INTRODUCTION Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) is an established component of COPD management. The lack of exercise performance improvement (EPI) in severely dyspnoeic patients (Medical Research Council [MRC] score 5) has been questioned. The data on the gender impact on EPI after PR remain scarce. OBJECTIVES The impact of dyspnea severity on PR outcomes was investigated and a question was raised...

Single crystals of ${\mathrm{Ce}}_{2}{\mathrm{Re}}_{3}{\mathrm{Si}}_{5}$ and ${\mathrm{Pr}}_{2}{\mathrm{Re}}_{3}{\mathrm{Si}}_{5}$ have been grown by the Czochralski method in a tetra-arc furnace. Powder x-ray diffraction confirmed that these compounds crystallize ${\mathrm{U}}_{2}{\mathrm{Mn}}_{3}{\mathrm{Si}}_{5}$-type tetragonal crystal structure with space group $P4/mnc$ (no. 128). The anis...

Electron microscopic heteroduplex analysis of avian RNA tumor viruses has been undertaken by using 35S viral RNA and long, complementary DNA synthesized in vitro. In this initial study, heteroduplex molecules were formed between complementary DNA from Rous sarcoma virus [Prague B strain (Pr-B)] and RNAs from Pr-B and Rous sarcoma virus [Prague C strain (Pr-C)] and from their transformation defe...

BACKGROUND Oxycodone/naloxone (OXN PR) is a prolonged-release formulation containing oxycodone and naloxone in a 2:1 ratio. This study aimed to evaluate the tolerability and efficacy of doses up to OXN160/80 mg PR compared with oxycodone prolonged-release formulation (OxyPR) in a randomised controlled trial. METHODS Two hundred and forty-three patients were randomised to treatment with OXN PR...

BACKGROUND Since PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway activation diminishes the effects of hormone therapy, combining aromatase inhibitors (anatrozole) with mTOR inhibitors (everolimus) was investigated. PATIENTS AND METHODS We evaluated anastrozole and everolimus in 55 patients with metastatic estrogen (ER) and/or progesterone receptor (PR)-positive breast and gynecologic tumors. Endpoints were safety, ant...

Abstract The reaction of 5‐Ph 2 P‐Ace‐6‐Li (prepared in situ from 6‐Ph P‐Ace‐5‐Br and n ‐BuLi the presence TMEDA) with B(OMe) 3 B(O i ‐Pr) , respectively, provided boronic esters P‐Ace‐6‐B(OR) ( 1 a R=Me; b R= ‐Pr; Ace=acenaphthyl). Hydrolysis crude mixture afforded acid P‐Ace‐6‐B(OH) ), which crystallizes as hydrogen bonded complex ⋅ TMEDA CHCl . Condensation yielded related boroxine [5‐Ph P‐A...

Tamoxifen was evaluated as initial hormone therapy for metastatic breast cancer in 85 premenopausal patients. Tamoxifen responders continued on tamoxifen, while tamoxifen failures and initial responders who later progressed were to receive ovarian ablation next. Of 74 evaluable patients, 5 had complete responses (CR) and 15 had partial responses (PR) while 12 remained stable (ST), giving respon...

As stated in [5], a major design goal for PR-OWL was to attain compatibility with OWL. However, this goal has been only partially achieved as yet, primarily due to several key issues not fully addressed in the original work. This paper describes several important issues of compatibility between PR-OWL and OWL, and suggests approaches to deal with them. To illustrate the issues and how they can ...

The expression of the recently described steroid receptor RNA activator (SRA) was measured by semiquantitative reverse transcription-PCR within 27 independent breast tumors, spanning a wide spectrum of grade and estrogen receptor (ER) and progesterone receptor (PR) levels. Subgroup analysis showed that SRA expression was similar in ER+/PR+ (median = 65.5, n = 8) and in ER-/PR- (median = 94.6, n...

We studied the effect of constitutive expression of pathogenesis-related proteins (PRs) in tobacco plants on vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhiza. Tobacco lines genetically transformed to express various PRs constitutively under the control of the cauliflower mosaic virus 35S promoter of tobacco were examined. Immunoblot analysis and activity measurements demonstrated high levels of expression of th...