Methods 27 consecutive female AIS patients aged 11-18 were measured prior to commencement of ScolioGold physiotherapy treatment with HPD, FPD and Inclinometry with measures repeated on completion of treatment. All measures were taken by one therapist (JM). FPD data considered was Cervical Apex (CA), Vertebral Prominence (VP), Lordotic Apex (LA) and Dimple Middle (DM). Correlation was studied be...

MOTIVATION Analysis of the functions of microorganisms and their dynamics in the environment is essential for understanding microbial ecology. For analysis of highly similar sequences of a functional gene family using microarrays, the previous long oligonucleotide probe design strategies have not been useful in generating probes. RESULTS We developed a Hierarchical Probe Design (HPD) program ...

A procedure involving the use of the reducing agent lithium aluminum hydride (LiAlH4) has been designed to explore the nature of the oligomer linkages in the tumor-localizing component of hematoporphyrin derivative (HPD). High-performance liquid chromatography and fast-atom bombardment mass spectrometry were used to determine the reduction products. The results are consistent with a structure w...

After the introduction of histrionic personality disorder (HPD), nosologists struggled to reduce its overlap with borderline personality disorder and other PDs. We studied the coherence of HPD in adults and adolescents as part of 2 larger studies. Clinicians described a random patient with personality pathology using rigorous psychometrics, including the SWAP-II (a Q-sort that captures personal...

A simple and rapid method is described for determining the integrated T-DNA copy number and the genotype in transgenic Arabidopsis thaliana by two-step competitive PCR. First, the amount of genomic DNA in the extracts, obtained from an individual A. thaliana transformant, was accurately determined by the 1st competitive PCR using a known single copy gene, 4HPPD (4-hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygen...

1. Twelve patients with the nephrotic syndrome were prescribed for 4 week periods a normal protein diet (NPD) containing 1 g of protein/kg ideal body weight. They were then prescribed for further 4 week periods in random order diets with high (HPD) and low (LPD) protein contents, respectively 2.0 and 0.5 g/kg ideal body weight. 2. Compliance was confirmed by dietary history and measurement of u...

Chronic inflammation is a major etiology of cancer. Accumulating epidemiological and experimental evidences suggest that intake of high protein diet (HPD) is associated with colitis-associated colon cancer, however, most of the studies were confined in colon. Systemic influence of HPD on inflammation indices in different tissues of an organism has never been studied. We therefore investigated t...

Background: Hepato-pancreatodudenectomy (HPD) is the only way to achieve R0 resection for some advanced hilar cholangiocarcinoma (HCC). However, early experiences with HPD were associated with high mortality, leading to the limitation of HPD in the treatment of HCC. Case presentation: we present the case of a 62-year-old man with HCC (Bismuth IV) that achieved R0 resection by HPD which includin...

Experiments were performed on cultured Chinese hamster ovary cells exposed to haematoporphyrin derivative (HpD) plus light, yielding survival rates of 40-100%. [3H]-thymidine, [3H]-tryptophan and ['4C]-lysine incorporation were used to quantitate DNA and protein synthesis in surviving cells after exposure. Multiple experiments demonstrated 78% reduction in DNA sysnthesis during the first day af...

Corticotrophs in the fetal sheep become increasingly responsive to arginine vasopressin (AVP) in late gestation. We previously reported that this may be due in part to corresponding increases in signal transduction (inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate, IP(3)). These ontogenic changes are prevented by hypothalamo-pituitary disconnection (HPD), which also prevents fetal plasma cortisol concentrations fr...