R. S.

The role of thiols in liver ischemia-reperfusion injury (2006)

Thiol-containing compounds have an essential role in many biochemical reactions due to their ability to be easily oxidised and then quickly regenerated. Main representatives are glutathione, lipoic...

Non-Gaussianity in the Very Small Array cosmic microwave background maps with smooth goodness-of-fit tests (2006)

We have used the Rayner and Best smooth tests of goodness-of-fit to study the Gaussianity of the Very Small Array (VSA) data. These tests are designed to be sensitive to the presence of `smooth'...

Investigation of the nonlinear response of turbulent premixed flames to imposed inlet velocity oscillations (2006)

  • Armitage,
  • C.A.,
  • Balachandran,
  • R.,
  • Mastorakos,
  • E.,
  • ...

Acoustically forced lean premixed turbulent bluff-body stabilized flames are investigated using turbulent combustion CFD. The calculations simulate aspects of the experimental investigation by...

Ficção e realidade: as tramas do (tele)jornalismo e de outras produções televisivas (2005)

Trabalho apresentado nas Mesas Temáticas do XXVIII Congresso Brasileiro de Ciências da Comunicação, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 05-09,setembro,2005  Este artigo tem como...

Jornalismo e Política: Entrevista como Prática Paranóica (2005)

Trabalho apresentado na Sessão de Temas Livres no XXVII Congresso Brasileiro de Ciências da Comunicação, Porto Alegre RS, 2004.  A atividade interacional humana,...

Outras vozes pela cidadania - Aspectos da interação leitor/publicação no espaço de cartas do leitor (2005)

Trabalho apresentado na Sessão de Temas Livres durante o XXVIII Congresso Brasileiro de Ciências da Comunicação, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 05-09,setembro,2005.  Os...

Regionalidades e regionalismos - Aspectos da recepção da música sul-matogrossense no Sudeste: Tetê Espíndola, Almir Sater e o jornalismo cultural na Veja (2005)

Trabalho apresentado na Sessão de Temas Livres durante o XXVIII Congresso Brasileiro de Ciências da Comunicação, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 05-09,setembro,2005.  Às...

Performance e moda: experimentações de recursos para a sociabilidade. (2005)

  • TEIXEIRA,
  • R.S

Trabalho apresentado no Intercom Júnior, evento componente do XXVIII Congresso Brasileiro de Ciências da Comunicação, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 05-09,setembro,2005  Este...

Mídia, construção do imaginário moderno e identidade no Brasil (2005)

Trabalho apresentado no NP21 - Comunicação e Culturas Urbanas durante o XXVIII Congresso Brasileiro de Ciências da Comunicação, Rio de Janeiro, RJ,...

Measurement of total pulmonary arterial compliance using invasive pressure monitoring and MR flow quantification during MR-guided cardiac catheterization (2005)

  • Muthurangu,
  • V.,
  • Atkinson,
  • D.,
  • Sermesant,
  • M.,
  • ...

Pulmonary hypertensive disease is assessed by quantification of pulmonary vascular resistance. Pulmonary total arterial compliance is also an indicator of pulmonary hypertensive disease. However,...

Steroid preservation: the rationale for continued prescribing (2005)

Tailored immunosuppression according to risk stratification for optimal outcome for both immunological and non-immunological risk factors should be the ultimate objective for every child in whom...

First reported outbreak of diarrhea due to adenovirus infection in a hematology unit for adults (2005)

  • Jalal,
  • H.,
  • Bibby,
  • D.F.,
  • Tang,
  • J.W.,
  • ...

Numerous outbreaks of adenovirus infection from different types of health care settings, except a hematology unit, have been reported. This is the first report describing an outbreak of adenovirus...

Initial application in the STS congenital database of complexity adjustment to evaluate surgical case mix and results (2005)

Background. The analysis of the second harvest (19982001) of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Heart Surgery Database included the first attempt by the STS to apply a complexity-adjustment...

Percutaneous pulmonary valve implantation in humans: results in 59 consecutive patients (2005)

  • Khambadkone,
  • S.,
  • Coats,
  • L.,
  • Taylor,
  • A.,
  • ...

BACKGROUND: Right ventricular outflow tract (RVOT) reconstruction with valved conduits in infancy and childhood leads to reintervention for pulmonary regurgitation and stenosis in later life. METHODS...

CT and MRI appearances of inflammatory pseudotumour of the cervical lymph nodes (2005)

Inflammatory pseudotumour (IPT), also known as plasma cell granuloma and inflammatory myofibroblastic tumour, is a rare cause of benign cervical lymphadenopathy which mimics malignant causes of...

