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  • 1
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    Electronic Resource
    Quantification of bone volume on radiographs using NIH Image (2000)
    Springer
    Modern rheumatology 10 (2000), S. 220-224 
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    ISSN: 1439-7609
    Keywords: Key words Radiograph ; Rheumatoid arthritis ; Bone volume ; NIH Image ; Computer
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract We attempted to quantify periarticular bone atrophy from radiographs of the proximal phalanx in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) by means of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Image computer program. The degree of brightness or darkness in four squares, each 20 × 20 pixels, in the right third proximal phalanx was measured using NIH Image, and the mean value of the 400 pixels was defined as the brightness/darkness index (BDI). The BDI was used to express bone volume. The BDI value was set at zero for an area of complete darkness and at 255 for an area of maximum brightness. The mean coefficient of variation in our hospital was 2.28%. The BDI was measured in 54 RA patients and 146 normal volunteers. The mean BDI at the midpoint of the diaphysis was 100 in RA patients and 176 in normal volunteers, while at the medial side of the proximal end it was 75 and 145, respectively. The difference between normal volunteers and RA patients was greatest in younger people. In some young RA patients, the BDI was significantly low at the medial side of the proximal end, clearly demonstrating periarticular bone atrophy. Periarticular bone atrophy can be quantified using the NIH Image computer program.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s101650070006
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    Electronic Resource
    Relation of clinical activity of rheumatoid arthritis to immune complexes, complement components and anti-immunoglobulins (1984)
    Springer
    Rheumatology international 4 (1984), S. 159-163 
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    ISSN: 1437-160X
    Keywords: Rheumatoid arthritis ; Immune complexes ; Anti-immunoglobulin ; Complement
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary Circulating immune complexes by fluid phase Clq binding assay, complement components and anti-immunoglobulin levels were studied in sera of 35 patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). In 23 of the 35 sera (65.7%), circulating immune complexes were positive, and the mean±SD of Clq binding activity (ClqBA), 44.5±19.4%, was significantly high compared to that of healthy persons, 17.4±8.2%. Antigenic determination of complement components revealed that Clq, C3, C5, C9, factor B and Cl esterase inhibitor (CIINH) were significantly high in sera of RA, but C4 and properdin were not. The disease activity correlated with ClqBA, IgG- and IgM-anti-immunoglobulins, C9 and serum IgG. On the other hand, ClqBA correlated with both IgG- and IgM-anti-immunoglobulin levels but not with complement components.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00541207
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    Interferometric method for determining the distribution of graft concentration in radiation-induced graft copolymer (1963)
    New York, NY [u.a.] : Wiley-Blackwell
    Journal of Applied Polymer Science 7 (1963), S. 1833-1852 
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    ISSN: 0021-8995
    Keywords: Chemistry ; Polymer and Materials Science
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology , Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Production Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy, Traffic Engineering, Precision Mechanics , Physics
    Notes: Microinterferometry was applied as a quantitative method for determining the transversal distribution of graft concentration instead of the usual determination of an overall graft concentration of the radiation-induced polypropylene-styrene graft copolymer. Since polystyrene has a higher refractive index than polypropylene, the features of the interference fringe provide direct visualization of the distribution curve of graft concentration. The application of the method leads to clarify the effects of radiation dose rate, film thickness, monomer concentration, temperature, and grafting technique on the graft composition. A retardative effect on grafting appears in the vicinity of the surface, when the grafting is performed in lower radiation field and with thinner film. This is well explained by the variation in the grafting rate constant as a function of monomer concentration in the film. Furthermore, the post-irradiation effect and accelerative effect of methanol were followed. They act effectively to form the surface, volumetric, and embedded grafts. The method has also proved useful in routine examination for a qualitative estimate of the graft copolymer.
    Additional Material: 20 Ill.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/app.1963.070070522
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    Electronic Resource
    Some calculations of solvent effects on 17O and 19F chemical shifts (1980)
    Chichester : Wiley-Blackwell
    Organic Magnetic Resonance 14 (1980), S. 92-97 
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    ISSN: 0030-4921
    Keywords: Chemistry ; Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: Sum-over-states perturbation and finite perturbation calculations, within the ‘Solvaton’ model, are presented for the variation of some 17O and 19F chemical shifts as a function of the dielectric constant of the medium. In general, the nuclear screening and charge are predicted to increase as the dielectric constant increases. The effects of hydrogen bonding are included by means of minimum energy dimer models in some of the sum-over-states calculations.
    Additional Material: 3 Tab.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/mrc.1270140204
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    Characteristic interaction of Ca2+ ions with elastin coacervate: Ion transport study across coacervate layers of α-elastin and elastin model polypeptide, (Val-Pro-Gly-Val-Gly)n (1996)
    New York : Wiley-Blackwell
    Biopolymers 39 (1996), S. 189-198 
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    ISSN: 0006-3525
    Keywords: Chemistry ; Polymer and Materials Science
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: Ion transport characteristics across a macrocoacervate layer membrane composed of aqueous elastin model polypeptides with a specific repeating pentapeptide sequence, H-(Val-Pro-Gly-Val-Gly)n-Val-OMe (n ≥ 40), were investigated. Transmembrane potential responses for NaCl, MgCl2, and CaCl2 concentration-cell systems were measured and examined systematically by comparing with those across a coacervate membrane composed of bovine neck ligamental α-elastin. In the case of the NaCl and MgCl2 systems, potential responses across these protein liquid membranes were different noticeably from each other depending upon the molecular structure with and without charged peptide side chains, whereas in the CaCl2 systems the transmembrane potential responses across the noncharged polypentapeptide coacervate membrane were comparable with those across the α-elastin coacervate membrane carrying both the positively and negatively charged amino acid residues as an amphoteric ion-exchange membrane. These results indicated that mechanisms of major Ca2+ ion transport are based on the specific and selective interactions with electrically neutral sites of elastin, such as the polypentapeptide backbone chain. © 1996 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
    Additional Material: 6 Ill.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
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    Electronic Resource
    α-Elastin coacervate as a protein liquid membrane: Effect of pH on transmembrane potential responses (1992)
    New York : Wiley-Blackwell
    Biopolymers 32 (1992), S. 1173-1180 
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    ISSN: 0006-3525
    Keywords: Chemistry ; Polymer and Materials Science
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: A protein liquid membrane composed of coacervated α-elastin, a chemical fragmentation product of the biological elastic fiber protein, functioned as an amphoteric liquid ion-exchange membrane. Ionic permselectivities of the α-elastin coacervate membrane to a series of metal chlorides were investigated for the concentration-cell systems by the ordinary electrochemical measurements. Effects of pH on the transmembrane potential responses for NaCl, CaCl2, and MgCl2 systems were examined. Only in the Ca2+ -containing system did potential responses stay at constant levels against the pH changes, whereas in the other systems, increasing pH caused potential changes, indicating a improvement of cationic permselectivity across the α-elastin coacervate membrane. It was suggested that the characteristic Ca2+ transport mechanisms across the α-elastin coacervate membrane are related in some way to the polypeptide backbone interactions specific and selective to Ca2+ ions. © 1992 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
    Additional Material: 6 Ill.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bip.360320906
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