Expression of human β-defensin-3 in gingival epithelia

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Hyphal invasion of Candida albicans inhibits human beta-defensins expression

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Carbonated Drinks Impact Follicle Development, Expression of Ovarian FSHR and Serum Caspase-3 in Mice

Objectives: The present study aimed to assess the effects of Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola on the development of ovaries and follicles, and on the reproduction of animals

Efficiency of Two Sample Tests via the t-Mean Survival Time for Analyzing Event Time Observations

In comparing two treatments with the event time observations, the hazard ratio (HR) estimate is routinely used to quantify the treatment difference. However, this model dependent estimate may be difficult to interpret clinically especially when the proportional hazards (PH) assumption is violated. An alternative estimation procedure for treatment efficacy based on the restricted means survival time or t-year mean survival time (t-MST) has been discussed extensively in the statistical and clinical literature. On the other hand, a statistical test 1 via the HR or its asymptotically equivalent counterpart, the logrank test, is asymptotically distribution-free. In this paper, we assess the relative efficiency of the hazard ratio and t-MST tests with respect to the statistical power using various PH and non-PH models under theoretical and practical settings. When the PH assumption is valid, the t-MST test performs almost as well as the HR test. For non-PH models, the t-MST test can substantially outperform its HR counter- part. On the other hand, the HR test can be powerful when the true difference of two survival functions is quite large at end of the study. Unfortunately, for this case, the HR estimate may not have a simple clinical interpretation for the treatment effect due to the violation of the PH assumption

Initial validation of Chinese Pain Assessment in Advanced Dementia Scale (C-PAINAD)

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Happiness matters : exploring the linkages between personality, personal happiness, and work-related psychological health among priests and sisters in Italy

This study responds to the challenge posed by Rossetti’s work to explore the antecedents and consequences of individual differences in happiness among priests and religious sisters. The Oxford Happiness Questionnaire was completed together with measures of personality and work-related psychological health by 95 priests and 61 religious sisters. Overall the data demonstrated high levels of personal happiness among priests and religious sisters, but also significant signs of vulnerability. Personality provided significant prediction of individual differences in both personal happiness and work-related psychological health. However, personal happiness provided additional protection against work-related emotional exhaustion and additional enhancement of work-related satisfaction. These findings suggest that acknowledging and affirming personal happiness may enhance the work-related psychological health of Catholic priests and religious sisters

ATLAS Z Excess in Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model

Recently the ATLAS collaboration reported a 3 sigma excess in the search for the events containing a dilepton pair from a Z boson and large missing transverse energy. Although the excess is not sufficiently significant yet, it is quite tempting to explain this excess by a well-motivated model beyond the standard model. In this paper we study a possibility of the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM) for this excess. Especially, we focus on the MSSM spectrum where the sfermions are heavier than the gauginos and Higgsinos. We show that the excess can be explained by the reasonable MSSM mass spectrum.Comment: 13 pages, 7 figures; published versio

P. gingivalis lipopolysaccharides upregulate protease-activated receptor expression in gingival epithelium

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P. gingivalis LPS enhances human β-defensins expression in gingival epithelia

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P. gingivalis LPS modulates antimicrobial peptide expression in gingival epithelia

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