Objective: To compare transabdominal (TA) and transvaginal (TV) ultrasound assessment of cervical length at 16-41 weeks gestation. Methods: TA and TV ultrasound measurements of cervical length were made on 491 pregnancies of 16-41 weeks gestation. Cervical length was measured from internal to external cervical os. Bland-Altman plots and Wilcoxon signed rank test were used to evaluate difference...

PURPOSE To develop a simple method to extract the whole apolipoproteins (apo) including apoA-I in native high density lipoproteins (HDLs) and prepare discoidal Tanshinone IIA-loaded reconstituted HDL (TA-rHDLs) as a dual functional drug delivery system with plaque-site target and therapeutic promises in atherosclerotic lesions. METHODS A method based on isoelectric precipitation coupled with ...

In humans, a chronic spinal cord injury (SCI) impairs the excitability of pathways mediating early flexor reflexes and increases the excitability of late, long-lasting flexor reflexes. We hypothesized that in individuals with SCI, locomotor training will alter the behavior of these spinally mediated reflexes. Nine individuals who had either chronic clinically motor complete or incomplete SCI re...

A few tumor antigen (TA)-specific monoclonal antibodies (mAb) have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of several major malignant diseases and are commercially available. Once in the clinic, mAbs have an average success rate of approximately 30% and are well tolerated. These results have changed the face of cancer therapy, bringing us closer to more specific and ...

During human gait, transmission of cutaneous reflexes from the foot is controlled specifically according to the phase of the step cycle. These reflex responses can be evoked by nonnociceptive stimuli, and therefore it is thought that the large-myelinated and low-threshold Abeta afferent fibers mediate these reflexes. At present, this hypothesis is not yet verified. To test whether Abeta fibers ...

[1] In this study, we examine seasonal and geographical variability of marine aerosol fine-mode fraction ( fm) and its impacts on deriving the anthropogenic component of aerosol optical depth (ta) and direct radiative forcing from multispectral satellite measurements. A proxy of fm, empirically derived from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Collection 5 data, shows large...

Silica-supported tantalum clusters (on average, approximately tritantalum) were formed by the treatment, in either H(2) or ethane, of adsorbed Ta(CH(2)Ph)(5); the supported catalyst is active for ethane conversion to methane and propane at 523 K, with the used catalyst containing clusters of the same average nuclearity as the precursor.

Van Wezel, B.M.H., B.G.M. Van Engelen, F.J.M. Gabreëls, A.A.W.M. Gabreëls-Festen, and J. Duysens. Ab fibers mediate cutaneous reflexes during human walking. J. Neurophysiol. 83: 2980–2986, 2000. During human gait, transmission of cutaneous reflexes from the foot is controlled specifically according to the phase of the step cycle. These reflex responses can be evoked by nonnociceptive stimuli, a...