BACKGROUND Calcific aortic valve stenosis (CAVS) is seen in a large proportion of individuals over 60 years. It is an active process, influenced by lipid accumulation, mechanical stress, inflammation, and abnormal extracellular matrix turnover. Various biomarkers (BMs) are studied, as regards mechanisms, diagnosis and prognosis. METHODS In the calcified valves calcium deposition, elastin frag...

The previously introduced three-phase electrode technique was used to determine the Gibbs energies of transfer of ClO3 , BrO3 , IO3 , IO4 , OCN , SeCN , CN , N3 , halogen substituted acetate anions Z3 nCHnCOO (Z 1⁄4 F,Cl,Br,I), and cycloalkyl carboxylate anions ((CH2)nCOO , n 1⁄4 3,. . .,7) at the water|nitrobenzene interface. Whereas the data for the small inorganic ions can easily be understo...

Background: New bone formation is common in the late stage of various inflammatory arthritis, while osteoblasts play a vital role this process. Activation PI3K/ Akt pathway promotes differentiation and enhances function [1]. T315 novel small molecule drug, which may induce apoptosis suppress expression cellular markers chronic lymphocytic leukemia cells by disrupting [2]. However, lack study fo...

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131 Deborah K. Mayer, PhD, RN, AOCN®, is the editor of the Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing and an associate professor in the School of Nursing at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill; Suzanne M. Mahon, RN, DNSc, AOCN®, APNG, is a clinical professor in the Department of Internal Medicine and the School of Nursing at Saint Louis University in St. Louis, MO; and Beth Eaby, MSN, CRNP, ...

We show that the cyclic lamplighter group C2 oCn embeds into Hilbert space with distortion O ( √ log n ) . This matches the lower bound proved by Lee, Naor and Peres in [14], answering a question posed in that paper. Thus the Euclidean distortion of C2 o Cn is Θ ( √ log n ) . Our embedding is constructed explicitly in terms of the irreducible representations of the group. Since the optimal Eucl...

149 Carmen Jacobs, RN, OCN®, is a research nurse supervisor in the Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology Department at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. Editorial assistance was provided by Meniscus Health Care Communications through an educational grant from Novartis Pharmaceuticals. Mention of specific products and opinions related to those products do not indicate o...

131 Deborah K. Mayer, PhD, RN, AOCN®, is the editor of the Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing and an associate professor in the School of Nursing at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill; Suzanne M. Mahon, RN, DNSc, AOCN®, APNG, is a clinical professor in the Department of Internal Medicine and the School of Nursing at Saint Louis University in St. Louis, MO; and Beth Eaby, MSN, CRNP, ...

Digital Object Identifi er: 10.1188/05.CJON.407-411 As an advanced practice nurse, you care for patients who have a variety of chronic conditions, and you are expected to handle them all. How do you keep up with all of the advances in cardiology, endocrinology, gastroenterology, and infectious disease? You read this column, dedicated to managing a variety of primary care disorders in conjunctio...

This study is to explore the osteogenesis potential of the human periodontal ligament stem cells (hPDLSCs) induced by naringin in vitro and in vitro. The results confirmed that 1 μM naringin performs the best effect and a collection of bone-related genes (RUNX2, COL1A2, OPN, and OCN) had significantly higher expression levels compared to the control group. Furthermore, a typical trabecular stru...