Hands were transplanted from brain-dead donors for the treatment of two male unilateral amputees, aged 35 years and 32 years, involved in the Italian Hand Transplantation Programme. Each had lost his right dominant hand, in a farming accident and an explosion, respectively. In one case artificial sensibility was applied postoperatively using a Sensor Glove that transformed vibrotactile stimuli ind

Gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms are common in renal transplant recipients and are associated with impaired health-related quality of life (HRQoL). We investigated clinician attitudes to GI symptoms and HRQoL in these patients by surveying 145 nephrologists from Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and Norway. In total, 79 clinicians responded. They estimated that 20% of their patients experienced GI discomfor

1 We investigated the antagonistic effect of 1-piperidinecarboxamide, N-[2-[[5amino-1-[[4-(4-pyridinyl)-1-piperazinyl]carbonyl]pentyl]amino]-1 -[(3,5-dibromo-4-hydroxyphenyl)methyl]-2-oxoethyl]4-(1,4- dihydro-2-oxo-3(2H)-quinazolinyl) (BIBN4096BS) on the calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP)-induced responses by using isometric myograph and FURA-2 technique in human subcutaneous arteries removed

Objective To study the clinical and biochemical effects of a low starting dose for gold therapy in rheumatoid arthritis patients with a contact allergy to gold. Methods Serum cytokines were assayed before and 24 h after the first injection of gold sodium thiomalate (GSTM). Results Contact allergy to gold was found in 4 of 19 patients. Compared to gold-negative patients (starting dose: 10 mg GST

To explore the molecular mechanisms responsible for the variation in smooth muscle contractile kinetics, the influence of MgATP, MgADP, and inorganic phosphate (P(i)) on force and shortening velocity in thiophosphorylated "fast" (taenia coli: maximal shortening velocity Vmax = 0.11 ML/s) and "slow" (aorta: Vmax = 0.015 ML/s) smooth muscle from the guinea pig were compared. P(i) inhibited active fo

Human cystatin C (HCC) shows a tendency to dimerize. This process is particularly easy in the case of the L68Q HCC mutant and might lead to formation of amyloid deposits in brain arteries of young adults. Our purpose was to find ligands of monomeric HCC that can prevent its dimerization. Eleven antisense peptide ligands of monomeric HCC were designed and synthesized. The influence of these ligands

Surveying how Christology is formulated in the wake of Nostra Aetate, this paper concentrates on three models: (1) The man became words, words, words; the quest for the historical Jesus has often emphasised the — allegedly unique — teachings of the Nazarene. Its main problem, however, is that the contemporaries of Jesus are no longer presented as his historical context but as his theological contr

We have studied the ground state of a realistic model of oxyheme with multiconfigurational second-order perturbation theory (CASPT2). Our results show that the ground-state electronic structure is strongly multiconfigurational in character. Thus, the wavefunction is a mixture of many different configurations, of which the three most important ones are approximately 1FeII–1O2 (70%), (12%) and 3FeII

Objective: To examine the fatty acid composition of erythrocyte membranes, in relation to obesity indexes and breast cancer risk. Design: A nested case-control study. Setting: The Malmo Diet Cancer cohort, Sweden. Subjects: Among women 50 y or older at baseline (n=12803), incident breast cancer cases (n=237) were matched to controls (n=673) on age and screening date. Methods: A diet history method

An extensive small angle neutron scattering study is presented using contrast variation on the growth of nonionic microemulsion droplets as the temperature and thus spontaneous curvature is varied away from the emulsification failure boundary, EFB, toward zero spontaneous curvature. Two ternary systems are compared. They only differ by the chain length of the oil ( decane and hexadecane, respectiv

Phylogenetic relationships of squamates (lizards, amphisbaenians and snakes) have received considerable attention, although no consensus has been reached concerning some basal divergences. This paper focuses on the Serpentes (snakes), whose phylogenetic position within the Squamata remains uncertain despite a number of morphological and molecular studies. Some mitogenomic studies have suggested a

Purpose: To confront the statement that gadolinium contrast media (Gd-CM) are less nephrotoxic than iodine contrast media (I-CM) when used in x-ray angiographic and computed tomographic (CT) examinations. Methods: I) For CT measurements (mean density in Hounsfield numbers) 20-mL syringes filled with I- and Gd-CM at 0.01, 0.02, 0.05 and 0.1 mmol attenuating atoms/mL were scanned in air and in a 30

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The aim of this study was to explore employed women's experiences of light or moderate arm lymphoedema following breast cancer treatment in order to gain a deeper understanding of this phenomenon. Twelve women took part in a semistructured interview. A qualitative method with a phenomenological approach was applied to analyse data. in order to integrate the experiences in the everyday life of the

The energy levels of the 5f(3) manifold of the free-ion U3+ Up to 30 000 cm(-1) are calculated with two well stabilized ab initio methods based on the two-component Hamiltonians of Cowan-Griffin-Wood-Boring and Douglas-Kroll-Hess. Although the corresponding experimental data do not exist, estimates made out of experiments on the 50 manifold of U3+ in solids are usually referred to as the experimen