More than 50% of the nontypeable (NT) pneumococcal strains received in our laboratory for reference purposes are isolated in sporadic cases of conjunctivitis. To determine the genetic structure of the population of these NT conjunctival strains, we analyzed 75 pneumococci (40 NT and 35 typeable) isolated from conjunctivas and 30 (15 NT and 15 typeable) isolated from other sources. The NT and ty...

Sharing network data between UNIX and NT systems is becoming increasingly important as NT moves into areas previously serviced entirely by UNIX. One difficulty in sharing data between UNIX and NT is that their file system security models are quite different. NT file servers use access control lists (ACLs) that allow permissions to be specified for an arbitrary number of users and groups, while ...

BACKGROUND N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) is secreted by cardiac ventricular myocytes upon pressure and volume overload and is a prognostic marker to monitor the severity of precapillary pulmonary hypertension and the extent of right heart failure. OBJECTIVES The impact of physical exercise on NT-proBNP levels in patients with left heart disease was demonstrated previous...

BACKGROUND We sought to determine N-terminal pro-Brain Natriuretic Peptide (NTproBNP) levels among a population of individuals with type 2 diabetes, and to correlate these levels with diabetes medications and patient demographics. METHODS We analyzed data from 506 patients with type 2 diabetes. We compared NT-proBNP levels of these patients with those from the general population. We also soug...

In this study, the behavior of neural stem cells from the newborn rat spinal cord was compared at neurosphere level after the addition of neurotrophin-3 (NT-3) once or daily, blank chitosan carriers, or NT-3-chitosan carriers respectively. We found that NT-3 enhanced the viability and differentiation of neural stem cells, but as NT-3 has an extremely short half-life at 37 degrees C, in order to...

Neurotrophins, brain-derived neurotrophic factors (BDNF), neurotrophin-3 (NT-3), and neurotrophin-4 (NT-4), have been implicated in the modulation of heroin dependency. This study was designed to explore the expression alterations of BDNF, NT-3, and NT-4 in the context of heroin dependence and withdrawal in the rat nucleus accumbens (NAc). Heroin dependence was induced by a progressive intraper...

Postoperative major complications (PMCs) may prevent multimodality therapy (MMT) for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) patients by delaying adjuvant (AT) following surgery-first (SF) sequencing. We hypothesized that neoadjuvant (NT) mitigates the detrimental effect of PMCs on outcomes resected patients. Characteristics consecutive PDAC 7/2011-10/2018 were abstracted from a prospective dat...

Debugging multiprocessor systems is much more tedious and complex because of the limited support offered by debuggers for solving synchronization problems for these types of processor systems. The most advanced kernel mode debugger available for Windows NT gives multiprocessor support by completely stopping one of the processors while the code is being debugged in the other processor.We will ta...

Tumor angiogenesis is closely associated with clinical staging and has been proposed to correlate with clinical response in terms of subsequent metastases following primary resection. Netrin-4 (NT-4) regulates angiogenic responses. Therefore, we sought to examine the effects of NT-4 on the primary tumor growth of colon cancer cells, liver and lung...