BACKGROUND It is not understood why only a subset of individuals infected with Trypanosoma cruzi develop chronic Chagas cardiomyopathy (CCC). Patients with CCC display high levels of circulating proinflammatory cytokines. Heart-infiltrating lymphocytes from patients with CCC also express proinflammatory cytokines (tumor necrosis factor- alpha and interferon- gamma ) that are detectable in biops...

BACKGROUND There is currently no reliable serum biomarker for ovarian clear cell carcinoma (CCC), a highly lethal histological subtype of epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC). Previously, using a proteome-based approach, we identified tissue factor pathway inhibitor 2 (TFPI2) as a candidate serum biomarker for CCC. In this study, we sought to evaluate the clinical diagnostic performance of TFPI2 in ...

In this study, a method using liquid chromatography triple quadrupole mass spectrometry (LC/MS/MS) is described for the analysis of the plant growth regulator chlormequat (CCC) in human urine. Analysis was carried out using selected reaction monitoring (SRM) in the positive ion mode. [(2)H(4)] labeled CCC as internal standard (IS) was used for quantification of CCC. The limit of detection (LOD)...

A pair of triply charmed baryons, $\Omega_{ccc}\Omega_{ccc}$, is studied as an ideal dibaryon system by (2+1)-flavor lattice QCD with nearly physical light-quark masses and the relativistic heavy quark action charm mass. The spatial baryon-baryon correlation related to their scattering parameters on basis HAL method. $\Omega_{ccc}\Omega_{ccc}$ in ${^1S_0}$ channel taking into account Coulomb re...

Preparata and Vuillemin proposed the cube connected cycles CCC in and in the same paper gave an asymptotically optimal layout scheme for the CCC While all the known optimal layouts including the Preparata Vuillemin layout of the CCC have long wires we give a new layout scheme which has no long wires while keeping the asymptotically optimal area Hence we can conclude that the CCC can be laid out...

In this paper, we present and analyze yield enhancement designs for wafer scale Cube Connected Cycles (CCC). Improvements in yield can be achieved through silicon area reduction and/or through the incorporation of defect/fault tolerance into the architecture. Consequently, we first propose a new compact layout strategy for CCC. We then present a novel implementation of wafer scale CCC based on ...

BACKGROUND It has long been appreciated that different subtypes (serous, clear cell, endometrioid and mucinous) of epithelial ovarian carcinoma (EOC) have distinct pathogenetic pathways. However, clinical management, especially chemotherapeutic regimens, for EOC patients is not subtype specific. Ovarian clear cell carcinoma (CCC) is a rare histological subtype of EOC, which exhibits high rates ...

BACKGROUND The outcome of Chagas disease patients after receiving implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) is still controversial. OBJECTIVE To compare clinical outcomes after ICD implantation in patients with chronic Chagas cardiomyopathy (CCC) and ischemic heart disease (IHD). METHODS Prospective study of a population of 153 patients receiving ICD (65 with CCC and 88 with IHD). The de...

BACKGROUND We aimed to evaluate the function of coronary collateral circulation (CCC) in the ischemic myocardium by a two-dimensional strain technique. METHODS AND RESULTS Myocardial segments for all patients were divided into three groups: no coronary collateral circulation (NCCC), CCC, and normal control. We obtained the segmental strain and the strain rate in longitudinal, radial, circumfe...