Spontaneous regression of residual low-grade cerebellar pilocytic astrocytomas in children (2005)

Background: Cerebellar low-grade astrocytomas (CLGAs) of childhood are benign tumours and are usually curable by surgical resection alone or combined with adjuvant radiotherapy. Objective: To...

Childhood thin GBM disease: review of 22 children with family studies and long-term follow-up (2005)

Thin glomerular basement membrane (GBM) disease is generally known to have a good renal prognosis, although renal insufficiency has sometimes been reported and the overlap with Alport syndrome...

The My Way pilot. (2005)

  • French,
  • R.S.,
  • Gerressu,
  • M.,
  • Gordon,
  • L.,
  • ...

Lamivudine plus interleukin-12 combination therapy in chronic hepatitis B: antiviral and immunological activity. [ (2005)

  • Rigopoulou,
  • E.I.,
  • Suri,
  • D.,
  • Chokshi,
  • S.,
  • ...

Interleukin-12 (IL-12) is an immunomodulatory cytokine that promotes cellular immunity. Pre-clinical data suggest that IL-12 inhibits hepatitis B virus (HBV) replication by stimulating...

How does transcranial DC stimulation of the primary motor cortex alter regional neuronal activity in the human brain? (2005)

  • Lang,
  • N.,
  • Siebner,
  • H.R.,
  • Ward,
  • N.S.,
  • ...

Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) of the primary motor hand area (M1) can produce lasting polarity-specific effects on corticospinal excitability and motor learning in humans. In 16...

Cosmic microwave background observations from the Cosmic Background Imager and Very Small Array: a comparison of coincident maps and parameter estimation methods (2005)

  • Rajguru,
  • N.,
  • Myers,
  • S.T.,
  • Battye,
  • R.A.,
  • ...

WWe present coincident observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) from the Very Small Array (VSA) and Cosmic Background Imager (CBI) telescopes. The consistency of the full data sets is...

Neurolinguistics: structural plasticity in the bilingual brain (2004)

  • Mechelli,
  • A.,
  • Crinion,
  • J.T.,
  • Noppeney,
  • U.,
  • ...

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Oral health and caries related microflora in children during the first three months following renal transplantation (2004)

There is little information on the oral health of children undergoing renal transplantation during the early transplant period. METHODS: Twenty-four children undergoing renal transplantation aged...

The effect of heparin on graft thrombosis in pediatric renal allografts. (2004)

  • Nagra,
  • A.,
  • Trompeter,
  • R.S.,
  • Fernando,
  • O.N.,
  • ...

Graft thrombosis is an important cause of early (<4 weeks) renal graft loss. Reports show that heparin reduces the incidence of early renal allograft thrombosis. Routine peri-operative administration...

Visualization and tracking of an inflatable balloon catheter using SSFP in a flow phantom and in the heart and great vessels of patients (2004)

  • Miquel,
  • M.E.,
  • Hegde,
  • S.,
  • Muthurangu,
  • V.,
  • ...

Passive catheter tracking involves direct interaction between the device and its surroundings, creating a local signal loss or enhancement of the image. Using only standard balloon catheters filled...

Cosmological parameter estimation using Very Small Array data out to l= 1500 (2004)

  • Rebolo,
  • R.,
  • Battye,
  • R.A.,
  • Carreira,
  • P.,
  • ...

We estimate cosmological parameters using data obtained by the Very Small Array (VSA) in its extended configuration, in conjunction with a variety of other cosmic microwave background (CMB) data and...

Estimating the bispectrum of the Very Small Array data (2004)

  • Smith,
  • S.,
  • Rocha,
  • G.,
  • Challinor,
  • A.,
  • ...

We estimate the bispectrum of the Very Small Array data from the compact and extended configuration observations released in 2002 December, and compare our results with those obtained from Gaussian...

High-sensitivity measurements of the cosmic microwave background power spectrum with the extended Very Small Array (2004)

  • Dickinson,
  • C.,
  • Battye,
  • R.A.,
  • Carreira,
  • P.,
  • ...

We present deep Ka-band (ν~ 33 GHz) observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) made with the extended Very Small Array (VSA). This configuration produces a naturally weighted...

Three- and four-dimensional reconstruction of intra-cardiac anatomy from two-dimensional magnetic resonance images (2003)

The present study was designed to evaluate the feasibility and clinical usefulness of three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction of intra-cardiac anatomy from a series of two-dimensional (2D) MR images...

Three-dimensional magnetic resonance imaging of congenital cardiac anomalies (2003)

  • Razavi,
  • R.S.,
  • Hill,
  • D.L.,
  • Muthurangu,
  • V.,
  • ...

