OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS An outpatient surgical procedure for snoring and obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) should not only stiffen the soft palate, but also widen the opening of retropalatal space. This study presents a concurrent palatal implants (PI) and uvulopalatal flap (UPF) in the outpatient setting under local anesthesia for OSAS patients. STUDY DESIGN Prospective study. METHODS ...

A characterization of the humoral immune response of alpacas to Fasciola hepatica Fas1 and Fas2 antigens cysteine proteinases was performed over the course of 6 months of experimental infection. Six adult alpacas aged 1 to 2 years old received a single dose of 200 F. hepatica metacercariae, 2 non–infected alpacas were kept as control group. Peripheral eosinophilia in infected animals was greatl...

1 Formulas Suppose that Y has a multinomial distribution with parameters (p1, . . . , pm). (That is to say, suppose that Pr(Y = i) = pi for an integer i such that 1 ≤ i ≤ m.) Given a sample Y1, . . . , Yn of multinomial random variables with vector parameter (p1, . . . , pm), the maximum–likelihood (and method of moments) estimator of pi is p̂i = #{j : Yj = i}/n = ni/n (1) where ni = #{j : Yj = ...

Studies on the rate-limiting factors of glycolysis in Ehrlich ascites tumor cells have indicated that orthophosphate is the major rate-limiting factor for glycolysis (l-5). Pi presumably influences the rate of glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase, the only glycolytic enzyme known to require Pi. However, recent reports have indicated that Pi may have other important effects on glycolytic sys...

The rice (Oryza sativa L.) genome contains at least six genes exclusively with an SPX (SYG1/PHO81/XPR1) domain at the N-terminal, designated as OsSPX1-6. Here we report the diverse expression patterns of the OsSPX genes in different tissues and their responses to Pi-starvation. Among them, five genes, OsSPX1, 2, 3, 5 and 6 are responsive to Pi-starvation in shoots and/or in roots. The subcellul...

The present study aimed to investigate the effect of different seminal plasma proteins (SPPs) on boar spermatozoa functional characteristics. We investigated the putative protective effect of SSPs on sperm cells motility and velocity, as well as on the integrity of the plasma membrane (PM) during low-temperature storage at 4 °C. SPPs fractions were obtained and purified by gel permeation chroma...

Plasma cholecystokinin (CCK) levels in fed rats increased from 2.59 ± 0.13 pmol/l to the peak of 27.6 ± 4.1 pmol/l at 1 h after a single oral administration of synthetic protease inhibitor (PI; ethyl N-allyl- N-{( E)-2-methyl-3-[4-(4-amidino-phenoxycarbonyl)phenyl]propenoyl}amino acetate methansulfonate; 20 mg/kg body wt), but then returned to the preloading value at 12 h after administration. ...

Knowledge on murine blood pressure and heart rate control mechanisms is limited. With the use of a tethering system, mean arterial pressure (MAP) and pulse interval (PI) were continuously recorded for periods up to 3 wk in Swiss mice. The day-to-day variation of MAP and PI was stable from 5 days after surgery. Within each mouse (n = 9), MAP and PI varied by 21+/-6 mm Hg and 17+/-4 ms around the...