The number of SH-groups of the soluble proteins (Prot-SH) of 12 different types of animal tumors and of cultivated chicken fibroblasts increases with decreasing doubling time (id) ■ Between Prot-SH and id an inverse association was found with a significance level of 99.5%. After 30 min incubation in vitro, 4-hydroxypentenal (HPE) reacts with different amounts of the Prot-SH of the investigated ...

In recent years, the condition of subclinical hypercortisolism (SH) has become a topic of growing interest. This is due to the fact that SH prevalence is not negligible (0.8-2% in the general population) and that, although asymptomatic, this subtle cortisol excess is not harmless, being associated with an increased risk of complications, in particular of osteoporosis and fragility fractures. As...

Aim: Mast cells are versatile innate immune cells and are reported to promote vascular inflammation and neointimal lesion formation, thereby contributing to the development of vascular stenosis and atherosclerosis. However, it is not clear whether mast cells also regulate vascular matrix remodelling in established neointima. This study addressed the hypothesis that perivascular mast cells regul...

The spatio-temporal expression of Shaker (Sh) potassium channels (Kch) in the developing and adult nervous system of Drosophila has been studied at the molecular and histological level using specific antisera. Sh Kch are distributed in most regions of the nervous system, but their expression is restricted to only certain populations of cells. Sh Kch have been found in the following three locati...

We establish a close link between the amenability property of a unitary representation π of a groupG (in the sense of Bekka) and the concentration property (in the sense of V. Milman) of the corresponding dynamical system (Sπ , G), where SH is the unit sphere the Hilbert space of representation. We prove that π is amenable if and only if either π contains a finite-dimensional subrepresentation ...

PURPOSE To suggest a quantitative method for assessing the temporal changes in the geometry of individual multiple sclerosis (MS) lesions in follow-up studies of MS patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS Computer simulated and in vivo magnetic resonance (MR) imaged MS lesions were studied. Ten in vivo MS lesions were identified from sets of axial MR images acquired from a patient scanned consecutive...

In this paper, we focus on the objective prediction of two of the foreground perceptual quality elements of the Diagnostic Acceptability Measure (DAM) that of SB and SF and show that they are correlated with statistical characteristics of features extracted from a physiologically motivated cochlear model response. The work complements earlier work where two other DAM quality elements, SH and SL...

INTRODUCTION Subclinical hyperthyroidism (SH, grade 1, thyrotropin (TSH) ≥0.1 mU/L and grade 2, TSH <0.1 mU/L) is a common disorder with increased prevalence in older subjects. There is evidence for increased morbidities in SH, such as atrial fibrillation and osteoporosis. We aim to study the natural history and comorbidities of SH from patients referred to a tertiary endocrine clinic in Singap...

BACKGROUND In this study, two-dimensional gel electrophoresis (2-DE) method was applied to determine and compare the protein spots expressed in the two field isolates of Leishmania major and recovered from the patients who were clinically sensitive and resistant to Glucantime® treatment. METHODS Leishmania parasites were isolated from the cutaneous lesions of two CL infected patients in Shira...