PURPOSE Medication adherence is an essential part of the management and control of high blood pressure (HBP). Although the Hill-Bone Medication Adherence (HBMA) scale is one of the most frequently used instruments for measuring HBP medication adherence, the psychometric properties of the scale have never been tested among Korean Americans, a population that experiences a disproportionately high...

Most of the deaths that occurred during two large outbreaks of Streptococcus suis infections in 1998 and 2005 in China were caused by streptococcal toxic shock syndrome (STSS), which is characterized by increased vascular permeability. Heparin-binding protein (HBP) is thought to mediate the vascular leakage. The purpose of this study was to investigate the detailed mechanism underlying the rele...

The present was conducted to separate heparin binding proteins (HBP) of capacitated sperm extracts and determine their relationship with acrosome reaction and semen fertility of bulls (n=30). Fourteen immunoreactive bands in capacitated spermatozoa of bulls (135, 100, 75, 70, 65, 55, 48, 45, 33, 31, 26, 24, 20 and 18 kDa) were detected in western blots following incubation with anti-HBP antibod...

Many virulence factors secreted by pathogenic Gram-negative bacteria belong to the autotransporter (AT) family. ATs consist of a passenger domain, which is the actual secreted moiety, and a beta-domain that facilitates the transfer of the passenger domain across the outer membrane. Here, we analysed folding and translocation of the AT passenger, using Escherichia coli haemoglobin protease (Hbp)...

Gasoline-contaminated soil from Isfahan, Iran was selected to isolate a bacterium capable of desulfurizing dibenzothiophene (DBT). The isolated strain was named R1 and identified as Rhodococcus erythropolis through biochemical tests as well as sequencing of 16S rRNA gene. This strain could efficiently produce 2-hydroxybiphenyl (HBP) from DBT via the 4S metabolic pathway. The highest HBP amount ...

BACKGROUND The early detection of circulatory failure in patients with sepsis is important for successful treatment. Heparin-binding protein (HBP), released from activated neutrophils, is a potent inducer of vascular leakage. In this study, we investigated whether plasma levels of HBP could be used as an early diagnostic marker for severe sepsis with hypotension. METHODS A prospective study o...

Abstract A series of hyperbranched polymer surfactants (HBP-C8, HBP-C12 and HBP-C16) were synthesized by the reaction between hydroxyl-terminated polymers (HBP) fatty acyl chloride. The structure obtained surfactant was characterized FTIR, NMR GPC. results showed that products have amphiphilic structure. thermal property investigated DSC TGA strongly influenced length end alkyl chain. Surface a...

This study aimed at identifying the effects of propolis and honeybee pollen (HBP) on growth performance, fecundity and some hematological indices of liver and kidney functions of Nile tilapia ''Oreochromis niloticus'' supplemented with 2.5% of propolis or HBP in diet for 21 days. The results showed that dietary propolis or HBP significantly (P<0.05) improved Specific Growth Rate (SGR), Average ...

AIMS To evaluate the predictive power of the risk stratification system proposed in the 2003 European Society of Hypertension-European Society of Cardiology (2003 ESH-ESC) guidelines and to compare self-measured blood pressure at home (HBP) with casual-screening blood pressure (CBP) for prediction of first stroke among a general Japanese population. METHODS AND RESULTS HBP and CBP were measur...