colleagues [1] in the previous issue of Critical Care. Th e letter suggested that acute changes in the arterial partial pressure of carbon dioxide (PaCO2) can aff ect the venous-arterial diff erence in carbon dioxide tension (ΔCO2). In a study by the authors, 10 ventilated and hemodynamically stable patients were included after elective cardiac surgery. Hypocapnia was induced by increasing the ...

in Dulbecco's modified Eagle's medium supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum and antibiotics. Cells were grown at 37°Cin a humidified 5% CO2 atmosphere. †̃fransfection. Thefull-lengthN03cDNAwas insertedintotheEcoRlre striction site of pMEXneo expression vector (13) in the forward orientation. The expression vector containing N03 cDNA or the expression vector alone was introduced independent...

in order to investigate the growth curve of broiler chickens at line level, respectively 154 and 144 birds from two paternal lines a and b of a commercial broiler line were used. line a were selected several generations for low feed conversion rate and line b were selected several generation for high body weight. body weight was measured at 1, 4, 7, 10, 14, 17, 21, 28, 35, 42, 49 and 54 days of...

after the classification of the flag-transitive linear spaces, the attention has been turned to line-transitive linear spaces. in this article, we present a partial classification of the finite linear spaces $mathcal s$ on which an almost simple group $g$ with the socle $g_2(q)$ acts line-transitively.

objective: nucleostemin (ns) is a recently identified gene that is expressed mainly in the nucleoli of neuronal, embryonic and mesenchymal stem cells which plays a role in their self renewal. over expression of this gene has been reported in several cancer cell lines tumoral tissues including gastric, hepatic and prostate cancer. in this study, we investigated the effects of suppression of this...

this paper discusses the simulation study carried out for proposing one-piece lean line layout with features of lean manufacturing. the lean initiatives that can be addressed are, introducing kanban replenishment sys-tem, better work-in-process, changing the layout, visual management techniques, standardized work for the re-duction of cycle time, number of workers, number of setups. to improve ...

background : the development of chemoresistance represents a major obstacle in the successful treatment of cancers such as non-hodgkin’s lymphoma (nhl). with the recognition of important roles for both p53 and its more recently described paralog p73 in mediating the activity of anti-cancer drugs, there has been increasing recognition that cellular resistance to anthracyclines could and does a...

introduction: analysis of smile is one of the esthetic evaluations in dentistry. in the present study, gla, lid, the long axis position and the oblique axial angle of each tooth were evaluated. materials and methods: in this cross-sectional analytical study, 80 subjects with properly-aligned teeth and healthy periodontium were selected. a digital camera was to take photos of lip areas in unifor...

The hand and forearm blood flow of the Eskimo has been found to be greater than that of a control group of white persons in a temperate climate both at rest at an ambient temperature of 20 C. and during acute cold exposure. Under cold stress, rectal temperature was better maintained in the Eskimos, though certain deep muscle temperatures fell more than they did in the white men because of the g...