Of 2744 patients seen in clinic practice, 37 were found to have a prolonged PR interval. The causes of prolongation of the PR interval were: congenital heart disease, 6; chronic rheumatic heart disease, 2; digitalis induced, 4; miscellaneous, 5; and coronary heart disease, 20. Of the 20 associated with coronary heart disease, 8 (2I.6% of all the patients with prolonged PR interval) had myocardi...

The strategy used to create and annotate a 7872 cDNA microarray from cattle placenta and spleen cDNA sequences is described. This microarray contains approximately 6300 unique genes, as determined by BLASTN and TBLASTX similarity search against the human and mouse UniGene and draft human genome sequence databases (build 34). Sequences on the array were annotated with gene ontology (GO) terms, t...

The equations of motion for the nth order velocity differences raise the interest in correlation functions containing both large and small scales simultaneously. We consider the scaling of such objects and also their conditional average representation with emphasis on the question of whether they behave differently in the inertial or the viscous subranges. The turbulent flow data are obtained b...

The results of an exploratory lattice study of heavy baryon spectroscopy are presented. We have computed the full spectrum of the eight baryons containing a single heavy quark, on a 24 3 × 48 lattice at β = 6.2, using an O(a)-improved fermion action. We discuss the lattice baryon operators and give a method for isolating the contributions of the spin doublets (Σ, Σ *), (Ξ ′ , Ξ *) and (Ω, Ω *) ...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS NTproBNP and BNP levels are reduced in obese subjects, but population-based data comparing the pattern of this relationship in the full spectrum of insulin-resistance mediated conditions, overweight/obesity, metabolic syndrome and diabetes, are limited. METHODS The study-base were 3244 individuals aged 45-74 years, none of whom had heart failure, 1880 without diabetes and ...

As the incidence and prevalence of diabetes increases, intervention through dietary education is becoming more important for control. This systematic review examines evidence efficacy interventions on The study subjects were patients with type 2 diabetes, main outcome variable was glycosylated hemoglobin level (HbA1c). target studies randomized controlled trials. Thirty-six included in analysis...

Large-scale genomic rearrangements including inversions, deletions, and duplications are significant in bacterial evolution. The recently completed Brucella melitensis 16M and Brucella suis 1330 genomes have facilitated the investigation of such events in the Brucella spp. Suppressive subtractive hybridization (SSH) was employed in identifying genomic differences between B. melitensis 16M and B...

Polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) demonstrates chemical stability and biocompatibility and is widely used in biomedical applications. The porous bamboo charcoal has excellent toxin absorptivity and has been used in blood purification. In this study, bamboo charcoal nanoparticles (BCNPs) were acquired with nano-grinding technology. The PVA and PVA/BCNP nanocomposite membranes were prepared and characteriz...

The number of Alu transcripts that accumulate in HeLa and other human cells is normally very low; however, infection with adenovirus type 5 increases the expression of Alu elements dramatically, indicating that the potential for polymerase III (pol III)-dependent Alu transcription in vivo is far greater than generally observed (B. Panning and J.R. Smiley, Mol. Cell. Biol. 13:3231-3244, 1993). I...