TY  - JOUR
A1  - Zaho, Huaying
A1  - Ghirlando, Rodolfo
A1  - Alfonso, Carlos
A1  - Arisaka, Fumio
A1  - Attali, Ilan
A1  - Bain, David L.
A1  - Bakhtina, Marina M.
A1  - Becker, Donald F.
A1  - Bedwell, Gregory J.
A1  - Bekdemir, Ahmet
A1  - Besong, Tabot M. D.
A1  - Birck, Catherine
A1  - Brautigam, Chad A.
A1  - Brennerman, William
A1  - Byron, Olwyn
A1  - Bzowska, Agnieszka
A1  - Chaires, Jonathan B.
A1  - Chaton, Catherine T.
A1  - Coelfen, Helmbut
A1  - Connaghan, Keith D.
A1  - Crowley, Kimberly A.
A1  - Curth, Ute
A1  - Daviter, Tina
A1  - Dean, William L.
A1  - Diez, Ana I.
A1  - Ebel, Christine
A1  - Eckert, Debra M.
A1  - Eisele, Leslie E.
A1  - Eisenstein, Edward
A1  - England, Patrick
A1  - Escalante, Carlos
A1  - Fagan, Jeffrey A.
A1  - Fairman, Robert
A1  - Finn, Ron M.
A1  - Fischle, Wolfgang
A1  - Garcia de la Torre, Jose
A1  - Gor, Jayesh
A1  - Gustafsson, Henning
A1  - Hall, Damien
A1  - Harding, Stephen E.
A1  - Hernandez Cifre, Jose G.
A1  - Herr, Andrew B.
A1  - Howell, Elizabeth E.
A1  - Isaac, Richard S.
A1  - Jao, Shu-Chuan
A1  - Jose, Davis
A1  - Kim, Soon-Jong
A1  - Kokona, Bashkim
A1  - Kornblatt, Jack A.
A1  - Kosek, Dalibor
A1  - Krayukhina, Elena
A1  - Krzizike, Daniel
A1  - Kusznir, Eric A.
A1  - Kwon, Hyewon
A1  - Larson, Adam
A1  - Laue, Thomas M.
A1  - Le Roy, Aline
A1  - Leech, Andrew P.
A1  - Lilie, Hauke
A1  - Luger, Karolin
A1  - Luque-Ortega, Juan R.
A1  - Ma, Jia
A1  - May, Carrie A.
A1  - Maynard, Ernest L.
A1  - Modrak-Wojcik, Anna
A1  - Mok, Yee-Foong
A1  - Mücke, Norbert
A1  - Nagel-Steger, Luitgard
A1  - Narlikar, Geeta J.
A1  - Noda, Masanori
A1  - Nourse, Amanda
A1  - Obsil, Thomas
A1  - Park, Chad K
A1  - Park, Jin-Ku
A1  - Pawelek, Peter D.
A1  - Perdue, Erby E.
A1  - Perkins, Stephen J.
A1  - Perugini, Matthew A.
A1  - Peterson, Craig L.
A1  - Peverelli, Martin G.
A1  - Piszczek, Grzegorz
A1  - Prag, Gali
A1  - Prevelige, Peter E.
A1  - Raynal, Bertrand D. E.
A1  - Rezabkova, Lenka
A1  - Richter, Klaus
A1  - Ringel, Alison E.
A1  - Rosenberg, Rose
A1  - Rowe, Arthur J.
A1  - Rufer, Arne C.
A1  - Scott, David J.
A1  - Seravalli, Javier G.
A1  - Solovyova, Alexandra S.
A1  - Song, Renjie
A1  - Staunton, David
A1  - Stoddard, Caitlin
A1  - Stott, Katherine
A1  - Strauss, Holder M.
A1  - Streicher, Werner W.
A1  - Sumida, John P.
A1  - Swygert, Sarah G.
A1  - Szczepanowski, Roman H.
A1  - Tessmer, Ingrid
A1  - Toth, Ronald T.
A1  - Tripathy, Ashutosh
A1  - Uchiyama, Susumu
A1  - Uebel, Stephan F. W.
A1  - Unzai, Satoru
A1  - Gruber, Anna Vitlin
A1  - von Hippel, Peter H.
A1  - Wandrey, Christine
A1  - Wang, Szu-Huan
A1  - Weitzel, Steven E
A1  - Wielgus-Kutrowska, Beata
A1  - Wolberger, Cynthia
A1  - Wolff, Martin
A1  - Wright, Edward
A1  - Wu, Yu-Sung
A1  - Wubben, Jacinta M.
