BACKGROUND In children with type 1 diabetes, intensive diabetes management has been demonstrated to reduce long-term microvascular complications. At present, self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG) by patients at home and glycated hemoglobin estimation every 3 months are used to monitor glycemic control in children. Recently, ambulatory glucose profile (AGP) is increasingly being used to study ...

OBJECTIVES We sought to evaluate the common utilization of beta-blockers and angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors or receptor blockers (RBs) in congestive heart failure (CHF). BACKGROUND We assessed the association between prescriptions of beta-blockers and ACE inhibitors or RBs within three months after hospitalization and mortality for newly diagnosed CHF in Alberta, Canada senior...

A random balanced sample (RBS) is a multivariate distribution with n components Xk, each uniformly distributed on [−1, 1], such that the sum of these components is precisely 0. The corresponding vectors ~ X lie in an (n − 1)–dimensional polytope M(n). We present new methods for the construction of such RBS via densities over M(n) and these apply for arbitrary n. While simple densities had been ...

Connections with Reduced Beam Section (RBS) have been investigated in the last 20 years both from an analytical point of view and from an experimental point of view. Several experimental tests demonstrated that RBS connections designed according to themost modern seismic codes are able to obtain the desired goal: the protection of the connection due to the yielding of the adjacent RBS. But in a...

Baylisascaris schroederi is a common parasite of captive giant pandas. The diagnosis of this ascariasis is normally carried out by a sedimentation-floatation method or PCR to detect eggs in feces, but neither method is suitable for early diagnosis. Fatty acid-binding protein (FABP) and galectin (GAL) exist in various animals and participate in important biology of parasites. Because of their go...

Dilated cisternae of the ER resembling Russell Bodies (RBs) are induced in light (L) chain producing myeloma cell lines by transfection of a mu heavy (H) chain gene lacking the first constant domain (mu delta CH1). RBs do not appear to be tissue specific, since they are also induced in a rat glioma cell line transfected with mu delta CH1 and L chain genes. Efficient RB biogenesis requires H-L a...