OBJECTIVE The purpose of the present study was to validate various surrogate estimates of insulin sensitivity (IS) in a renal transplant population and to assess the influence of immunosuppressive and antihypertensive therapy on insulin resistance (IR) after renal transplantation. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS A total of 167 consecutive renal transplant recipients without previously known diabe...

The purpose of this study was to determine the acid dissociation constants (pKa) of meloxicam in the presence of various surfactants including sodium lauryl sulfate (SLS) as an anionic surfactant, cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) as a cationic surfactant and Triton® TX-100 (TX-100) as a non-ionic surfactant in different pre-determined concentrations. The related pKa was determined spec...

The Cyclic Voltammetric (CV) behavior of Alizarin Red-S (ARS), which is an Anthraquinone dye was examined by utilizing TX-100 modified carbon nanotube paste electrode (TX-100MCNTPE). The surfactant utilized is TX-100, and it has been found that it has good electrocatalytic activity towards ARS. Distinctive parameters like pH, scan rate, detection limit have been studied in the potential range o...

Best approximation results provide an approximate solution to the fixed point equation $Tx=x$, when the non-self mapping $T$ has no fixed point. In particular, a well-known best approximation theorem, due to Fan cite{5}, asserts that if $K$ is a nonempty compact convex subset of a Hausdorff locally convex topological vector space $E$ and $T:Krightarrow E$ is a continuous mapping, then there exi...

a. Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, Rice University, Houston TX, 77005 b. Departments of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, TX, 77030 c. Departments of Chemistry, Rice University, Houston, TX, 77030 d. Department of Physical Chemistry, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur, Kolkata -700032, India e. Department of Physics, University of Houston, Houston TX,...

We study the Zariski tangent cone TX π −→ X to an affine variety X and the closure TX of π−1(Reg(X)) in TX . We focus on the comparison between TX and TX , giving sufficient conditions on X in order that TX = TX . One aspect of the results is to understand when this equality takes place in the presence of the reducedness of the Zariski tangent cone. Our other interest is to consider conditions ...

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Idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension (IPAH) is characterised by in situ thrombosis and increased thromboxane (Tx) A2 synthesis; however, there are no studies of antiplatelet therapy in IPAH. The aim of the current study was to determine the biochemical effects of aspirin (ASA) and clopidogrel on platelet function and eicosanoid metabolism in patients with IPAH. A randomised, double-blind,...