Paraquat (PQ) has been demonstrated that the main target organ for the toxicity is the lung. This study aimed to investigate the potential protective effect of PDTC on the PQ-induced pulmonary damage. Fifty-four rats were divided into control, PQ-treated and PQ+PDTC-treated groups. Rats in the PQ group were administrated 40 mg/kg PQ by gastric gavage, and PDTC group with 40 mg/kg PQ followed by...

Multimedia applications in wireless networks are usually categorized into various classes according to their traffic patterns and differentiated Quality-of-Service (QoS) requirements. The traffic of heterogeneous multimedia applications often exhibits the Long-Range Dependent (LRD) and ShortRange Dependent (SRD) properties, respectively. The integrated scheduling scheme that combines Priority Q...

In this paper we present a method (linear in the size of the formal context) to solve the seriation problem for formal contexts. We show that any maximal solution can be represented by a PQ-Tree. Moreover, the set of PQ-Trees can be seen as a distributive lattice. This lattice yields a consensus method which deals with the multiple solutions.

This cytogenetic and pharmacological study attempts to clarify genotoxicity-enhancement-effect of dl-α-tocopherol (one form of vitamin E) in combination with the herbicide 1,1'-dimetyl-4,4'-bipyridium dichloride (paraquat, PQ) on cultured anuran leukocytes using the superoxide dismutase-mimic Mn(III)tetrakis(1-methyl-4-pyridyl)porphyrin (Mn(III)TMpyP), the hydrogen peroxide-scavenger catalase a...

Hematotoxicity in individuals genetically deficient in glucose-6-phosphate 22 dehydrogenase (G6PD) activity is the major limitation of primaquine (PQ), the only antimalarial 23 drug in clinical use for treatment of relapsing P. vivax malaria. PQ is currently clinically used in 24 its racemic form. A scalable procedure was developed to resolve racemic PQ thus providing pure 25 enantiomers for th...

since it is essential to deliver smoothed sinusoidal voltage to the customers, diagnosing power quality (pq) events has played important role in power delivery and conversion. this diagnostic scheme should be accurate to classify pq events from other events in power system. also it should be fast enough to rapidly mitigate pq events. in this paper, an algorithm based on core vector machine (cvm...

OBJECTIVE This study was designed to investigate the protective effects of salidroside (SDS) via suppressing the expression of transforming growth factor-β1 (TGF-β1) in rat acute lung injury (ALI) induced by paraquat (PQ) and to explore the potential molecular mechanisms. METHODS A total of 90 male rats (190-210 g) were randomly and evenly divided into 9 groups: control group, PQ groups (4 gr...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Paraquat (PQ) has been used in suicide attempts; an estimated 2,000 toxic ingestions occur annually, with 60-70% mortality. We sought to determine why PQ is such a common agent for suicide attempts in Korea. METHODS We analyzed 250 cases (143 males, 107 females) of attempted suicide by PQ ingestion from January to December 2007. The procurement of the PQ was divided into two c...

Let Z=(pq) be the integer residue ring modulo pq with odd prime numbers p and q. This paper studies the distinctness problem of modulo 2 reductions of two primitive sequences over Z=(pq), which has been studied by H.J. Chen and W.F. Qi in 2009. First, it is shown that almost every element in Z=(pq) occurs in a primitive sequence of order n > 2 over Z=(pq). Then based on this element distributio...

The mortality rate of acute paraquat (PQ) poisoning depends on the PQ concentration in the blood. It has been shown that the kidneys eliminate PQ effectively. However, early renal function deterioration is frequently observed in acute PQ intoxication. This study is designed to compare the efficacy of PQ elimination with hemoperfusion (HP) and kidneys, taking into account the functional deterior...