Our primary aim was to determine the extent to which intraplasmic retinyl palmitate (RP) transfers to other lipoprotein particles when chylomicron remnants are not produced and/or the plasma RP residence time is increased. The study was conducted on three familial type I hyperlipoproteinemic patients, four lipoprotein lipase (LpL)-deficient heterozygotes, and three controls on a metabolic resea...

background : a single nucleotide variation within  atechol-o-methyl transferase (comt) gene may alter the comt enzyme activity level. polymorphism of val158met in the comt gene has been related to malignancy. in this regard, a study was carried out to find a possible association between the comt gene polymorphism in patients with sporadic prostate cancer (pca) and benign prostatic hyperplasia (...

UNLABELLED Parathyroid hormone-related peptide (PTH-rp) is a peptide initially purified from tumors with hypercalcemia, which is also produced in human endometrium. The aim of this study was to determine the frequency and tissue distribution of PTH-rp in normal, hyperplastic and malignant endometrium. MATERIALS AND METHODS Paraffin-fixed endometrial tissue was obtained randomly from women in ...

We have developed a sensitive, specific solid-phase immunoradiometric assay (IRMA) of parathyroid hormone-related protein (PTH-RP) with use of affinity-purified polyclonal immunoglobulins. Antibodies recognizing PTH-RP(37-74) are immobilized to a polystyrene bead to "capture" analytes from the sample; antibodies to epitopes within the 1-36 amino acid region of PTH-RP are labeled with 125I. This...

OBJECTIVE Raynaud's phenomenon (RP) is comprised of repeated episodes of colour changes of the skin of digits on cold exposure or emotional stress. The prevalence of RP in the general population is variable fluctuating between 4%-15%, among surveys. The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of RP in a healthy working Greek population and to investigate the possible association of RP ...

PURPOSE To investigate the association between retinitis pigmentosa (RP) and acute angle closure during a 15-year follow-up period. METHODS Using the Taiwan Longitudinal Health Insurance Database 2000, we identified 382 RP patients based on the diagnostic code of RP (International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) 362.74) made during 1996-2010, excludi...

Imidazole-4-acetic acid-ribotide (IAA-RP), an endogenous agonist at imidazoline receptors (I-Rs), is a putative neurotransmitter/regulator in mammalian brain. We studied the effects of IAA-RP on excitatory transmission by performing extracellular and whole cell recordings at Schaffer collateral-CA1 synapses in rat hippocampal slices. Bath-applied IAA-RP induced a concentration-dependent depress...

PURPOSE To test the capability of rarebit perimetry (RP), a recent non-conventional perimetric technique, in detecting early functional damage in subjects with ocular hypertension (OHT) and to compare RP findings with those obtained by frequency-doubling technology (FDT) perimetry. METHODS Thirty patients with OHT were matched with 30 healthy subjects. All were tested with RP and FDT. Frequen...

Macular corneal dystrophy (MCD) is an autosomal recessive hereditary disease. In most cases, various mutations in carbohydrate sulfotransferase 6 (CHST6) gene are the main cause of MCD. These mutations lead to a defect in keratan sulfate synthesis. Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is another eye disorder with nyctalopia as its common symptom. It has been shown that more than 65 genes have been implica...

Vikram Singh Master of technology 4 Sem. Roll. No. I 118 May 2013 Green Hills Engineering College Solan (Himachal Pradesh Technical University Hamirpur (H.P.) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ABSTRACTION This paper present an assessment of the “state of the art” in respect to rapid prototyping processes. Based on...