A 70-year-old man presenting with a chief complaint of tongue swelling had been diagnosed with prostate cancer 1 year earlier. He had been on an oral angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor (ACE) inhibitor for hypertension for 20 years. Two months before the first of 4 episodes of tongue swelling within a period of 40 days, he had been prescribed oral estramustine phosphate (EMP) for the prosta...

Aiming at the evaluation of shielding effectiveness (SE) materials against high-intensity electromagnetic pulse (EMP), mechanism in frequency domain is investigated, and factors that determine SE such as conductivity, thickness material, test are analyzed. The attenuated waves solid perforated plate irradiated by EMP simulated CST. results show two exhibit low-pass high-pass filtering character...

ion (abs): A super-class is abstract (i.e., abs := true) when all of its objects are members of its sub-type objects. Instances of an abstract type cannot appear in the database extension, but are subsumed into instances of its sub-types. Attributes (Acdm): A class C has a set of attributes Acdm. Acdm := {a | a := 〈an, t, tag, l, n, d〉}, where each attribute a has a name an, data type t and a t...

A 69-year-old man presented with sudden onset of macroscopic hematuria. While an ultrasound of the bladder revealed a posterior bladder mass, subsequent flexible cystoscopy demonstrated only an area of irregular urothelium. Initial general anesthetic cytoscopy and biopsy revealed conventional G2/3 T1 TCC. Histology of a further formal resection of this irregular area revealed carcinoma-in-situ ...

BACKGROUND We identified the clinical features of 61 cases of multiple myeloma (MM) patients over 65 years and analyzed the treatment and prognosis of the era of new drugs in elderly patients. METHODS We identified 61 newly diagnosed symptomatic multiple myeloma (NDMM) among elderly Chinese patients more than 65 years old diagnosed from 2006 to 2012. RESULTS Of the 205 consecutive MM patien...

Efficiency at maximum power (EMP) is a very important specification for heat engine to evaluate the capacity of outputting adequate with high efficiency. It has been proved theoretically that limit EMP thermoelectric can be achieved hypothetical boxcar-shaped electron transmission, which realized here by resonant tunneling in one-dimensional symmetric InP/InSe superlattice. found transfer matri...

Erythropoietin (EPO) is a factor essential for erythroid cell proliferation, differentiation, and survival. The production of EPO by the kidneys in response to hypoxia and anemia is well documented. To determine whether EPO is also produced by hematopoietic cells, we analyzed the expression of EPO in normal human hematopoietic progenitors and in their progeny. Undifferentiated CD34(+)lin- hemat...

Solitary extramedullary plasmacytomas (EMPs) are nonepithelial neoplasms of plasma cell origin categorized among non-Hodgkin lymphomas, without the bone marrow involvement and systemic spread seen in multiple myeloma. They are uncommon tumors comprising 3% of all plasma cell neoplasias. Although they usually occur in the upper respiratory tract, only 1 case of EMP localized to the frontal sinus...

Microparticles are small vesicles playing a crucial role in cell communication by promoting prothrombotic and proinflammatory responses. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying their release are still elusive. We previously established that thrombin promoted the generation of endothelial microparticles (EMPs). In the present study, gene profiling identified TRAIL/Apo2L, a cytokine belongin...

Gene duplication creates evolutionary novelties by using older tools in new ways. We have identified evidence that the genes for enamel matrix proteins (EMPs), milk caseins, and salivary proteins comprise a family descended from a common ancestor by tandem gene duplication. These genes remain linked, except for one EMP gene, amelogenin. These genes show common structural features and are expres...