BACKGROUND Myocarditis (MC) is an important cause of cardiac dysfunction in children. Fulminant MC is sometimes fatal, and sequelae may develop during follow-up. We conducted a nationwide survey to determine the clinico-epidemiological features of MC in Japanese children and adolescents. METHODS AND RESULTS Survey questionnaires were mailed to 627 hospitals, which were asked if they had treat...

A U-paddock, celldesigned, rotational grazing (RG) system was initiated in March 1M)l to evaluate the effects of RG on various vegetation response variables and cow/calf production. This 20-month study was initiated in January 1983 to contrast herbage dynamics in the RG treatment to those in 8 yearlong continuously grazed tmtment (MC). Rate of stoclring in the RG treatment was 3.7 ha/cow/year a...

The biggest challenge for the treatment of multidrug resistant cancer is to deliver a high concentration of anticancer drugs to cancer cells. Icariside II is a flavonoid from Epimedium koreanum Nakai with remarkable anticancer properties, but poor solubility and significant efflux from cancer cells limited its clinical use. In our previous study, a self-assembled mixture of micelles (TPGS-Icari...

This paper presents a new precoding based adaptive multi-carrier/single-carrier (MC/SC) uplink radio-access (RA) system with improved peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) for layered orthogonal frequency division multiple access (Layered-OFDMA) of long term evolution advanced (LTE-A). The DiscreteCosine transform (DCT) precoding is applied before subcarrier mapping and IFFT to reduce the high PAP...

Two doses (30 and 60 mL) of Montmorency tart cherry concentrate (MC) were used to investigate their impact on physiological indices of uric acid activity, inflammation and the bioavailability of the major anthocyanin (CYA-3-O-GluRut). Following MC supplementation plasma CYA-3-O-GluRut increased (P < 0.05), with a greater uptake in the 60 mL dose found at 1 h. Serum urate was decreased (P < 0.00...

Van Baalen, C.A., C. Els, L. Sprong, R. van Beek, E. van der Vries, A.D.M.E. Osterhaus 6 and G.F. Rimmelzwaan 7 1 Viroclinics Biosciences, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; 2 Erasmus MC Department of 8 Viroscience, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. 9 10 # Address correspondence to: [email protected] 11 12 Institutional addresses: 13 Viroclinics Biosciences; Marconistraat 16; 3029 AK Rotterdam; The Net...

Glomerular mesangial cell (MC)-derived IL-1 may be an important factor in the development of the hypercellularity and sclerosis characteristic of many forms of glomerulonephritis. To define the regulation of IL-I synthesis by human MC, Northern blot analyses were performed using specific probes for monocytic IL-1 a and 8 mRNA. Proliferating MC expressed mRNA for both IL-1 a and ft, whereas nonp...

Brazil has a history of blooms and contamination of freshwater systems by cyanobacterial toxins. The monitoring relevance of toxins from cyanobacteria in reservoirs for public supply is notorious given its high toxicity to mammals, included humans beings. The most recurrent toxins in Brazilian water bodies are microcystins (MC). However, the recent record of cylindrospermopsin (CYN) in northeas...

Dysregulated T cell responses in the intestine may lead to chronic bowel inflammation such as collagenous colitis (CC) and lymphocytic colitis (LC), together known as microscopic colitis (MC). Having demonstrated increased local T cell responses in the intestinal mucosa of MC patients, we investigated the recent thymic emigrants by measuring T cell receptor excision circle (TREC) levels in the ...

The electrical potentials at membrane surfaces (psi0) strongly influence the physiological responses to ions. Ion activities at membrane surfaces may be computed from psi0, and physiological responses to ions are better interpreted with surface activities than with bulk-phase activities. psi0 influences the gating of ion channels and the driving force for ion fluxes across membranes. psi0 may b...