471 resultados para Katajala-Peltomaa, Sari


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In this study, we compared the transport of newly synthesized cholesterol with that of influenza virus hemagglutinin (HA) from the endoplasmic reticulum to the plasma membrane. The arrival of cholesterol on the cell surface was monitored by cyclodextrin removal, and HA transport was monitored by surface trypsinization and endoglycosidase H digestion. We found that disassembly of the Golgi complex by brefeldin A treatment resulted in partial inhibition of cholesterol transport while completely blocking HA transport. Further, microtubule depolymerization by nocodazole inhibited cholesterol and HA transport to a similar extent. When the partitioning of cholesterol into lipid rafts was analyzed, we found that newly synthesized cholesterol began to associate with low-density detergent-resistant membranes rapidly after synthesis, before it was detectable on the cell surface, and its raft association increased further upon chasing. When cholesterol transport was blocked by using 15°C incubation, the association of newly synthesized cholesterol with low-density detergent-insoluble membranes was decreased and cholesterol accumulated in a fraction with intermediate density. Our results provide evidence for the partial contribution of the Golgi complex to the transport of newly synthesized cholesterol to the cell surface and suggest that detergent-resistant membranes are involved in the process.

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In normal rats and mice, immunostaining with specific antibodies revealed that nuclei of most prostatic epithelial cells harbor estrogen receptor β (ERβ). In rat ventral prostate, 530- and 549-aa isoforms of the receptor were identified. These sediment in the 4S region of low-salt sucrose gradients, indicating that prostatic ERβ does not contain the same protein chaperones that are associated with ERα. Estradiol (E2) binding and ERβ immunoreactivity coincide on the gradient, with no indication of ERα. In prostates from mice in which the ERβ gene has been inactivated (BERKO), androgen receptor (AR) levels are elevated, and the tissue contains multiple hyperplastic foci. Most epithelial cells express the proliferation antigen Ki-67. In contrast, prostatic epithelium from wild-type littermates is single layered with no hyperplasia, and very few cells express Ki-67. Rat ventral prostate contains an estrogenic component, which comigrates on HPLC with the testosterone metabolite 5α-androstane-3β,17β-diol (3βAdiol). This compound, which competes with E2 for binding to ERβ and elicits an estrogenic response in the aorta but not in the pituitary, decreases the AR content in prostates of wild-type mice but does not affect the elevated levels seen in ERβ knockout (BERKO) mice. Thus ERβ, probably as a complex with 3βAdiol, is involved in regulating the AR content of the rodent prostate and in restraining epithelial growth. These findings suggest that ligands specific for ERβ may be useful in the prevention and/or clinical management of prostatic hyperplasia and neoplasia.

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On se propose, à travers cette étude de cartographier la végétation halo résistante et halophile de deux zones de l’Algérie occidentale l’une au Nord (région de Hammam Boughrara) et l’autre au Sud (région du Chott El-Gharbi). Une comparaison de ces deux zones d’un point de vue physionomique a été menée, afin de mettre en évidence la diversité phytoécologique de ces peuplements. Les données bioclimatiques montrent que les zones d’étude sont toutes deux caractérisées par une longue période de sécheresse estivale variant de 6 à 7 mois. D’un autre côté, l’approche édaphique montre une texture limono-sableuse à sableuse aussi bien au Nord qu’au Sud. Par contre la salinité est nettement plus accentuée au Sud atteignant 1350 μ.S/cm. La carte physionomique de la végétation de la zone nord fait apparaitre la dominance de formations pures à Tamarix gallica L. (27,13%) ou à Atriplex halimus L. (37,99%), et de formations en mosaïques, où les deux genres se trouvent mêlés (16,87%). Au niveau de la zone sud deux grandes unités physionomiques se distinguent: les groupements à Salsola vermiculata L. (24 %) et les groupements à Lygeum spartum L. (6 %). Les groupements à Artemisia herba– alba Asso. occupent par contre de petites surfaces (2 %) de qualité moyenne à médiocre. Les peuplements à Arthrocnemum glaucum (Del.) Ung. quant à eux, se répartissent tout autour de la daya du Chott El-Gharbi, où la salinité est à son maximum, en constituant un tapis végétal assez dense (1 %).

