We examined the role of antigenic charge on the deposition of immune complexes (IC) in murine gloerulia Acute serum sickens nephritis was induced by injecting chemically modified cationic bovine serum albumin (cationic BSA). Controls were immunized with unmodified native BSA (native BSA), All mice were given a primary intraperitoneal immunization with 500 pg of the respective antigens plus Freu...

background: the number of interventional cardiology (ic) procedures has increased rapidly. coronary angiography (ca) and percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (ptca) are now widely performed as a matter of routine, and they are considered safe procedures for experienced cardiologists. however, it is also known that these procedures are associated with high radiation doses due to long f...

A challenge to learning words of a foreign language is encoding nonnative phonemes, a process typically attributed to cortical circuitry. Using multimodal imaging methods [functional magnetic resonance imaging-adaptation (fMRI-A) and auditory brain stem responses (ABR)], we examined the extent to which pretraining pitch encoding in the inferior colliculus (IC), a primary midbrain structure, rel...

There are no specific signs and symtoms for invasive candidiasis (IC), which makes its diagnosis a challenge. Efforts have been made for decades to establish serological assays for rapid diagnosis of IC, but none of them have found widespread clinical use. Using a systemic candiasis murine model, serological response to recombinant proteins of enolase (rEno1), phosphoglycerate kinase (rPgk1), a...

Interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome (IC/BPS) is a debilitating, chronic condition characterized by chronic pelvic pain, urinary urgency, and frequency and is well-known to be associated with a decrease in work productivity, emotional changes, sleep, sexual dysfunction, and mobility. Many metrics of quality of life (QoL) in this patient population have been developed; however, a unified,...

A grand challenge in representation learning is to learn the different explanatory factors of variation behind the high dimensional data. Encoder models are often determined to optimize performance on training data when the real objective is to generalize well to unseen data. Although there is enough numerical evidence suggesting that noise injection (during training) at the representation leve...

Given a coloring f : V (G) → IN of graph G and any subgraph H ⊂ G we define fs(H) = ∑ v∈V (H) f(v). In particular, we denote fs(G) by S(f). The coloring f is called an ICcoloring if for any integer k ∈ [1, S(f)] there is a connected subgraph H ⊂ G such that fs(H) = k. Also, we define the IC-index of G to be M(G) = max{ S(f) : f is an IC-coloring of G }. In this paper we examine some well-known ...

Purpose “Integrated care” (IC) is an approach to health and social care delivery that aims prevent problems arising from fragmented systems. The collective content of the IC literature, whilst valuable, has become extensive wide-ranging such a degree knowing what most important in challenge. This study address this issue. Design/methodology/approach A scoping review was conducted using Arksey O...