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  • 11
    ISSN: 1432-1017
    Keywords: Maximum likelihood ; Fluorescence decay
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Physics
    Notes: Abstract The usefulness of fluorescence techniques for the study of macromolecular structure and dynamics depends on the accuracy and sensitivity of the methods used for data analysis. Many methods for data analysis have been proposed and used, but little attention has been paid to the maximum likelihood method, generally known as the most powerful statistical method for parameter estimation. In this paper we study the properties and behavior of maximum likelihood estimates by using simulated fluorescence intensity decay data. We show that the maximum likelihood method provides generally more accurate estimates of lifetimes and fractions than does the standard least-squares approach especially when the lifetime ratios between individual components are small. Three novelties to the field of fluorescence decay analysis are also introduced and studied in this paper: a) discretization of the convolution integral based on the generalized integral mean value theorem: b) the likelihood ratio test as a tool to determine the number of exponential decay components in a given decay profile; and c) separability and detectability indices which provide measures on how accurately, a particular decay component can be detected. Based on the experience gained from this and from our previous study of the Padé-Laplace method, we make some recommendations on how the complex problem of deconvolution and parameter estimation of multiexponential functions might be approached in an experimental setting.
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  • 12
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    Biochemical genetics 27 (1989), S. 745-753 
    ISSN: 1573-4927
    Keywords: mouse ; ornithine decarboxylase
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: Abstract Ornithine decarboxylase (ODC), the first enzyme in the polyamine biosynthetic pathway, is encoded by at least one member of a multi-gene family in the mouse. Analysis of a polymorphism in ODC structure in recombinant inbred strains has enabled assigning a functional ODC structural gene (Odc) to the proximal region of mouse chromosome 12 betweenApob andEs25. Linkage ofOdc toApob andAh is conserved in the mouse and human genomes.
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  • 13
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    Biochemical genetics 27 (1989), S. 745-753 
    ISSN: 1573-4927
    Keywords: mouse ; ornithine decarboxylase
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: Abstract Ornithine decarboxylase (ODC), the first enzyme in the polyamine biosynthetic pathway, is encoded by at least one member of a multi-gene family in the mouse. Analysis of a polymorphism in ODC structure in recombinant inbred strains has enabled assigning a functional ODC structural gene (Odc) to the proximal region of mouse chromosome 12 betweenApob andEs25. Linkage ofOdc toApob andAh is conserved in the mouse and human genomes.
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  • 14
    ISSN: 1573-7373
    Keywords: cerebral aspergillosis ; acute leukemia
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract Cerebral fungal infection is becoming an increasingly recognized entity in immunocompromised patients on post-mortem examination. In order to determine the frequency of clinically significant cerebral fungal infection and define its clinical characteristics in a cohort of immunocompromised patients at high risk of fungal infection, the records of 118 patients with acute leukemia were examined for 57 clinical and laboratory features. The characteristics of 26 patients with systemic aspergillosis and acute leukemia were compared to 92 patients with acute leukemia in a control group. Eight of 118 patients (7%) had cerebral infection (seven Aspergillus, on Candida). Patients with systemic aspergillosis were more likely than patients in the control group to have focal neurologic findings (p = 0.02), confusion (p = 0.04), and abnormal computerized tomography (CT) of the brain characterized by single or multiple, enhancing or non-enhancing hypodense lesions (p = 0.02). Patients with systemic aspergillosis were more likely to die in complete remission than patients in the control group (p = 0.003); three of six patients with aspergillosis who died in remission expired as a consequence of cerebral infection. Cerebral infection complicated systemic Aspergillus infection in seven of 26 patients (27%), versus one of 16 patients with systemic Candida infection (6%) (p = NS). The authors conclude, therefore, that systemic aspergillosis complicating acute leukemia is more likely to be associated with confusion, focal neurologic findings, and and abnormal CT scan of the brain, and that these findings suggest the presence of cerebral infection. In addition, cerebral infection commonly complicates the course of systemic aspergillosis, and is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with acute leukemia. A high index of suspicion is needed to insure early diagnosis and appropriate therapy, particularly in those who achieve remission of their leukemia.
