Real-time cross-sectional echocardiography was performed to record the interatrial septal echogram by right atrium-interatrial septum-left atrium (ASA) direction of the ultrasound beam by positioning the transducer to the right of the sternum. The configuration of the interatrial septum (IAS) and the change of the configuration through each cardiac cycle were studied in 10 normal subjects and 2...

The internal anal sphincter (IAS) tone is important for the rectoanal continence. The RhoA/Rho kinase (ROK) pathway has been associated with the agonist-induced sustained contraction of the smooth muscle, but its role in the spontaneously tonic smooth muscle is not known. Present studies compared expression of different components of the RhoA/ROK pathway between the IAS (a truly tonic SM), the ...

BACKGROUND Dietary exposure from food to toxic inorganic arsenic (iAs) in the general U.S. population has not been well studied. OBJECTIVES The goal of this research was to quantify dietary As exposure and analyze the major contributors to total As (tAs) and iAs. Another objective was to compare model predictions with observed data. METHODS Probabilistic exposure modeling for dietary As was...

Symadex is the lead acridine compound of a novel class of imidazoacridinones (IAs) currently undergoing phase II clinical trials for the treatment of various cancers. Recently, we have shown that Symadex is extruded by ABCG2-overexpressing lung cancer A549/K1.5 cells, thereby resulting in a marked resistance to certain IAs. To identify the IA residues essential for substrate recognition by ABCG...

The present study determined the effects of the angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor captopril and angiotensin II receptor subtype 1 (AT1-R) antagonist losartan on the internal anal sphincter pressures (IASP) in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) versus normotensive Wistar-Kyoto rats (WKY). The SHR had significantly higher IASP (21.7 +/- 0.8 mm Hg) than the WKY (14.7 +/- 0.9 mm Hg),...

BACKGROUND Health anxiety can be viewed as a dimensional phenomenon where severe health anxiety in form of DSM-IV hypochondriasis represents a cut-off where the health anxiety becomes clinically significant. Three of the most reliable and used self-report measures of health anxiety are the Health Anxiety Inventory (HAI), the Illness Attitude Scales (IAS) and the Whiteley Index (WI). Identifying...

Armed Forces personnel who deploy as individual augmentees (IAs), with a unit other than their formed unit, often fill shortages or provide specialized knowledge or skill sets. This article examined the effect of deploying as an IA on mental health outcomes and unit cohesion. A U.K. military cohort study was used to compare IAs (n = 1352) with personnel who had deployed with a formed unit (n = ...

The leading pathophysiological changes during sepsis include systemic abnormalities in the immune response. Due to the general character of these disturbances, sepsis is usually studied as a homogenous clinical condition. We aimed to compare the immune response in intraabdominal sepsis (IAS) and pneumonia-derived sepsis (PDS). The following cell populations were examined: white blood cell count...

The isotropic matroid M [IAS(G)] of a graph G is a binary matroid, which is equivalent to the isotropic system introduced by Bouchet. In this paper we discuss four notions of connectivity related to isotropic matroids and isotropic systems. We show that the isotropic system connectivity defined by Bouchet is equivalent to vertical connectivity of M [IAS(G)], and if G has at least four vertices,...

In February 2006, the Chinese Ministry of Finance formally announced that, from 2007 onwards, the Chinese Accounting Standards (CAS) would be converging with International Accounting Standards (IAS). This significant step towards international accounting harmonization, for the purpose of attracting foreign investment, invokes the question as to whether the newly implemented IAS will indeed achi...