OBJECTIVE To determine the effects of stress in cats with feline idiopathic cystitis (FIC) by evaluating bladder permeability, sympathetic nervous system function, and urine cortisol:creatinine (C:Cr) ratios during periods of stress and after environmental enrichment. DESIGN Prospective study. ANIMALS 13 cats with FIC and 12 healthy cats. PROCEDURE Cats subjected to an acute-onset moderat...

The features contributing to differences in pathogenicity of the Campylobacter fetus subspecies are unknown. Putative factors involved in pathogenesis are located in genomic islands that encode a type IV secretion system (T4SS) and fic domain (filamentation induced by cyclic AMP) proteins, which may disrupt host cell processes. In the genomes of 27 C. fetus strains, three phylogenetically-diffe...

Unique barrier properties of the urothelial surface membrane permit urine storage. Interstitial cystitis causes disabling dysuria, and frequency. Similarly, feline interstitial cystitis (FIC) occurs in cats. These studies define the permeability and structural properties of normal and FIC urothelium. To determine the effects of bladder filling, groups were studied before and after hydrodistenti...

Felsenstein’s method of independent contrasts (FIC) is one of the most widely used approaches to the study of correlated evolution. However, it is also quite controversial: numerous researchers have called various aspects of the method into question. Among these objections, there is one that, for two reasons, stands out from the rest: first, it is rather philosophical in nature; and second, it ...

The phosphorus (P) in agro-industrial by-products--a potential source of freshwater eutrophication but also a valuable fertilizer--needs to be speciated to evaluate its fate in the environment. We investigated to what extent X-ray absorption near edge structure (XANES) spectroscopy at the P K- and L2.3-edges reflected differences in sequentially extracted filter cakes from sugarcane (Saccharum ...

The FIC motif and the eukaryotic-like ankyrin repeats are found in many bacterial type IV effectors, yet little is known about how these domains enable bacteria to modulate host cell functions. Bacterial FIC domains typically bind ATP and transfer adenosine monophosphate moiety onto target proteins. The ankyrin repeat-containing protein AnkX encoded by the intracellular pathogen Legionella pneu...

BACKGROUND The Fogarty International Center (FIC) has supported research capacity development for over twenty years. While the mission of FIC is supporting and facilitating global health research conducted by U.S. and international investigators, building partnerships between health research institutions in the U.S. and abroad, and training the next generation of scientists to address global he...

Address WHO-FIC Collaborating Centre in the Netherlands Department for Public Health Forecasting National Institute of Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), P.O.Box 1, 3720 BA Bilthoven, The Netherlands. Telephone: 0031 30 274 2039/4276 Fax: 0031 30 274 4450 Website: www.rivm.nl/who-fic E-mail secretariate: [email protected] ISSN: 1388-5138 Revision of the International Classification of...

Model predictive control (MPC) is used in the CO2 removal process Subang field to improve its performance. MPC maintain concentration at sweet gas output by controlling feed pressure (PIC-1101), makeup water flow rate (FIC-1102), and amine (FIC-1103). The empirical model applied represent auto-regressive exogenous (ARX) model. ARX compared with first order plus dead time (FOPDT) based on root m...