ABSTRACT. Transplantation offers superior life expectancy and quality of life compared with
dialysis in young patients with end-stage renal failure. However, the initial risks of mortality …

OBJECTIVE To develop a set of comprehensive, standardized, evidence-based guidelines
for the use of antiviral therapy to prevent cytomegalovirus disease in adult patients having …

The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) has emerged as a source of hydrogen peroxide (H 2 O 2 )
and a hub for peroxide-based signaling events. Here we outline cellular sources of ER-…

The interaction of ozone with alumina has been examined at ambient temperature as a function
of ozone concentration and relative humidity. The experiments used diffuse reflectance …

Haploinsufficiency of progranulin ( PGRN ) is a leading cause of frontotemporal lobar
degeneration ( FTLD ). Loss of PGRN leads to lysosome dysfunction during aging. TMEM 106B, a …

Microhaplotypes have become a new type of forensic marker with a great ability to identify
and deconvolute mixtures because massively parallel sequencing (MPS) allows the alleles (…

Results Seventy-five of 201 randomized patients experienced a primary outcome event (51
peritonitis episodes, 24 ESIs). No difference was seen in the time to first event for P 3 (13.2 …

Methods Trial entrance criteria included a renal biopsy specimen with a minimum of eight
different glomeruli demonstrable, taken within 12 months of trial entry and of sufficient size to …

A kinetic model has been developed which accurately represents the kinetics of the oxidation
of a thin film of pyrolytic carbon at a total pressure of about 100 Pa in the temperature …

Hyperglycemia is associated with a decrease in serum sodium concentration. Previous methods
of estimating the degree of decrease have not considered the fact that glucose will enter …