PURPOSE To evaluate erectile function (EF) and voiding function following primary targeted cryoablation of the prostate (TCAP) for clinically localized prostate cancer (CaP) in a contemporary cohort. MATERIALS AND METHODS We retrospectively reviewed all patients treated between 2/2000-5/2006 with primary TCAP. Variables included age, Gleason sum, pre-TCAP prostate specific antigen (PSA), pros...

Bovine mitochondrial elongation factor Ts (EF-Tsmt) stimulates the activity of Escherichia coli elongation factor Tu (EF-Tu). In contrast, E. coli EF-Ts is unable to stimulate mitochondrial EF-Tu. EF-Tsmt forms a tight complex with E. coli EF-Tu governed by an association constant of 8.6 x 10(10). This value is 100-fold stronger than the binding constant for the formation of the E. coli EF-Tu.T...

Congestive heart failure (HF) is a frequent reason for hospital admission. Fifty percent of HF hospitalizations have normal ejection fraction (EF),1 referred to as diastolic HF (DHF). In contrast, patients with systolic HF (SHF) have reduced EF. The DHF phenotype describes patients with signs and symptoms of HF, normal EF, normal left ventricular (LV) volume, hypertension with increased relativ...

The distribution of some rare earth elements (La, Ce, Sc, and Y) in the sediment samples, collected form 56 stations in the offshore of the Persian Gulf during the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman Oceanographic Cruise (PGGOOS) in 2012, was studied. The elements were determined by Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS). The result revealed that the concentration of Ce (82 µg g-1) was...

Let G = (V,E) be a simple graph. An edge labeling f : E → {0, 1} induces a vertex labeling f : V → Z2 defined by f(v) ≡ ∑ uv∈E f(uv) (mod 2) for each v ∈ V , where Z2 = {0, 1} is the additive group of order 2. For i ∈ {0, 1}, let ef (i) = |f−1(i)| and vf (i) = |(f+)−1(i)|. A labeling f is called edge-friendly if |ef (1) − ef (0)| ≤ 1. If (G) = vf (1) − vf (0) is called the edge-friendly index o...

We developed a videomicroscope system with a charge-coupled device camera and evaluated it in the investigation of the glomerular microcirculation in normal [Wistar-Kyoto (WKY)], spontaneously hypertensive (SHR), and streptoyotocin-induced diabetic rats (STZ). In WKY, the diameter of the afferent arterioles (Af) was 11.9 +/- 0.7 microm and that of the efferent arterioles (Ef) was 8.9 +/- 0.7 mi...

PURPOSE To synthesize quantitative findings concerning measures of executive function (EF) in adults with acquired brain injury (ABI). METHOD Electronic databases were searched for studies of EF assessments in adults with ABI that reported any of 3 values: likelihood ratios (LRs), standardized group mean comparisons (ds), or correlations (rs) among EF tests. Forest plots were constructed for ...

The polypeptide chain elongation factor EF-Tu of Escherichia coli is encoded by two genes, tufA and tufB, located in two different operons. Experiments in which either tufA or tufB was inactivated demonstrated that expression of the tRNA-tufB operon is dependent on a functioning tufA and thus on EF-Tu (1, to be published). In order to study a possible role of EF-Tu as trans-activator of the tRN...