Aerobic Capacity is Related to Repeated Sprint Ability with Sprint Distances Less Than 40 Meters.

Research is inconclusive regarding the association between aerobic fitness (objectively measured VO) and repeated sprint performance when the sprints are less than 40 meters. Soccer athletes must be able to repeat sprints without significant decreases in speed and strength and conditioning coaches need to better understand if aerobic fitness is related to repeated sprint ability (RSA). Twenty (10 male, 10 female) Division I soccer athletes first completed a graded maximal treadmill test to measure VO.

Impact of PARP-1 and DNA-PK expression on survival in patients with glioblastoma multiforme.

Purpose: To analyze, whether higher tumor levels of DNA repair enzymes contribute to worse treatment results of glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) patients after postoperative radiotherapy.

Materials And Methods: Thirty four patients with GBM received postoperative radiotherapy. Tumor sections were examined for poly-ADP ribose polymerase-1 (PARP-1) and DNA protein kinase (DNA-PK) expression.

Impact of Helicobacter pylori infection on the humoral immune response to MUC1 peptide in patients with chronic gastric diseases and gastric cancer.

Many investigators have demonstrated alteration of gastric mucins in H. pylori infected individuals. The inflammatory environment induced by H.

Immune response to a recombinant fragment of the CagA protein of Helicobacter pylori in blood donors and patients with gastric cancer: relation to ABO(H) blood group phenotype, stage of the disease and tumor morphology.

IgG immune response to CagA was evaluated by enzyme-linked imunosorbent assay (ELISA) using a recombinant fragment of CagA as antigen in 171 patients with gastric cancer and 298 blood donors to determine whether it could be related to the ABO(H) blood group phenotype, stage of cancer or tumor morphology. The CagA-ELISA showed a good specificity (93.5%) and sensitivity (88.

IgG immune response to Helicobacter pylori antigens in patients with gastric cancer as defined by ELISA and immunoblotting.

Helicobacter pylori infection is considered to be a risk factor for gastric cancer. A high prevalence of H. pylori infection and high gastric-cancer incidence are characteristic of the Estonian population.