BACKGROUND Exposures to high-dose ionizing radiation and high-dose rate ionizing radiation are established risk factors for childhood acute leukemia (AL). The risk of AL following exposure to lower doses due to natural background radiation (NBR) has yet to be conclusively determined. METHODS AL cases diagnosed over 1990-2009 (9,056 cases) were identified and their municipality of residence at...

17 Brucellosis is considered to be one of the most important zoonotic diseases in the world, 18 affecting underdeveloped and developing countries. The primary purpose of brucellosis control 19 is to prevent the spread of disease from animals (typically ruminants) to humans. The main 20 objective of this study was to retrospectively develop an appropriate time series model for cattle21 to-human ...

Environmental hypoxia and inactivity have both been shown to modulate appetite. To elucidate the independent and combined effects of hypoxia and bed rest-induced inactivity on appetite-related hormones and subjective appetite, eleven healthy, non-obese males underwent three experimental interventions in a cross-over and randomized fashion: 1) Hypoxic confinement combined with daily moderate-int...

The influence of the biological relationship between the donor and the recipient is rarely discussed in living donor liver transplantation (LDLT), although it is believed to be an important risk factor in other types of organ transplantations. A total of 272 consecutive patients undergoing adult to adult right lobe LDLT were retrospectively analyzed and stratified into a nonbiologically related...

[reaction: see text] The Heck reaction of aryl chlorides was investigated in the presence of defined monocarbenepalladium(0) complexes. Activated and nonactivated aryl chlorides provide the corresponding cinnamic esters and stilbenes in (n)Bu(4)NBr as a ionic liquid in good to excellent yields.

Reaction of o-mesitylsulfonylhydroxylamine (MSH) with Ph(2)Se results in the [Ph(2)SeNH(2)](+) cation; low temperature deprotonation (LDA), bromination (NBS) and then treatment with Ph(2)Se-Na[BPh(4)] generates [Ph(2)SeNSePh(2)][BPh(4)], via the selenimides Ph(2)Se=NH and Ph(2)Se=NBr.

STUDY OBJECTIVE Inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) treatment is first-line maintenance therapy in bronchial asthma. However, it is not clear whether and when ICS treatment can be withdrawn. The aim of this open study was to assess whether normalization of bronchial responsiveness could be used as a reliable index to assess the opportunity of ICS treatment withdrawal. DESIGN Open study at two differ...

Independently, both inactivity and hypoxia augment oxidative stress. This study, part of the FemHab project, investigated the combined effects of bed rest-induced unloading and hypoxic exposure on oxidative stress and antioxidant status. Healthy, eumenorrheic women were randomly assigned to the following three 10-day experimental interventions: normoxic bed rest (NBR;n= 11; PiO2 = 133 mmHg), no...

OBJECTIVE Formulate a definition and describe the clinical characteristics of PD patients with a "brittle response" (BR) to medications versus a "non-brittle response" (NBR), and characterize the use of DBS for this population. METHODS An UF IRB approved protocol used a retrospective chart review of 400 consecutive PD patients presenting to the UF Center for Movement Disorders and Neurorestor...