In contrast to other retroviruses, Mason-Pfizer monkey virus (M-PMV) assembles immature capsids in the cytoplasm. We have compared the ability of minimal assembly-competent domains from M-PMV and human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) to assemble in vitro into virus-like particles in the presence and absence of nucleic acids. A fusion protein comprised of the capsid and nucleocapsid domain...

Situs inversus totalis is a rare congenital disorder where the heart being a mirror image is situated on the right side of the body. Distorted cardiac anatomy makes fluoroscopy-guided percutaneous mitral valvotomy (PMV) technically challenging and there are only few reports of PMV in situs inversus totalis. Here we report a case where PMV was successfully done for situs inversus totalis with ra...

INTRODUCTION Due to the importance of prolonged mechanical ventilation (PMV) as a postoperative complication, predicting "high-risk" patients by identifying predisposing risk factors is of important issue. The present study was aimed to identify perioperative variables associated with PMV in patients undergoing open heart surgery. METHODS A total of 743 consecutive patients, American Society ...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of the present study was to compare the long-term clinical and echocardiographic results of the Inoue and the double-balloon techniques. BACKGROUND The large randomized trial comparing the extent of commissurotomy and the long-term results between the double-balloon and Inoue balloon techniques has not been reported. METHODS We conducted a prospective, randomized tria...

Classically, it has been hypothesized that reach-to-grasp movements arise from two discrete parietofrontal cortical networks. As part of these networks, the dorsal premotor cortex (PMd) has been implicated in the control of reaching movements of the arm, whereas the ventral premotor cortex (PMv) has been associated with the control of grasping movements of the hand. Recent studies have shown th...

This article analyzes the impact of level urban polycentricity (UP) on particulate matter emissions from vehicles (PMV) across 102 prefecture-level cities in China between 2011 and 2015. We adopt a spatial panel modeling approach to our measures UP PMV, controlling for (possible) intervening effects such as population density economic output. observe an inverted U-shaped relationship both measu...

The ventral premotor cortex (PMv) has been implicated in the visual guidance of movement. To examine whether neuronal activity in the PMv is involved in controlling the direction of motion of a visual image of the hand or the actual movement of the hand, we trained a monkey to capture a target that was presented on a video display using the same side of its hand as was displayed on the video di...

Hypoglycemic detection at the portal-mesenteric vein (PMV) appears mediated by spinal afferents and is critical for the counter-regulatory response (CRR) to slow-onset, but not rapid-onset, hypoglycemia. Since rapid-onset hypoglycemia induces Fos protein expression in discrete brain regions, we hypothesized that denervation of the PMV or lesioning spinal afferents would suppress Fos expression ...

Activation of the left ventral premotor cortex (PMv) has in previous imaging studies been associated with the processing of visually presented artefacts. It has been suggested that this activation reflects processing of action knowledge and that action knowledge contributes to the comprehension of artefacts. The purpose of the present study was to test whether activation of the left PMv is comm...

Motor output capabilities of the forelimb representation of dorsal motor area (PMd) and ventral motor area (PMv) were compared with primary motor cortex (M1) in terms of latency, strength, sign, and distribution of effects. Stimulus-triggered averages (60 microA) of electromyographic activity collected from 24 forelimb muscles were computed at 314 tracks in 2 monkeys trained to perform a reach-...