We describe a new method of three-dimensional magnetic resonance imaging of the heart that has been used to produce high quality diagnostic images in 274 patients with congenital cardiac disease,...

The phoenix nest (2003)

106 p. Note on the e-text: This Renascence Editions text was transcribed by Greg Foster from the UMI microfilm copy of STC 21516. Marginalia, bookplates, and other details show this to be British...

Herpes simplex virus infection of dendritic cells: Balance among activation, inhibition, and immunity (2003)

  • Pollara,
  • G.,
  • Speidel,
  • K.,
  • Samady,
  • L.,
  • ...

Several lines of evidence suggest that dendritic cells (DCs), the most potent antigen-presenting cells known, play a role in the immunological control of herpes simplex virus (HSV) infections. HSV...

Blocking Actions of the Sea Anemone, Bunodosoma cavernata   Extract on Histamine and Acetylcholine - Induced Contractile Actions of the Wild Grasscutter and Rabbit Ilea (2002)

Extract from the sea anemone, Bunodosoma cavernata   was prepared by homogenising 100 of the sea anemones in 300ml of 0.9% saline in a Moulinex blender. This was centrifuged at 4000 revolutions per...

Tyr-TGFalpha transgenic mice develop ocular melanocytic lesions (2002)

  • Sutton,
  • R.,
  • Gordon-Thomson,
  • C.,
  • Cree,
  • I.A.,
  • ...

Transforming growth factor-alpha (TGFalpha) has been implicated in melanocyte transformation, as it is expressed in melanocytic lesions and in melanoma cells. We investigated its role in melanoma...

A common mechanism of action for three mood-stabilizing drugs (2002)

  • Williams,
  • R.S.,
  • Cheng,
  • L.,
  • Mudge,
  • A.W.,
  • ...

Lithium, carbamazepine and valproic acid are effective mood-stabilizing treatments for bipolar affective disorder. The molecular mechanisms underlying the actions of these drugs and the illness...

Multiple immediate-early gene-deficient herpes simplex virus vectors allowing efficient gene delivery to neurons in culture and widespread gene delivery to the central nervous system in vivo (2001)

  • Lilley,
  • C.E.,
  • Groutsi,
  • F.,
  • Han,
  • Z.,
  • ...

Herpes simplex virus (HSV) has several potential advantages as a vector for delivering genes to the nervous system. The virus naturally infects and remains latent in neurons and has evolved the...

In vivo myocardial gene transfer: optimization, evaluation and direct comparison of gene transfer vectors (2001)

  • Wright,
  • M.J.,
  • Wightman,
  • L.M.,
  • Lilley,
  • C.,
  • ...

The purpose was to determine the relative efficiency, toxicity and duration of expression following gene delivery by intramyocardial injection of naked DNA, naked DNA complexed to cationic liposomes,...

Molecular effects of novel mutations in Hesx1/HESX1 associated with human pituitary disorders (2001)

  • Brickman,
  • J.M.,
  • Clements,
  • M.,
  • Tyrell,
  • R.,
  • ...

The homeobox gene Hesx1/HESX1 has been implicated in the establishment of anterior pattern in the central nervous system (CNS) in a number of vertebrate species. Its role in pituitary development has...

Development and optimization of herpes simplex virus vectors for multiple long-term gene delivery to the peripheral nervous system (2000)

Herpes simplex virus (HSV) has often been suggested as a suitable vector for gene delivery to the peripheral nervous system as it naturally infects sensory nerve terminals before retrograde transport...

Adeno-associated and herpes simplex viruses as vectors for gene transfer to the corneal endothelium (2000)

PURPOSE: We examined the efficacy and cytopathogenicity of adeno- associated (AAV) and herpes simplex viruses (HSV) as vectors for gene transfer to corneal endothelial cells (CECs). METHODS:...

Allelic imbalance in familial and sporadic prostate cancer at the putative human prostate cancer susceptibility locus, HPC1. CRC/BPG UK Familial Prostate Cancer Study Collaborators. Cancer Research Campaign/British Prostate Group (1998)

A recent report has provided strong evidence for a major prostate cancer susceptibility locus (HPC1) on chromosome 1q24-25 (Smith et al, 1996). Most inherited cancer susceptibility genes function as...

Herpes Simplex Virus Latency-Associated Transcript Encodes a Protein Which Greatly Enhances Virus Growth, Can Compensate for Deficiencies in Immediate-Early Gene Expression, and Is Likely To Function during Reactivation from Virus Latency

Herpes simplex virus types 1 and 2 (HSV1 and HSV2) enter and reactivate from latency in sensory neurons, although the events governing these processes are little understood. During latency, only the...

 
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