BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis) has four homologous mammalian cell entry (mce) operons (mce1-4) that encode exported proteins and have a possible role in the virulence mechanism of this pathogen. The expression of mce operon is considered to be complex and not completely understood. Although expression of mce operon at different in vitro growth phases has be...

Background: The ability of myocardial contrast echocardiography (MCE) to predict contractile reserve after acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is still controversial. Given the possible reversibility of no-reflow after 30 days, we tested whether MCE predictive value depends on the timing of the test. Methods: 32 patients presenting with their first AMI and successfully recanalized IRA by either r...

STUDY DESIGN A systematic review. OBJECTIVE The aim of this review was to evaluate the effectiveness of motor control exercise (MCE) in patients with nonspecific low back pain (LBP). SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA MCE is a common form of exercise used for managing LBP. MCE focuses on the activation of the deep trunk muscles and targets the restoration of control and coordination of these muscle...

BACKGROUND Myocardial contrast echocardiography (MCE) has been shown to have a potential for apparently reversible side effects related to the interaction of ultrasound with the contrast microbubbles, including premature ventricular contractions and microvascular leakage. We investigated the potential for high-dose MCE to induce histologically definable microlesions. METHODS Myocardial contra...

Purpose Minimal change esophagitis (MCE) is a reflux disease without mucosal breaks, known to be partially associated with abnormal gastric motor function. Electrogastrography (EGG) is commonly applied to assess gastric motor function in a noninvasive fashion. We aimed to determine the relationship between MCE and gastric myoelectrical activity (GME) recorded on EGG in children. Methods We re...

Objective—To determine whether myocardial contrast echocardiography (MCE) following intravenous injection of perfluorocarbon microbubbles permits identification of resting myocardial perfusion abnormalities in patients who have had a previous myocardial infarction. Patients and interventions—22 patients (mean (SD) age 66 (11) years) underwent MCE after intravenous injection of NC100100, a novel...

BACKGROUND There are currently no data on the accuracy of intravenous myocardial contrast echocardiography (MCE) in detecting myocardial hibernation in man and its comparative accuracy to dobutamine echocardiography (DE) or thallium 201 (Tl(201)) scintigraphy. METHODS AND RESULTS Twenty patients with coronary artery disease and ventricular dysfunction underwent MCE 1 to 5 days before bypass s...

We have developed a novel loss function that embeds largemargin classification into Minimum Classification Error (MCE) training. Unlike previous efforts this approach employs a loss function that is bounded, does not require incremental adjustment of the margin or prior MCE training. It extends the Bayes risk formulation of MCE using Parzen Window estimation to incorporate large– margin classif...

Background: Little is known about the relation between the extent of microvascular damage and infarct size in patients after successful mechanical reperfusion of acute myocardial infarction. Objective: To compare the spatial extent of reduced myocardial signal between real time myocardial contrast echocardiography (MCE) and single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) after successful mec...

Moutan Cortex (MCE) has been used in traditional medicine to remove heat from the blood, promote blood circulation and alleviate blood stasis. This study was conducted to evaluate the effects of MCE on regulatory mechanisms of cytokines and nitric oxide (NO) involved in immunological activity of Raw264.7 cells. Cells were pretreated with methanolic extracts of MCE, and further cultured for an a...