BACKGROUND Safety of atrial fibrillation (AF) ablation in conditions of periprocedural therapeutic international normalized ratio (INR) in combination with heparin is still uncertain, and little is known about the pre-procedural therapeutic INR influence on bleeding complications (BC) in this method. METHODS AND RESULTS The subjects were 150 consecutive patients who underwent catheter ablatio...

Bacterial cellulose (BC) serves as a molecular glue to facilitate intra- and inter-domain interactions in nature. Biosynthesis of BC-containing biofilms occurs in a variety of Proteobacteria that inhabit diverse ecological niches. The enzymatic and regulatory systems responsible for the polymerization, exportation, and regulation of BC are equally as diverse. Though the magnitude and environmen...

Bacterial cellulose has been used in the food industry for applications such as low-calorie desserts, salads, and fabricated foods. It has also been used in the paper manufacturing industry to enhance paper strength, the electronics industry in acoustic diaphragms for audio speakers, the pharmaceutical industry as filtration membranes, and in the medical field as wound dressing and artificial s...

Associate Editors Arti Bhan, MD John E. Brunner, MD Stephen Brunton, MD Robert J. Chilton, DO, FACC Joseph Largay, PAC, CDE Gayle M. Lorenzi, RN, CDE Melinda Downie Maryniuk, MEd, RD, CDE, FADA Heather Remtema, MPH, RD, CCRP Editorial Board Leslie Barrett, MS, RD, CDE Nisha Basu, MD, MPH Christine Beebe, MS Nathaniel G. Clark, MD, MS, RD Kelly Close, BA, MBA Nancy J. D’Hondt, RPh, CDE, FAADE Ru...

During the human B cell (Bc) recall response, rapid cell division results in multiple Bc subpopulations. The TLR-9 agonist CpG oligodeoxynucleotide, combined with cytokines, causes Bc activation and division in vitro and increased CD27 surface expression in a sub-population of Bc. We hypothesized that the proliferating CD27(lo) subpopulation, which has a lower frequency of antibody-secreting ce...

BACKGROUND Development of effective educational strategies should accompany increases in public awareness and the availability of genetic testing for breast cancer (BC). These educational strategies should be designed to fulfill the knowledge gap while considering factors that influence women's interest in order to facilitate decision making. OBJECTIVE To determine the possible correlates of ...

We report on the rst observation of the bottom-charm mesons B c through the decay mode B c ! J==ìn 1.8 TeV pp collisions using the CDF detector at the Fermilab Tevatron. A t of background and signal contributions to the observed J==`mass distribution yielded 20:4 +6:2 ?5:5 events from B c mesons. A t to the same distribution with background alone was rejected at the level of 4.8 standard deviat...

We state the design flaws of the 1-round block cipher SHAMATA-BC, designed by Fleishmann and Gorski by using the building blocks of SHAMATA hash function. We fix the flaws and then show that the amended version of SHAMATA-BC is much weaker. We believe that there is no connection between security level of SHAMATA as a hash function and that of SHAMATA-BC as a block cipher.

Associate Editors Arti Bhan, MD John E. Brunner, MD Stephen Brunton, MD Robert J. Chilton, MD Joseph Largay, PAC, CDE Gayle M. Lorenzi, RN, CDE Melinda Downie Maryniuk, MEd, RD, CDE, FADA Heather Remtema, MPH, RD, CCRP Editorial Board Leslie Barrett, MS, RD, CDE Nisha Basu, MD, MPH Christine Beebe, MS Nathaniel G. Clark, MD, MS, RD Kelly Close, BA, MBA Nancy J. D’Hondt, RPh, CDE, FAADE Ruth P. ...