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..CONCLUSIONS: The level of circulating CD34+KDR+ endothelial progenitor cells predicts the occurrence of cardiovascular events and death from cardiovascular causes and may help to identify patients at increased cardiovascular risk...

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..These results suggest that terminally differentiated beta-cells retain a significant proliferative capacity in vivo and cast doubt on the idea that adult stem cells have a significant role in beta-cell replenishment...

..Our results indicate that neurogenesis plays an important role in the regulation of affective states and could be the target of new treatments for anxiety disorders...

..To evaluate the speed of visual recovery in 16 consecutive patients with corneal endothelial dysfunction who received Descemet-stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty (DSAEK)...

..To characterize early structural gliotic reactions in retinal Müller cells, astrocytes, and microglia in experimentally induced diabetes...

..This progression of degeneration suggests a need to examine the RGC axon as a locus of pathology in glaucoma...

..These results indicate that newly generated neurons in the adult are not only affected by the formation of a hippocampal-dependent memory, but also participate in it...

..Their number in peripheral blood correlates with endothelial function and cardiovascular risk in humans. We explored whether uremia influences the number of EPCs...

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..These observations may have implications for circadian abnormalities seen in Parkinson's disease...

..It further suggests that de novo neurogenesis might serve as a compensatory mechanism contributing to the plastic control of energy balance in response to environmental and physiologic insults...

..This olfactory model can be employed in human research as a method to explore the neurogenesis effects of various pharmacologic treatments of neuropsychiatric disorders...

To evaluate the endothelial cell count change in eyes implanted with the iris-claw phakic Artisan lens for treatment of moderate to high myopia.

..A quantitative analysis showed that stochastic pulsing of individual cells below the threshold concentration of extracellular cAMP plays a critical role in the onset of collective behavior...

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..04 ng/mL but significantly increased at AMH 0.41-1.05 ng/mL, resulting in similarly low live-birth rates at all AMH levels ≤1.05 ng/mL and significantly improved live-birth rates at AMH ≥1.06 ng/mL...

..These findings also suggest the intriguing hypothesis that cat odor is processed by rats as a "pheromone-like" stimulus...

..Hence, although mice and flies differ in their mechanisms for germ cell specification, there seems to be conserved function for nanos proteins among invertebrates and vertebrates...

..Given the role of PSA-NCAM in neuronal plasticity, the present results indicate that, even during aging, many regions of the CNS may display neurite, spine or synaptic remodeling...

..In summary, the normal dermis contains typical immunostimulatory myeloid DCs identified by CD11c and BDCA-1, as well as an additional population of poorly stimulatory macrophages marked by CD163 and FXIIIA...

..These data suggest that the chemospecific populations of neurons in glomeruli form distinct subpopulations and that GAD isoforms are preferentially regulated in different neurochemical cell types...

..Moreover, we demonstrated that the rate of neurogenesis in the anterior AOB of the two sexes was significantly different...

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..These novel findings provide evidence to support the potential utility of DP IV inhibitors in the treatment of type 1 and possibly late-stage type 2 diabetes...

..We conclude that genetic factors clearly affect seizure development and related morphological changes in both standard laboratory strains and the selectively bred seizure-prone and seizure-resistant strains...

..The exact role of neutrophils in the pathogenesis of TB is poorly understood. Recent evidence suggests that neutrophils are not simply scavenging phagocytes in Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) infection...

..Importantly, mES cells expanded under stirred conditions using serum-free medium retained their pluripotency and the ability to commit to the neural lineage...

..We conclude that that 45% of a subgroup of children with autism suffers from low NK cell activity, and that low intracellular levels of glutathione, IL-2 and IL-15 may be responsible...

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..Mast cells have important roles in innate immunity and tissue remodeling but have remained poorly studied in inflammatory airway diseases like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)...

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..Our findings, taken together with previous behavioral studies, suggest that progenitor proliferation and differentiation in the amygdala may contribute to the beneficial aspects of environmental enrichment such as anxiolytic effects...

..Because adipose tissue is anatomically associated with lymph nodes, the secondary lymphoid organ, we hypothesized that fat tissue-derived factors may influence the cellularity of lymphoid tissue embedded in fat...

..Excess hair cells result from increased support cell proliferation. These results suggest a model where Notch signaling limits the number of hair cells produced during regeneration by regulating support cell proliferation...

..001) with AGD at e21.5, and postnatal d 25 and 90 in animals exposed in utero to vehicle or DBP (e13.5-e21.5). Thus, AGD may predict adult testis size but probably not through a direct relationship with SC number...

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..These data show that specific inflammatory pathways are chronically activated during epileptogenesis and they persist in chronic epileptic tissue, suggesting they may contribute to the etiopathogenesis of TLE...

..To test whether chronic memantine (MEM) treatment improves retinal function and prevents neurodegeneration and vascular changes in the retinas of streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetic rats...

..These studies document the feasibility of predifferentiating hESCs into functional OPCs and demonstrate their therapeutic potential at early time points after spinal cord injury...

..Furthermore, a 30% loss of volume, mostly due to a cortical volume loss, was recorded in the anterior lobe, which is predominantly involved in motor control...

