UNLABELLED Determination of mTREM-1 expression on monocytes has been investigated as a perspective diagnostic method to distinguish infectious from non-infectious etiology of the inflammation. THE AIMS OF OUR STUDY WERE i) to investigate the expression of TREM-1 on monocytes in septic patients and in those after elective spinal surgery without i...

There are a number of errors in the headings for Fig 1B, “Quenching by anti-Alexa Fluor mAbs.” “Beads coated with 1C1-A488” and “Beads stained with 1C1-A488” should be “Beads coated with 1C1-A594” and “Beads stained with 1C1-A594”. Please see the corrected Fig 1 here. There are errors in the equation in the second to last sentence of the penultimate paragraph of the subsection “Flow cytometry-b...

OBJECTIVE To determine the association between the 5 subscales of the Multidimensional Fatigue Inventory (MFI-20) and physical function in late mid-life. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SUBJECTS A population-based sample of adults who participated in the Copenhagen Aging and Midlife Biobank population cohort (n = 4,964; age 49-63 years). METHODS Self-reported fatigue was measured using the ...

Introduction Fatigue is a common and disabling problem in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD), and there is currently no satisfactory treatment. As acupuncture has been reported to be effective in fatigue related to other conditions, we sought to evaluate its efficacy in PD. Methods This was a single center, randomized, sham-controlled study. Forty PD patients with moderately severe fatigu...

PURPOSE To analyze possible correlations between the electrical activity of masseter and temporal muscles, Bite Force (BF), and Morphological Facial Indices (MFI). METHODS The study involved 43 young adults, both genders, 18 to 37 years old. The individuals were submitted to: face measurement to calculate MFI; Masseter and Temporal Surface Electromyography (sEMG) and BF measurements on right ...

This study was to explore the relationship among mental ability, occupational stress, and psychological work performance in Chinese workers, and to identify relevant modifiers of mental ability and psychological work performance. Psychological Stress Intensity (PSI), psychological work performance, and mental ability (Mental Function Index, MFI) were determined among 485 Chinese workers (aged 3...

Online mining of frequent itemsets over a stream sliding window is one of the most important problems in stream data mining with broad applications. It is also a difficult issue since the streaming data possess some challenging characteristics, such as unknown or unbound size, possibly a very fast arrival rate, inability to backtrack over previously arrived transactions, and a lack of system co...

Indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO) has emerged as a pivotal enzyme for mediating immune tolerance. Because IDO metabolizes tryptophan into kynurenine, the plasma kynurenine/tryptophan (Kyn/Trp) ratio has been widely used as a marker of systemic IDO. Here, we evaluated the clinical value of using the plasma Kyn/Trp ratio to estimate cell-mediated immune responses to tuberculin skin testing and ri...

The reduction of Cu(II) oxide species in siliceous matrixes of different porosity (MFI, FAU, MCM-48) and in alumosilicate MFI was studied by temperature-programmed reduction in hydrogen (TPR), by X-ray absorption fine structure (after stationary hydrogen treatments), and by transmission electron microscopy. It was found that the reduction may proceed in one or in two reduction steps. The two-st...

AIM We hypothesized that microcirculatory dysfunction, similar to that seen in sepsis, occurs in post-cardiac arrest patients and that better microcirculatory flow will be associated with improved outcome. We also assessed the association between microcirculatory dysfunction and inflammatory markers in the post-cardiac arrest state. METHODS We prospectively evaluated the sublingual microcircu...