To determine whether reduced nerve growth factor (NGF) and/or its high affinity receptor, trkA, play a role in the pathophysiology of Rett syndrome (RS), we used immunohistochemistry in paraffin-embedded human autopsy brain tissue, to quantify NGF and trkA levels within the frontal cortex of 9 RS females and 10 female controls of similar age. The results showed a significant reduction of NGF ex...

PURPOSE To measure vitreous levels of soluble TNF-receptors (sTNF-Rs) types I and II in eyes with rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD), uncomplicated or complicated with proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR), and in eyes with proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR). To examine whether there is any relationship between vitreous levels of sTNF-Rs and clinical features of these conditions and ...

—In this paper, we demonstrate the higher hardware ef ciency of Reed-Solomon (RS) parallel turbo decoding compared with BCH parallel turbo decoding. Based on an innovative architecture, this is the rst implementation of fully parallel RS turbo decoder. A performance analysis is performed showing that RS Block Turbo Codes (RS-BTC) have decoding performance equivalent to Bose Ray-Chaudhuri Hocque...

Changes in human lifestyle and food consumption have resulted in a large increase in the incidence of type-2 diabetes, obesity, and colon disease, especially in Asia. These conditions are a growing threat to human health, but consumption of foods high in resistant starch (RS) can potentially reduce their incidence. Strategies to increase RS in rice are limited by a lack of knowledge of its mole...

This study was carried out at the Schizophrenia Program at Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA), Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. * Dietitian. Specialist in Clinical Nutrition. MSc. student, Graduate Program in Psychiatry, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. ** Dietitian. Specialist in Public Health. MSc. in Medicine: Psychiatry, UFRGS, Porto Alegre, RS,...

In Section 2, we give a brief introduction tcl the RS; in Section 3, we introduce an adaptive implemlentation of the RS and derive an approximate expression for convergence time linearized techniques comedy used in the analysis of phase lock loops and other nonlinear circuits; in section 4, we describe a new analog RS circuit with an adaptive tenth-order Butterworth lovv. pass filter (LPF) and ...

ecotourism as the most attractive subset of the tourism industry can contribute to natural resource conservation and local development. although great numbers of people annually visit abbasabad area, in veresk, mazandaran, to enjoy its brilliant landscape and moderate ecologic condition, there is no applicable plan for many natural attractive zones in this area. as a result, some specific well ...

1DDS, PhD, Associate professor, Department of Operative Dentistry, Dental School, Federal University of Pelotas, Pelotas/RS, Brazil. 2DDS, Graduate student, Federal University of Pelotas, Pelotas/RS, Brazil. 3DDS, PhD, Associate professor, Department of Semiology and Clinic, Dental School, Federal University of Pelotas, Pelotas/RS, Brazil. 4DDS, PhD, Associate professor, Department of Operative...