OBJECTIVES To evaluate whether the measurement of maternal serum inhibin A, activin A and placental growth factor (PlGF) at 12 + 0 to 16 + 0 weeks of gestation alone or in combination with second-trimester uterine artery Doppler pulsatility index (PI) is useful in predicting pre-eclampsia. METHODS This was a case-control study of pre-eclampsia. From pregnant women attending their first antena...

BACKGROUND Analysis of spontaneous fluctuations in systolic arterial pressure (SAP) and pulse interval (PI) reveals the occurrence of sequences of consecutive beats characterized by SAP and PI changing in the same (+PI/+SAP and -PI/-SAP) or opposite (-PI/+SAP and +PI/-SAP) direction. Although the former reflects baroreflex regulatory mechanisms, the physiological meaning of -PI/+SAP and +PI/-SA...

The parapoxvirus orf virus (ORFV) encodes several immunomodulatory proteins (IMPs) that modulate host innate and pro-inflammatory responses to infection. Using the ORFV IA82 strain as parental virus, recombinant viruses with individual deletions in genes encoding IMPs chemokine binding protein (CBP; ORFV112), inhibitor of granulocyte-monocyte colony-stimulating factor IL-2 (GIF, ORFV117) interl...

Abstract Background The incidence of obesity is increasing worldwide, and it a risk factor for diabetes, dyslipidemia, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. Our previous study had demonstrated that high-fat diet induced increased weight gain, fat weight, serum cholesterol, triglyceride, ATL levels in liver, influenced the diversity composition cecal microbiota mice. Hence, this aimed to investigate...

conclusions although nurses are the most involved occupational group in documented ns, surgeons are the most important high risk hcw who need pep. no case of seroconversion has taken place as a result of pi. this means that the current pep may have an effective role in hiv prevention. results from a total of 369 cases, 273 (74%) were hcws, among which nurses (70%) were the most involved employe...

This paper, a continuation of [16], connects the analysis of the length of the longest weakly increasing subsequence of inhomogeneous random words to a Riemann-Hilbert problem and an associated system of integrable PDEs. That such a connection exists is not so surprising given the fundamental work of Baik, Deift and Johansson [3] connecting the related problem involving random permutations to a...

A Schi0tz Pi calibration by open manometer was performed on 18 owl monkey eyes cannulated in situ. Pi values for the owl monkey corresponded closely to those of the 1955 Friedenwald nomogram. The average ocular rigidity measured in 16 additional eyes with the use of clinical techniques was 0.0173 (± 0.0015). A manometric calibration for a 4 mm. diameter applanation face was done similarly on 21...