The results obtained by liver transplantation (TX) (n = 105) for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) were compared with those achieved by hepatic resection (HX) (n = 76). Overall 1- to 5-year survival rates after TX were 66%, 49%, 39%, 36%, and 36%, and those after HX were 71%, 55%, 47%, 37%, and 33%, respectively. The survival rates after TX and HX correlated well with pTNM stages, and the overall ...

Alcohol consumption is associated with hyperuricemia and gout. Previous studies have indicated a role for green tea catechins in uric acid (UA) metabolism. This study aimed to elucidate the acute effect of terms enhancing urinary excretion UA xanthine/hypoxanthine (Xa/HX; precursors) after alcohol ingestion. In randomized crossover study, ten healthy Japanese subjects consumed test meals, inclu...

We investigated the effects of sustained embryonic hypoxia on the neonatal ventilatory chemosensitivity. White Leghorn chicken eggs were incubated at 38 degrees C either in 21% O(2) throughout incubation (normoxia, Nx) or in 15% O(2) from embryonic day 5 (hypoxia, Hx), hatching time included. Hx embryos hatched approximately 11 h later than Nx, with similar body weights. Measurements of gaseous...

To encourage re-establishment of functional innervation of ipsilateral lumbar motoneurons by descending fibers after an intervening lateral thoracic (T10) hemisection (Hx), we treated adult rats with the following agents: (i) anti-Nogo-A antibodies to neutralize the growth-inhibitor Nogo-A; (ii) neurotrophin-3 (NT-3) via engineered fibroblasts to promote neuron survival and plasticity; and (iii...

ACTIVE-ating Artificial Intelligence: Integrating Active Learning in an Introductory Course In spring 2013, several colleagues and I received an award, from the Hrabowski Fund for Innovation1 at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, to create a new classroom, using additional funding donated by BAE Systems and Northrup Grumman. The ACTIVE Center2 is designed to provide a dynamic physical...

The expression of cell-surface haemopexin (Hx) receptors on human cytotrophoblasts was assessed by using four different Hx species purified from plasma: human Hx isolated by wheatgerm-affinity chromatography, human Hx isolated by haem-agarose-affinity chromatography and rabbit and rat Hx, also isolated by haem-agarose-affinity chromatography. About 3500-7000 high-affinity (Kd 0.34-0.85 nM) rece...

In this paper, we define the concept of a bipolar fuzzy cosets of a bipolar fuzzy HX subgroup, bipolar anti fuzzy HX subgroup, bipolar fuzzy middle coset of a bipolar fuzzy HX subgroup and bipolar anti fuzzy HX subgroup, conjugate bipolar fuzzy HX subgroup, conjugate bipolar anti fuzzy HX subgroup and discussed some of its properties with the examples. Further we define the level subsets and lo...

Amide hydrogen exchange (HX) is widely used in protein biophysics even though our ignorance about the HX mechanism makes data interpretation imprecise. Notably, the open exchange-competent conformational state has not been identified. Based on analysis of an ultralong molecular dynamics trajectory of the protein BPTI, we propose that the open (O) states for amides that exchange by subglobal flu...

We extend PGD and its recovery guarantee [1] from one-dimensional spectrally sparse signal recovery to the multi-dimensional case. Assume the underlying multi-dimensional spectrally sparse signal is of model order r and total dimension N . We show that O(r log(N)) measurements are sufficient for PGD to achieve successful recovery with high probability provided the underlying signal satisfies so...