OBJECTIVE To evaluate the efficacy and safety of a single intra detrusor injection of BoNTA comparing two different doses (100 U or 200 U) in patients with idiopathic overactive bladder. MATERIALS AND METHODS A randomized prospective study evaluated the efficacy of BoNTA in management of refractory idiopathic overactive bladder and included 80 patients. All patients were assessed initially by...

The present study aimed to investigate the role and mode of action of urotensin II (U II) in the occurrence and progression of cardiac fibrosis in a pressure‑overload rat model. Coarctation of the abdominal aorta was used to establish an animal model, and postoperative echocardiography, hemodynamic detection, hematoxylin and eosin staining, Masson staining and immunohistochemistry were performe...

Von der Informationstechnologie (IT) wird auch bei Non-Profit-Organisationen (NPOs) zunehmend verlangt, dass diese flexibel, direkt und messbar zum geschäftlichen Erfolg beiträgt. Entsprechend wichtiger wird für eine NPO im Rahmen der IT Governance (ITG) die strategische Ausrichtung der IT. Val-IT bietet hierzu Leitlinien, Prozesse und unterstützende Praktiken für das Top Management. Eine Auswa...

Relevante Daten aus der gesamten Produktionskette von Brokkoli wurden mithilfe einer relationalen Datenbank verknüpft. Innerhalb der Wachstumsphase wurden Klimadaten und Informationen über vielfältige Kulturmaßnahmen eingebunden. Für die Qualitätsbewertung von Brokkoliköpfen kamen Chlorophyllfluoreszenzanalyse, Farbmessungen und Reflexions-spektroskopie zum Einsatz. Erste Ergebnisse zeigen, das...

The influence of sediment bioreduction and reoxidation on U(VI) sorption was studied using Fe(II) oxide-containing saprolite from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Oak Ridge site. Bioreduced sediments were generated by anoxic incubation with a metal-reducing bacterium, Shewanella putrefaciens strain CN32, supplied with lactate as an electron donor. The reduced sediments were subsequently reox...

A ranking of a graph G is a mapping, p, from the vertices of G to the natural numbers such that for every path between any two vertices u and u, uf II, with p(u) = p(u), there exists at least one vertex w on that path with p(w) > p(u) = p(u). The value p(u) of a vertex u is the rank of vertex II. A ranking is optimal if the largest rank assigned is the smallest among all rankings. The optimal r...

Abstmt. It is showc that for any block length n which is a multiple of 5, there exists a binary self dual code irr which all weights are divisible by 4, and the minimum weight is asymptotically the same as that given by the Varshamov-Gilbert bound. § 1. Preliminaries Let Fn denote the vector space of all vectors of length II with components from GF(2). The weiglzt of ii vector u = is the number...

purpose:  to determine whether angiotensin ii levels in aqueous humor is related to diabetes mellitus and to evaluate the effect of captopril. methods: in a case-control study, aqueous humor samples were obtained during cataract surgery from 58 eyes of 58 patients, of which 37 were diabetic. from these latter subjects, 16 had taken captopril (captopril group) and 21 had not taken any angiotensi...

In this paper we investigate the existence and regularity of the solutions to the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation, @ t u = Au + (a + ii))u ? (b + ii)juj 2 u, on the phase space L r;p (R n) of weighted L p functions in innnite domain R n of arbitrary spatial dimensions. The unique local strong solutions are established for subcritical , i.e., r > n p ? 1. Especially, the classical Lebesgue phas...

Let M be a 2 and 3-torsion free prime Γ-ring, d a nonzero derivation on M and U a nonzero Lie ideal of M . In this paper it is proved that U is a central Lie ideal of M if d satisfies one of the following (i) d(U) ⊂ Z, (ii) d(U) ⊂ U and d(U) = 0, (iii) d(U) ⊂ U , d(U) ⊂ Z.