A prospective, observational study from February 2010 to December 2011. In 176 patients treated for carotid stenosis (n = 74) or peripheral arterial disease 102), the activity of aspirin and clopidogrel (Plavix) was measured by impedance aggregometry using a multiple electrode aggregometer (Multiplate; Roche Diagnostics, Basel, Switzerland). low response 100 mg (ALR) found in 13% 75 (CLR) 32% p...

Background and aims: Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infections, associated with fatal GI diseases such as gastric cancer and MALT lymphoma, remain a major health problem in ASEAN countries. The Golden triangle has long been known as one of Asia’s main opium-producing areas. There have been no prior studies of H. pylori infection in this area. The major objectives of this project were therefore...

Accounting for interactions with environmental factors in association studies may improve the power to detect genetic effects and may help identifying important environmental effect modifiers. The power of unphased genotype-versus haplotype-based methods in regions with high linkage disequilibrium (LD), as measured by D', for analyzing gene x environment (gene x sex) interactions was compared u...

Studies were initiated to localize the C-reactive protein (CRP) binding site on the coUagen-like region (CLR) of Clq. CRP bound preferentially to the A chain of reduced Clq, in contrast to aggregated immunoglobulin G (Agg-IgG), which reacted preferentially with the C chain. A group of Clq A chain peptides, including peptides identical to residues 81-97, 76-92, and 14-26, respectively, were synt...

Supernova (SN) cosmology is based on the assumption that width-luminosity relation (WLR) and color-luminosity (CLR) in type Ia SN luminosity standardization would not show {absolute magnitude differences} with progenitor age. Unlike this expectation, recent age datings of stellar populations host galaxies have shown significant correlations between Hubble residual (HR). Here we correlation orig...

In CLR James’ Beyond a Boundary he opined: ‘What do they know of cricket who only know?’ One might add: men’s This article reviews the ...

Studies were initiated to localize the C-reactive protein (CRP) binding site on the collagen-like region (CLR) of C1q. CRP bound preferentially to the A chain of reduced C1q, in contrast to aggregated immunoglobulin G (Agg-IgG), which reacted preferentially with the C chain. A group of C1q A chain peptides, including peptides identical to residues 81-97, 76-92, and 14-26, respectively, were syn...

BACKGROUND Femoral malposition is the first cause for graft rupture during ACL reconstruction. Arthroscopic landmarks can be difficult to identify. So, landmark has to be found for reliable tunnel placement. A proximal-distal reference was described as "Apex reference" reported by Hart et al. but no posterior/anterior reference exists in the literature. The purpose of this study was to do a 3D ...

in this paper, the impacts of installing superconducting fault current limiter (sfcl)in radial and loop power distribution system are evaluated to improve voltage sag in both cases of with and without distributed generations (dg). among various sfcls, the hybrid type with a superconducting element in parallel with a current limiting reactor (clr) is selected. this is more effective than resisto...