Partial hepatectomy (PH) results in the persistent drop of the specific activity of glutamine synthetase (GS) (EC 6.3.1.2). This drop correlates with the reduced proportion of GS+ hepatocytes and with the reduced GS+ area surrounding the central veins such that GS+ hepatocytes are arranged in a single cell layer only. Cultivation of hepatocytes isolated at various times after PH revealed consid...

Seven patients with typical or atypical pulmonary carcinoid tumors overdiagnosed as small-cell carcinoma on bronchoscopic biopsies are described. Bronchial biopsies from 9 consecutive small-cell lung carcinoma patients were used as control group for histologic and immunohistochemical studies (cytokeratins, chromogranin A, synaptophysin, Ki-67 [MIB-1], and TTF-1). The carcinoid tumors presented ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The clinical relevance of proton MR spectroscopy needs further clarification as to its usefulness and limitations. The purpose of this study was to investigate the correlation between the semiquantitative choline-containing compound level (Cho value) measured by MR spectroscopy and the Ki-67 labeling index in gliomas. METHODS Localized proton spectra were obtained in 26...

Neutrophil kinetics of acute experimental infection were studied with diisopropylfluorophosphate-(32)P labeling in 31 dogs inoculated intrabronchially with pneumococci. In vitro neutrophil labeling indicated a rapid transit time through the blood in early infections, with an elevated marginal granulocyte pool sometimes preceding an elevation of the circulating granulocyte pool. 13 hr after infe...

Let G be a graph with vertex set V and edge set E , and let A be an abelian group. A labeling f : V → A induces an edge labeling f ∗ : E → A defined by f (xy) = f (x) + f (y). For i ∈ A, let v f (i) = card{v ∈ V : f (v) = i} and e f (i) = card{e ∈ E : f (e) = i}. A labeling f is said to be A-friendly if |v f (i)−v f ( j)| ≤ 1 for all (i, j) ∈ A× A, and A-cordial if we also have |e f (i) − e f (...

Integration is a crucial step in the reconstruction of complete 3D surface model from multiple scans. Ever-present registration errors and scanning noise make integration a nontrivial problem. In this paper, we propose a novel method for multi-view scan integration where we solve it as a labeling problem. Unlike previous methods, which have been based on various merging schemes, our labeling-ba...

Let G be a nonempty simple graph with vertex set V(G) and an edge E(G). For every injective labeling f:V(G)?Z, there are two induced labelings, namely f+:E(G)?Z defined by f+(uv)=f(u)+f(v), f?:E(G)?Z f?(uv)=|f(u)?f(v)|. The sum index the difference minimum cardinalities of ranges f+ f?, respectively. We provide upper lower bounds on index, determine various families graphs. also interesting con...

background: various frequencies of sperm aneuploidy are reported in sperms of subfertile patients compared to normal individuals. moreover, sperm dna damage is shown to be associated with male infertility. in this study, the rate of dna damage and frequencies of aneuploidy in sperms of subfertile patients was investigated. methods: semen samples were obtained from healthy normal and subfertile ...

Glycemic impact, defined as "the weight of glucose that would induce a glycemic response equivalent to that induced by a given amount of food" (American Association of Cereal Chemists Glycemic Carbohydrate Definition Committee, 2007), expresses relative glycemic potential in grams of glycemic glucose equivalents (GGEs) per specified amount of food. Therefore, GGE behaves as a food component, an...