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Open AccessFirst-line surgery in prolactinomas: lessons from a long-term follow-up study in a tertiary referral center
Although consensus guidelines recommend dopamine agonists (DAs) as the first-line approach in prolactinomas, some patients may opt instead for upfront surgery, with the goal of minimizing the need for continua...
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Coupled Modeling of Sedimentary Basin and Geomechanics: A Modified Drucker–Prager Cap Model to Describe Rock Compaction in Tectonic Context
The aim of basin modeling is to characterise fluids and rocks in a basin considering its history and data partly describing its present state. In usual basin simulators, only a simplified description of geomec...
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Open AccessCauses of mortality and morbidity in free-ranging mustelids in Switzerland: necropsy data from over 50 years of general health surveillance
Although mustelids occur worldwide and include a wide range of species, little is known about the diseases affecting them. Mustelids have regularly been submitted for post mortem investigation in the framework...
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Open AccessRelation of intraoperative temperature to postoperative mortality in open colon surgery—an analysis of two randomized controlled trials
The open surgical wound is exposed to cold and dry ambient air resulting in heat loss mainly through radiation and convection. This cools the wound and promotes local vasoconstriction and hypoxia. Carbon dioxi...
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The characterization and effects of microstructure on the appearance of platelet–polymer composite coatings
Although color and appearance have a psychological component, they are material properties that can be of considerable significance and economic importance to designers. Paint systems are materials that have a...
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A two-scale poromechanical model for cohesive rocks
This paper presents a computational homogenization approach in the framework of poromechanics. A fully coupled hydromechanics problem is formulated at the macroscopic scale. The constitutive equations are repl...
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Design of Luminescent Polymers for Leds
A 2, 3-dibutoxy-1, 4-phenylenevinylene comonomer was incorporated into a distyrylbenzene derivative 11. Novel 1, 2-disubstituted-3, 6-dibromobenzene comonomers 15 and 18 were prepared by directed metallation. ...
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Accessibility and Interaction of Surface OH Groups in Microporous and Mesoporous Catalysts Applied for Vapor-Phase Beckmann Rearrangement of Oximes
1H and 2H MAS NMR spectroscopy were utilized for investigating the interaction of surface complexes upon adsorption of cyclohexanone and cyclododecanone oxime on MFI-type zeolites and [Al]SBA-15. Signals of hydro...
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Interactions of Atmospheric Deposition with Coniferous Canopies in Estonia
Throughfall and open field bulk precipitation were measured at three coniferous sites during 1995–2002 in the framework of ICP Integrated Monitoring and at five coniferous sites during 1996–2002 in the framewo...
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Survival of Clostridium perfringensDuring Simulated Transport and Stability of Some Plasmid-borne Toxin Genes under Aerobic Conditions
Clostridium perfringens is a pathogen of great concern in veterinary medicine, because it causes enteric diseases and different types of toxaemias in domesticated animals. It is important that bacteria in tissue ...
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Objective measurement of hyperactivity, impulsivity, and inattention in children with hyperkinetic disorders before and after treatment with methylphenidate
The purpose of this study was to investigate whether values of the respective parameters of the OPTAx test dependently differ due to the medication with methylphenidate (MPH) in children with hyperkinetic diso...
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Generation and Control of Oblique Tollmien-Schlichting Waves in a Blasius Boundary Layer
Within the framework of the transition program of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), the Institute for Aerospace Engineering (ILR) of the Dresden University of Technology (TUD) has investigated instabi...
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In Vitro Glycoxidation of Insoluble Fibrous Type I Collagen: Solubilization and Advanced Glycation End Products
The deleterious effects of glycoxidation are dependent on the half-life of proteins. Collagen, the main component of extracellular matrices, is a long live protein and thus may be sensitive to the glycoxidatio...
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Changes in Glycation of Fibrous Type I Collagen During Long-Term In Vitro Incubation with Glucose
The course of glycation of calf skin fibrous type I collagen was monitored in vitro under physiological conditions during an 8-week incubation period in order to take into account the long half-life of this prote...
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Production of matrix metalloproteinase 2 in fibroblast reaction to mechanical stress in a collagen gel
The reaction of fibroblasts to mechanical forces generated by fibroblasts themselves in anchored collagen lattices was studied. Fibroblasts were cast in collagen gels. Free retracted gels (RG) were compared w...
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Modulation of CD4 Expression on Helper T Lymphocytes and U937 Cells by Ganglioside GM3 and Its Derivatives
Ganglioside GM3 and a variety of chemically modified derivatives (e.g. lyso-GM3, de-N- acetyl-GM3, GM3-amides) have been assayed for their potential upon CD4 modulation on human peripheral blood lymphocytes an...
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Experimental Investigation on the Behaviour of Disturbances Emitted from a Point Source in a Laminar Boundary Layer
Within the framework of the DFG transition programme, the Institute for Aerospace Engineering (ILR) of the Dresden University of Technology (TUD) investigates the spreading of disturbances downstream of a poin...
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Monitoring of ascorbate at a constant rate in cell culture: Effect on cell growth
Ascorbic acid (vitamin C) is a primary antioxidant for cells. But, ascorbic acid added to culture medium is not readily available to cells in culture, because it is unstable in aqueous media. We determined the...
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The inositol 5-phosphatase SHIP is expressed as 145 and 135 kDa proteins in blood and bone marrow cells in vivo, whereas carboxyl-truncated forms of SHIP are generated by proteolytic cleavage in vitro
The inositol polyphosphate 5-phosphatase SHIP plays an important role in negative signalling in B cells and mast cells and in the down-regulation of cytokine receptor-mediated signals in myeloid cells. SHIP is...
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Experimental Study of Texture and Self-Polarization of Sol-Gel Derived PZT Thin Films
Pb(Zr,Ti)O3 (PZT) thin films have been reported to show a significant polarization after deposition without any previous poling treatment which is referred to as self-polarization. This effect has also been found...
