and [ 17]pydieneN(5)-based Schiff base macrocyclic complexes of Mn(II) had remarkable inhibition zone on the culture of S.
Here, whole-genome resequencing and comparative genome hybridization of representatives of three populations revealed 17 mutations, six of which explained the adaptive increases in mitotic fitness.
TCQ-SF factors of emotionality (p=0.0015), compulsivity (p=0.0003) and purposefulness (p=0.0174) were significantly greater in the schizophrenia group than the control group. FTND scores (5.5+/-2.0 vs 5.3+/-2.0, p=0.62) number of cigarettes smoked daily (17.9+/-11.6 vs. 17.0+/-7.9), expired breath CO (28.0+/-14.5ppm vs.
Patients were classified into chronic asymptomatic infection (17/33, 51.5%), chronic symptomatic infection (11/33, 33.3%) and hyperinfection (5/33, 15.2%).
For the hospitalised adults, the detection of norovirus in mouthwash samples was associated with the presence of vomiting (p=0.1); and in those patients with norovirus infection whose mouthwash samples were collected within 24h of the onset of vomiting, 59% (10/17) had norovirus detected.
Fluorescence in situ hybridization using centromeric DNA probes for chromosomes 7, 17, 3, and 3p25 showed gains only in chromosome 7 and no other aberrations.
The diagnosis of DFSP was confirmed by demonstrating an unbalanced translocation der(22)t(17;22)(q21.3;q13.1) by conventional cytogenetic and fluorescence in situ hybridization analyses. Confirmation of the diagnosis in unusual sites requires identification of the characteristic t(17;22) chromosomal translocation..
In this study, we reviewed 3 gonadoblastoma cases, 2 of which were bilateral, in patients 21, 17, and 18 years of age.
RESULTS: The offspring of UN at birth showed 17% less body weight compared with C, but at 90 days the UN had a greater body weight than C (p <0.01).
The PV of various body segment lengths showed that the femur peaked earliest at 20.7months prior to menarche, followed by the humerus (at 18.0months), radius (at 17.4months), tibia (at 17.5months), and trunk (at 11.8months), respectively.
To address this question, 17 naturally cycling women were each scanned during the early follicular and mid-luteal phases of the cycle, and response to IAPS images was assessed by fMRI.
RESULTS:: Among 306 patients, 56.2% were diagnosed between the ages of 17 and 40 years.
Twenty-eight children had GI bleeding, at a median age of 17 months.
The Survey of Sugar Intake among Children in Scotland was carried out in 2006 in those aged 3-17 years. A total of 1700 interviews were carried out, and 1512 FFQ were returned.
microplus transcripts from BmiGI Version 2 we identified 297 high and 17 low expressed transcripts that were significantly differentially expressed between R.
Data analyses including descriptive and inferred statistics were performed using SPSS, version 17.
The studies described here were undertaken to elucidate in detail the signaling pathways mediating the migratory responses of amidated gastrin (G17) and to understand the involvement of the serine/threonine kinase Glycogen Synthase Kinase-3 beta (GSK3beta) in this. RESULTS: Our results indicate that incubation of gastric cancer cells overexpressing CCK2 receptor (AGSE cells) with G17 results in a dose and time dependent increase of GSK3beta-Ser9 phosphorylation, indicative of an inhibition of the kinase. Pretreatment with a pharmacological inhibitor of PI3Kinase pathway (Wortmannin) was unable to antagonize G17-induced GSK3beta-Ser9 phosphorylation, suggesting that this might involve PI3Kinase-independent pathways. Treatment with G17 was also associated with increased Snail expression, and beta-catenin nuclear translocation, both of which are GSK3beta downstream targets. Pretreatment with a pharmacological inhibitor of GSK3beta (AR-A014418) augmented Snail expression and beta-catenin nuclear translocation in the absence of G17, whereas overexpression of a phosphorylation deficient mutant of GSK3beta (S9A) abrogated Snail promoter induction. These suggested that G17 modulates Snail and beta-catenin pathways via inhibiting GSK3beta. In addition, overexpression of GSK3beta wild type (WT) or S9A mutant inhibited G17-induced migration and MMP7 promoter induction. G17 studies designed following small interference RNA (siRNA)-mediated knockdown of Snail and beta-catenin expression indicated a significant reduction of G-17-induced migration and MMP7 promoter induction following combined knockdown of both proteins. CONCLUSION: Our studies indicate that inhibition of GSK3beta is necessary to activate G17-induced migratory pathways in gastric cancer cells. Inhibition of GSK3beta leads to an induction of Snail expression and beta-catenin nuclear translocation, both of which participate to promote G17-induced migration..
RESULTS: 17/56 Ewing's tumours were HIF-1 alpha-positive, 15 HIF-2 alpha-positive and 10 positive for HIF-1 alpha and HIF-2 alpha.
