Imaging findings are nonspecific. MRI may be used to determine lesion extent by showing rapid enhancement and washout in high-grade tumors.”
“Although sucrose availability is crucial for commitment to plant cell division during G1 phase, it has remained uncertain how protein levels of core

cell cycle genes are regulated. We found that Arabidopsis RETINOBLASTOMA-RELATED PROTEIN1 (AtRBR1) and three E2F proteins were degraded under limited sucrose conditions, while protein abundance increased in response to treatment with the proteasome inhibitor MG132. We conclude that Arabidopsis key cell cycle proteins are degraded in a proteasome-dependent manner during sucrose starvation in Arabidopsis suspension MM2d cells. (C) CP868596 2011 Elsevier Masson SAS. All GSI-IX rights reserved.”
“BACKGROUND: Although prior research indicates that religious and spiritual coping is associated with positive health outcomes, few studies have examined religious and spiritual coping among patients with emphysema. OBJECTIVE: To describe the utilization of religious and spiritual coping and its relationship to quality of life among patients with emphysema, in a 2-year longitudinal follow-up study. METHODS: Forty patients with emphysema (mean

age 63.5 +/- 6.0 y, 8 women) who participated in the National Emphysema Treatment Trial were matched on age, sex, race, and education with 40 healthy individuals recruited from the community. We conducted baseline assessment of overall coping strategies, psychological functioning, quality of life,

pulmonary function, and exercise capacity, and we assessed overall coping strategies and religious and spiritual coping at 2-year follow-up. RESULTS: Ninety percent of the patients with emphysema considered themselves at least slightly religious and spiritual. The patients reported using both negative religious coping (eg, questioning God) and positive religious coping (eg, prayer) more than the healthy control subjects at follow-up. However, greater use of religious and spiritual coping was associated with poorer illness-related Caspase inhibitor quality of life. CONCLUSIONS: Patients with emphysema appear to use various coping strategies in responding to their illness. Future research should investigate if patients using religious and spiritual coping would benefit from interventions to address emotional distress and reduced quality of life.”
“The objective of this study was to quantify the effects of cyclic irrigation on growth and physiology of container-grown conifer species in pot-in-pot (PIP) production in the upper Midwest. Trees of four conifer species (Picea glauca var. densata, Picea pungens, Abies fraseri, and Finns strobus) were grown in 25-L containers and assigned to one of four combinations of irrigation rate (low or high) and daily irrigation cycle frequency (one or four).