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OBJECTIVES: Prior studies have examined the association between timing of cardiac surgery after coronary angiography with risk of acute kidney injury, but this remains controversial. The purpose of this study was to investigate the association between interval from coronary angiography to urgent coronary artery bypass grafting with acute kidney injury, and to examine this possible effect in patients with preexisting kidney disease. METHODS: Patients from a single institution undergoing urgent, isolated coronary artery bypass grafting within 7 days of coronary angiography were included. Patients were subdivided by chronic kidney disease stage and angiography-to-surgery interval. Locally estimated scatterplot smoothing was used to evaluate the functional relationship of the probability of acute kidney injury and time interval. Adjusted odds ratios were calculated for each time interval group compared against the Day 0 to 1 interval group, controlling for multiple covariates. Analyses were repeated for each chronic kidney disease subgroup. RESULTS: A total of 2249 patients were included in this study. There were 271 (12.0%) patients with postoperative acute kidney injury. Plots demonstrated a decreasing risk of kidney injury from Day 0 to 1 to Day 3 following coronary angiography. Adjusted odds ratios also showed a significant decrease in risk of kidney injury on Day 3 compared with Day 0 to 1. Analyses repeated for each chronic kidney disease stage showed similar trends. CONCLUSIONS: For patients undergoing urgent coronary artery bypass grafting, there is a decreased risk of kidney injury in those having surgery on day 3 after coronary angiography compared with those having surgery on Day 0 to 1, regardless of preexisting kidney disease.
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Solar systems complexity, multiscale, and nonlinearity are governed by numerous and continuous changes where the sun magnetic fields can successfully represent many of these phenomena. Thus, nonlinear tools to study these challenging systems are required. The dynamic system recurrence approach has been successfully used to deal with this kind challenge in many scientific areas, objectively improving the recognition of state changes, randomness, and degrees of complexity that are not easily identified by traditional techniques. In this work we introduce the use of these techniques in photospheric magnetogram series. We employ a combination of recurrence quantification analysis with a preprocessing denoising wavelet analysis to characterize the complexity of the magnetic flux emergence in the solar photosphere. In particular, with the developed approach, we identify regions of evolving magnetic flux and where they present a large degree of complexity, i.e., where predictability is low, intermittence is high, and low organization is present.
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The aim of this study was to evaluate the use of the running anaerobic sprint test (RAST) as a predictor of anaerobic capacity, compare it to the maximal accumulated oxygen deficit (MAOD) and to compare the RAST's parameters with the parameters of 30-s all-out tethered running on a treadmill. 39 (17.0±1.4 years) soccer players participated in this study. The participants underwent an incremental test, 10 submaximal efforts [50-95% of velocity correspondent to VO(2MAX) (vVO(2MAX))] and one supramaximal effort at 110% of vVO(2MAX) for the determination of MAOD. Furthermore, the athletes performed the RAST. In the second stage the 30-s all-out tethered running was performed on a treadmill (30-s all-out), and compared with RAST. No significant correlation was observed between MAOD and RAST parameters. However, significant correlations were found between the power of the fifth effort (P5) of RAST with peak and mean power of 30-s all-out (r=0.73 and 0.50; p<0.05, respectively). In conclusion, the parameters from RAST do not have an association with MAOD, suggesting that this method should not be used to evaluate anaerobic capacity. Although the correlations between RAST parameters with 30-s all-out do reinforce the RAST as an evaluation method of anaerobic metabolism, such as anaerobic power.
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Umbral Anaerobio/fisiología , Prueba de Esfuerzo/métodos , Carrera/fisiología , Adolescente , Distribución de la Grasa Corporal , Índice de Masa Corporal , Humanos , Masculino , Oxígeno/fisiología , Consumo de Oxígeno/fisiología , Mecánica Respiratoria/fisiología , Fútbol/fisiologíaRESUMEN
Sex in fungi is regulated by highly dissimilar mating type loci named idiomorphs. The genus Fusarium harbours both sexual as well as esexual species and each appears to contain one or the other idiomorph. The structure of these loci is highly conserved, suggesting a cryptic sexual cycle in these socalled asexual species. Alternatively, idiomorphs could regulate additional hitherto unrecognized biological processes. Such processes could be elucidated by expression profiling using mutants disrupted in their mating type loci.
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Mesotheliomas are rarely reported in animal species. In this report, the occurrence of a diffuse, metastatic mesothelioma in a 6-year-old gray Arabian mare is described. The mare was presented on clinical examination with ascites, bilateral pleural effusion, and pleural roughening. Necropsy revealed abundant fluid in the abdominal and thoracic cavities. The surface of all organs was thick and fibrosed with multiple raised nodules and hemorrhages. Histology was characteristic of a generalized, biphasic mesothelioma with vascular and lymph nodes metastases. It is believed that the primary tumor developed in the pericardium and spread through lymphatics. In this report, calretinin was used as an immunohistochemical marker in the diagnosis of mesothelioma in an equine species for the first time.
