PROBLEM Some patients with antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) suffer pregnancy morbidity (PM) but not vascular thrombosis (VT), whilst others suffer VT only. Therefore, we compared the effects of IgG from VT+/PM- and VT-/PM+ subjects on human first-trimester trophoblast (HTR8) cells. METHOD OF STUDY HTR-8 cells were incubated with APS VT+/PM-, APS VT-/PM+ or healthy control (HC) IgG. We measured...

The Procrustes matching (PM) problem is the problem of finding the optimal rigid motion and labeling of two point sets so that they are as close as possible. Both rigid and non-rigid shape matching problems can be formulated as PM problems. Recently [14] presented a novel convex semi-definite programming relaxation (PM-SDP) for PM which achieves state of the art results on common shape matching...

objective(s):this study was designed to investigate the effect of phaleria macrocarpa aqueous extract (pm) on spermatogenesis by observing the histological changes of testes in adult male rats. materials and methods: pm was prepared by boiling the dried slices of p. macrocarpa fruits followed by filtering, centrifugation and freeze-drying to obtain the powder form. eighteen sprague dawley adult...

BACKGROUND The effects of airborne particulate matter (PM) are a major human health concern. In this panel study, we evaluated the acute effects of exposure to PM on peak expiratory flow (PEF) and wheezing in children. METHODS Daily PEF and wheezing were examined in 19 asthmatic children who were hospitalized in a suburban city in Japan for approximately 5 months. The concentrations of PM les...

This paper deal with the solutions of the systems of difference equations $$x_{n+1}=frac{y_{n-3}y_nx_{n-2}}{y_{n-3}x_{n-2}pm y_{n-3}y_n pm y_nx_{n-2}}, ,y_{n+1}=frac{y_{n-2}x_{n-1}}{ 2y_{n-2}pm x_{n-1}},,nin mathbb{N}_{0},$$ where $mathbb{N}_{0}=mathbb{N}cup left{0right}$, and initial values $x_{-2},, x_{-1},,x_{0},,y_{-3},,y_{-2},,y_{-1},,y_{0}$ are non-zero real numbers.

Objective(s): Particulate matter (PM) exposure can promote cardiac ischemia and myocardial damage. The effects of PM10 on hemodynamic parameters, lipid peroxidation, and infarct size induced by ischemia-reperfusion injury and the protective effects of vanillic acid (VA) in isolated rat heart were investigated. Materials and Methods: Eighty male Wistar rats (250–300 g) were divided into 8 groups...

Previous studies have suggested that the adverse health effects from ambient particulate matter (PM) are linked to the formation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) by PM in cardiopulmonary tissues. While hydroxyl radical ((•)OH) is the most reactive of the ROS species, there are few quantitative studies of (•)OH generation from PM. Here we report on (•)OH formation from PM collected at an urban (...

Anti-cytochrome P450 (CYP)1A2 autoantibodies are found in dihydralazine-induced hepatitis, and CYPs2B and 2C have been shown to follow vesicular flow to the plasma membrane (PM). However, it is unknown whether other CYPs follow this route, whether NADPH-CYP reductase is present on the hepatocyte surface, and whether autoimmune hepatitis-inducing drugs increase PM CYPs. In this study, we determi...

Previous studies have shown that completed prospective memory (PM) intentions entail aftereffects in terms of ongoing-task-performance decrements in trials containing repeated PM cues which previously served as PM cues triggering the intended action. Previous research reported that PM aftereffects decrease over time, thus revealing a specific time course of PM aftereffects. In the present study...

By Pm we denote a path of order m. A graph G is said to be Pm − saturated if G has no subgraph isomorphic to Pm and adding any new edge to G creates a Pm in G. In 1986 L. Kászonyi and Zs. Tuza considered the following problem: for given m and n find the minimum size sat(n;Pm) of Pm-saturated graph and characterize the graphs of Sat(n; Pm) – the set of Pm-saturated graphs of minimum size. They h...