Mycophenolic acid (MPA) is a relatively new immunosuppressive drug, used since the nineties for the prevention of rejection in kidney transplantation. MPA has not only proved effective in preventing rejection, being even superior to azathioprine, but also seems to cause less adverse effects than other immunosuppressive drugs [1]. Because of these favourable experiences with MPA in renal transpl...

Anthropogenic impacts are increasingly affecting the world's oceans. Networks of marine protected areas (MPAs) provide an option for increasing the ecological and economic benefits often provided by single MPAs. It is vital to empirically assess the effects of MPA networks and to prioritize the monitoring data necessary to explain those effects. We summarize the types of MPA networks based on t...

Seed priming has been suggested to improve germination performance under temperature or water stress. The objective of this study was to develop an optimal osmopriming protocol for spinach (Spinacia oleracea L. cv. Bloomsdale) seeds and examine its effect on the germination performance at suboptimal and supraoptimal temperatures, and under water stress. Standard germination tests at optimal ger...

Medroxyprogesterone acetate (MPA: Depo-Provera) is a long-acting synthetic progestin that has been used as a contraceptive for more than 11 million women-years in 80 nations [1]. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has denied approval of MPA as a contraceptive because of concern about its safety, especially teratogenicity and carcinogenicity [2.3]. In addition to its contraceptive action, MPA...

Microscopic polyangiitis (MPA) is a systemic vasculitis affecting small vessels. To determine the clinical features and outcomes of MPA in Korean patients, we retrospectively reviewed the medical records of patients diagnosed with MPA at a single medical center in Korea between 1989 and 2006. The 18 patients who met the Chapel Hill criteria for MPA had a mean (+/-SD) age at the time of diagnosi...

Microscopic polyangiitis (MPA) is a systemic small vessel vasculitis that is included in the pulmonary-renal syndromes. Although glomerulonephritis represents the major clinical feature of MPA indicative of renal involvement, diffuse alveolar haemorrhage is the classic manifestation of pulmonary involvement. However, pulmonary fibrosis is a less frequently reported pulmonary manifestation. Here...

Cellulose crystals (CC) were chemically derived from jute by alkali treatment, bleaching and subsequent hydrolysis with 40 % sulfuric acid. Infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) suggested sufficient removal of lignin and hemicellulose from the raw jute and scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and X-ray diffraction (XRD) studies demonstrated the preparation of microcrystalline cellulose. CC reinforced po...

Pada berbagai bangunan infrastruktur saat ini, kebutuhan akan tempat tanggal telah memberikan dorongan untuk memunculkan inovasi dalam desain struktur, khususnya teknologi material konstruksi. Salah satu konstruksi adalah penggunaan fly ash pada campuran beton. Penelitian ini memiliki tujuan mengetahui bagaimana pengaruh penambahan limbah Sebagai bahan penganti sebagian semen, digunakan dengan ...

AIM To evaluate the treatment of endometrial hyperplasia (EH) with different progestins. METHODS Eighty-two women with simple EH without atypia were included. Patients were offered oral progestagens and were randomized to one of three options for 3 months: medroxyprogesterone acetate (MPA, 10 mg/day), lynestrenol (LYN, 15 mg/day) and norethisterone (NET, 15 mg/day) for 10 days per cycle. Pati...