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Background To evaluate the 3-year clinical outcomes after toric implantable collamer lens (ICL) implantation for the management of moderate to high myopic astigmatism. Methods Thirty-four eyes of 20 patients who underwent toric ICL implantation were reviewed. All eyes completed 3-year follow-up. Uncorrected (UDVA) and corrected (CDVA) distance LogMAR visual acuities, refraction, endothelial cell density (ECD), and surgical complications were evaluated. Vectorial analysis of astigmatic correction was also done. Results A significant improvement in UDVA, CDVA, manifest spherical and cylindrical refraction was observed at 1 week and remained stable after 3 years. Twenty-six eyes (76.5 %) gained lines of CDVA, and two eyes (5.9 %) showed a loss of 1 line of CDVA. The spherical equivalent (SE) was within ±0.50 D of emmetropia in 18 eyes (52.9 %) and within ±1.00 D in 28 eyes (82.4 %). Differences between target-induced astigmatism (TIA) and surgically-induced astigmatism (SIA) were statistically significant (p < 0.01), and a trend to undercorrection of the refractive astigmatism was present after 3 years. The magnitude of flattening effect (FE) was found to be significantly lower than the magnitude of TIA (p < 0.01). The magnitude of the torque vector was always positive, with a value below 0.50 D in all cases. No vision-threatening complications were observed during the follow-up. Conclusion Toric ICL implantation is an effective and safe surgical option that provides a relatively predictable and stable refractive correction of myopic astigmatism. Further improvements are needed to minimize the degree of undercorrection.

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Purpose: To compare outcomes of big-bubble deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty (DALK) and penetrating keratoplasty (PK) for macular corneal dystrophy. Design: Prospective, randomized, interventional case series. Methods: Setting: Single hospital. Patients: Eighty-two eyes of 54 patients requiring keratoplasty for the treatment of macular corneal dystrophy without endothelial involvement were included. Main outcome measures: Operative complications, uncorrected visual acuity, best-corrected visual acuity, contrast sensitivity function, higher-order aberrations, and endothelial cell density were evaluated. Results: The DALK and PK group consisted of 35 and 41 eyes, respectively. Best-corrected visual acuity after surgery was 20/40 or better 68.5% and 70.7% of the eyes in the DALK and PK groups, respectively (P > .05). No statistically significant differences between groups were found in contrast sensitivity function with and without glare for any spatial frequency (P > .05). Significantly higher levels of higher-order aberrations were found in the DALK group (P < .01). In both groups, a progressive and statistically significant reduction in endothelial cell density was found (P < .01). At the last follow-up, the mean endothelial cell loss was 18.1% and 26.9% in DALK and PK groups, respectively (P = .03). Graft rejection episodes were seen in 5 eyes (12.1%) in the PK group, and regrafting was necessary in 3 eyes (7.3%). Recurrence of the disease was documented in 5.7% and 4.8% of the eyes in the DALK and PK groups, respectively. Conclusions: Deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty with the big-bubble technique provided comparable visual and optical results as PK and resulted in less endothelial damage, as well as eliminating endothelial rejection in macular corneal dystrophy. Deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty surgery is a viable option for macular corneal dystrophy without endothelial involvement.

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OBJECTIVES Secretoneurin is produced in neuroendocrine cells, and the myocardium and circulating secretoneurin levels provide incremental prognostic information to established risk indices in cardiovascular disease. As myocardial dysfunction contributes to poor outcome in critically ill patients, we wanted to assess the prognostic value of secretoneurin in two cohorts of critically ill patients with infections. DESIGN Two prospective, observational studies. SETTING Twenty-four and twenty-five ICUs in Finland. PATIENTS A total of 232 patients with severe sepsis (cohort #1) and 94 patients with infections and respiratory failure (cohort #2). INTERVENTIONS None. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS We measured secretoneurin levels by radioimmunoassay in samples obtained early after ICU admission and compared secretoneurin with other risk indices. In patients with severe sepsis, admission secretoneurin levels (logarithmically transformed) were associated with hospital mortality (odds ratio, 3.17 [95% CI, 1.12-9.00]; p = 0.030) and shock during the hospitalization (odds ratio, 2.17 [1.06-4.46]; p = 0.034) in analyses that adjusted for other risk factors available on ICU admission. Adding secretoneurin levels to age, which was also associated with hospital mortality in the multivariate model, improved the risk prediction as assessed by the category-free net reclassification index: 0.35 (95% CI, 0.06-0.64) (p = 0.02). In contrast, N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide levels were not associated with mortality in the multivariate model that included secretoneurin measurements, and N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide did not improve patient classification on top of age. Secretoneurin levels were also associated with hospital mortality after adjusting for other risk factors and improved patient classification in cohort #2. In both cohorts, the optimal cutoff for secretoneurin levels at ICU admission to predict hospital mortality was ≈ 175 pmol/L, and higher levels were associated with mortality also when adjusting for Simplified Acute Physiology Score II and Sequential Organ Failure Assessment scores. CONCLUSIONS Secretoneurin levels provide incremental information to established risk indices for the prediction of mortality and shock in critically ill patients with severe infections.

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"Prilozhenïe k zhurnalu 'Niva' na 1901 g."

