Therefore, there is consistency in three different surrogate measures for sympathetic activation, suggesting that amlodipine increases activity of the sympathetic nervous system in hypertensive patients.
We demonstrate for the first time in endometrial cancer that high expression of HSF1 and measures for transcriptional activation of HSF1 associate with poor outcome and disease progression.
The complement fragment ratios C3d/C3, C5a/C5 and immunoglobulin ratio IgE/IgG2, were calculated as measures for complement activation and Th2/Th1 imbalance, respectively.
In summary, we computed individual laterality measures of activation for semantic matching of words at both the global level (across the whole hemisphere) and regional level in 82 left- and right-handed healthy volunteers.
Because the charge represents the most appropriate measure for receptor activation the IC50 and EC50 values for charge entered the Cheng-Prusoff equation for Kb analysis.
Parameters assessed were the chemokine IL-8, myeloperoxidase (MPO), a measure for neutrophil activation, and albumin and alpha-2-macroglobulin, to measure lung permeability.
A binding constant of 0.07 mM was measured for the activation, which is similar to that observed for Q1H2 inhibition of transhydrogenase and NADH-Q reactions.
In addition, event-related desynchronization (ERD) and event-related synchronization (ERS) of the EEG alpha-band were calculated as a measure for cortical activation.
As an alternative approach, similar to Baechler's confirmation of the interferon signature, comparison with cytokine-induced gene expression signatures might provide an indirect measure for the activation of the TNF or IL-1 pathway.
Correspondingly, changes in the kinetics of synaptic responses to hypertonicity-induced SV fusion have been interpreted as changes in the intrinsic 'release willingness' or 'fusogenicity' of SVs, which may represent an inverse measure for the activation energy for SV fusion (Basu et al., 2007; Wierda et al., 2007).
