Aim: To evaluate the postoperative incidence of bleeding, incidence of thromboembolic complications, and all-cause mortality in patients with valvular heart disease and ischemic heart disease (IHD) associated with various regimens of the antithrombotic treatment during one year after surgery.
Material And Methods: This study included 271 patients with valvular heart disease and IHD after heart valve replacement and myocardial revascularization from 2009 through 2018. However, during the follow-up period (12 months), contact with 12 patients was lost, and therefore these patients were excluded from the study.
Nucleus, chromatin, and chromosome organization studies heavily rely on fluorescence microscopy imaging to elucidate the distribution and abundance of structural and regulatory components. Three-dimensional (3D) image stacks are a source of quantitative data on signal intensity level and distribution and on the type and shape of distribution patterns in space. Their analysis can lead to novel insights that are otherwise missed in qualitative-only analyses.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe meadowfoam family (Limnanthaceae) is one of the smallest and genomically underexplored families of the Brassicales. The Limnanthaceae harbor about seven species in the genus Limnanthes (meadowfoam) and Floerkea proserpinacoides (false mermaidweed), all native to North America. Because all Limnanthes and Floerkea species have only five chromosome pairs, i.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFArabidopsis thaliana has become a major plant research model, where interphase nuclear organization exhibits unique features, including nucleolus-associated telomere clustering. The chromocenter (CC)-loop model, or rosette-like configuration, describes intranuclear chromatin organization in Arabidopsis as megabase-long loops anchored in, and emanating from, peripherally positioned CCs, with those containing telomeres associating with the nucleolus. To investigate whether the CC-loop organization is universal across the mustard family (crucifers), the nuclear distributions of centromeres, telomeres and nucleoli were analyzed by fluorescence in situ hybridization in seven diploid species (2n = 10-16) representing major crucifer clades with an up to 26-fold variation in genome size (160-4260 Mb).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe aim of this study was to triage platelet reactivity and adverse vascular outcomes after dual antiplatelet therapy due to percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) dependent on CYP2C19*2 and CYP2C19*3 genotypes in patients with coronary artery disease. Fifty-five patients with coronary artery disease were studied serially pre-PCI and post-PCI. Platelet reactivity was assessed by conventional light transmission aggregometry, VerifyNow Analyzer, and thromboelastography with platelet mapping.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe convulsant effects of four doses of picrotoxin (PX)-2, 3, 4, and 6 mg/kg s.c.-were evaluated in the first part of the study.
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