introduction: chronic renal disease (c.r.d) is a pathophysiological process due to progressive and irreversible decrease in number and function of nephrons in the kidney. anemia is one of the most important complications in crd patients. anemia is caused mainly due to diminished production of erythropoietin (epo), which is treated by weekly injection of the epo. l-carnitine added to epo can inc...

The observed “simple cubic” sc phase of elemental Ca at room temperature in the 32–109 GPa range is, from linear-response calculations, dynamically unstable. By comparing first-principles calculations of the enthalpy for five sc-related nonclose-packed structures, we find that all five structures compete energetically at room temperature in the 40–90 GPa range, and three do so in the 100–130 GP...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis via the insulin-tolerance test (ITT), standard-dose (250 microg) ACTH test (SDT) and low-dose (1 microg) ACTH test (LDT) in patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS). DESIGN The study group included 13 male patients with AS who were diagnosed according to the Modified New York criteria, and 8 healthy male subjects and was ...

Background Changes in the organisation of chronic healthcare, an increased awareness of costs and challenges of low adherence in cardiac rehabilitation (CR) call for the exploration of more flexible CR programmes as alternatives to hospital-based CR (H-CR). A model of shared care cardiac rehabilitation (SC-CR) that included general practitioners and the municipality was developed. The aim of th...

It is well known that spatially coupled (SC) codes with erasure-BP decoding have powerful error correcting capability over memoryless erasure channels. However, the decoding performance of SC-codes significantly degrades when they are used over burst erasure channels. In this paper, we propose band splitting permutations (BSP) suitable for (l, r, L) SC-codes. The BSP splits a diagonal band in a...

Purified human peripheral blood polymorphonuclear neutrophils (PMN) were incubated at 37 degrees C with the fluorescent membrane potential sensitive cyanine dye di-O-C(5)(3) and exposed to a number of stimulatory agents (N-formylmethionylleucylphenylalanine (FMLP), cytochalasin B (cyto B) + FMLP, phorbol myristate acetate (PMA). Flow cytometry was utilized to measure changes in forward light sc...

[Purpose] The study aimed to characterize patients treated by rehabilitation section after establishment of an acute stroke unit. [Subjects and Methods] Medical consultation records of individuals with ischemic stroke were studied retrospectively, excluding individuals with hemorrhagic stroke, thrombolysis, previous Modified Rankin Scale ≥ 1, prior stroke, structural bone deformities, associate...

The aim of this study was to determine if antimicrobial drug use increases resistance of commensal gastrointensinal Escherichia coli of wild northern elephant seals (Mirounga angustirostris) treated in rehabilitation, and, if so, identify the risk factors involved. Minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) levels of twelve antimicrobial drugs were determined for 289 E. coli isolates from 99 seals ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate what happens to the serum creatinine (SC) levels of people with initial mild elevations in SC; whether a stable, non-progressive elevation in SC level is the most common scenario; how common a progressive increase in SC is among primary care patients; and how often primary care patients with substantial elevations in SC (>300 micromol/L) progress to end-stage renal dise...

administered orally in a small pellet of bread 60 to 90 minutes before commencing the histamine infusion (2.0 mg/hr). In three experiments, 200 mg SC 15396 was given intragastrically via the gastric cannula 60 minutes before the infusion. Significant depression of secretion over control experiments was not demonstrable by either technique. In several of the test experiments, however, particulat...