OBJECTIVES We investigated the impact of secondary antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) and antiphospholipid antibody (aPL) positivity on the non-thromboembolic clinical manifestations of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). METHODS In total, 224 patients with SLE were studied, of whom 105 were aPL-positive; 52 fulfilled the criteria for APS. SLE- and APS-related clinical and laboratory features we...

autoimmune polyglandular syndrome (aps) type 2 is characterized by the presence of addison's disease, in association with autoimmune thyroid disease and/or type 1 diabetes mellitus. aps type 2 occurs most often in middle aged females and is rare in children. here an 11 year old boy is reported with addison's disease who developed symptom's of diabetes mellitus, goiter, malabsorption, macrocytic...

Self-calibration additional parameters (APs) have identified their significant role in photogrammetric calibration and orientation since 1970s. However, the traditional APs might not be adequate for the digital airborne camera calibration. A novel family of mathematical self-calibration APs is presented in this paper. We point out that photogrammetric self-calibration can, to a very large exten...

It was generally accepted that plants, algae, and phototrophic bacteria use adenosine 5'-phosphosulfate (APS) for assimilatory sulfate reduction, whereas bacteria and fungi use phosphoadenosine 5'-phosphosulfate (PAPS). The corresponding enzymes, APS and PAPS reductase, share 25-30% identical amino acids. Phylogenetic analysis of APS and PAPS reductase amino acid sequences from different organi...

We recently reported [J. Lipid Res. 42 (2001), 697; 43 (2002), 1486; 44 (2003), 716] that [beta2-glycoprotein I (beta2GPI) forms complexes with oxidized LDL (oxLDL) and autoantibodies against these complexes are present in patients with SLE and antiphospholipid syndrome (APS). The relationship of beta2GPI/oxLDL complexes and IgG autoantibodies against beta2GPI complexed with oxLig-1 (an oxLDL-d...

We present a new method for separating ground deformation from atmospheric phase screen (APS) based on PSInSAR. By stochastic modeling of ground deformation and APS via their variance-covariance functions we can not only estimate the signals with the best accuracy but also assess the estimation accuracy using least-squares collocation [5]. We evaluate the APS estimated by our method and the APS...