The bronchodilator effect of ipratropium bromide (IB) (Atrovent-Sch 1000), 40 micrograms inhaled, and metaproterenol (Met), 1.25 mg in various combinations, was compared in ten allergic asthmatic patients, aged 23 to 63 years. Six combinations were used at random in a double blind study. The following ventilatory functions-FVC, TGV, SGAW, FEV1, FEF 25-75, VEmax, VE50, VE25, were measured at 30 ...

The banking industry is a strong leader in the use of Internet technologies for revolutionizing customer services. This study explores demographic and financial factors that may affect the use of Internet-Banking (IB) services provided by a large bank. The study analyzed certain IB activities for a large sample of the bank's customers. The analysis highlights some usage characteristics and patt...

‎we characterize those groups $g$ and vector spaces $v$ such that $v$ is a faithful irreducible $g$-module and such that each $v$ in $v$ is centralized by a $g$-conjugate of a fixed non-identity element of the fitting subgroup $f(g)$ of $g$‎. ‎we also determine those $v$ and $g$ for which $v$ is a faithful quasi-primitive $g$-module and $f(g)$ has no regular orbit‎. ‎we do use these to show in ...

Inclusion bodies (IB) synthesized during sporulation and enterotoxin formation by Clostridium perfringens NCTC 8239 and 8798 were isolated and characterized. IB were isolated by disruption of sporangia by sonication in the presence of tetrasodium EDTA and phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride. Fractionation was carried out in a linear gradient of sodium bromide, sucrose, or diatrizoate sodium. Denaturi...

The structure and genetic diversity of a California Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) population was assessed by single-strand conformation polymorphism and nucleotide sequence analyses of genomic regions 2b, CP, MP, and the 3' nontranslated region of RNA3. The California CMV population exhibited low genetic diversity and was composed of one to three predominant haplotypes and a large number of minor...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the prognostic significance of adjuvant concurrent chemoradiotherapy-induced neutropenia with survival in patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the uterine cervix. METHODS Data from 107 patients with stage IB-IIB cervical cancer were retrospectively analyzed. The median follow-up was 37.5 (4.2-72.7) months. All patients had received radical surgery, including pelvic l...

We investigated the molecular genetic and biosynthetic basis of Bernard-Soulier syndrome in a severely affected white woman. Flow cytometric analysis showed a severe deficiency of glycoprotein (GP) Ib, GP IX, and GP V on the surface of her platelets. Similarly, GP Ib alpha was undetectable by immunoblot analysis of platelet lysates. Surprisingly, a large quantity of a 70-kD protein (which proba...

AIM To evaluate the changes in the 8th edition American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) for defining stage IB and IIA pancreatic cancer and identify their prognostic factors. METHODS Pancreatic cancer patients were selected from the Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results database (1973-2013). The enrolled patients were divided into IB and IIA groups based on tumor size according to the 8t...

Bernard-Soulier syndrome (BSS) is a rare autosomal bleeding disorder characterized clinically by prolonged skin bleeding time, normal clot retraction and thrombocytopenia with large and morphologically abnormal platelets, and biochemically by the absence of platelet membrane glycoproteins (GP) Ib, V and IX. GP Ib and GP IX exist in the platelet membrane as a heterodimer complex which acts as th...