..To characterize Brn3a expression in adult albino rat retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) in naïve animals and in animals subjected to complete intraorbital optic nerve transection (IONT) or crush (IONC)...

..Application of DNQX, an AMPA antagonist, blocked all spontaneous activity, suggesting that the activity is excitatory and mediated through glutamate receptors...

..They provide insight into the impact of dopaminergic dysfunction on gastrointestinal motility and a benchmark for assessment of other PD model systems...

..There was no hyperalgesia. Enhanced plasticity in the spinal cord, therefore, allows the CNS to compensate for inaccurate motor and sensory re-innervation of the periphery, and may be a useful adjunct therapy to peripheral nerve repair...

..Our results provide evidence of the similarity with Rett syndrome brains in some respects and suggest that MeCP2/Mecp2 plays some role in synaptogenesis...

..These results reveal the origins of new neurons in the adult hippocampus...

..Our findings will be important in developing therapeutic intervention to enhance endogenous neurogenesis after brain injury...

..We investigated causality between changes in hippocampal neurogenesis and the effects of both chronic stress and chronic ADs...

..These results suggest that individual dopaminergic axons in D2(-/-) mice have reached maximal arbor size. We conclude that the D2 receptor may play a role in modulating the extent of the terminal arbor of SNpc neurons...

..The data support the pharmacotherapeutic potential of PEDF as a neuroprotectant in human motor neuron degeneration...

..These results suggest that although adult newborn neurons contribute to contextual fear memory, they may not be involved in the extinction or erasure of hippocampus-dependent contextual fear memory...

..Epo appears to physiologically regulate EPC mobilization in patients with ischemic heart disease. Thus, Epo serum levels may help in identifying patients with impaired EPC recruitment capacity...

..Thus, in the absence of caudalizing signals, floating aggregates of ES cells generate naive telencephalic precursors that acquire subregional identities by responding to extracellular patterning signals...

..These characteristics establish the advantages of design-based stereologic methods in quantitative neuromorphology...

..We studied the presence and the correlation of tertiary lymphoid structures with clinical outcome in non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), as the prognostic value of these structures in patients with cancer had not yet been established...

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..Lack of overlap with the lateral nociceptive system is notable and suggests that the medial and lateral nociceptive systems perform separate and non-overlapping functions...

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..This may have consequences for myelination under conditions in which microglial activation and cerebral infection are both implicated. , Inc...

..These results indicate that microglia/macrophage activation is an important process for remyelination and further support the concept that suppression of inflammatory response may impair remyelination...

..Thus, the JNK pathway is involved in NMDA-mediated retinal excitotoxicity and JNK inhibition by D-JNKI-1 provides strong neuroprotection as shown morphologically, biochemically and physiologically...

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..These results strongly suggest that the in vivo cytotoxicity of CD8(+) T-cell responses in persistent infection is modulated via the number of CTLs rather than their individual functionality...

..The purpose of this in vivo study was to evaluate the proliferative response of immunologic cells during the acute phase after optic nerve (ON) lesion in the neural retina and the ciliary body (CB) in the adult mouse...

..The average accuracy based on 50,000 resamplings decreased to 0.81. Use of direct information on CM improved the accuracy (uncorrected for errors in correlations) only slightly, to 0.92...

..We aimed to enumerate and functionally characterize EPCs in subjects with MetS in comparison to healthy controls...

..Subsequently, vasogenic edema results in extensive astroglial loss that may aggravate vasogenic edema...

..This model system provides strong support for the concept that podocyte depletion could be a major mechanism driving glomerulosclerosis and progressive loss of renal function in human glomerular diseases...

..Our results provide novel mechanistic insight into the role of p38alpha as a sensor of cell density, which induces confluent cell cycle arrest via the Spry2-EGFR-p27(Kip1) network...

..Here, we examined the consequences of over-expression for the eye and its axonal connections...

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..These findings implicate type 2 NKT cells and IL-9 as central regulators that function in the same pathway mediating the Ag-induced increase in numbers of pulmonary MCp...

..These two genetic models therefore offer new opportunities for investigating the molecular mechanisms of selective degeneration and regeneration of rods and cones...

..In this paper, a unified view of the morphogenetic process is provided in terms of physical mechanisms and mathematical modeling...

..The software driving our DHM system is equipped with a time-lapse ability that enables the 3-D trajectories of living cells to be reconstituted and quantitatively analyzed...

..These findings may help elucidate the mechanisms of HPC trafficking during development and adult life...

..6%-chondroitin sulfate 4.0%) with those of the soft-shell technique using Viscoat (sodium hyaluronate 3.0%-chondroitin sulfate 4.0%) and Provisc (sodium hyaluronate 1.0%) in phacoemulsification...

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..Thus the TfR1 promoter contains a functional 'cell density response element' (CDRE)...

..The present study was designed to investigate functional and morphological covariates of disease severity in patients with IgA nephropathy...

..Omission of the medium exchange before infection clearly simplified the process and reduced sterility risks due to washing steps...

..To evaluate the clinical value of basal anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) measurements compared with other available determinants, apart from chronologic age, in the prediction of ovarian response to gonadotrophin stimulation...

