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- Beydon, L, et al.
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Respiratory mechanics in patients ventilated for critical lung disease
- 1996
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Ingår i: European Respiratory Journal. - 0903-1936. ; 9:2, s. 73-262
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Respiratory mechanics, using flow interruption, was previously studied during the complete breath in healthy ventilated man, numerical techniques relieving constraints regarding flow pattern. The classical linear model of non-Newtonian behaviour was found to be valid. The present study was extended to subjects with critical lung disease. Subjects with acute lung injury (ALI; n = 2), acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS; n = 4), and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD; n = 3) were studied with and without positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP). Functional residual capacity (FRC) was measured with sulphur hexafluoride (SF6) wash-out. The static pressure-volume (P-V) curve was linear at zero end-expiratory pressure (ZEEP), but nonlinear at PEEP. Its hysteresis was nonsignificant. In ALI/ARDS, PEEP increased lung volume by distension and recruitment, but only by distension in COPD. In ALI/ARDS, resistance was increased, at ZEEP. In COPD, resistance became extremely high during expiration at ZEEP. In ALI/ARDS at ZEEP, non-Newtonian behaviour, representing tissue stress relaxation and pendel-luft, complied with the classical linear model. At PEEP, the non-Newtonian compliance became volume-dependent to an extent correlated to the nonlinearity of the static P-V curve. In COPD, non-Newtonian behaviour was adequately explained only with a model with different inspiratory and expiratory behaviour. The classical model of the respiratory system is valid in ALI/ARDS at ZEEP. More advanced models are needed at PEEP and in COPD.
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- de Zegher, F, et al.
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Androgens and fetal growth
- 1998
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Ingår i: Hormone research. - : S. Karger AG. - 0301-0163. ; 50:4, s. 243-244
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Boys are heavier than girls at term birth. Children with a 46,XY karyotype and androgen insensitivity syndrome (clinically complete form and/or proven mutations in the androgen receptor gene) were found to have a birth weight comparable to that of girls. These findings support the hypothesis that the difference in birth weight between boys and girls is generated by androgen action.
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- Ibewuike, Jospeh C, et al.
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Piliostigmin, a 2-phenoxychromone, and C-methylflavonols from Piliostigma thonningii
- 1996
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Ingår i: Phytochemistry. - : Elsevier BV. - 0031-9422 .- 1873-3700. ; 43:3, s. 687-690
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Piliostigmin, a 2-phenoxychromone, and three C-methylflavonols, 6,8-di-C-methylquercetin 3-methyl ether, 6-C-methylquercetin 3,7-dimethyl ether and 6,8-di-C-methylquercetin 3,7-dimethyl ether, were isolated from the leaves of Piliostigma thonningii, together with the known compounds quercetin, quercitrin, 6-C-methylquercetin S-methyl ether, 6-C-methylquercetin 3,7,3'-trimethyl ether, 6,8-di-C-methyllraempferol 3-methyl ether and 6,8-di-C-methyllraempferol 3,7-dimethyl ether. The structures of the new compounds were established by spectral methods, especially 2D NMR. Complete C-13 assignments using HMBC experiments are reported for the four latter C-methylflavonols.
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