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Ronald Joseph Pion Joshua S. Golden Alexander B. Caldwell Jr. 《The Western journal of medicine》1962,97(5):281-285
It has been well established that “normal” pregnancy gives rise to much anxiety whose source is variable. When not adequately dealt with, the anxiety may masquerade in the guise of physical symptoms such as fatigue, dizziness, nausea and vomiting, or, more often, as disquieting emotional counterparts, like irritability and depression.A study was undertaken in the outpatient obstetrical department at U.C.L.A. utilizing a group psychotherapeutic approach. The results helped the patients and offered training to staff in dealing with emotional problems of pregnancy. Patients were seen in groups of seven, twice a month for one-hour sessions. Participating in each group were an obstetrical resident, a psychiatric resident and a nurse. The subject material was not selected beforehand. Groups were similar in that the expected time of delivery of the patients was approximately the same. Results of the study suggested that the much needed emotional support may be supplied in this way with little to no additional time expenditure on the part of the physician or nurse. 相似文献
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María J. Mayor-López Jacques Weber Hans P. Lüthi Kaspar Hegetschweiler 《Journal of molecular modeling》2000,6(2):55-64
Density functional calculations using the hybrid B3LYP functional have been carried out on the fragmentation reaction of cyclic SCO trimers. Analogous calculations for CO2 and HNCO have also been performed for comparison. The energies of the different trimers relative to those of the isolated monomers as well as the energy barriers to fragmentation have been calculated. For all the calculations, a reaction path in which three bonds are simultaneously broken has been considered. It has been found that the fragmentation of cyclic SCO trimers is a rather facile process. The same statement applies to the cyclic CO2 trimer but not to the HNCO one. In addition, the latter is much more stable than three free HNCO monomers, which is not the case for SCO and CO2. 相似文献
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Stéphane A. P. Derocles Darren M. Evans Paul C. Nichols S. Aifionn Evans David H. Lunt 《PloS one》2015,10(2)
A major challenge in network ecology is to describe the full-range of species interactions in a community to create highly-resolved food-webs. We developed a molecular approach based on DNA full barcoding and mini-barcoding to describe difficult to observe plant – leaf miner – parasitoid interactions, consisting of animals commonly regarded as agricultural pests and their natural enemies. We tested the ability of universal primers to amplify the remaining DNA inside leaf miner mines after the emergence of the insect. We compared the results of a) morphological identification of adult specimens; b) identification based on the shape of the mines; c) the COI Mini-barcode (130 bp) and d) the COI full barcode (658 bp) fragments to accurately identify the leaf-miner species. We used the molecular approach to build and analyse a tri-partite ecological network of plant – leaf miner – parasitoid interactions. We were able to detect the DNA of leaf-mining insects within their feeding mines on a range of host plants using mini-barcoding primers: 6% for the leaves collected empty and 33% success after we observed the emergence of the leaf miner. We suggest that the low amplification success of leaf mines collected empty was mainly due to the time since the adult emerged and discuss methodological improvements. Nevertheless our approach provided new species-interaction data for the ecological network. We found that the 130 bp fragment is variable enough to identify all the species included in this study. Both COI fragments reveal that some leaf miner species could be composed of cryptic species. The network built using the molecular approach was more accurate in describing tri-partite interactions compared with traditional approaches based on morphological criteria. 相似文献
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《Phytomedicine》2006
Functional dyspepsia is a common chronic disorder with non-specific upper abdominal symptoms which can not be explained by organic or biochemical abnormalities. The dyspeptic symptoms are very compromising and bothersome and result in a substantial reduction of quality of life. The substantial direct and indirect medical and economical costs induce a high socioeconomic interest in the pathogenesis and the treatment options of this disease. Over the past 30 years several theories about the etiology of the symptoms in functional dyspepsia patients have been put forward. These include disorders of gastrointestinal motility, acid secretion, visceral hypersensitivity, adaptation and accommodation, Hp-infection, mucosal inflammation and finally genetic predisposition. There is increasing evidence that functional dyspepsia is a multi-causal disorder, which leads to altered processing of afferent information from the gastrointestinal tract to the CNS. Autonomic hypersensitivity and altered central processing could be a common phenomenon whereas motility changes, inflammation or altered secretion could increase neural afferent inputs. Treatment of this complex disorder could and should involve these different levels of symptom generation. Thus different approaches with anti-secretory, spasmolytic, prokinetic and anti-inflammatory effects and most preferably reduction of visceral hypersensitivity seem logical. This could explain the variety of drugs which show a positive symptomatic response. This could also offer the conclusion, whether a combination of these drugs could be clinically superior which remains to be proven. And this could offer a logical approach for the use of substances with a multi-target action, e.g. STW 5. 相似文献
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Gingival inflammation is the physiological response to poor oral hygiene. If gingivitis is not resolved the response will become an established lesion.We studied whether gingivitis associates with elevated risk for stroke. The hypothesis was based on the periodontitis–atherosclerosis paradigm.Methods
In our prospective cohort study from Sweden 1676 randomly selected subjects were followed up from 1985 to 2012. All subjects underwent clinical oral examination and answered a questionnaire assessing background variables such as socio-economic status and pack-years of smoking. Cases with stroke were recorded from the Center of Epidemiology, Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare, Sweden, and classified according to the WHO International Classification of Diseases. Unpaired t-test, chi-square tests, and multiple logistic regression analyses were used.Results
Of the 1676 participants, 39 subjects (2.3%) had been diagnosed with stroke. There were significant differences between the patients with stroke and subjects without in pack-years of smoking (p = 0.01), prevalence of gingival inflammation (GI) (p = 0.03), and dental calculus (p = 0.017). In a multiple regression analysis the association between GI, confounders and stroke, GI showed odds ratio 2.20 (95% confidence interval 1.02–4.74) for stroke.Conclusion
Our present findings showed that gingival inflammation clearly associated with stroke in this 26-year cohort study. The results emphasize the role of oral health personnel in prevention. 相似文献8.