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We present optical, near-IR, and radio follow-up of 16 Swift bursts, including our discovery of nine afterglows and a redshift determination for three. These observations, supplemented by data from the literature, provide an afterglow recovery rate of 52% in the optical/near-IR, much higher than in previous missions (BeppoSAX, HETE-2, INTEGRAL, and IPN). The optical/near-IR afterglows of Swift events are on average 1.8 mag fainter at t = 12 hr than those of previous missions. The X-ray afterglows are similarly fainter than those of pre-Swift bursts. In the radio the limiting factor is the VLA threshold, and the detection rate for Swift bursts is similar to that for past missions. The redshift distribution of pre-Swift bursts peaked at z similar to 1, whereas the six Swift bursts with measured redshifts are distributed evenly between 0.7 and 3.2. From these results we conclude that ( 1) the pre-Swift distributions were biased in favor of bright events and low-redshift events, ( 2) the higher sensitivity and accurate positions of Swift result in a better representation of the true burst redshift and brightness distributions ( which are higher and dimmer, respectively), and (3) similar to 10% of the bursts are optically dark, as a result of a high redshift and/or dust extinction. We remark that the apparent lack of low-redshift, low-luminosity Swift bursts and the lower event rate than prelaunch estimates ( 90 vs. 150 per year) are the result of a threshold that is similar to that of BATSE. In view of these inferences, afterglow observers may find it advisable to make significant changes in follow-up strategies of Swift events. The faintness of the afterglows means that large telescopes should be employed as soon as the burst is localized. Sensitive observations in RIz and near-IR bands will be needed to discriminate between a typical z similar to 2 burst with modest extinction and a high-redshift event. Radio observations will be profitable for a small fraction (similar to 10%) of events. Finally, we suggest that a search for bright host galaxies in untriggered BAT localizations may increase the chance of finding nearby low-luminosity GRBs.

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Introducción: En los pacientes coinfectados VIH/VHC, la influencia del tratamiento antirretroviral sobre la respuesta al tratamiento de la hepatitis C con interferón pegilado y ribavirina no se conoce bien. El objetivo de este estudio es investigar el efecto del tratamiento antirretroviral sobre la respuesta al tratamiento en los pacientes coinfectados. Métodos: Los pacientes se seleccionaron de dos cohortes de pacientes coinfectados por VIH y VHC de GESIDA y tratados con interferón pegilado y ribavirina entre 2001 y 2007. La respuesta viral sostenida se definió como una carga viral indetectable a las 24 semanas de haber finalizado el tratamiento. Se utilizaron métodos de regresión logística para estudiar posibles asociaciones entre la ausencia de respuesta y las características basales, incluyendo los fármacos antirretrovirales acompañantes. Resultados: Se incluyeron 1701 pacientes: el 63% tenía el genotipo 1 o 4 del VHC y el 88% estaba tomando TARGA. Los factores asociados de forma independiente con mayor probabilidad de RVS fueron el genotipo 2 o 3, la concentración de ARN-VHC<500000 UI/ml y la categoría clínica A o B. Se realizó un análisis ajustado a los factores pronósticos y la dosis de ribavirina /kg de peso, obteniendo una OR ajustada de RVS en los pacientes sin TARGA de 1,31 (IC95% 0,91-1,88, p=0,144). Tomando la pauta de TDF+FTC/3TC como referencia, se vio que solamente el AZT se asoció a una menor probabilidad de RVS, con una OR ajustada de RVS de 0,65 (IC95% 0,46-0,93, p=0,017). Conclusiones: El hecho de estar recibiendo TAR no tuvo ningún efecto sobre la respuesta al tratamiento de la hepatitis C. El único fármaco antirretroviral que se asoció de forma significativa con menor probabilidad de RVS fue el AZT.

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With the development of information technology, the theory and methodology of complex network has been introduced to the language research, which transforms the system of language in a complex networks composed of nodes and edges for the quantitative analysis about the language structure. The development of dependency grammar provides theoretical support for the construction of a treebank corpus, making possible a statistic analysis of complex networks. This paper introduces the theory and methodology of the complex network and builds dependency syntactic networks based on the treebank of speeches from the EEE-4 oral test. According to the analysis of the overall characteristics of the networks, including the number of edges, the number of the nodes, the average degree, the average path length, the network centrality and the degree distribution, it aims to find in the networks potential difference and similarity between various grades of speaking performance. Through clustering analysis, this research intends to prove the network parameters’ discriminating feature and provide potential reference for scoring speaking performance.

