We have studied the properties of the fatty acyl binding sites of the phosphatidylinositol transfer protein (PI-TP) from bovine brain, by measuring the binding and transfer of pyrenylacyl-containing phosphatidylinositol (PyrPI) species and pyrenylacyl-containing phosphatidylcholine (PyrPC) species as a function of the acyl chain length. The PyrPI species carried a pyrene-labeled acyl chain of v...

BACKGROUND The development and use of performance indicators (PI) in the field of public mental health care (PMHC) has increased rapidly in the last decade. To gain insight in the current state of PI for PMHC in nations and regions around the world, we conducted a structured review of publications in scientific peer-reviewed journals supplemented by a systematic inventory of PI published in pol...

Within a transport model, we study effects of the momentum dependence nuclear symmetry potential on pion observables in central Sn + collisions at 270 MeV/nucleon. To this end, quantity $U_{sym}^{\infty}(\rho_{0})$, i.e., value saturation density $\rho_{0}$ and infinitely large nucleon momentum, is used to characterise potential. It shown that with certain $L$ (i.e., slope energy $\rho_{0}$) ch...

AIM To test whether the activities of erythrocyte superoxide dismutase (SOD) and glutathione peroxidase (GSH-Px) can be affected by oral iron (OI) treatment, parenteral iron (PI) treatment, and parenteral iron treatment with vitamin E supplementation (PIE) in iron deficiency anemia. METHODS Twenty-eight patients with iron deficiency anemia and 18 healthy controls were included in the study. A...

UNLABELLED Previous study of the bleomycin-induced lung injury model suggested that (111)In-labeled antirat intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (aICAM-1) might be a useful acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) diagnostic agent. We further investigated the ability of (111)In-aICAM-1 to detect inflammation in another ARDS lung injury model. METHODS (111)In-labeled rat polymorphonuclear leuko...