BACKGROUND Researches have revealed that the endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) gene G894T polymorphism is associated with the risk of Myocardial infarction (MI), but the results remain conflicting. OBJECTIVE AND METHODS A meta-analysis was conducted to investigate the association between eNOS G894T polymorphism and MI. Published studies from PubMed, Embase, CNKI and CBM databases were ...

BACKGROUND Coronary artery ectasia (CAE) is a localized or diffuse abnormal dilatation of coronary arteries. Controversy still remains about its cardiovascular events rate, prognosis, and etiology. Adverse effects of CAE coinciding with coronary artery stenosis (CAS) (and in isolated form) are unclear. OBJECTIVES We aimed to investigate the cardiovascular event rate of CAE in comparison to 'C...

OBJECTIVE Nonhyperlipidemic postinfarction patients are at high risk for recurrent coronary events by virtue of incident myocardial infarction (MI); however, few studies assess risk beyond incident MI. The aim of this study was to assess such risk as a function of 37 atherosclerosis-associated genetic polymorphisms and 17 blood marker variables. METHODS AND RESULTS Screening of polymorphisms ...

The usefulness of streptococcal antibody tests anti-streptolysin 0 (ASO), anti-desoxyribonuelease B (anti-DNAse B), and anti-group A carbohydrate (A-antibody) in differentiating rheumatic from nonrheumatic mitral disease was explored. Sera from 154 children with mitral disease were studied. Fifteen of 17 patients with chronic mitral insufficiency (MI) following acute rheumatic fever manifested ...

In the framework of McKay correspondence we determine, for every finite subgroup Γ of SL4C, how the finite dimensional irreducible representations of SL4C decompose under the action of Γ. Let h be a Cartan subalgebra of sl4C and let ̟1, ̟2, ̟3 be the corresponding fundamental weights. For (p, q, r) ∈ N, the restriction πp,q,r|Γ of the irreducible representation πp,q,r of highest weight p̟1 + q̟2 + r̟...

Co-infection of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and neurosyphilis (NS) has become a rising trend, but the extent of brain damage associated with the concomitant infections remains unknown. Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy ((1)H-MRS) can evaluate metabolic changes underlying early brain infections. 25 syphilitic patients (7 HIV-positive with NS; 6 HIV-positive without NS; 5 HIV-negative...

let $gamma$ be a normal subgroup of the full automorphism group $aut(g)$ of a group $g$‎, ‎and assume that $inn(g)leq gamma$‎. ‎an endomorphism $sigma$ of $g$ is said to be {it $gamma$-central} if $sigma$ induces the the identity on the factor group $g/c_g(gamma)$‎. ‎clearly‎, ‎if $gamma=inn(g)$‎, ‎then a $gamma$-central endomorphism is a {it central} endomorphism‎. ‎in this article the conditi...

BACKGROUND Post-myocardial infarction (MI) depression is a highly prevalent disorder, affecting nearly 18% of all MI patients, and it is a major predictor of disability in the year post-MI. We sought to expand this analysis by: comparing case-level anxiety, depression, and comorbid anxiety and depression as predictors of long term mortality during a 5-year follow-up period after MI; and investi...

Background-—Mammalian heart regenerative activity is lost before adulthood but increases after cardiac injury. Cardiac repair mechanisms, which involve both endogenous cardiac stem cells (CSCs) and cardiomyocyte cell-cycle reentry, are inadequate to achieve full recovery after myocardial infarction (MI). Mice deficient in S-nitrosoglutathione reductase (GSNOR ⁄ ), an enzyme regulating S-nitroso...

a subgroup $h$ is said to be $nc$-supplemented in a group $g$ if there exists a subgroup $kleq g$ such that $hklhd g$ and $hcap k$ is contained in $h_{g}$, the core of $h$ in $g$. we characterize the supersolubility of finite groups $g$ with that every maximal subgroup of the sylow subgroups is $nc$-supplemented in $g$.