s | 91 Methods: Forty-five right-handed patients with PD who met the diagnostic criteria in Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-V and twenty-two healthy control were examined by means of MRI at 3 Tesla. We used the FreeSurfer software package to create a three-dimensional model of the cortical surface for estimating the cortical thickness. In order to test the effect of the gene polymorphism ...

background: our study compares the efficacy of the combined contraceptive vaginal ring to oral contraceptive pills (ocps) for hypothalamic-pituitary-ovarian (hpo) axis suppression in egg donor in vitro fertilization (ivf) cycles. methods: our retrospective cohort study includes patients from the center for assisted reproduction (care) in bedford, texas undergoing ivf cycles as egg donors from j...

Rats immunized with a semipurified preparation of the Escherichia coli heat-stable (ST) enterotoxin conjugated with a protein carrier were protected against challenge with semipurified or purified ST and viable organisms of multiple heterologous serotypes that produce only ST (LT-/ST+), but they were not protected against heal-labile (LT) toxin or viable strains which produce LT either alone (L...

Let {Lt ; (x, t) ∈ R1 ×R1 +} denote the local time of Brownian motion. Our main result is to show that for each fixed t ∫ (L t − Lt )3 dx− 12h ∫ (L t − Lt )Lt dx h2 L =⇒ √ 192 (∫ (Lt ) 3 dx )1/2 η as h → 0, where η is a normal random variable with mean zero and variance one that is independent of Lt . This generalizes our previous result for the second moment. We also explain why our approach w...

INTRODUCTION Critically ill cirrhosis patients awaiting liver transplantation (LT) often receive prioritization for organ allocation. Identification of patients most likely to benefit is essential. The purpose of this study was to examine whether the Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score can predict 90-day mortality in critically ill recipients of LT and whether it can predict receip...

Immunosuppressive therapies are indicated following liver transplantation (LT) to prevent graft loss through rejection, and these same agents also may have a role in the management of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The aims of this study were to examine the effects of immunosuppression following LT on IBD activity and to identify markers of IBD control post-LT in patients with IBD who underw...

Growth of solid fibrosarcoma tumors in mice was inhibited by the release of a soluble lymphotoxinreceptor inhibitor (LT R-immunoglobulin fusion protein) from the tumor cells. Tumor growth arrest in mice deficient in the ligand LT 1 2 demonstrated the requirement for activation of the LT R on the tumor cells by host cell-derived LT 1 2. Activation of the LT R resulted in enhanced release of macr...

امروزه در مبحث محاسبات رآکتورهای هسته‌ای مثل فرسایش و مدیریت سوخت، تحلیل گذرا بازسازی توان میله‌های به دنبال روش‌هایی جهت استفاده کدهای هستند که علاوه بر دقت قابل‌قبول از هزینه زمان بهینه‌ای برخوردار باشند. این پژوهش با گسسته‌سازی معادله پخش نوترون روش نودال بسط شار جریان ‌متوسط مرتبه بالا نشان داده می‌شود روش‌ بهینه قابل‌قبولی بهره می‌برد. مستقیم الحاقی نوترون، برای هندسه مربعی دوبعدی دو گروه ...

BACKGROUND Liver transplantation (LT) increases the risk of de novo malignancies including skin cancers. However, risk factors for this type of cancers have not been well studied. OBJECTIVE To determine the incidence of skin cancer in LT recipients, and to identify the risk factors of this type of cancer. METHODS We identified all adult patients who underwent LT and developed de novo skin c...

UNLABELLED Background. Thyroid hormones are the most important factors involved in the regulation of the basal metabolic condition, as well as in the oxidative metabolism. Hypothyroidism is associated with increased cardiovascular morbidity, which cannot be fully explained by the atherogenic lipid profile observed in these patients. AIM Study of serum lipids, tHcy, hs-CRP, MDA and PON-1 level...