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Enfermedades de los Caballos/metabolismo , Mesotelioma/veterinaria , Proteína G de Unión al Calcio S100/metabolismo , Neoplasias Torácicas/veterinaria , Animales , Calbindina 2 , Resultado Fatal , Femenino , Enfermedades de los Caballos/patología , Caballos , Inmunohistoquímica/métodos , Inmunohistoquímica/veterinaria , Mesotelioma/metabolismo , Neoplasias Torácicas/patologíaRESUMEN
The gene encoding green fluorescent protein (GFP) from Aequorea victoria was resynthesized to adapt its codon usage for expression in plants by increasing the frequency of codons with a C or a G in the third position from 32 to 60%. The strategy for constructing the synthetic gfp gene was based on the overlap extension PCR method using 12 long oligonucleotides as the starting material and as primers. The new gene contains 101 silent nucleotide changes compared to its wild-type counterpart used in this study. Several transgenic tobacco lines containing the wild-type gfp gene contained minute amounts of a smaller protein cross-reacting with GFP antiserum, whereas only one protein of the expected size was found in transgenics with the synthetic gfp gene. The smaller protein was probably encoded by a truncated gfp mRNA created by splicing of a 84 bp cryptic intron as detected by a reverse transcription-PCR technique. A comparison of GFP production in transgenics with the wild-type and the synthetic gfp gene under the control of the enhanced CaMV 35S promoter showed that the large-scale alterations in the gfp gene increased the frequency of high expressors in the transgenic population but hardly changed the maximum GFP concentrations. The latter phenomenon may be attributed to a reduced regeneration capacity of transformed cells with higher GFP concentrations.
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Codón/genética , Regulación de la Expresión Génica de las Plantas/genética , Proteínas Luminiscentes/genética , Nicotiana/genética , Plantas Modificadas Genéticamente/genética , Plantas Tóxicas , Secuencia de Aminoácidos , Animales , Composición de Base , Secuencia de Bases , ADN de Plantas/química , Genes/genética , Genes Sintéticos/genética , Proteínas Fluorescentes Verdes , Proteínas Luminiscentes/biosíntesis , Datos de Secuencia Molecular , Reacción en Cadena de la Polimerasa/métodos , Empalme del ARN , ARN Mensajero/análisis , ARN Mensajero/genética , ARN de Planta/análisis , ARN de Planta/genética , Escifozoos/genéticaRESUMEN
Homologous integration was studied in the common mushroom, Agaricus bisporus, using a plasmid (pHAG3-1) carrying the hygromycin-resistance gene and a 3.2-kb genomic fragment from A. bisporus. Homologous integration was found in 30-60% of the transformants obtained with pHAG3-1 linearized at three different positions within the homologous sequence, generating either blunt, 5'- or 3'-protruding ends. The genomic fragment was found to contain two homologous open reading frames in tandem, which showed 60% similarity to exo-beta-1,3-glucanases from Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Candida albicans. The level of the corresponding mRNA is low in the vegetative mycelium and relatively high in fruiting bodies. In the vegetative mycelium of a transformant with tandemly integrated pHAG3-1 plasmids at the homologous position, exoglucanase mRNA was strongly increased without any apparent effect on growth rate or morphology.
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Agaricus/genética , Transformación Genética , beta-Glucosidasa/genética , Agaricus/enzimología , Secuencia de Aminoácidos , Secuencia de Bases , Northern Blotting , ADN Recombinante , Vectores Genéticos , Glucano 1,3-beta-Glucosidasa , Datos de Secuencia MolecularAsunto(s)
Adolescente , Humanos , Femenino , Menarquia , Deportes , Brasil , Encuestas y CuestionariosRESUMEN
The lymphatic sump of Borrie is an important area of regional node metastasis in each lung. The sump area is of increased importance on the right side, since bilobectomy has been recommended to ensure complete removal of lymphatic disease in patients with lower or middle lobe carcinoma. The role of bronchoscopy in assessing lymphatic metastasis of bronchial carcinoma was investigated in 42 patients at the North Carolina Memorial Hospital. Because of the high incidence of associated lymphatic metastases, bilobectomy is indicated for right lower or middle lobe lesions observed at bronchoscopy. Simple lobectomy may be utilized when bronchoscopic findings are negative and when there is no involvement of the lymph nodes of the sump of Borrie at the time of operation. If there is gross nodal involvement of the lymphatic sump, pneumonectomy will be required.
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Broncoscopía , Carcinoma Broncogénico/diagnóstico , Neoplasias Pulmonares/diagnóstico , Metástasis Linfática/diagnóstico , Carcinoma Broncogénico/cirugía , Carcinoma de Células Pequeñas/diagnóstico , Carcinoma de Células Pequeñas/cirugía , Carcinoma de Células Escamosas/diagnóstico , Carcinoma de Células Escamosas/cirugía , Femenino , Humanos , Neoplasias Pulmonares/cirugía , Escisión del Ganglio Linfático , Masculino , Persona de Mediana Edad , NeumonectomíaRESUMEN
A retrospective study of 49 patients with chronic obstructive and chronic calcific pancreatitis is presented. All patients were operated upon and underwent either a partial pancreatectomy or internal drainage of the ductal system into a Roux-en-Y loop of jejunum. The criteria for selection of operation are discussed, and the follow-up of the two operative groups is given. In patients selected as described, internal drainage provided better relief of pain and was accomplished with a lower operative mortality and morbidity and with less postoperative pancreatic insufficiency.