background: nt-probnp is a marker that is released from ventricles in response to pressure and volume overload. raised plasma level of nt-probnp is seen in ventricular dysfunction, ventricular muscular mass reduction or ventricular ischemia. anthracyclines are widely used in treatment of pediatric cancer but their use is associated with cardiotoxicity which increases mortality and morbidity. we...

Prepulse inhibition (PPI) of the acoustic startle reflex is a commonly used measure of preattentive sensorimotor gating. Disrupted PPI in rodents represents an animal model of the sensorimotor gating deficits characteristic of schizophrenia. The neurotensin (NT) system is implicated in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia, and NT has been hypothesized to act as an endogenous antipsychotic. In r...

  Background   In respect to abnormalities in thalassemia patients and the effects of TNF_α, IL_6, and NT-pro-BNP on echocardiography findings the study aimed to investigate TNF_α, NT-pro-BNP and IL_6 correlations wit...

While extended research into the Matthean Community is a relatively recent phenomenon in NT scholarship, most twentieth-century scholars working on the Gospel of Matthew have had either an explicit or implicit understanding of the Matthean Community against which they interpret the Gospel. This might be characterized as their understanding of the historical matrix out of which the Gospel arose,...

BACKGROUND The N-terminal fragments of A- and B-type natriuretic peptides (NT-proANP and NT-proBNP) are powerful markers of cardiac function. The current assays require refinement with regard to standardization with native calibrators and the ability to detect the actual circulating forms. METHODS The following peptides were prepared with recombinant methods: NT-proANP, NT-proBNP, proBNP1-108...

BACKGROUND High circulating concentrations of N-terminal fragments of A- and B-type natriuretic peptides (NT-proANP and NT-proBNP) identify patients with impaired cardiac function. ProANP-derived peptides are particularly sensitive to increased preload of the heart and proBNP-derived peptides to increased afterload; therefore, combining the information from the ANP and BNP systems into a single...

Neurotrophin-3 (NT-3) can promote the repair of central nervous system and retinal damage. In previous reports, NT-3 has been expressed by viral vectors. However, plasmid vectors have a safer profile compared with viral vectors in clinical studies. This study recombined amplified human retinal NT-3 with a eukaryotic expression plasmid containing green fluorescent protein (GFP) to construct an N...

Theorem 4.1.1 If OPT contains k sets, the greedy algorithm uses ≤ k(1 + ln nk ) sets. Proof: Let It be the sets selected by the greedy algorithm up to t iterations. Let nt be the number of uncovered elements at iteration t. Then nt = n− | ⋃ i∈It Si|, n0 = n, I0 = ∅. We claim that: Claim 4.1.2 nt ≤ (1− 1 k )nt−1 Proof: Let Jt = U\( ⋃ i∈It Si), then OPT covers Jt−1 with ≤ k sets. Because |Jt−1| =...