Markus Bernhardt-Römermann Christine Römermann Valério DePatta Pillar Thomas Kudernatsch Anton Fischer 《Folia Geobotanica》2010,45(2):111-124
The current study tested the assumption that floristic and functional diversity patterns are negatively related to soil nitrogen content. We analyzed 20 plots with soil N-contents ranging from 0.63% to 1.06% in a deciduous forest near Munich (Germany). To describe species adaptation strategies to different nitrogen availabilities, we used a plant functional type (PFT) approach. Each identified PFT represents one realized adaptation strategy to the current environment. These were correlated, next to plant species richness and evenness, to soil nitrogen contents. We found that N-efficient species were typical for low soil nitrogen contents, while N-requiring species occur at high N-contents. In contrast to our initial hypotheses, floristic and functional diversity measures (number of PFTs) were positively related to nitrogen content in the soil. Every functional group has its own adaptation to the prevailing environmental conditions; in consequence, these functional groups can co-exist but do not out-compete one another. The increased number of functional groups at high N-contents leads to increased species richness. Hence, for explaining diversity patterns we need to consider species groups representing different adaptations to the current environmental conditions. Such co-existing ecological strategies may even overcome the importance of competition in their effect on biodiversity. 相似文献
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Niko Braun Peter Fritz Christoph Ulmer Joerg Latus Martin Kimmel Dagmar Biegger German Ott Fabian Reimold Klaus-Peter Thon Juergen Dippon Stephan Segerer M. Dominik Alscher 《PloS one》2012,7(11)
Background
The two most relevant pathologies of long-term peritoneal dialysis (PD) are simple sclerosis and encapsulating peritoneal sclerosis (EPS). The histological differentiation of those two entities is difficult. The Aim of the study was to establish a method to standardize and facilitate the differentiation between simple sclerosis and EPSMethods
We investigated 58 peritoneal biopsies - 31 EPS patients and 27 PD patients. Two blinded investigators analyzed 20 histological characteristics in EPS and PD patients.Results
The following findings were significantly more common in EPS than in patients on PD without EPS: fibroblast like cells (FLC) (p<0.0001), mesothelial denudation (p<0.0001), decreased cellularity (p = 0.008), fibrin deposits (p<0.03), Fe deposits (p = 0.05), podoplanin vascular (p<0.0001), podoplanin avascular (p<0.0001). Using all predictor variables we trained the classification method Random Forest to categorize future cases. Podoplanin vascular and avascular were taken together (p<0.0001), FLC (p<0.0001), mesothelial denudation (p = 0.0005), calcification (p = 0.0026), acellular areas (p = 0.0094), and fibrin deposits (p = 0.0336) showed up as significantly important predictor variables. Estimated misclassification error rate when classifying new cases turned out to be 14%.Conclusion
The introduced statistical method allows discriminating between simple sclerosis and EPS. The misclassification error will likely improve with every new case added to the database. 相似文献10.
