AIM We aimed to compare the International Association of Diabetes and Pregnancy Study Groups (IADPSG) and the World Health Organization (WHO) criteria to diagnose gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) in Chennai, India. MATERIALS AND METHODS We reviewed the retrospective data of 1351 pregnant women who underwent screening for GDM at four selected diabetes centers at Chennai (three private and o...

BACKGROUND Choosing between a more or less extensive neck dissection implies a tradeoff between survival, quality of life, and costs. The purpose of this study was to determine if selective neck dissection (level I-III or I-IV) is cost-effective compared with modified radical neck dissection (level I-V) in patients with cT1-2 oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) with singular nodal disease confi...

algebraic systems” (translated by G. J. Tee), Computer Science Dept., Stanford University, Stanford, Calif., Tech. Rept. CS24, 1965. [291 N. Sato and W. F. Tinney, “Techniques for exploiting the sparsity of the network admittance matrix,’’ IEEE Trans. Power and Apparatus, vol. 82, pp. 944-950, December 1963. I 3 O 1 W. F. Tinney and J. W. Walker, “Direct solutions of sparse network equations by...

An insertion sequence, ISLC3, of 1351 bp has been isolated from Lactobacillus casei. Formation of IS circles containing a 3 bp spacer (complete junction) or deletion of 25 bp at the left inverted repeat (IRL) between the abutted IS ends of the ISLC3 junction region (deleted junction) was also discovered in the lactobacilli and Escherichia coli system studied. We found that the promoter formed b...

Cells of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae choose bud sites in a manner that is dependent upon cell type: a and alpha cells select axial sites; a/alpha cells utilize bipolar sites. Mutants specifically defective in axial budding were isolated from an alpha strain using pseudohyphal growth as an assay. We found that a and alpha mutants defective in the previously identified PMT4 gene exhibit un...

The systems controlling the number, size, and hemoglobin concentrations of populations of human red blood cells (RBCs), and their dysregulation in anemia, are poorly understood. After release from the bone marrow, RBCs undergo reduction in both volume and total hemoglobin content by an unknown mechanism [Lew VL, et al. (1995) Blood 86:334-341; Waugh RE, et al. (1992) Blood 79:1351-1358]; after ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the performance of phage amplified biologically assay (PhaB) for detecting tuberculosis (TB) in sputum in the pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) patients. METHODS Shanghai Tuberculosis Key Laboratory of Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital participated in the project in collaboration with the laboratories of six hospitals and a total of 1660 eligible participants (1351 PTB patients and...

We recently reported that glycolipid compositions of gadoid fish nerve tissues are unique in the abundance of 1) galactosyl diacylglycerol and its sulfate ester; 2) glucosyl ceramide; and 3) fatty acid ester of cerebroside (J. Lipid Res. 1992. 33: 1351-1359). The present paper reports the characterization of less polar glycolipids isolated from Alaskan pollack brain. Of twelve glycolipids purif...

OBJECTIVE Fifteen collaborating centers in eight countries present their pooled experience with the new Bicarbon bileaflet valve. METHODS Between 4/90 and 4/96, 1351 patients, 806 males and 545 females, aged 10 to 83, mean 58.4 +/- 12.4, underwent valve implantation. OPERATIONS aortic valve replacement (AVR), 726; mitral valve replacement (MVR), 475; double valve replacement (DVR), 150. Add...

Genetic distance estimates calculated from DNA sequencing indicate that in years since emergence from the ancestral hominid line, Mongoloids = 41,000, Caucasoids = 110,000, and Negroids = 200,000. Data also show that this succession is matched by numerous other differences such that Mongoloids > Caucasoids > Negroids in brain size and intelligence (cranial capacity = 1448, 1408, 1334 cm3; brain...