AIMS To propectively reveal the clinicopathological and prognostic significances of monocyte-lymphocyte ratio (MLR), neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and platelet-lymphocyte ratio (PLR) in resected patients with non-metastatic Siewert type II/III adenocarcinoma of esophagogastric junction (AEG). METHODS A total of 611 patients diagnosed with Siewert type II/III AEG and undergoing surgery bet...

OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to investigate the number of metastatic lymph nodes (pN) and the metastatic lymph node ratio (MLR) on the post-surgical prognosis of Chinese patients with esophageal cancer (EC) and lymph node metastasis. METHODS We enrolled 353 patients who received primary curative resection for EC from 1990 to 2003. The association of pN and MLR with 5-year overal...

BACKGROUND: Several humoral immune factors are responsible for a successful pregnancy. There are a few studies, which demonstrate the role of antipaternal cytotoxic antibodies (APCA) and mixed lymphocyte reaction blocking factor (MLR-Bf) in the maintenance of pregnancy. However, these factors have not been studied in women with history of recurrent spontaneous abortion (RSA). We designed this s...

Cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) responses of splenic T cells from C57BL/6 B6) mice and mutant H-2Kbm1 (bm1) mice to haptenic (trinitrophenyl [TNP] ) and herpes simplex virus (HSV) determinants in the context of an allogenic (wild-type or mutant) H-2Kb molecule were analyzed in a modified limiting dilution system. In the B6-anti-bm1TNP mixed leukocyte reaction (MLR), estimated frequencies for precu...

The development of retention prediction models for the seven ginsenosides (Rf, Rg1, Rd, Re, Rc, Rb2 and Rb1) on a polyvinyl alcohol (PVA)-bonded stationary phase at subambient temperatures is presented. The models were derived using multiple linear regression (MLR) and artificial neural network (ANN) using the logarithm of the retention factor (log k) as the dependent variable. Using stepwise M...

BACKGROUND The quantitative structure property relationship (QSPR) for octanol/air partition coefficient (K OA) of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) was investigated. Molecular distance-edge vector (MDEV) index was used as the structural descriptor of PBDEs. The quantitative relationship between the MDEV index and the lgK OA of PBDEs was modeled by multivariate linear regression (MLR) and ...

Multivariable logistic regression (MLR) has been increasingly used in Chinese clinical medical research during the past few years. However, few evaluations of the quality of the reporting strategies in these studies are available.To evaluate the reporting quality and model accuracy of MLR used in published work, and related advice for authors, readers, reviewers, and editors.A total of 316 arti...

Power consumption in IP-over-WDM networks has become a major concern, more so due to rapidly evolving data intensive applications. Increasing power consumption also increases the environmental cost (carbon emission). Carbon emissions are the result of power generation using non-renewable (traditional hydrocarbons) energy resources. Usage of non-renewable energy resources (such as hydrocarbons, ...

background: municipal solid waste (msw) is the natural result of human activities. msw generation modeling is of prime im­portance in designing and programming municipal solid waste management system. this study tests the short-term pre­diction of waste generation by artificial neural network (ann) and principal component-regression analysis. methods: two forecasting techniques are presented in...

A system has been described that produces a murine syngeneic mixed lymphocyte response (MLR) comparable in magnitude to an allogeneic MLR. The responder cells in these cultures exhibit the classic immunologic characteristics of both memory and specificity. Studies using radiation-induced bone marrow chimeras of F(1) {arrow} parent type indicated that, similar to many other T cell-mediated immun...