Stress cine function and vasodilating stress perfusion are commonly used approaches for the evaluation of ischemic heart disease. Both imaging approaches, using either stress echocardiography or stress nuclear scintigraphy, have stood the test of time as highly accurate in diagnosing coronary artery stenosis and as prognostic tools in patients with symptoms suspicious of myocardial ischemia.1,2...

An acute unilateral vestibular lesion leads to a vestibular tone imbalance with nystagmus, head roll tilt and postural imbalance. These deficits gradually decrease over days to weeks due to central vestibular compensation (VC). This study investigated the effects of i.v. N-acetyl-DL-leucine, N-acetyl-L-leucine and N-acetyl-D-leucine on VC using behavioural testing and serial [18F]-Fluoro-desoxy...

OBJECTIVE To demonstrate the effect of hypokinesia (HK) and post-HK on phosphate (Pi) imbalance and use of Pi with different Pi imbalance and different Pi consumption: were measured Pi balance, plasma Pi level and Pi loss during HK. METHODS Experiments were conducted during the pre-experimental period of 30 days, and the HK period of 364-days and post-HK period of 30-days. Forty healthy male ...

Unbalanced regional development is widespread, and the imbalance of in developing countries with rapid urbanization increasingly apparent. This threatens sustainable region. Promoting coordinated region has become a hot spot scientific research major practical need. Taking 99 counties Jiangsu Province China, typical coastal plain region, as basic unit, this paper explores unbalanced characteris...

Abstract. Regional climate models compute ice sheet surface mass balance (SMB) over a mask that defines the area covered by glacier ice, but masks have not been harmonised between models. Intercomparison studies of modelled SMB therefore use common mask. The in areas outside mask, which are typically coastal and high-precipitation regions, is discarded. Ice differences change integrated 40.5 14...

Allelic imbalance (AI) encompassing the apoptotic protease-activating factor 1 (APAF-1) locus (12q22-23) is found frequently in metastatic melanoma. Circulating DNA with AI on 12q22-23 in serum was evaluated as a surrogate marker to predict biochemotherapy (BC) treatment response in melanoma patients. Sera were collected from 49 American Joint Committee on Cancer stage IV melanoma patients trea...

PURPOSE Our objective was to determine the risk factors for inpatient admission of pediatric burn patients. MATERIALS & METHODS This cross-sectional study uses data from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Kids' Inpatient Database (HCUP KID) for the years of 2003, 2006, 2009, and 2012 to estimate the risk factors for inpatient admission for pediatric patients who sustained a burn inju...

The mesostriatal dopaminergic system, which comprises the mesolimbic and the nigrostriatal pathways, plays a major role in neural processing underlying motor and limbic functions. Multiple reports suggest that these processes are influenced by hemispheric differences in striatal dopamine (DA) levels, DA turnover and its receptor activity. Here, we review studies which measured the concentration...

1Department of Neurology, Jinling Hospital, Medical School of Nanjing University, Nanjing 210002, China 2Department of Neurology, Xijing Hospital, The Fourth Military Medicine University, Xi’an 710032, China 3School of Dentistry, Cardiff Institute of Tissue Engineering and Repair, Cardiff University, Heath Park, Cardiff CF14 4XY, UK 4Department of Neurology, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI 482...

In this paper we give a systematic analysis of the relationship between imbalance and overlap as factors influencing classifier performance. We demonstrate that these two factors have interdependent effects and that we cannot form a full understanding of their effects by considering them only in isolation. Although the imbalance problem can be considered a symptom of the small disjuncts problem...