BACKGROUND This study examined associations of annual glycemic variability and postprandial dysmetabolism with annual decline in estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) in type 2 diabetic patients with different stages of nephropathy. METHODS Intrapersonal mean and coefficient of variation (CV) of HbA1c, fasting and postmeal concentrations of plasma glucose (FPG and PMPG, respectively) an...

DNA barcoding is a technique for identifying organisms based on a short, standardized fragment of genomic DNA. The standardized sequence region is called a DNA barcode because it is like a barcode tag for each taxon. Since the proposition of this concept and the launch of a large project named the Barcode of Life, this simple technique has attracted attention from taxonomists, ecologists, conse...

introduction the movement and fate of solutes in the subsurface in affected by a large number of physical, chemical processes requiring a broad array of mathematical and physical sciences to study and describe solute transport. the dispersion is an important parameter in the advection – dispersion equation, which is used in assessing, and solving the problems related to the contamination and th...

BACKGROUND There are few data describing levobupivacaine pharmacokinetics in infants (<3 months) after caudal administration. METHODS An open-label study was undertaken to examine the pharmacokinetics of levobupivacaine 2.5 mg ml(-1), 2 mg kg(-1) in children aged less than 3 months after single-shot caudal epidural administration. Plasma concentrations were determined at intervals from 0.5 to...

A b s t r a c t . We examine the effects of changing the coefficient of variation (CV) of the inter-stimulus interval on the CV of the output interspike interval (ISI), using constant magnitude, supra-threshold pointprocess stimuli of the membrane potential variable in the FitzHughNagumo model. The coefficient of variation of the input is changed within the context of a displaced exponential di...

BACKGROUND/AIMS This study examined associations of visit-to-visit variability of glycemic control with annual decline in estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) in patients with type 2 diabetes attending an outpatient clinic. METHODS Intrapersonal mean and coefficient of variation (CV) of 8-12 measurements of HbA1c and those of 4-6 measurements of fasting and post-breakfast plasma glucos...

Serum haptoglobin has been advocated as an indicator of intravascular hemolysis. We have evaluated a nephelometric determination of serum haptoglobin. The assay is sensitive and exhibits within-run precision in the range of 2.5-7.4% coefficient of variation (CV) and between-run precision of 7.0% (CV). In addition, when haptoglobin values determined with the nephelometric assay were compared wit...