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Suunnittelualue käsittää noin 15 kilometrin pituisen osuuden valtatien 12 Alasjärven eritasoliittymästä Tampereelta Huutijärven eritasoliittymään Kangasalle. Valtatie parannetaan nykyiselle paikalleen. Valtatie 12 on Suomen tärkeimpiä poikittaisia yhteyksiä, ja sillä on merkittävä rooli Tampereen seudulle niin valtakunnallisella, seudullisella kuin myös paikallisella tasolla. Suunnittelukohteelle laaditaan maantielain mukainen yleissuunnitelma. Siinä määritetään tien likimääräinen sijainti ja tilantarve sekä suhde nykyiseen ja tulevaan maankäyttöön, tekniset ja liikenteelliset perusratkaisut, hankkeen vaikutukset ja ympäristöhaittojen torjumisen periaatteet. Tässä ympäristövaikutusten arvioinnin ohjelmassa tehtävänä on arvioida valtatien 12 välin Alasjärvi – Huutijärvi parantamisen aiheuttamat ympäristövaikutukset YVA-lain ja -asetuksen edellyttämällä tavalla ja tarkkuudella. Alueen asukkailla ja muilla intressiryhmillä on mahdollisuus osallistua suunnitteluun ja vaikutusten arviointiin. Näkemyksiä hankkeesta ja sen vaihtoehdoista kerätään koko suunnittelun ajan. Hankkeesta tiedotetaan asukkaille ja muille sidosryhmille tiedotteiden, postituslistan sekä internetin välityksellä.

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Tutkimuksen tarkoituksena oli kartoittaa alakoulujen rehtoreiden näkemyksiä luokan-opettajan asiantuntijuudesta ja muodollisen kelpoisuuden merkityksestä. Tarkoituksena oli saada ensinnäkin käsitystä elementeistä, joista luokanopettajan asiantuntijuuden voi-daan katsoa rakentuvan. Asiantuntijuuden osana omaan tarkasteluunsa nostettiin koulu-tus, joka nähtiin tärkeäksi tekijäksi jo pelkästään siitä syystä, että se on ainoa tie hankkia muodollinen kelpoisuus luokanopettajan ammattiin. Tutkimuksessa kartoitettiin lisäksi, miten luokanopettajan työtä ja asiantuntijuuden toteutumista seurataan käytännössä ja mitkä asiat näyttäytyvät kehittämisen alueita luokanopettajan asiantuntijuudessa. Tutkimus toteutettiin laadullisena tutkimuksena, jossa haastateltiin kahdeksaa alakoulun rehtoria neljällä eri paikkakunnalla Uudellamaalla ja Kanta-Hämeessä. Alakoulujen rehtoreiden valikoituminen tutkimushenkilöiksi perustui heidän luokanopettajan koulu-tustaustaansa sekä heidän asemaansa alakoulussa toimivien luokanopettajien esimiehinä. Näillä perusteilla rehtoreiden arvioitiin kykenevän moniulotteiseen ja perusteltuun luokanopettajan asiantuntijuuden arviointiin. Tulosten laajin kokonaisuus muodostui luokanopettajan asiantuntijuuden elementeistä, joista muodostettiin neljä yläluokkaa. Niiden puitteissa asiantuntijuutta tarkasteltiin op-pilas−opettaja-suhteessa, kollegiaalisina taitoina, jaetun ja uuden tiedon rakentamisena sekä persoonan merkityksen korostumisena. Siinä missä asiantuntijuuden oppi-las−opettaja-suhteessa katsottiin edustavan varsin perinteisellä tavalla opettajan asian-tuntijuutta, nähtiin kollegiaalisen toiminnan ja sen myötä rakentuvan jaetun ja uutta tie-toa luovan asiantuntijuuden edustavan osaltaan kehittymässä ja kehitettävänä olevaa luokanopettajan asiantuntijuutta. Kollegiaalisiin valmiuksiin liittyen erityisesti opetuk-sellinen yhteistyö ja sen kehittäminen vaikuttivat olevan ajankohtaisia koulussa. Muo-dollisen kelpoisuuden merkityksen tarkastelussa voitiin puolestaan erottaa luokanopetta-jan, työyhteisön, oppilaan ja arvostuksen näkökulmat. Kelpoisuustarkastelun yhteydessä ristiriitaa nähtiin siinä, että rehtorit esittivät poikkeuksetta kannattavansa luokanopetta-jan koulutuksen pitämistä ylempänä korkeakoulututkintona, mutta toisaalta luokanopet-tajan työtä katsottiin voitavan tehdä menestyksekkäästi ilman koulutuksen tuottamaa muodollista kelpoisuutta. Kartoitettaessa kehittämisen alueita luokanopettajan asiantun-tijuudessa nousi selvimmin esiin erityispedagoginen osaaminen. Parantamista kaipaavan osaamisen tunnistamisen voi katsoa antavan koulutuksen järjestäjille hyödyllistä tietoa koulutuksen suunnittelua varten. Luokanopettajan asiantuntijuuden tarkastelu erityispe-dagogisen osaamisen näkökulmasta voidaan tämän tutkimuksen perusteella nähdä myös kiinnostavana jatkotutkimuksen aiheena.