We measured right and left ventricular ejection fracttion (EF) from high frequency time-activity curves obtained during the initial passage of an intravenous bolus of 99mTc (Sn) pyrophosphate. In 22 normal controls right ventricular EF averaged 0.52 +/- 0.04 (SD). In 24 acute anterior or lateral infarction patients right ventricular EF was normal (0.56 +/- 0.10), while left ventricular EF was r...

Background CMR still suffers from several sources of inaccuracy in measuring LV volumes and EF. Typical standard deviations (SD) between readers for EF range from 4% 7.5% (Quantification of LV function: Suinesiaputra A, et al. J Cardiovasc Magn Reson. 2015 Jul 28;17(1):63). Further, since the data range of agreement for 95% of data is 4SD (i. e. 16% 30%), it is common practice to adjust EF base...

Small GTPases play central roles in catalyzing each stage of protein synthesis on the ribosome. In prokaryotes, the relevant GTPases are: initiation factor IF2, which delivers the initiator tRNA to the P (peptide) site of the 30S ribosomal subunit; elongation factor EF-Tu, which delivers the aminoacyl-tRNA to the 70S ribosome (composed of 50S and 30S subunits); elongation factor EF-G, which pro...

Evidence suggests that both the arterial baroreflex and vestibulosympathetic reflex contribute to blood pressure regulation, and both autonomic reflexes integrate centrally in the medulla cardiovascular center. A previous report indicated increased sympathetic baroreflex sensitivity during the midluteal (ML) phase of the menstrual cycle compared with the early follicular (EF) phase. On the basi...

The electro-Fenton (EF) process is a powerful electrochemical advanced oxidation process. Its development has progressed over the past three decades as clean and effective technique for wastewater treatment. Even though conventional EF been shown to be efficient degradation/mineralization of toxic and/or persistent organic pollutants; it still suffers from some downsides industrial-scale develo...

We investigate the substitution Frege (SF ) proof system and its relationship to extended Frege (EF ) in the context of modal and superintuitionistic (si) propositional logics. We show that EF is p-equivalent to tree-like SF , and we develop a “normal form” for SF proofs. We establish connections between SF for a logic L, and EF for certain bimodal expansions of L. We then turn attention to spe...

Proteins with EF-hand calcium-binding motifs are essential for many cellular processes, but are also associated with cancer, autism, cardiac arrhythmias, and Alzheimer's, skeletal muscle and neuronal diseases. Functionally, all EF-hand proteins are divided into two groups: (1) calcium sensors, which function to translate the signal to various responses; and (2) calcium buffers, which control th...

The translational apparatus very efficiently eliminates errors that would cause a spontaneous shift in frames. The probability of frameshifting can be increased dramatically by either cis or trans-acting factors. Programmed translational frameshift sites are cis-acting sequences that greatly increase the frequency of such errors, at least in part by causing a transient translational pause. Paus...

OBJECTIVE In patients with aortic stenosis (AS), the left ventricular (LV) geometry changes due to the increased LV afterload. However, subclinical myocardial dysfunction can develop despite a normal LV ejection fraction (EF). This study was an investigation of subclinical LV systolic dysfunction in patients with severe AS with a normal LV EF using a strain imaging method, speckle-tracking echo...