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Hormonal responses to oral paroxetine were examined in a group of healthy subjects. The calcium response to serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine, 5HT), mediated by platelet 5HT2A, was also measured. Paroxetine elicited a cortisol response that was directly correlated with the magnitude of platelet calcium response. The cortisol response was also correlated with the trait of impulsivity. These results...

The turbo principle (iterative decoding between component decoders) is a general scheme, which we apply to joint source-channel decoding. As a realistic (e.g. speech parameter coding) example we discuss joint source-channel decoding for auto-correlated continuousamplitude source samples. At the transmitter the source samples are quantized and their indexes are appropriately mapped onto bitvecto...

OBJECTIVES The aim was to compare measures of heart rate variability (HRV) in patients who presented with non-cardiac vascular episodes with age- and gender-matched control patients. METHODS One hundred and fifty patients, randomly selected from a cohort of 522 subjects, were enrolled in a screening study. Of these, 256 were identified to have had a stroke or transient ischaemic attack (TIA),...

Indices of thyroid function were measured in 97 preterm infants at birth and at 5, 10, and 15 days of age. Triiodothyronine uptake, free thyroxine index, thyroxine, free thyroxine, triiodothyronine, reverse triiodothyronine, and thyroxine binding globulin values at birth correlated with gestational age, whereas thyroid stimulating hormone values did not. Treatment with steroids prenatally had n...

BACKGROUND Non-invasive assessment of volume and function on the right ventricle (RV) for pulmonary hypertension (PH) is limited. METHODS AND RESULTS Patients with PH (n=23) underwent 3-dimensional (D) echocardiography (3DECHO), with cardiac magnetic resonance imaging to confirm its precision, and right heart catheterization. On linear regression analysis the RV end-systolic volume index (ESV...

The turbo principle (iterative decoding between component decoders) is a general scheme, which we apply to joint source-channel decoding. As a realistic (e.g. speech parameter coding) example we discuss joint source-channel decoding for auto-correlated continuousamplitude source samples. At the transmitter the source samples are quantized and their indexes are appropriately mapped onto bitvecto...

BACKGROUND To evaluate a potential correlation between flexural strength and indirect tensile strength in assessing the mechanical strength of resin composite cements. METHODS Flexural strength (n = 5) and indirect tensile strength (n = 5) of 7 resin composite cements (RelyX Unicem 2 Automix [RXU], Panavia SA [PSA], Clearfil SA [CSA], Panavia F2.0 [PF2], Multilink Implant [MLI], DuoCem [DCM],...

We examined whether differences in the location of myocardial hypertrophy influence the right ventricular diastolic function in patients with non-obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy using cineangiography. Biplane right ventriculography was performed in 34 subjects (normal = 14, asymmetric septal hypertrophy = 9, apical hypertrophy = 11) during cardiac catheterization. In patients with asymm...