Early passive mobilization increases vascular reactivity response in critical patients with sepsis: a quasi-experimental study.

Objective: To investigate the influence of a passive mobilization session on endothelial function in patients with sepsis.

Methods: This was a quasi-experimental double-blind and single-arm study with a pre- and postintervention design. Twenty-five patients with a diagnosis of sepsis who were hospitalized in the intensive care unit were included.

Compensatory expression and substrate inducibility of gamma-glutamyl transferase GGT2 isoform in Arabidopsis thaliana.

γ-Glutamyl transferases (GGT; EC 2.3.2.

Gamma-glutamyl transferase in the cell wall participates in extracellular glutathione salvage from the root apoplast.

The molecular properties and subcellular location of bound gamma-glutamyl transferase (GGT) were studied, and an experimental setup devised to assess its functions in barley roots. Enzyme histochemistry was used to detect GGT activity at tissue level; immunocytochemistry to localize the protein at subcellular level; and modelling studies to investigate its surface charge properties. GGT activity in vivo was measured for the first time.

[Characterization of the receptor population as listed and those who were submitted to pancreas and pancreas-kidney transplantation].

About 1 million cases of transplantation were registered around the world. The first Pancreas transplantation in Brazil was in 1996, proceeded by a medical team of São Paulo. The objetctive of this study was to characterize the socio- demographic and epidemiological profile of the receivers in list and those submitted to this procedure.