Yimei Li Matt Hall Brian T. Fisher Alix E. Seif Yuan-Shung Huang Rochelle Bagatell Kelly D. Getz Todd A. Alonzo Robert B. Gerbing Lillian Sung Peter C. Adamson Alan Gamis Richard Aplenc 《PloS one》2015,10(11)
Purpose
Clinical trials data from National Cancer Institute (NCI)-funded cooperative oncology group trials could be enhanced by merging with external data sources. Merging without direct patient identifiers would provide additional patient privacy protections. We sought to develop and validate a matching algorithm that uses only indirect patient identifiers.Methods
We merged the data from two Phase III Children’s Oncology Group (COG) trials for de novo acute myeloid leukemia (AML) with the Pediatric Health Information Systems (PHIS). We developed a stepwise matching algorithm that used indirect identifiers including treatment site, gender, birth year, birth month, enrollment year and enrollment month. Results from the stepwise algorithm were compared against the direct merge method that used date of birth, treatment site, and gender. The indirect merge algorithm was developed on AAML0531 and validated on AAML1031.Results
Of 415 patients enrolled on the AAML0531 trial at PHIS centers, we successfully matched 378 (91.1%) patients using the indirect stepwise algorithm. Comparison to the direct merge result suggested that 362 (95.7%) matches identified by the indirect merge algorithm were concordant with the direct merge result. When validating the indirect stepwise algorithm using the AAML1031 trial, we successfully matched 157 out of 165 patients (95.2%) and 150 (95.5%) of the indirectly merged matches were concordant with the directly merged matches.Conclusions
These data demonstrate that patients enrolled on COG clinical trials can be successfully merged with PHIS administrative data using a stepwise algorithm based on indirect patient identifiers. The merged data sets can be used as a platform for comparative effectiveness and cost effectiveness studies. 相似文献11.
Senthil K Vasan Klaus Rostgaard Henrik Ullum Mads Melbye Henrik Hjalgrim Gustaf Edgren 《PloS one》2015,10(6)
Background
Dementia includes a group of neuro-degenerative disorders characterized by varying degrees of cognitive impairment. Recent data indicates that blood group AB is associated with impaired cognition in elderly patients. To date there are no large-scale studies that have examined the relationship between ABO blood group and dementia-related disorders in detail.Methods
We used data from the SCANDAT2 database that contains information on over 1.6 million blood donors from 1968 in Sweden and 1981 from Denmark. The database was linked with health outcomes data from nationwide patient and cause of death registers to investigate the relationship between blood groups and risk of different types of dementia. The incident rate ratios were estimated using log-linear Poisson regression models.Results
Among 1,598,294 donors followed over 24 million person-years of observation we ascertained 3,615 cases of Alzheimer’s disease, 1,842 cases of vascular dementia, and 9,091 cases of unspecified dementia. Overall, our study showed no association between ABO blood group and risk of Alzheimer’s disease, vascular dementia or unspecified dementia. This was also true when analyses were restricted to donors aged 70 years or older except for a slight, but significantly decreased risk of all dementia combined in subjects with blood group A (IRR, 0.93; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.88-0.98), compared to those with blood group O.Conclusions
Our results provide no evidence that ABO blood group influences the risk of dementia. 相似文献12.
Melina Devercelli 《Hydrobiologia》2006,563(1):465-478
The Paraná River mainstem was sampled monthly (November 1999–December 2000) in order to analyse phytoplankton structure and
dynamics during a period of extreme low water discharge. Physiognomic groups, size fractions, taxonomic groups, species and
Reynolds et al. [2002, Journal of Plankton Research, 24: 417–428] functional groups were studied in relation to environmental
variables. The phytoplankton comprised an unusual development of small unicellular flagellates (1–20 mm), whereas large size
algae such as the commonly recorded Aulacoseira were present with very low abundances. Groups Y (Cryptomonas spp.), X2 (Chlamydomonas
spp., Rhodomonas minuta followed by a silicean chrysophyte) and D (Skeletonema cf. subsalsum and small centrics in minor proportion)
dominated the phytoplankton community. Groups X2 and Y dominated at drought phase (November–December 1999). During the coupling
of increasing waters and high-suspended solids (February–May 2000) minimum abundance was exhibited. The highest densities
were registered during mid-waters (Y, D, X2) when a constant river-floodplain feedback occurred (September–December). The
connectivity between the main channel and its alluvial valley, and their interaction resulting from the regular alternation
of hydrological fluctuations, play a steering role in structuring the potamoplankton of large rivers. The multivariate RDA
showed that water discharge and transparency highly explained a significant proportion of the functional groups variation.
The functional classification is proposed as a useful approach in reconstructing the phytoplankton community. The differences
in structure from the typically described potamoplankton for the Paraná were maintained throughout the study period. The perseverance
of the community changes that occurred during the drought depends, in part, on the persistence and magnitude of this anomalous
phase. 相似文献
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Wheat, the major source of vegetable protein in human diet, provides staple food globally for a large proportion of the human
population. With higher protein content than other major cereals, wheat has great socio- economic importance. Nonetheless for
wheat, three important fungal pathogens i.e. rust, smut and bunt are major cause of significant yield losses throughout the world.