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  • 15
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    Journal of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics 14 (1986), S. 659-659 
    ISSN: 1573-8744
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
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  • 16
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    Journal of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics 20 (1992), S. 95-99 
    ISSN: 1573-8744
    Keywords: pharmacokinetics ; physiological model ; cisplatin ; DDP ; cis-dichlorodiammineplatinum(II)
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
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  • 17
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    Journal of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics 14 (1986), S. 131-155 
    ISSN: 1573-8744
    Keywords: pharmacokinetics ; physiological model ; cisplatin ; DDP ; cis-dichlorodiammineplatinum(II)
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: Abstract A physiological pharmacokinetic analysis ofcis-dichlorodiammineplatinum(II) (DDP) is presented for the rabbit, dog, and human. The results are compared to a previous analysis for the rat. DDP binds irreversibly to low-molecular weight nucleophiles and macromolecules to form mobile and fixed metabolites at rates which are tissue-specific. The rate constant for the formation of fixed metabolite in plasma, determined by in vitro incubation, ranges from 0.004 to 0.008 min−1.
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  • 18
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    Journal of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics 13 (1985), S. 13-39 
    ISSN: 1573-8744
    Keywords: pharmacokinetics, physiologic model ; cis-dichlorodiammineplatinum(II) ; cis-platin ; DDP
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: Abstract A physiological model has been developed to describe the disposition of cisdichlorodiammine-platinum(II) (DDP) following i.v. dosing in the female rat bearing the Walker 256 carcinoma. The model simulates concentrations of DDP and its mobile and fixed metabolites in plasma, liver, gut, skin, muscle, tumor, carcass, and kidney, and DDP and mobile metabolite excretion following a 4 mg/kg dose. In the kinetic model, DDP binds irreversibly to low MW nucleophiles and macromolecules (largely proteins) within the plasma and tissue compartments to form mobile and fixed metabolites, respectively. Reaction rates for the formation of each metabolite are tissue/organ specific. The rate constant for the biotransformation of DDP to fixed metabolite in plasma (k 2p=0.0082 min−) was determined from in vitro incubation studies. This rate was used as the basis for estimating the biotransformation rate constants for DDP to fixed and mobile metabolites in other compartments. Both DDP and mobile metabolite are assumed to follow flowlimited transport, to freely traverse compartmental barriers, and to partition equally in all compartments. Both are excreted in the urine, the major route of Pt elimination. Urinary excretion is modeled as a linear process involving filtration only; an assumption based on a calculated renal clearance of 1.1 ml/min, a value very similar to the estimated GFR. Biliary excretion is a minor route of mobile metabolite elimination and is modeled as a linear process occurring in the liver. Four hours after dosing, approximately 60% of the administered Pt remains in the tissues and plasma. Of this, over 75% of the plasma Pt and 90% of the metal ion in every other compartment is fixed (protein bound). Fixed Pt can be eliminated from a compartment only after its biotransformation to mobile metabolite. In most compertments this rate of elimination corresponds closely to the average rate of protein turnover in that compartment.
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  • 19
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    Molecular genetics and genomics 201 (1985), S. 505-512 
    ISSN: 1617-4623
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Summary In mammals, a number of liver-derived plasma proteins, termed acute phase reactants, are induced during an inflammation response. We have studied genetic variation in the structure and expression of several of these proteins in a variety of inbred and wild-derived mice. In a genetic cross, electrophoretic polymorphisms for the two α1-acid glycoproteins, AGP-1 and AGP-2, co-segregated in 58 backcross progeny, indicating that either a single gene or two tightly-linked genes on chromosome 4 encode the AGPs. In the same backcross, segregation of variation in haptoglobin structure showed that the gene encoding this acute phase reactant is on chromosome 8. Structural variation in serum amyloid A correlated with restriction fragment length polymorphisms in the Saa gene determined by Taylor and Rowe (1984). Analysis of a number of highly diverged species of mice indicated that AGP expression has undergone considerable modification during evolution of the Mus genus; this is associated with alterations in Agp gene organization, which may include species-specific amplification and/or deletion events.
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  • 20
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    Review of industrial organization 9 (1994), S. 813-822 
    ISSN: 1573-7160
    Keywords: Price cap ; convergence ; contestable markets ; price leader ; deregulation
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Economics
    Notes: Abstract In this study, we tested if long-distance rates among AT&T, MCI, and US Sprint between New York City and six major SMSAs during 1980–91 have converged. Empirical findings show that rates have converged over time, that rate ratios or differences increased under price cap, and that distance does not have any impact on rate convergence. The variables of TIME and price cap (CAP) have greater impacts on rate convergence for AT&T/US Sprint than AT&T/MCI. Regression results based on pooled cross-section and time-series data yield better results.
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