A1  - Schuck, Peter
T1  - A Multilaboratory Comparison of Calibration Accuracy and the Performance of External References in Analytical Ultracentrifugation
JF  - PLoS ONE
N2  - Analytical ultracentrifugation (AUC) is a first principles based method to determine absolute sedimentation coefficients and buoyant molar masses of macromolecules and their complexes, reporting on their size and shape in free solution. The purpose of this multi-laboratory study was to establish the precision and accuracy of basic data dimensions in AUC and validate previously proposed calibration techniques. Three kits of AUC cell assemblies containing radial and temperature calibration tools and a bovine serum albumin (BSA) reference sample were shared among 67 laboratories, generating 129 comprehensive data sets. These allowed for an assessment of many parameters of instrument performance, including accuracy of the reported scan time after the start of centrifugation, the accuracy of the temperature calibration, and the accuracy of the radial magnification. The range of sedimentation coefficients obtained for BSA monomer in different instruments and using different optical systems was from 3.655 S to 4.949 S, with a mean and standard deviation of (4.304\(\pm\)0.188) S (4.4%). After the combined application of correction factors derived from the external calibration references for elapsed time, scan velocity, temperature, and radial magnification, the range of s-values was reduced 7-fold with a mean of 4.325 S and a 6-fold reduced standard deviation of \(\pm\)0.030 S (0.7%). In addition, the large data set provided an opportunity to determine the instrument-to-instrument variation of the absolute radial positions reported in the scan files, the precision of photometric or refractometric signal magnitudes, and the precision of the calculated apparent molar mass of BSA monomer and the fraction of BSA dimers. These results highlight the necessity and effectiveness of independent calibration of basic AUC data dimensions for reliable quantitative studies.
KW  - fluorescence-detected sedimentation
KW  - size exclusion chromatography
KW  - field flow fractionation
KW  - spinco ultracentrifuge
KW  - aggregation
KW  - bead models
KW  - velocity
KW  - hydrodynamics
KW  - biopharmaceuticals
KW  - proteins
Y1  - 2015
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-151903
VL  - 10
IS  - 5
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Joukhadar, R.
A1  - Wöckel, A.
A1  - Herr, D.
A1  - Paulus, V.
A1  - Radosa, J.
A1  - Hamza, A.
A1  - Solomayer, E.
A1  - Baum, S.
T1  - Challenges of Longevity: Safety of Vaginal and Laparoscopic Urogynecological Procedures in Septuagenarians and Older Patients
JF  - BioMed Research International
N2  - Introduction. Pelvic organ prolapse (POP) and urinary incontinence (UI) have increasing prevalence in the elderly population. The aim of this study was to compare the comorbidities of these procedures between <70 y/o and ≥70 y/o patients. Materials and Methods. In our retrospective study over a period of 2.5 years, 407 patients had received an urogynecological procedure. All patients with POP were treated by reconstructive surgery. Complications were reported using the standardized classification of Clavien-Dindo (CD). The study can be assigned to stage 2b Exploration IDEAL (Idea, Development, Exploration, Assessment, Long-term study)-system of surgical innovation. Results. Operation time, blood loss, and intraoperative complications have not been more frequent in the elderly, whereas hospital stay was significantly longer in ≥70 y/o patients. Regarding postoperative complications, we noticed that ≥70 y/o patients had an almost threefold risk to develop mild early postoperative complications compared to younger patients (OR: 2.86; 95% CI: 1.76–4.66). On the contrary, major complications were not more frequent. No case of life-threatening complication or the need for blood transfusion was reported. Conclusion. After urogynecological procedures, septuagenarians and older patients are more likely to develop mild postoperative complications but not more intraoperative or severe postoperative complications compared to younger patients.
KW  - gynecologic surgical procedures/methods
KW  - postoperative complications/epidemiology
KW  - vagina/surgery
KW  - pelvic organ prolapse/surgery
KW  - middle Aged
KW  - laparoscopy/methods
KW  - uterine prolapse/surgery
KW  - urinary incontinence/surgery
KW  - surgical Mesh
KW  - retrospective Studies
KW  - age factors
KW  - aged
KW  - aged 80 and over
KW  - female
KW  - reconstructive surgical procedures/methods
Y1  - 2016
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-161005
VL  - 2016
IS  - Article ID 5184595
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Zech, Linda D.
A1  - Scherf-Clavel, Maike
A1  - Daniels, Christine
A1  - Schwab, Michael
A1  - Deckert, Jürgen
A1  - Unterecker, Stefan
A1  - Herr, Alexandra S.
T1  - Patients with higher vitamin D levels show stronger improvement of self-reported depressive symptoms in psychogeriatric day-care setting
JF  - Journal of Neural Transmission
N2  - Depression is a common psychiatric disorder among geriatric patients that decreases the quality of life and increases morbidity and mortality. Vitamin D as a neuro-steroid hormone might play a role in the onset and treatment of depression. In the present study, the association between depressive symptoms and vitamin D concentration in serum was evaluated. 140 patients of a psychogeriatric day-care unit were included. The geriatric depression scale (GDS) and the Hamilton depression rating scale (HDRS) were assessed at the beginning and end of treatment, GDS scores additionally 6 weeks after discharge from the day-care unit. Vitamin D levels were measured at the beginning of the treatment, routinely. Patients with levels below 30 µg/L were treated with 1000 IU vitamin D per day. There was no association between the severity of depressive symptoms and the concentration of vitamin D at the beginning of the treatment. Patients with higher vitamin D levels showed a stronger decline of depressive symptoms measured by the GDS during their stay in the day-care unit. We provide evidence that vitamin D serum levels might influence antidepressant therapy response in a geriatric population. Prospective studies are necessary to determine which patients may profit from add-on vitamin D therapy.
KW  - anti-depressive treatment
KW  - psycho-geriatrics
KW  - vitamin D deficiency
KW  - depression
Y1  - 2021
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-268525
SN  - 1435-1463
VL  - 128
IS  - 8
ER  -