The optimal order of revascularization for pancreas and kidney grafts in simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation has not been established. In this study, we investigate the influence of graft implantation order on graft survival in SPK. 12 700 transplantations from the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients were analyzed retrospectively. Graft implantation order was determined based ...

Skeletal muscle (SM), the body's main structural support, has been implicated in metabolic, physiological, and disease processes in humans. Despite being the largest tissue in the human body, its assessment remains difficult and indirect. However, being metabolically active it contains over 50% of the total body potassium (TBK) pool. We present our preliminary results from a new system for meas...

Wielopolski, L., L. M. Ramirez, D. Gallagher, S. B. Heymsfield, and Z. M. Wang. Measuring partial body potassium in the arm versus total body potassium. J Appl Physiol 101: 945–949, 2006. First published June 1, 2006; doi:10.1152/japplphysiol.00999.2005.—Skeletal muscle (SM), the body’s main structural support, has been implicated in metabolic, physiological, and disease processes in humans. De...

At present, regulatory assessment of systemic toxicity is almost solely carried out using animal models. The European Commission's REACH legislation stimulates the use of animal-free approaches to obtain information on the toxicity of chemicals. In vitro toxicity tests provide in vitro concentration-response curves for specific target cells, whereas in vivo dose-response curves are regularly us...

If 2 alternating half-hitches are required to back up the SPK, it is more time-consuming to tie than the SMC and Revo knots and potentially stacks higher, thus eliminating 2 of its most attractive features. Ultimately, our goal was to test the SPK in a manner that could be safely translated into our clinical practice. In our study we determined that the SPK tied with a single backup half-hitch ...

In order to evaluate the effect of the angiotensin I-converting enzyme inhibitor, captopril, on lipid metabolism, we measured serum lipoperoxides concentration ( LPX ) as well as plasma levels of renin activity (PRA), aldosterone (PAC) and bradykinin ( PBK ) before and after captopril administration in 15 hypertensive patients. Captopril significantly lowered the LPX (p less than 0.05 by repeat...

Adresa za dopisivanje Dr. Rashmi Venkatesh K.M.Shah Dental College & Hospital Whagodia road, Pipariya, 391760 Vadodara, India tel: 919638100495 [email protected] Sažetak Pagetova bolest kostiju (PBK) kronični je poremećaj remodeliranja kostiju s povećanom resorpcijom posredstvom osteoklasta te stvaranjem nove kosti, što rezultira neorganiziranim mozaikom „divlje“ i lamelarne kosti na ...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to investigate transcriptional activities of genes encoding transforming growth factor (TGF)-beta isoforms in bullous keratopathy corneas. METHODS The study group consisted of 45 patients with bullous keratopathy (22 females and 23 males). The control group included 45 corneal donors (21 females and 24 males). Quantification of TGF-beta1, TGF-beta2, and TGF-b...

Increasing recognition of the value of practice-based or experiential knowledge in natural resource management justifies the creation of a new category of articles in Society & Natural Resources that we are calling Practice-Based Knowledge (PBK). The rationale for focusing on PBK is due to its key role in the emergence of hybrid governance institutions across state, market, and civil society, u...

purpose: to compare clinical and confocal scan outcomes after descemet stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty (dsaek) performed for fuchs’ endothelial dystrophy versus pseudophakic bullous keratopathy. methods: in this retrospective comparative study, 47 consecutive eyes of 39 patients with the diagnosis of fuchs’ endothelial dystrophy (n=29, group 1) or pseudophakic bullous keratopathy (...