Image_8_Right Ventricular Diastolic Performance in Patients With Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension Assessed by Echocardiography.JPEG by Hong Meng (82691)

“…The receiver operating characteristic curve analysis showed that the optimal cut-off values of early diastolic SR <0.8 s⁻¹ and indexed RA area > 8.8 cm²/BSA had the best accuracy in identifying patients with RV diastolic dysfunction, with 87% sensitivity and 82% specificity. During a mean follow-up of 25.2 months after pulmonary endarterectomy, the preoperative indexed RA area was shown as an independent risk factor of the decreased 6MWT distance.…”

Image_1_Right Ventricular Diastolic Performance in Patients With Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension Assessed by Echocardiography.JPEG by Hong Meng (82691)

“…The receiver operating characteristic curve analysis showed that the optimal cut-off values of early diastolic SR <0.8 s⁻¹ and indexed RA area > 8.8 cm²/BSA had the best accuracy in identifying patients with RV diastolic dysfunction, with 87% sensitivity and 82% specificity. During a mean follow-up of 25.2 months after pulmonary endarterectomy, the preoperative indexed RA area was shown as an independent risk factor of the decreased 6MWT distance.…”

Image_9_Right Ventricular Diastolic Performance in Patients With Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension Assessed by Echocardiography.JPEG by Hong Meng (82691)

“…The receiver operating characteristic curve analysis showed that the optimal cut-off values of early diastolic SR <0.8 s⁻¹ and indexed RA area > 8.8 cm²/BSA had the best accuracy in identifying patients with RV diastolic dysfunction, with 87% sensitivity and 82% specificity. During a mean follow-up of 25.2 months after pulmonary endarterectomy, the preoperative indexed RA area was shown as an independent risk factor of the decreased 6MWT distance.…”

Image_6_Right Ventricular Diastolic Performance in Patients With Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension Assessed by Echocardiography.JPEG by Hong Meng (82691)

“…The receiver operating characteristic curve analysis showed that the optimal cut-off values of early diastolic SR <0.8 s⁻¹ and indexed RA area > 8.8 cm²/BSA had the best accuracy in identifying patients with RV diastolic dysfunction, with 87% sensitivity and 82% specificity. During a mean follow-up of 25.2 months after pulmonary endarterectomy, the preoperative indexed RA area was shown as an independent risk factor of the decreased 6MWT distance.…”

Image_3_Right Ventricular Diastolic Performance in Patients With Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension Assessed by Echocardiography.JPEG by Hong Meng (82691)

“…The receiver operating characteristic curve analysis showed that the optimal cut-off values of early diastolic SR <0.8 s⁻¹ and indexed RA area > 8.8 cm²/BSA had the best accuracy in identifying patients with RV diastolic dysfunction, with 87% sensitivity and 82% specificity. During a mean follow-up of 25.2 months after pulmonary endarterectomy, the preoperative indexed RA area was shown as an independent risk factor of the decreased 6MWT distance.…”

Metabolic Stress Responses in <em>Drosophila</em> Are Modulated by Brain Neurosecretory Cells That Produce Multiple Neuropeptides by Lily Kahsai (233920)

“…Using the Gal4-UAS system we targeted the peptide knockdown specifically to ipc-1 and 2a cells with the c929 and Kurs-6 drivers. Flies with reduced DTK or sNPF levels in these cells displayed decreased survival time at desiccation and starvation, as well as increased water loss at desiccation. …”

Statistical mechanics of many balls bouncing passively. by Manoj Srinivasan (484440)

“…However, eventually this macroscopic coherent motion of the masses and the coherent oscillatory string motion gets ‘damped out’ with the energy getting transferred to incoherent motion of the masses. c) A ‘macroscopic’ kinetic energy computed as with mean ball velocity decreases with time, as the masses' velocities cancel each other more.…”

Data Sheet 1_Characterization of T-cell immune responses against Staphylococcus chromogenes naturally-induced subclinical mastitis in dairy cows.docx by Chen Yu (285930)

