Aims of the present study were to investigate the relationship between red blood cell volume distribution width (RDW) and severity of the disease with prognosis in sepsis newborns. RDW, clinical features and prognosis in 97 sepsis newborns were analyzed retrospectively. Fifity-eightsepsis newborns showed increase of RDW with the incidence of 59.79%, including 13 cases from sepsis group, 23 case...

A novel, soluble cytochrome with an unusual visible spectral signature at 579 nm (Cyt(579)) has been characterized after isolation from several different microbial biofilms collected in an extremely acidic ecosystem. Previous proteogenomic studies of an Fe(II)-oxidizing community indicated that this abundant red cytochrome could be extracted from the biofilms with dilute sulfuric acid. Here, we...

We develop a new method to rank the degree of similarity between Boolean expressions, contrast it with other known methods, and describe its implementation. Our method reduces time and space complexity from exponential to polynomial in the number of Boolean terms.

Trichinella spiralis surface proteins are directly exposed to the host’s immune system, making them the main target antigens which induce the immune responses and may play an important role in the larval invasion and development process. The analysis and characterization of T. spiralis surface proteins could provide useful information to elucidate the host-parasite interaction, identify the ear...

Fowler, Baker, and Dawes (2008) recently showed in two independent studies of twins that voter turnout has very high heritability. Here we investigate two specific genes that may contribute to variation in voting behavior. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, we show that individuals with a polymorphism of the MAOA gene are significantly more likely to have vote...

The purpose of this study was to determine whether the adenosine A1/A2a receptor agonist AMP-579 induces acute and delayed preconditioning against in vivo myocardial stunning. Regional stunning was produced by 15 min of coronary artery occlusion and 3 h of reperfusion (RP) in anesthetized open-chest pigs. In acute protection studies, animals were pretreated with saline, low-dose AMP-579 (15 mic...

Clozapine (Clozaril) represents the first major advance in the pharmacological treatment of schizophrenia since the introduction of antipsychotics into clinical practice in the 1950s. Studies consistently support its efficacy for reducing positive symptoms in acutely psychotic patients and in treatment-resistant patients, for preventing positive symptom exacerbations as a maintenance treatment,...

Previous findings suggested that drugs modulating glutamatergic neurotransmission could be useful in the treatment of alcohol dependence. This study examined the effects of chronic and acute treatment with MRZ 2/579 (1-amino-1,3,3,5,5-pentamethyl-cyclohexane hydrochloride), a novel uncompetitive N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antagonist, on voluntary ethanol intake in long-term ethanol-experienc...