Liver biopsies showed 17 autoimmune hepatitis-like (AIH) lesions, 13 non-alcoholic steatohepatitis-like lesions, 7 limited liver lesions, 2 primary biliary cirrhosis.
A cross-sectional study was conducted with 454 children aged 4-17 years, attending a rural school and an urban school.
Methods A total of 17 youth, 19 parents and 39 medical professionals responded to the open-ended query: 'What are the things you find most important to consider when you evaluate the effects of an intervention for yourself/your child/your patient with cerebral palsy?' Surveys were either mailed or conducted on-line.
Methods Participants were a group of 17 children with DCD and 27 typically developing children aged between 7 and 12 years. Visual targets were presented on a 17-inch LCD touch screen, inclined to an angle of 15 degrees from horizontal.
The results shown significant association of T allele carriers genetic factors with atherothrombotic subtype stroke (n = 42); odds ratio, 2.1; 95% CI: 1.17-3.8; P = 0.012, and adjusted odds ratio of 6.5; 95% CI: 1.86-23.1, P = 0.003, for TT genotype variant compared with CC wild genotype.
Methods: Subcutaneous adipose mass was measured by ultrasound using a Prosound alpha 5((R)), dermal elasticity was measured using an in vivo suction skin elasticity meter (Cutometer MPA 580((R))), and sagging severity were evaluated morphologically using photograph-based grading criteria at the lower cheek in 70 Japanese female volunteers (age; 31-59, BMI; 17.1-36.2).
The mean PaO(2) was 77.7 mm Hg (SD, 17.5 mm Hg) (range, 40.7-100 mm Hg) with a median alveolar-arterial gradient of 41.1 mm Hg (range, 8.1-81.8 mm Hg). (17%) were the most common isolates in either single or multiagent infections.
Absolute biases during the hypotensive state for SAP, MAP, and DAP were -32 mm Hg (22.6 mm Hg), -24.2 mm Hg (19.5 mm Hg), and -16.8 mm Hg (17.2 mm Hg), respectively.
Methods We analysed 17 subjects with hand ulcer among diabetic inpatients, who were admitted to the Diabetic Foot Care Center, Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism at the West China Hospital of Sichuan University from April 2003 to December 2008.
Results Two hundred and fifty-eight cases were ascertained with subsequent cancers during the follow-up duration from 1964 to 2006, with an increased overall SIR of 1.17 (95% CI 1.04-1.33) among 24 052 T1DM patients identified at baseline.
Nevertheless, we found that overexpression of CBF2 significantly increased transcript levels of 17 ABA biosynthetic and responsive genes and, thus, may have affected leaf responsiveness to ethylene via contrasting interactions with other hormones, mainly ABA.
Development of IL-17-producing Th17 cells was efficiently induced in PP cells by antigen stimulation. Lactobacillus casei slightly, but significantly, inhibited the antigen-induced secretion of IL-17 without a decrease in the proportion of Th17 cells. casei to have considerable potential to induce IL-12 production and promote Th1 cell development, but the secretion of proinflammatory cytokines such as IL-12 and IL-17 may be well controlled in PP cells..
The present research examines posttraumatic resilience in extremely exposed children and adolescents based on interviews with 330 former Ugandan child soldiers (age = 11-17, female = 48.5%).
children aged 2-17, 13.9% report lifetime exposure to disaster, and 4.1% report experiencing a disaster in the past year. Victimization was associated with depression among 2- to 9-year-old disaster survivors, and with depression and aggression among 10- to 17-year-old disaster survivors.
the presence of drug interactions that were involved in the occurrence of ADRs; 17%).
Key findings Some 17 694 prescriptions of 235 different drugs were prescribed during this period. This consisted of 38 drugs (16% of total) and 1735 (10%) of the total prescriptions (e.g.
These two factors accounted for 17.5% of the variance in the data.
The most commonly reported severe symptoms were: chronic shortness of breath (17%), chest pains (15%), palpitations (14%), chronic fatigue (13%) and dizziness/loss of consciousness (11%).
Although it was common for respondents to report using both pharmacies and NSP to obtain needles and syringes (57%), a proportion reported exclusive use of pharmacies (17%) and NSP (14%). Compared with respondents who exclusively used NSP, respondents who exclusively used pharmacies were more likely to report receptive sharing of injecting equipment (adjusted odds ratio 5.9, 95% confidence interval 2.02-17.14), as were respondents who reported using both sources (adjusted odds ratio 5.8, 95% confidence interval 2.35-14.40).
Results: Fifteen valnoctamide patients and 17 placebo patients completed at least one post-baseline week and were included in data analysis.
Only 17% of travelers with diabetes suffering from diarrhea used their stand-by antibiotics.
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