OBJECTIVE Identification of the symptoms of bacterial vaginosis (BV) in pregnancy might be rational in order to identify a possible BV-associated group at risk of preterm delivery. METHODS Three hundred and five women early in the third trimester of pregnancy were interviewed about lifestyle factors and specific symptoms of BV and given a vaginal examination. A longitudinal three-week follow-...

Objective: Key hemorheological variables are associated with several life-threatening diseases including cardio-cerebro-vascular diseases. A diet can influence the blood rheological variables. To compare the effectiveness of a vegetable soup on blood viscosity (BV), hematocrit (Hct), plasma fibrinogen, lipid profile, fasting blood sugar (FBS), and blood osmolarity in patients with polycythemia ...

Baculovirus (BV) is a promising gene therapy vector and typically requires readministration because BV mediates transient expression. However, how the prime-boost regimen triggers BV-specific adaptive responses and their impacts on BV readministration, transgene expression, and therapeutic/vaccine efficacy remain unknown. Here we unraveled that BV injection into BALB/c mice induced the producti...

The ribonucleoside analogues (E)-5-(2-bromovinyl)uridine (5-BV-Urd) and 3'-spiro-(4'-amino-1',2'-oxathiole-2',2'-dioxide)-5-methyluridine (3'-AOD-5-MeUrd) emerged as potent and selective competitive inhibitors of mitochondrial thymidine kinase (TK)-2 with respect to thymidine (K(i)/K(m) values of 9.0 and 1.2 respectively). Cytosolic TK-1 did not show measurable affinity for these compounds. [(3...

In this paper we introduce a new technique for tracing viscous travelling profiles. To illustrate the method, we consider a special 2× 2 hyperbolic system of conservation laws with viscosity, and show that any solution can be locally decomposed as the sum of 2 viscous travelling profiles. This yields the global existence, stability and uniform BV bounds for every solution with suitably small BV...

If V is an elementary abelian 2-group, Ossa proved that the connective K-theory of BV splits into copies of Z/2 and of the connective K-theory of the infinite real projective space. We give a brief proof of Ossa’s theorem. Introduction. We have been asked whether our work, [1] and [2] on the Brown-Peterson homology of BV , V an elementary p-group, gives a nice structure of the connective K-theo...

The appreciation of the substantial influence of biological variation (BV) on laboratory testing and interpretation of laboratory results has represented a milestone in the history of laboratory medicine. It has paved the way for a wide series of studies aimed to accurately define the components of BV, set analytical quality specifications and related goals for internal quality control and exte...

We studied whether bee venom (BV) inhibits cervical tumor growth through enhancement of death receptor (DR) expressions and inactivation of nuclear factor kappa B (NF-κB) in mice. In vivo study showed that BV (1 mg/kg) inhibited tumor growth. Similar inhibitory effects of BV on cancer growth in primary human cervical cancer cells were also found. BV (1-5 μg/ml) also inhibited the growth of canc...

The point of this note is to 1) add some lemmata to Chapter 1 §2 of [1] (lemmata that are used in [1] without mention, due to their intuitive obviousness); 2) show that the definition of α-equivalence given in [1] is equivalent to the definition of α-equivalence given in some other sources; 3) prove some rules for substitution (in order to answer a MathOverflow question of myself). We are going...