Submitted for the MAR06 Meeting of The American Physical Society Tunable Electronic Energy Transfer in Layered Inorganic Solids Codoped with Tb3+ and Eu3+ CHRISTIE LAROCHELLE, Franklin & Marshall College — Ln[M(CN)2]3 systems (Ln=trivalent rare earth, M=Au,Ag) have a layered structure consisting of alternating layers of the M(CN)2 ions and Ln 3+ ions. Our past studies of tunable energy transfer...

BACKGROUND Cytoreductive nephrectomy (CN) became a standard procedure in metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC) in the immunotherapy era. Historically, median overall survival (OS) of patients treated with interferon alpha (IFN-α) without CN was 7.8 months. Median OS in patients treated with targeted therapy (TT) without CN is unknown. PATIENTS AND METHODS We retrospectively reviewed records ...

A fragment of M, = 35,600 containing a single ironbinding site has been prepared from diferric human serum transferrin by digestion with thermolysin at 37°C and purified by gel filtration. Prolonged digestion led to greater hydrolysis of the diferric protein and lower yields of the fragment. However, a similar ratio of fragment to uncleaved protein was obtained at all incubation times suggestin...

PURPOSE The analysis of MET gene copy number (CN) has been considered to be a potential biomarker to predict the response to MET-targeted therapies in various cancers. However, the current standard methods to determine MET CN are SNP 6.0 in the genomic DNA of cancer cell lines and fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) in tumor models, respectively, which are costly and require advanced tech...

Objectives To evaluate the feasibility o f incorporating two-dim ensional ultrasound m easurem ents of nasal bone length (NBL) and prenasal thickness (PT) into the second-trim ester anom aly scan and to determ ine w hether the N BL: PT ratio could help in differentiating euploid and Down syndrome fetuses. Method Two-dim ensional m easurem ents o f NBL and PT were obtained from the midsagittal p...

OBJECTIVE Since Alzheimer disease (AD) neuropathology is thought to develop years before dementia, it may be possible to detect subtle AD-related atrophy in preclinical AD. Here we hypothesized that the "disease signature" of AD-related cortical thinning, previously identified in patients with mild AD dementia, would be useful as a biomarker to detect anatomic abnormalities consistent with AD i...

UV photochemistry in the surface layers of protoplanetary disks dramatically alters their composition relative to previous stages star formation. The abundance ratio CN/HCN has long been proposed trace field various astrophysical objects, however date relationship between CN, HCN, and remains ambiguous. As part ALMA Large Program MAPS (Molecules with at Planet-forming Scales), we present observ...

A fragment of M, = 35,600 containing a single ironbinding site has been prepared from diferric human serum transferrin by digestion with thermolysin at 37°C and purified by gel filtration. Prolonged digestion led to greater hydrolysis of the diferric protein and lower yields of the fragment. However, a similar ratio of fragment to uncleaved protein was obtained at all incubation times suggestin...

Here, we tested the performance of the mitochondrial DNA copy number (mtDNA-CN) in predicting future type 2 diabetes (n = 1108). We used the baseline clinical data (age, sex, body mass index, waist-to-hip ratio, systolic and diastolic blood pressure) and the mtDNA-CN, hemoglobin A1c (A1C) levels and results of oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) including fasting plasma glucose, 1-hour glucose, ...