Coping styles among Vietnamese people with infertility diagnosis: does type of infertility-related stress really matter?

Objectives: The present study aims to investigate whether each coping style used by Vietnamese people living with infertility diagnosis is associated with specific types of infertility-related stress (IRS).

Methods: In this cross-sectional design study, 997 patients with primary infertility diagnosis from three hospitals and two clinics in three regions of Vietnam completed questionnaire that consisted of Fertility Problem Inventory, the Copenhagen Multi-Centre Psychosocial Infertility and other questions. Four different linear regression analyses were performed on four coping styles.

CHARACTERIZATION OF PARTICULATE MATTER EMISSION FROM OPEN BURNING OF RICE STRAW.

Emission from field burning of crop residue, a common practice in many parts of the world today, has potential effects on air quality, atmosphere and climate. This study provides a comprehensive size and compositional characterization of particulate matter (PM) emission from rice straw (RS) burning using both in situ experiments (11 spread field burning) and laboratory hood experiments (3 pile and 6 spread burning) that were conducted during 2003-2006 in Thailand. The carbon balance and emission ratio method was used to determine PM emission factors (EF) in the field experiments.

Modulation of the expression of CD5 antigen on the surface of human peripheral B lymphocytes.

In this study, we investigated the expression of CD5 molecules on the surface of mature human peripheral B lymphocytes. Human CD5+ B cells were isolated from tonsils and peripheral blood. Their terminal differentiation into plasma cells was induced with IL-2.

Restoration of high immunoglobulin gene expression in chronic lymphoid leukemia: a possible application for gene therapy.

In this study, using interleukin-2 and gamma interferon, we first induced the differentiation into plasma cells of primary chronic lymphoid leukemic B cells from patients whose T cells failed to produce interleukin-2. We next demonstrated that these malignant primary B lymphocytes (i.e.

High-affinity receptors for interleukin-2 are not required for the induction of human unstimulated B lymphocyte differentiation by this lymphokine.

We have reported that one of the currently known receptors for interleukin-2 (IL-2), the p70 protein, is constitutively expressed on resting T lymphocyte membrane. We demonstrated that exposure of these cells to high concentrations of IL-2 resulted in the transcription of genes whose expression occurred early during cell activation such as cmyc, cmyb protooncogenes, and the Tac gene itself. IL-2 is thought to exert its biological effects by binding to its high-affinity receptors on cell membrane.