This paper uses the accurate and computationally efficient complex image technique (CIT) to find the electric field and SAR distributions inside a human head illuminated by a finite-length dipole. The human head model used consists of 3 planar layers of lossy dielectrics. The accuracy of the results is verified by comparison with HFSS software. It was found that the CIT requires about 1 minute ...

RATIONALE Diabetic nephropathy (DN) is a major cause of end-stage renal disease, associated with endothelial dysfunction. Chronic supplementation of l-arginine (l-arg), the substrate for endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS), failed to improve vascular function. l-Citrulline (l-cit) supplementation not only increases l-arg synthesis, but also inhibits cytosolic arginase I, a competitor of eN...

Boelens, Petra G., Paul A. M. van Leeuwen, Cornelis H. C. Dejong, and Nicolaas E. P. Deutz. Intestinal renal metabolism of L-citrulline and L-arginine following enteral or parenteral infusion of L-alanyl-L-[2,N]glutamine or L-[2,N]glutamine in mice. Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol 289: G679–G685, 2005. First published July 28, 2005; doi:10.1152/ajpgi.00026.2005.—Previously, we observed ...

Novel antimicrobial compounds can be added to foods directly or incorporated into packaging materials in order improve food safety and shelf life. One such potential compound is the bioinorganic complex Co(II)-citrate (NH4)4[Co(C6H5O7)2] (Co-cit). Its activity against Listeria monocytogenes, Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa was investigated solution, both alone co...

This report presents the estimates of tax gaps for corporate income (CIT) non-financial corporations in Slovenia by applying methodology IMF’s RA-GAP (Revenue Administration – Gap Analysis Program). work is being undertaken under context larger project designed to strengthen administration Slovenian Financial (SFA). Providing support towards building capacity SFA estimate and analyze CIT gap wi...

The relationship between clinicopathologic diagnosis and 123I-FP-CIT SPECT in 18 patients with dementia (12 with Lewy body disease) from one center in the United States was assessed. The sensitivity and specificity of abnormal 123I-FP-CIT SPECT with reduced striatal uptake on visual inspection for predicting Lewy body disease were 91.7% and 83.3%, respectively. The mean calculated putamen to oc...

Hepatic steatosis is one complication patients may experience following clinical islet transplantation (CIT), yet the cause and consequences of this are poorly understood. The purpose of this case-control study was to examine the relationship between hepatic steatosis, metabolic parameters and graft function in an Albertan cohort of CIT recipients. Hepatic steatosis was detected by magnetic res...

PURPOSE This review focuses on recent advances in the field of combining radiation with immunotherapy for the treatment of malignant diseases, since various combinatorial cancer therapy approaches have lately proven highly successful. RESULTS With initial case reports and anecdotes progressively converting into solid clinical data, interest in cancer immunotherapy (CIT) has risen steeply. Esp...

Primary microcephaly is a neurodevelopmental disorder that is caused by a reduction in brain size as a result of defects in the proliferation of neural progenitor cells during development. Mutations in genes encoding proteins that localize to the mitotic spindle and centrosomes have been implicated in the pathogenicity of primary microcephaly. In contrast, the contractile ring and midbody requi...

INTRODUCTION Drug-induced parkinsonism is a major type of parkinsonism in our setting. Symptoms usually disappear after discontinuation of the drug. However, they may persist in patients with a variant known as subclinical drug-exacerbated parkinsonism; early identification of this entity has important prognostic and therapeutic implications. The most widely used complementary test in this diag...