OBJECTIVES To examine the distribution of cervical length (CL) in the late second and third trimesters of pregnancy and construct survival models for spontaneous delivery. METHODS This cross-sectional study included 647 women with a singleton pregnancy who had routine CL measurements taken by transvaginal ultrasonography between 24 and 40 weeks' gestation. Only one measurement per patient was...

Background: Previous data have shown an association between DNA sequence variants in the IRF6 gene and an increased risk of non-syndromic cleft lip with or without cleft palate (CL/P) in some populations. Objective: To investigate Thai CL/P patients and relative for a 820GRA polymorphism. Subjects: 192 CL/P Thai patients, 177 of their mothers, 73 of their fathers, and 278 controls. Results: The...

In freshwater teleosts, the primary mechanism of acute silver toxicity is inhibition of Na(+)/K(+) ATPase and carbonic anhydrase at the gill, leading to net Na(+) and Cl(-) loss due to the continued diffusion of these ions into the hypoosmotic external environment. External Cl(-) has been shown to protect rainbow trout (Oncorhychus mykiss) against silver toxicity presumably by complexation to f...

equatorial/axial conversion in piperidine and phosphorinane with different substituents wereinvestigated with great details. three possible routes, i.e. heteroatom inversion and two ring inversiontype were considered. ring conversion can occur via two pathways one starts with ring flatteningfrom the heteroatom site (nitrogen in piperidine and phosphorous in phosphorinane) and the otherinitiates...

BACKGROUND This study investigates the protective effects of turmeric (Curcuma longa, CL) on acetic acid-induced colitis in rats. METHOD Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) was induced in male Wistar rats by intra-rectal administration of 1 ml of 4% acetic acid at 8 cm proximal to the anus for 30 s. Curcuma longa (CL) powder, (1, 10, or 100 mg/kg/day) was administered for either 3 days before or...

In the title compound, [PtCl(2)(C(18)H(15)P)(2)]·CHCl(3), each Pt(II) centre adopts a nearly square-planar coordination geometry formed by two P atoms [Pt-P = 2.2481 (17) and 2.2658 (19) Å] and two Cl anions [Pt-Cl = 2.3244 (19) and 2.3548 (17) Å]. The Cl atoms of the chloro-form solvent mol-ecule are disordered over two orientations in a 0.778 (11):0.222 (11) ratio. The crystal packing is stab...

In the title compound, [Fe(C(10)H(15))Cl(C(26)H(24)P(2))]·CH(2)Cl(2), the Fe(II) atom is coordinated by two P atoms from a 1,2-bis-(diphenyl-phosphino)ethane ligand [Fe-P = 2.2130 (7) and 2.2231 (7) Å], a chloride anion [Fe-Cl = 2.3329 (7) Å] and a penta-methyl-cyclo-penta-dienyl (Cp*) ligand [Fe-centroid(Cp*) = 1.732 (3) Å] in a typical piano-stool geometry. In the crystal structure, the compl...

Proinflammatory cytokine responses might occur in elderly individuals with cardiovascular (CV) disease, cerebro-vascular (CVA) disease, and/or pulmonary disease (PD). Spiritual activation is an important coping mechanism, since psychiatric depression is an important risk factor for these individuals. Thirty-three very elderly individuals (87 ± 8 years) with previous CVD, CVA and/or PD participa...