Aims To prospectively compare the agreement of left ventricular volumes and ejection
fraction by M-mode echocardiography (echo), 2D echo, radionuclide ventriculography and …

Background— Extracellular matrix expansion is a key element of ventricular remodeling
and a potential therapeutic target. Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) T 1 -mapping …

The differentiation of CD4 + helper T cell subsets with diverse effector functions is accompanied
by changes in metabolism required to meet their bioenergetic demands. We find that …

OBJECTIVE--To evaluate the incidence of intraoperative and early postoperative complications
(up to two months after implant) of endocardial permanent pacemaker insertion in all …

Right ventricular (RV) dysfunction determines prognosis in patients with chronic pulmonary
disease. We examined the relative prognostic potential of measures of systolic, diastolic, and …

Protein kinase B (also known as AKT) and the mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) are
central regulators of T cell differentiation, proliferation, metabolism, and survival. Here, we …

Memory T cells are critical for long-term immunity against reinfection and require interleukin-7
(IL-7), but the mechanisms by which IL-7 controls memory T cell survival, particularly …

The domestication and improvement of fruit-bearing crops resulted in a large diversity of
fruit form. To facilitate consistent terminology pertaining to shape, a controlled vocabulary …

Understanding immunological memory formation depends on elucidating how multipotent
memory precursor (MP) cells maintain developmental plasticity and longevity to provide long-…

Traditional approaches to programming education, as exemplified by the typical CS1/CS2
course sequence, have not taken advantage of the long record of psychological and …