Researchers are putting up a strong fight against devastating wheat pathogens, and have made progress in tracking and controlling
disease outbreaks from East Africa to South Asia. The aim of the present work hence was to develop a fungal pathogens database
dedicated to wheat, gathering information about different pathogen species and linking them to their biological classification,
distribution and control. Towards this end, we developed an open access database Tripath: A biological, genetic and genomic
database of economically important wheat fungal pathogens – rust: smut: bunt. Data collected from peer-reviewed publications
and fungal pathogens were added to the customizable database through an extended relational design. The strength of this
resource is in providing rapid retrieval of information from large volumes of text at a high degree of accuracy. Database TRIPATH
is freely accessible.
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http://www.gbpuat-cbsh.ac.in/departments/bi/database/tripath/ 相似文献15.
Ryo Momosaki Masahiro Abo Shu Watanabe Wataru Kakuda Naoki Yamada Shoji Kinoshita 《PloS one》2015,10(4)
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The purpose of the present study was to investigate potential effects of ankle–foot orthoses (AFOs) on the functional recovery of post-acute stroke patients following rehabilitation.Subjects and Methods
This study is a retrospective cohort study. Participants were in-hospital stroke patients registered in the Japan Rehabilitation Database between 2005 and 2012. A total of 1862 patients were eligible after applying exclusion criteria. Propensity score analysis was applied to adjust for potential bias and to create two comparable groups. An additional subset analysis focused on Functional Independence Measure (FIM) scores on admission.Results
In this sample, 30.7% of 1863 eligible patients were prescribed AFOs. Propensity score matched analysis showed that patients with AFOs had significantly higher scores than those without them for discharge FIM (mean: 91.3 vs 85.8; p=0.02), FIM gain (mean: 28.9 vs 23.5; p<0.001), and FIM efficiency (mean: 0.27 vs 0.22; p<0.001). Inverse probability weighting analysis showed similar results. In the subset analysis, patients with AFOs had significantly higher discharge FIM compared with those without them in the low admission FIM subgroup only. In addition, patients with AFOs performed independent exercise more than those without them (p<0.001).Conclusions
These data suggest that stroke survivors may have better functional recovery if they are prescribed an AFO than if they are not prescribed an AFO. The use of AFOs is considered to be a feasible option to improve functional recovery of stroke rehabilitation patients. 相似文献16.
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Yifang Zhao Ming-Hui Chen Baikang Pei David Rowe Dong-Guk Shin Wangang Xie Fang Yu Lynn Kuo 《Statistics in biosciences》2012,4(1):105-131
Many statistical methods have been developed to screen for differentially expressed genes associated with specific phenotypes in the microarray data. However, it remains a major challenge to synthesize the observed expression patterns with abundant biological knowledge for more complete understanding of the biological functions among genes. Various methods including clustering analysis on genes, neural network, Bayesian network and pathway analysis have been developed toward this goal. In most of these procedures, the activation and inhibition relationships among genes have hardly been utilized in the modeling steps. We propose two novel Bayesian models to integrate the microarray data with the putative pathway structures obtained from the KEGG database and the directional gene–gene interactions in the medical literature. We define the symmetric Kullback–Leibler divergence of a pathway, and use it to identify the pathway(s) most supported by the microarray data. Monte Carlo Markov Chain sampling algorithm is given for posterior computation in the hierarchical model. The proposed method is shown to select the most supported pathway in an illustrative example. Finally, we apply the methodology to a real microarray data set to understand the gene expression profile of osteoblast lineage at defined stages of differentiation. We observe that our method correctly identifies the pathways that are reported to play essential roles in modulating bone mass. 相似文献
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The design and generation of DNA constructs is among the necessary but generally tedious tasks for molecular biologists and, typically, the cloning strategy is restricted by available restriction sites. However, increasingly sophisticated experiments require increasingly complex DNA constructs, with an intricacy that exceeds what is achievable using standard cloning procedures. Many transgenes such as inducible gene cassettes or recombination elements consist of multiple components that often require precise in-frame fusions. Here, we present an efficient protocol that facilitates the generation of these complex constructs. The golden GATEway cloning approach presented here combines two established cloning methods, namely golden Gate cloning and Multisite GatewayTM cloning. This allows efficient and seamless assembly as well as reuse of predefined DNA elements. The golden Gate cloning procedure follows clear and simple design rules and allows the assembly of multiple fragments with different sizes into one open reading frame. The final product can be directly integrated into the widely used Multisite GatewayTM cloning system, granting more flexibility when using a transgene in the context of multiple species. This adaptable and streamlined cloning procedure overcomes restrictions of “classical construct generation” and allows focusing on construct design. 相似文献