OBJECTIVES: Evaluation of the localizing value and pathogenesis of vertical APN through examination of patients with this nystagmus form and different diagnosis. DESIGN: Three patients with vertical APN with different diseases (brainstem infarct, brainstem encephalitis and brainstem haemorrhage), but with similar topic of lesions, are presented. For registration of the nystagmus AC-electrooculo...

Previous epidemiological studies have presented conflicting results regarding associations between circulating adiponectin (APN) levels and the risk of endometrial cancer. Thus a meta-analysis was performed to investigate the association between these factors. Multiple electronic sources, including PubMed, SpringerLink and Google Scholar databases were searched to identify relevant studies for ...

PURPOSE To address the gap in evidence-based information required to support the development of advanced practice nursing (APN) roles in Switzerland, stakeholders identified the need for guidance to generate strategic evaluation data. This article describes an evaluation framework developed to inform decisions about the effective utilization of APN roles across the country. APPROACH A partici...

APN, CNS und NP sind international etablierte Pflegeexpert*innen in der Onkologie. Sie übernehmen spezielle Aufgaben im klinischen ambulanten Setting. Diese Form Versorgung gewinnt auch Deutschland langsam an Bedeutung. Klinisch wie ambulant steht die psychosoziale Betreuung, eine kontinuierliche Nachsorge enge Zusammenarbeit mit den Hausärzt*innen Vordergrund. Die internationalen Beispiele zei...

results mean urinary il-1α, il-4, il-6, and il-8 concentrations significantly increased in the acute phase of apn compared to the control group, and decreased following antibiotic treatment. conclusions we recommend routine urinalysis and urine culture for the diagnosis of children with apn. urinary il-4 was a relatively good cytokine for the prediction and treatment-monitoring of children with...

OBJECTIVE Previously, the peptide sequence cNGR has been shown to home specifically to CD13/APN (aminopeptidase N) on tumor endothelium. Here, we investigated the feasibility of selective imaging of cardiac angiogenesis using the cNGR-CD13/APN system. METHODS AND RESULTS CD13/APN induction and cNGR homing were studied in the murine myocardial infarction (MI) model. By real-time polymerase cha...

We show that the there exists an infinite family of APN functions of the form F (x) = x s +x k+s +2 k + cx k+s + c k x k +2 s + δx k , over F22k , where k is an even integer and gcd(2k, s) = 1, 3 ∤ k. This is actually a proposed APN family of Lilya Budaghyan and Claude Carlet who show in [6] that the function is APN when there exists c such that the polynomial y s+1+ cy s + c k y+1 = 0 has no s...

Insecticidal toxins produced by Bacillus thuringiensis interact with specific receptors located in the midguts of susceptible larvae, and the interaction is followed by a series of biochemical events that lead to the death of the insect. In order to elucidate the mechanism of action of B. thuringiensis toxins, receptor protein-encoding genes from many insect species have been cloned and charact...

I present some results towards a classification of APN monomials. Such functions are useful as S-boxes in AES-like cryptosystems. An easy application of Weil’s theorem on absolutely irreducible curves shows that a monomial fm(x) = x m is not APN over F2n for all sufficiently large n if a related polynomial has absolutely irreducible factors over F2. This can help classify the APN families of mo...

We develop several tools to derive quadratic equations from algebraic S-boxes and to prove their linear independence. By applying them to all known almost perfect nonlinear (APN) power functions and the inverse function, we can estimate the resistance against algebraic attacks. As a result, we can show that APN functions have different resistance against algebraic attacks, and especially S-boxe...