“…</p>Results<p>We found that S. chromogenes infection induced an increase in the percentage of γδ T cells and a decrease in CD4⁺CD8⁺ double-positive (DP) T cells within milk cells, while significantly elevating the percentage of γδ T cells expressing CD44. …”

Modelling Vulnerability and Range Shifts in Ant Communities Responding to Future Global Warming in Temperate Forests by Tae-Sung Kwon (3141306)

“…This altered the altitudinal pattern of species richness from a monotonic-decrease curve (common in temperate regions) to a bell-shaped curve (common in tropical regions). …”

TLR9 Mediates Remote Liver Injury following Severe Renal Ischemia Reperfusion by Pieter J. Bakker (794171)

“…In contrast, severe renal ischemia decreased animal well-being and survival in wild-type mice after respectively one or five days of reperfusion. …”

Vulnerability versus race/ethnicity for U.S. census tracts with moderate to very high WHP. by Ian P. Davies (5924831)

“…<p>Regression lines are calculated at the 5^th and 95^th vulnerability quantiles, respectively. …”

Impact of asthma severity on long-term asthma control by Shahid I. Sheikh (8610330)

<i>Camellia sinensis</i> L. alleviates OVA-induced allergic asthma through NF-κB and MMP-9 pathways by So-Won Pak (13235457)

“…Treatment with CSE remarkably decreased the airway hyperresponsiveness, OVA-specific immunoglobulin E level, and inflammatory cell and cytokine levels of mice, with a decrease in inflammatory cell infiltration and mucus production in lung tissue. …”

Auditory Cortex Basal Activity Modulates Cochlear Responses in Chinchillas by Alex León (167617)

“…Auditory cortex deactivation induced a transient reduction in ACEP amplitudes in fifteen animals (deactivation experiments) and a permanent reduction in five chinchillas (lesion experiments). …”

Understanding the Role of Keratins 8 and 18 in Neoplastic Potential of Breast Cancer Derived Cell Lines by Sapna V. Iyer (103975)

Greater volumes are required to reduce muscle performance in well-trained individuals by Filipe Dinato de Lima (5311142)

“…Trained subjects may require a protocol with greater volume to induce decrease of muscle performance. …”

Changes in Plant Species Richness Induce Functional Shifts in Soil Nematode Communities in Experimental Grassland by Nico Eisenhauer (174912)

“…Nematodes, the most abundant and diverse soil Metazoa, represent the complexity of soil food webs as they comprise all major trophic groups and allow calculation of a number of functional indices.</p> <h3>Methodology/Principal Findings</h3><p>We studied the functional composition of nematode communities three and five years after establishment of a grassland plant diversity experiment (Jena Experiment). …”

Supplementary Material for: Inflammation is more sensitive than cell proliferation in response to rapamycin treatment in polycystic kidney disease by Yang M. (3642451)

“…Both low and high-dose rapamycin treatment decreased macrophage infiltration and the expression of CFB, MCP-1, and TNF-α to a similar level. …”

Gender-Specific Effects of Genetic Variants within Th1 and Th17 Cell-Mediated Immune Response Genes on the Risk of Developing Rheumatoid Arthritis by Rafael Cáliz (452151)

“…Also five other SNPs showed significant associations only with one gender: women carrying the <i>MCP-1</i>_rs1024611G, <i>MCP-1</i>_rs13900T and <i>MCP-1</i>_rs4586C alleles had a decreased risk of RA (OR = 0.61, 95%CI 0.43–0.87; OR = 0.67, 95%CI 0.47–0.95 and OR = 0.60, 95%CI 0.42–0.86). …”

Image_2.JPEG by Yinhong Hu (4889329)

“…Together, our data indicate that impervious surfaces induced changes in bacterial community composition and decrease of bacterial diversity. Interactions between edaphic properties and heavy metals were here found to change the composition of the bacterial community and diversity across areas with different types of land cover, and soil properties play a more important role than heavy metals.…”