BACKGROUND Have USA total neurological deaths (TNDs) of adults (55-74) and the over 75's risen more than in twenty Western Countries? METHODS World Health Organization TND data are compared with control mortalities cancer mortality rates (CMRs) and circulatory disease deaths (CDDs) between 1989-1991 and 2008-2010 and odds ratios (ORs) and confidence intervals calculated. RESULTS Neurologica...

UNLABELLED Prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) is a well-established target for developing radiopharmaceuticals for imaging and therapy of prostate cancer (PCa). We have recently reported that novel (99m)Tc-labeled small-molecule PSMA inhibitors bind with high affinity to PSMA-positive tumor cells in vitro and localize in PCa xenografts. This study reports the first, to our knowledge, hum...

Adrenal steroidogenesis is under a complex regulation involving extrinsic and intrinsic adrenal factors. TNF-α is an inflammatory cytokine produced in response to tissue injury and several other stimuli. We have previously demonstrated that TNF-R1 knockout (TNF-R1(-/-)) mice have a dysregulated synthesis of glucocorticoids (GCs) during Trypanosoma cruzi acute infection. Since TNF-α may influenc...

Hall effects are investigated in detail for superconducting Fe(Se0.5Te0.5) thin films. Normal Hall coefficients (RH) show positive values of the order of 1 ∼ 1.5 × 10 −3 cm/C at room temperature for all samples. With decreasing temperature, we find two characteristic behaviors in RH(T ) depending on superconducting transition temperature (Tc). For higher Tc films (typically Tc > 9 K) RH is almo...

The aim of this study is to evaluate whether the technetium-99m sestamibi ((99m)Tc-MIBI) single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) characteristics of pituitary adenomas might be correlated with cavernous sinus invasion, proliferative potential or the multidrug-resistance (MDR-1) gene product P-glycoprotein (Pgp) expression in pituitary adenomas. Fifteen patients with pituitary adenomas...

J Nucl Med. Andrew Taylor, Jr., Frederick Akiya and Martin C. Gregory Preclude Recoverable Function Failure to Visualize Acutely Injured Kidneys with Technetium-99m DMSA Does Not http://jnm.snmjournals.org/content/27/3/377 This article and updated information are available at: http://jnm.snmjournals.org/site/subscriptions/online.xhtml Information about subscriptions to JNM can be found at: http...

(+)-Tubocurarine (TC) decreases the probability that the protozoan, Stentor coeruleus Ehrenberg, will contract in response to mechanical stimulation, because it selectively depresses mechanoreceptor currents. Resting membrane properties and action potentials are not significantly altered by the drug. Stentor incubated in media containing radioactively labelled TC (TC*) retain TC* after extensiv...

Relaxed InyGa1_yAs epilayers grown on (0 0 1) GaAs are known to exhibit a cross-hatched surface with ridges running along the [1 1 0] and 1⁄21 % MnxAs epilayers grown on such buffer layers can 1 0] directions. We find that Ga1_x have as-grown Curie temperatures (TC) that are higher than the as-grown 110 K value typical of Ga1_xMnxAs/GaAs heterostructures. Further, low-temperature annealing lead...

We survey results on transitive-closure spanners and their applications. Given a directed graph G = (V,E) and an integer k ≥ 1, a k-transitive-closure-spanner (k-TC-spanner) of G is a directed graph H = (V,EH) that has (1) the same transitive-closure as G and (2) diameter at most k. These spanners were studied implicitly in different areas of computer science, and properties of these spanners h...

The long-lived radionuclide Tc-99 is thought to be highly mobile in biogeochemical cycles, however, the behavior in the natural environment is not clear because Tc is a redox sensitive element. Since the geochemical behaviors of Re and Tc are similar, Re transfer factors from soil to plant can be a Tc surrogate in the natural environment. However, in soil solution to plant systems, it was not c...