Four patients with congenital defiother family were found to have varyciency of fibrin-stabilizing factor (facing degrees of factor XIII deficiency. tor XIII) from two families have been The observations support the hypothedescribed. The mother and the sibs in sis of autosomal recessive inheritance one family and both parents in the of factor XIII deficiency. T HE EXISTENCE OF A BLOOD FACTOR th...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The functional integrity of the hemostatic system is a prerequisite for the safe performance of neurosurgical procedures. To monitor the individual coagulation capacity of each patient, standard tests are effective to detect deficiencies involving the generation of fibrin. However, fibrin clot strength depends primarily on coagulation factor XIII, which cross-links fibrin...

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Genomic clones covering the entire mouse type XIII collagen gene (Col13a1) were isolated, and the complete exon-intron organization was characterized. The gene was found to be about 135 kb in size and to locate in the mouse chromosome 10. Comparison of gene structures and promoter regions between man and mouse indicated high conservation between the two species. In order to understand the biolo...

background: recurrent pregnancy loss is (rpl) a heterogeneous condition. while the role of acquired thrombophilia has been accepted as an etiology for rpl, the contribution of specific inherited thrombophilic gene polymorphisms to the disorder has been remained controversial. methods: one hundred women with a history of two or more consecutive abortions and 100 women with at least two live birt...

In this paper, we present a new class of multivariate public-key cryptosystems, K(XIII)SE(2)PKC realizing the coding rate of exactly 1.0, based on random pseudo cyclic codes. The K(XIII)SE(2)PKC is constructed on the basis of K(IX)SE(1)PKC, formerly presented by the author. We show that K(XIII)SE(2)PKC is secure against the various attacks including the attack based on the Gröbner bases calcula...