BACKGROUND To date, no validated biomarkers with high sensitivity and specificity have been established for diagnosis of pulmonary embolism (PE) in patients with deep venous thrombosis (DVT). There is a need to develop simple and reliable noninvasive tests that can accurately identify patients with PE, even in small hospitals or clinics. The aim of this study was to investigate the value of mea...

PURPOSE To study the effects of bathing solution osmolarity and Cl- secretagogues on the diffusional water permeability (Pdw) of the isolated frog corneal epithelium. METHODS Isolated frog corneas, with the endothelium scraped off, were mounted as a partition between Ussing-type hemichambers. Unidirectional diffusional water fluxes (Jdw) were measured by adding 3H2O to one hemichamber and sam...

BACKGROUND Increasing attention is focused on the relationship of inflammation biomarkers with malignant tumors. The purpose of the present study was to detect whether the preoperative the red distribution width (RDW) and the platelet distribution width (PDW) can be used to distinguish patients with gastric cancer (GC) or early stage GC from the healthy controls and predict the progression and ...

Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer and the leading cause of cancer death among females. However, mammographic diagnosis is sometimes non-conclusive with a Breast imaging Reporting and Data System (Bi-RaDS) result of 0. Cancer antigen 15-3 (CA15-3) is the most widely used serum tumor marker for breast cancer screening. Platelet distribution width (PDW) is an early indicator of...

BACKGROUND Thrombocytopenia has been shown to predict mortality. We hypothesize that platelet indices may be more useful prognostic indicators. Our study subjects were children one month to 14 years old admitted to our hospital. AIM To determine whether platelet count, plateletcrit (PCT), mean platelet volume (MPV) and platelet distribution width (PDW) and their ratios can predict mortality i...

We analyze incommensurate charge-density-wave (CDW) and pair-density-wave (PDW) orders with transferred momenta (±Q,0)/(0,±Q) in underdoped cuprates within the spin-fermion model. Both orders appear due to an exchange of spin fluctuations before magnetic order develops. We argue that the ordered state with the lowest energy has nonzero CDW and PDW components with the same momentum. Such a state...

Irrespective of achieving certain success in comprehending Passive DynamicWalking (PDW) phenomena from a viewpoint of the chaotic dynamics and bifurcation scenarios, a lot of questions still need to be answered. This paper provides an overview of the previous literature on the chaotic behavior of passive dynamic biped robots. A review of a broad spectrum of chaotic phenomena found in PDW in the...

Passive Dynamic Walking (PDW) has been receiving increasing attention as a simple walking method with no or less control, therefore no or less energy consumption. To the best of our knowledge, there are no PDW models with a torso although there have been already many studies on PDW. This paper presents the first step towards applying the PDW principle to humanoid robots by adding a torso to a c...

Activated platelets are involved in cancer development and progression. Mean platelet volume (MPV) and platelet distribution width (PDW) are early indexes of platelet activation. The objectives of this study were to investigate the ability of MPV, PDW and carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) individually or in combination, to distinguish between gastric cancer and gastric ulcer. The study involved 19...

César, Kátia R., and Antonio J. Magaldi. Thiazide induces water absorption in the inner medullary collecting duct of normal and Brattleboro rats. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Renal Physiol. 46): F756–F760, 1999.—The reduction of urinary volume after the use of thiazide in the treatment of diabetes insipidus (DI) is known as the ‘‘paradoxical effect.’’ Since enhanced proximal solute and water reabsorpti...