Background: The relationship between functional changes in brain and therapeutic efficacy remains an intriguing field of research in depression. Emerging evidences indicate that the alteration of interhemispheric functional coordination may be involved in the pathogenesis of major depressive disorder (MDD). However, it remains unclear weather the imbalanced interhemispheric functional connectiv...

Killer immunoglobulin-like receptor (KIR) ligand incompatibility in the graft-versus-host direction was demonstrated to be associated with improved outcome in patients given haploidentical, T-cell-depleted hematopoietic stem cell transplants (HSCTs). The goal of this study was to evaluate whether that observation could be generalized for patients receiving unmanipulated HSCTs from unrelated don...

Background: The relationship between functional changes in brain and therapeutic efficacy remains an intriguing field of research in depression. Emerging evidences indicate that the alteration of interhemispheric functional coordination may be involved in the pathogenesis of major depressive disorder (MDD). However, it remains unclear weather the imbalanced interhemispheric functional connectiv...

To determine the effectiveness of dietary lysine supplementation in cats with enzootic upper respiratory disease (URD), 50 cats were fed a ration containing 11 or 51 g lysine/kg diet for 52 days. Food intake, body weight, clinical signs, plasma amino acid concentrations and presence of Chlamydophila felis or feline herpesvirus (FHV)-1 DNA within the conjunctival fornix were assessed. Food and l...

3. Punjabi Food.-(a) Thick wheat chapatti with a lot of ghee (butter fat). (b) Dal urd (Phaseolus mungo) is made as a thick viscous curry with spices and chillies and a lot of ghee. (c) Rawan (Vigna sinensis) is made as thick curry after frying the beans ; all the ingredients have a neutral reaction in vitro and no groupspecific substances. Punjabi food is taken simmering hot and requires a goo...

Gridding of daily precipitation data alleviates many of the limitations of data that are derived from point observations, such as problems associated with missing data and the lack of spatial coverage. As a result, gridded precipitation data can be valuable for applied climatological research and monitoring, but they too have limitations. To understand the limitations of gridded data more fully...

The purpose of this study was to analyze medical late effects among patients with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) treated with hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT). Subjects included 248 CML survivors who received an HC transplant (related donors [RDs], n = 150; unrelated donors [URDs], n = 70; or autologous, n = 28) and had survived at least 2 years, and a comparison group of 317 siblings. ...

Survival for patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is limited by treatment-related mortality (TRM) and relapse after unrelated donor (URD) hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT). Natural killer (NK)-cell alloreactivity, determined by donor killer-cell immunoglobulin-like receptors (KIRs) and recipient HLA, correlates with successful HCT for AML. Hypothesizing that donor KIR genotype (A/A...