BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Recurrent pain after vertebroplasty is relatively common, usually representing a new fracture at a different vertebral level. In a small cohort described herein, clinical and imaging findings indicated that recurrent pain arose from abnormality of the previously treated level. Our purpose was to demonstrate that repeat percutaneous vertebroplasty performed within the same...

CTLs and antibody responses to the tumor-associated antigen MUC1 mucin can be detected in patients with adenocarcinomas of the breast, pancreas, colon, and ovary. However, neither response is generally effective at controlling disease. Methods to augment immunity to MUC1 are being designed, with the expectation that this will lead to an antitumor response. The key to eliciting potent immunity t...

Group A streptococci can be categorized into two classes (I and II) based on immunodeterminants contained within a surface-exposed, conserved region (C repeat domain) of the major virulence factor, M protein. Previous studies have shown that several biological properties correlate strongly with streptococcal class, and thus, there is a strong impetus to precisely define the antigenic epitopes u...

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Connective tissue growth factor (CTGF/CCN2) belongs to the CCN family of matricellular proteins, comprising Cyr61, CTGF, NovH and WISP1-3. The CCN proteins contain an N-terminal signal peptide followed by four conserved domains sharing sequence similarities with the insulin-like growth factor binding proteins, von Willebrand factor type C repeat, thrombospondin type 1 repeat, and a C-terminal g...

CO-channel interference is of great concern when planning modern cellular communication systems. The commonly used seven-cell frequency reuse pattern is based on the fact that the carrier to interference ratio (C/q should be higher than 18dB, which is based on subjective tests (W.C.Y. Lee, 1995). A scheme based on trellis coded modulation (TCM) is proposed which enables the system to perform sa...

introduction: polymorphism in genes involved in folate metabolism may cotribute to the susceptibility to acute lymphoblastic leukemia (all). patients and methods : to examine the influence of polymorphism in thymidylate synthase (ts 28-bp repeat) and methionine synthase (ms a2756g) genes on the susceptibility to all, 73 children with all and 128 age and gender matched, unrelated healthy individ...

To investigate the phylogenetic position of Blakiston's fish owl (Bubo blakistoni), we sequenced the mitochondrial (mt) DNA control region and cytochrome b (cyt b) for nine Bubo species. Maximum-likelihood analyses of combined control region and cyt b sequences, and cyt b sequences alone, showed that species formerly placed in genus Ketupa comprise a monophyletic group. Unexpectedly, we discove...

Methods Fifty-four patients were enrolled post primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and underwent CMR on a 1.5T scanner at 48 hours. Myocardial edema was quantified using a T2 mapping technique, while infarct size was assessed via a contrast-enhanced T1-weighted inversion recovery gradient-echo sequence. Information regarding four clinical outcomes: a) mortality, b) repeat myocardia...

P0005 Synthetic polymers, with repeat unit numbers of a few tens up to millions, are chemically simpler than their biological counterparts (proteins, DNA, polysaccharides). Homopolymers ideally consist of only one and the same repeat unit (monomer), and copolymers have a few, up to maybe three or four, chemically different monomers. Nevertheless, synthetic polymers are characterized by a wide c...