A transmissible agent (AHA) causing ascites and hepatitis in mice has been described. No known pathogenic bacteria, fungi, protozoa, leptospira, rickettsia, or viruses have been demonstrated in the infected mice. AHA does not pass through a Seitz filter and differs in most respects from the agents previously described which produce hepatitis in mice.

An increasing number of Website developers try to provide some kind of “personalization”. In this paper we show how the designers (called “authors” in this paper) can build their adaptive presentations using the AHA! system (for Adaptive Hypermedia Architecture). Most existing Adaptive Hypermedia Systems are special-purpose, aimed at one specific application or application area (mostly educatio...

Muscarinic receptors types 1 (m1AChR) and 2 (m2AChR) in the preoptic and anterior hypothalamus areas (POA-AHA) were counted, and the effects of blocking these receptors on spontaneous ovulation were analysed throughout the rat oestrous cycle. Rats in each phase of the oestrous cycle were assigned to the following experiments: (1) an immunohistochemical study of the number of cells expressing m1...

Implantable cardiodefibrillators (ICDs) have proven benefit in preventing sudden cardiac death (SCD) in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HC), making risk stratification essential. Data on the predictive accuracy on the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) risk scoring system have been conflicting. We independently evaluated the ESC risk scoring system in our cohort of patients with HC from a large ...

The Stroke Council, 1 of 16 scientific councils within the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association (AHA/ASA), is uniquely dedicated to advancing the science of stroke prevention, treatment, and recovery through research and education. The Stroke Council warmly welcomes the new Editorial Board of the journal Stroke and the new editor-in-chief, Marc Fisher. A new activity for the j...

BACKGROUND The usefulness of the 2013 ACC/AHA guidelines for the management of blood cholesterol in the Asian population remains controversial. In this study, we investigated whether eligibility for statin therapy determined by the 2013 ACC/AHA guidelines is better aligned with the presence of subclinical coronary atherosclerosis detected by CCTA (coronary computed tomography angiography) compa...

TBD, 2016 e1 CLICAL SATEM ENTS ND GUELINES The intent of this American Heart Association (AHA) scientific statement is to summarize our current understanding of dilated cardiomyopathies. There is special emphasis on recent developments in diagnostic approaches and therapies for specific cardiomyopathies. Recommendations in this document are based on published studies, published practice guideli...

BACKGROUND/AIMS The immunoregulatory molecules programmed death 1 (PD-1) and cytotoxic T lymphocyte-associated antigen 4 (CTLA-4) are associated with the dysfunction of antiviral effector T-cells, which leads to T-cell exhaustion and persistent viral infection in patients with chronic hepatitis C and chronic hepatitis B. Little is known about the role of PD-1 and CTLA-4 in patients with symptom...

Abstract: Sudden death in young athletes remains a distressing societal problem. The American Heart Association (AHA) 12-point questionnaire (AHAQuest) has been recommended as a cost-effective initial step in pre-participation screening for athletes. We prospectively tested the efficacy of the AHA approach in a comprehensive, Circulation 23 November 2010, Volume 122, Issue Suppl 21 & Table of

This work was supported by a National Multiple Sclerosis Society postdoctoral fellowship to N.L.M. and NIH/ NINDS grants R01NS051470 and R01NS052189 to K.A. V.A.R is an American Heart Association (AHA) postdoctoral fellow and D.D. holds Scientist Development Grant 13SDG17210051 from AHA. The J. David Gladstone Institutes received support from a National Center for Research Resources (grant RR18...