AIM To provide age and gender-specific reference values for orbital fat and muscle volumes (MV) in Caucasian adults. PATIENTS AND METHODS Computed tomographic scans of 160 orbits from 52 men and 55 women, aged 20-80 years, not affected by orbital disease were evaluated. Orbital bony cavity volume (OV), fat volume (FV) and MV were calculated by a previously validated method using the software ...

the angiotensin 1-7 (ang 1-7), is abundantly produced in kidneys and antagonizes the function of angiotensin ii through mas receptor (masr) or other unknown mechanisms. in the current study, the role of masr and steroid hormone estrogen on renal blood flow response to ang 1-7 administration was investigated in ovariectomized (ov) female rats. ov female wistar-rats received estradiol (500 µg/kg/...

In this work, novel atom-type-based topological indices, named AT indices, were presented as descriptors to encode structural information of a molecule at the atomic level. The descriptors were successfully used for simultaneous quantitative structure-retention relationship (QSRR) modeling of saturated alcohols on different stationary phases (SE-30, OV-3, OV-7, OV-11, OV-17 and OV-25). At first...

PURPOSE The inhibitory role of secreted chondroitin sulfate proteoglycans on oncolytic viral (OV) therapy was examined. Chondroitinase ABC (Chase-ABC) is a bacterial enzyme that can remove chondroitin sulfate glycosaminoglycans from proteoglycans without any deleterious effects in vivo. We examined the effect of Chase-ABC on OV spread and efficacy. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN Three-dimensional glioma...

The characterization of an orf virus (OV) isolated from skin lesions of a goat kid with severe, persistent, proliferative dermatitis, and designated orf virus-San Angelo 2000 (OV-SA00) strain, is described. The identity of OV-SA00 was confirmed by a combination of methods, including electron microscopy, amplification of specific fragments of viral DNA by polymerase chain reaction, restriction e...

Approximately 680 million people are at risk of infection with Opisthorchis viverrini (OV) and Clonorchis sinensis, with an estimated 10 million infected with OV in Southeast Asia alone. While opisthorchiasis is associated with hepatobiliary pathologies, such as advanced periductal fibrosis (APF) and cholangiocarcinoma (CCA), animal models of OV infection show that immune-complex glomerulonephr...

Opisthorchis viverrini is an important helminth pathogen of humans that is endemic in Thailand and Laos. Adult flukes reside within host bile ducts and feed on epithelial tissue and blood cells. Chronic opisthorchiasis is associated with severe hepatobiliary diseases such as cholangiocarcinoma. Here we report that adult O. viverrini secrete two major cysteine proteases: cathepsin F (Ov-CF-1) an...

We study the maximal multiplicity locus of a variety X over field characteristic p>0 that is provided with finite surjective radicial morphism δ:X→V, where V regular, for example, when X⊂An+1 hypersurface defined by an equation form Tq−f(x1,…,xn)=0 and δ projection onto V:=Spec(k[x1,…,xn]). The along points bounded degree, say d, extension K(V)⊂K(X). denote Fd(X)⊂X set d. Our guiding line searc...

Development of catalysts with highly efficient catalytic performance has a significant status in accelerating the MgH2 hydrogen storage system. In this work, we report Na2Ti3O7 catalyst rich oxygen vacancies (Na2Ti3O7-Ov), which was synthesized from Ti3C2-MXene, and confirm remarkable enhancement to MgH2. Expressly, initial dehydrogenation temperature + 5Na2Ti3O7-Ov (an addition 5 wt % Na2Ti3O7...