In this new method for determining serum guanase activity by use of the Hitachi 736-40 automated analyzer, serum is incubated with a mixture of xanthine oxidase, superoxide dismutase, and catalase; a reagent containing KCN, guanine, nitrotetrazolium blue, and Triton X-100 is added; and the increase in absorbance at 570 and 660 nm is measured for 2.4 min. Only 20 microL of sample is required, an...

Received March 15, 2012. Accepted March 19, 2011. Correspondence to: Jin Woo Shin, MD Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, 388-1, Pungnap-dong, Songpa-gu, Seoul 138-736, Korea Tel: +82-2-3010-3864, Fax: +82-2-470-1363, E-mail: [email protected] This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Co...

Zlotorzynska M, Milloy MJS, Richardson L, Nguyen P, Montaner JS, Wood E, Kerr T. Timing of income assistance payment and overdose patterns at a Canadian supervised injection facility. International Journal of Drug Policy, 2014; 25(4): 736-739. • Overdose and drug use data was collected at Insite, Vancouver Coastal’s supervised injection site, between March 2004 and December 2010. • By identifyi...

Time-variant species pools shape competitive dynamics and biodiversity-ecosystem 1 function relationships 2 Author: David W. Armitage a, b 3 Affiliations: 4 a Department of Integrative Biology, University of California Berkeley 5 3040 Valley Life Sciences Building 6 Berkeley, CA, USA 94720-3140 7 b Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame 8 100 Galvin Life Science Center 9 No...

6 7 Rahul Hepat, Ji-Joon Song, Daeweon Lee, Yonggyun Kim 8 9 Department of Bioresource Sciences, Andong National University, Andong 760-749, Korea; Department of 10 Biological Sciences, KAIST, Daejeon 305-701, Korea; Department of Biology, 11 Kyungsung University, Busan 608-736, Korea 12 13 14 15 Running title: A viral histone H4 16 17 18 * To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: ho...

We surveyed 736 IS professionals in organizations at varying levels of the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) to investigate job attitudes and perceptions. Although anecdotal reports and the scant preliminary empirical studies to-date suggest job attitudes and perceptions improve for employees as organizations climb the CMM ladder, we found evidence of a more complex picture. IS workers reported s...

Background: Domestic Violence (DV) against women is a global issue and recognized by United Nations as any act of gender-based violence women. It estimated that 736 million are globally subject to such in their lifetime. Objective: To determine the frequency domestic among pregnant adverse maternal outcomes Pakistan. Methods: All aged 15-49 years third trimester attending Jinnah Postgraduate Me...