..Akt may represent an important nodal target for therapy in ischemic and other heart disease...

..Simulation studies indicate that a mathematical model that neglects the delay between virus infection and the release of new virions gives similar results with respect to overall virus dynamics compared with a time delayed model...

..On the basis of our findings that human type IV collagen binds BMP4, we predict that this role of type IV collagens will be conserved...

..These findings suggest that infection, depletion, and dysfunction of dendritic cells may contribute to the immunosuppression associated with HIV-1 disease...

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..DC numbers as well as the impaired ability to present antigen in vivo, were corrected by reconstituting these animals with normal T lymphocytes, suggesting that T cells are crucial for normal DC maturation and function in vivo...

..These results suggest that EPC telomere shortening via increased oxidative DNA damage may play an important role in the pathogenesis of CAD. In addition, MS may be related to increased oxidative DNA damage and EPC telomere shortening...

..LP-induced OHT results in a crush-like injury to ON axons leading to the anterograde and protracted retrograde degeneration of the intraocular axons and RGCs...

..Since a large majority of spontaneous miscarriages are associated with aneuploidy, one can speculate that DHEA supplementation may also reduce miscarriage rates...

..In the present study, the authors examined the ability of one of them, 29D7, to elicit RGC survival and neurite growth both in culture and in vivo...

..Myelination seems to recover by postnatal day 14, so LIF is not necessary for the completion of myelination during postnatal development...

..The results indicate that, when preparing cultures of human MSCs, it is necessary to compromise between conditions that provide the highest overall yields and those that provide the highest content of early progenitor cells...

..To compute two new quantitative parameters that directly reflect the level of polymegethism and pleomorphism using data provided by a non-contact specular microscope...

..These data indicate that during viral infection with HIV, accessory cell dependent NK function in the periphery is impaired. This impairment may be related to the identified MDC numerical defect...

..Similar mechanisms may be involved in the increased numbers of dopaminergic neurons observed in the olfactory bulbs of PD patients and their functional olfactory deficits...

..potential production and economic benefits of adopting and implementing efficient practices to control somatic cell count (SCC), and whether providing them with additional information on projected economic losses on a regular basis ..

..Furthermore, beyond total CD4+ T-cell count, the nature of the immune deficits in HIV+ women which effect HPV are poorly understood...

..Aim 2 will determine the association between intestinal dysfunction and response to HAART as measured by CD4 cell count and BMI at baseline, 6 and 12 months and viral load and viral resistance mutation at baseline and 12 months in a ..

..The primary outcome measure is the change in the CD4+T cell count. Secondary outcomes include changes in CD4+ T cell subsets, markers of inflammation, markers of bone and calcium ..

..by the physical flow of cells in the capillaries past a noninvasive optical detector to quantitate target cell count. In Phase I, we construct a fiber-based noninvasive cell detector, optionally including confocal imaging/spatial-..

..reconstitution will be evaluated in conjunction with viral suppression to <400 copies/ml and retention of CD4 cell count above baseline at the final observation when both intermittent and continuous study arms are on therapy...

..would be detectable far before metastases occurs - for example, a 3 mm tumor contains only 2 percent of the cell count of an 11 mm lesion, and a 5 mm lesion contains only 9 percent of the cell count...

..Laboratory measures include CD40 ligand, C-reactive protein, D-dimer, blood cell count and differential...

..Laboratory measures include CD40 ligand, C-reactive protein, D-dimer, blood cell count and differential...

..interventions: 1) antiretroviral therapy (ART) for the HIV infected partners at threshold of <500 CD4 cell count, 2) couple-focused counseling for decreasing sexual risk behavior and enhancing adherence with ART, and 3) ..

..pneumoniae) is associated with stroke risk, and that elevated white blood cell count and soluble tumor necrosis factor receptor levels are associated with carotid atherosclerosis...

..These relationships will be examined in adults with advanced HIV infection (as indicated by a pre-HAART CD4 + T cell count <100 cells/mm3) and active TB disease...

..These relationships will be examined in adults with advanced HIV infection (as indicated by a pre-HAART CD4 + T cell count <100 cells/mm3) and active TB disease...

..These relationships will be examined in adults with advanced HIV infection (as indicated by a pre-HAART CD4 + T cell count < 100 cells/mm3) and active TB disease...

..Pretreatment blood samples will be analyzed for CD4 and CD8 cell counts, white blood cell count with differential, p24 antigen level, beta-2 microglobulin level, and erythrocyte sedimentation rate...

..of the standard antiretroviral monitoring strategy based on VL (VL-S), with a simpler strategy based on CD4+ cell count (CD4-S)...

..performance; minor cognitive-motor disorder (MCMD)] and pathophysiological indices (plasma HIV-1 RNA load; CD4 cell count; cytotoxic T lymphocyte count)...

..We will compare rates of CD4+ cell count decline over 2 years between TB patients who are randomized to either immediate, punctuated ARV therapy given ..

..of age, radiographic demonstration of thymic tissue was significantly associated with both a higher CD4+ T cell count and a higher percentage and absolute number of circulating naive (CD45RA+CD62L+) CD4+ T cells...