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There is a possible explanation in light of the gender-specific differences observed in callosal size [ 24 ] coupled with the fact that prenatal exposure to EtOH causes feminization of male rats and defeminization of female rats [ 12 25 26 ] . There is a hormonal influence on the developing commissural pathway that could be disrupted by a number of EtOH-induced aberrations in hormone activity, such as the diminished perinatal surge of testosterone observed in EtOH-exposed male fetal rats [ 27 ] . The EtOH-induced attenuation of the testosterone surge eliminated the normal sex difference in rat callosal size.
In the present study, injection of contrast material shifted the volumic distribution of CT attenuation toward higher values, suggesting an increase in extravascular lung water.
CT scans were used by a radiologist to separate participants on the basis of the presence or the absence of any objective evidence for centrilobular, panacinar, or paraseptal emphysema with a detection limit of greater than 3-mm low attenuation density [34].
Third, the majority of patients had an ALI characterized by a lobar CT attenuation pattern with a large predominance of nonaerated lung tissue.
Thus, anti-apoptotic gene products are required early during lymphocyte activation, whereas attenuation of the clonal burst eventually requires pro-apoptotic signaling through Fas and the TNF receptors.