A prospective study was made of 1,000 consecutive duplicate blood cultures obtained from sick children to evaluate the usefulness of sodium polyanethol sulfonate (SPS). With the small volumes of blood (1 to 5 ml) usually obtained for blood cultures in children, SPS did not increase the frequency of recovery of organisms judged to be associated with clinical infections, with the possible excepti...

Our paper proposes a certification mechanism to align the incentives for Service Providers (SPs) to safeguard the Internet and protect their customers. The proposed mechanism certifies the capable SPs who are willing to be financially accountable for damage caused by malicious traffic from their networks. Such a certification program provides a channel for certified SPs to signal their commitme...

To investigate the role of Ser162 in phosphorylation-dependent regulation of maize sucrose-phosphate synthase (SPS) activities in rice, transgenic rice plants expressing wild-type or mutagenized maize SPS were produced. Our results indicate that Ser162 was responsible for overproduction-induced inactivation of SPS protein and for light/ dark modulation of this protein in vivo.

Breast cancer accounts for 22.9% of all types of cancer in females worldwide. Safflower polysaccharide (SPS) is an active fraction purified from safflower petals (Carthamus tinctorius L). The present study investigated the effects of safflower polysaccharide on the proliferation and metastasis of breast cancer cells. Cell viability was analyzed using an MTT assay following treatment of the MCF‑...

Abstract Introduction: Nurses' compliance with standard precautions is a viable tool for decreasing health hazards in health centers. Objective: This study aimed to identify factors affecting compliance with standard precautions (SPs) of infection control based on the health belief model (HBM) among emergency department nurses employed in the educational-therapeutic centers affiliated with G...

The transformation of the strain DH5α (TM)-T1(R) with plasmid vector pET11a containing the cloned gene of bacterial selenophosphate synthetase (SPS), selD, from the E. coli BL21-Gold (DE3) strain gives an overproducing strain of SPS with one synonymic substitution, E197D. The transformation efficiency was estimated as 8 × 10(8) CFU/ μ g plasmid DNA. 28 mg of highly purified preparation of recom...

Experiments were conducted with vegetative soybean plants (Glycine max [L.] Merr., ;Ransom') to determine whether the activities in leaf extracts of key enzymes in sucrose metabolism changed during the daily light/dark cycle. The activity of sucrose-phosphate synthase (SPS) exhibited a distinct diurnal rhythm, whereas the activities of UDP-glucose pyrophosphorylase, cytoplasmic fructose-1,6-bis...

PATIENT Female, 51. FINAL DIAGNOSIS Sticky platelets syndrome. SYMPTOMS Pulmonary embolism. MEDICATION - CLINICAL PROCEDURE Thrombolysis. SPECIALTY Hematology. OBJECTIVE Disease of unknown ethiology. BACKGROUND Sticky platelets syndrome (SPS) is an inherited thrombophilia characterized by platelet hyperaggregability, which can lead to the higher risk of thrombosis. The etiology of...

Post‑traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a stress‑accociated mental disorder that occurs as a result of exposure to a traumatic event, with characteristic symptoms, including intrusive memories, hyperarousal and avoidance. The medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) is known to be significantly involved in emotional adjustment, particularly introspection, inhibition of the amygdala and emotional memory...

Production of urine is initiated by fluid and solute flux across the glomerular filtration barrier. Recent ultrastructural studies have shown that under extreme conditions of no filtration, or very high filtration, a restriction to flow is predicted in a space underneath the podocyte cell body or its processes, the subpodocyte space (SPS). The SPS covered up to two-thirds of the glomerular filt...