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Our prospectively collected data came from 23,134 children 2 months to 13 years of age during 20032012 . All had attended angola s largest pediatric center, the 300-bed david bernardino children s hospital in luanda, which has been the core of our treatment trials (2), all approved by the local ethics committee . From ...
Rheumatoid arthritis (ra) is a systemic inflammatory disease that affects approximately 0.5%1% of the general population.1 since the 1930s, ra has been treated with antibiotics, beginning with sulphonamide2 and then in the 1960s, with tetracycline derivatives . Mcpherson brown was a proponent of using antibiotics, espe...
Work - related musculoskeletal disorders, also called overuse injuries, account for a significant proportion of work injuries2 . Several risk factors are associated with the development or exacerbation of work - related musculoskeletal disorders in the workplace, including physical and biomechanical factors, and the in...
Specific language impairment (sli) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by impaired or delayed language skills that occur in the absence of intellectual, sensory or medical problems (american psychiatric association, 2000; world health organization, 1996). Substantial research suggests an association between ...
Several recent epidemiologic studies have reported heterogeneity in effect estimates of fine particles from different sources, some of which are supported by recent toxicological studies . Though less extensive, studies also document heterogeneity in effect estimates of pm10 . Many studies have found increased respirat...
Chloroauric acid tetrahydrate (haucl4 4 h2o, 99.9%), silver nitrate (agno3, 99.0%), ascorbic acid (aa, 99.0%), ptoluenesulfonic acid monohydrate (98.0%), acetic acid (99.7%), tertbutyl nitrite (90.0%), 4nitroaniline (99%), 4aminobenzoic acid (99%), 4aminoaniline (99.0%), and diethyl ether (99.7%) were purchased from si...
The use of snuff and chewing tobacco, commonly referred to as smokeless tobacco (slt), has a long history of use in the united states that preceded the use of manufactured cigarettes . However, use of slt never gained the popularity of cigarettes instead it has been more common within specific subgroups such as outdoor...
Helicobacter pylori is a human pathogen responsible for an infection involving nearly half of the world's population, frequently associated with chronic inflammation of the gastric mucosa that can lead to peptic ulceration and gastric cancer in particularly susceptible individuals [1, 2]. Infection is commonly acquired...
Coronary artery perforation (cp) during percutaneous coronary intervention (pci) is a rare complication . The reported incidence of cps ranges from 0.1% to 0.6%.1 - 7) most cps occur during the procedure, immediately after stenting or adjunctive ballooning . However, it is also well recognized that the hydrophilic wire...
The formation of new blood vessels within neoplasms, termed angiogenesis, provides the tumor tissues with oxygen and basic energetic compounds . An increase in tumor size necessarily requires a corresponding increase in vascularization that is assured by means of this complex dynamic process . In most human tumors, inc...
Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (itp) is an autoimmune disorder in which antibodies are directed against platelet surface antigens, causing a characteristic purpuric rash, or bleeding . Ophthalmic involvement is exceptionally rare.1 we report a patient with itp who developed spontaneous bilateral peripapillary, sub...
The etiology of aitd is multifactorial; interactions between genetic and environmental predisposing triggers lead to dysregulation of immune tolerance . The incidence of the two main clinical presentations of aitd, graves disease (gd) and hashimoto's thyroiditis (ht), is estimated at 5% of the population . Despite deve...
Multifunction filters are getting significant attention in current analog ic design due to their versatility as the same configuration can be used for various filter responses . In the literature, simo type active filters employing different active building blocks / devices are available in both current mode (cm) and v...
The international continence society defines nocturia as the need to void one or more times during the night, with each of the voids preceded and followed by sleep . Nocturia has the following two main causes: increased nocturnal urine volume and vesical instability.1 as one of the most common complaints in patients wi...
In general, declines in bodily function and cognition due to aging are considered normal and part of an inevitable process1 . Particularly, hearing loss causes social isolation, depression, and loss of self - esteem in older adults4, 5 . In the united states, hearing loss is the most common chronic condition of older p...
The current world health organization histologic classification of colorectal endocrine tumors includes well - differentiated neuroendocrine neoplasms, well - differentiated neuroendocrine carcinomas, and poorly - differentiated neuroendocrine carcinomas . Neuroendocrine carcinomas of the colon and rectum are rare, rep...
Two main groups of materials used in fixed orthodontics are brackets and archwires . In the case of brackets, the latter produces less frictional force against conventional (uncoated) archwires . In terms of archwires, fiber - reinforced composite archwire is still at laboratory level, and coated metallic archwire, whi...
Cancer of the uterine cervix is the commonest malignancy affecting women in developing countries, including india and its incidence is second to the breast cancer globally accounting for 15% of all new female cancers . Mortality related to the cervical cancer has shown a decline worldwide due to its early detection and...
Cnvs are the presence of segments of dna longer than 1 kb with> 90% sequence identity which differ in the number of copies between the genomes of different individuals . They affect more nucleotides per genome than snp variation and contribute significantly to variation among normal individuals, both in levels of gene ...
As early as 1989, lind et al . Showed in a small cohort that there was a positive relationship between the tissue insulin sensitivity and the serum concentrations of 25-hydroxyvitamin d (25-ohd). Later, several epidemiologic studies have suggested that 25-ohd status is inversely associated with metabolic syndrome in we...
Unilateral nevoid telangiectasia (unt) is a rare, usually acquired condition described for the first time by blaschko in 1899 and counted among the primary telangiectases . The exact pathogenesis still remains unknown although some authors believe in a strong association with a hyperestrogenic state . Endothelial cells...
The data source for this research was the american heart association and american stroke association get with the guidelines stroke (gwtg - stroke) registry . Details of the design and conduct of the gwtg - stroke program have been published previously.17,18 briefly, gwtg - stroke is an initiative to improve the qualit...
Peroxisome proliferator activated receptor (ppar) belongs to the nuclear receptor superfamily and functions as a ligand - activated transcription factor that forms a heterodimer complex with retinoid x receptor (rxr). This complex then binds to a specific dna sequence called the peroxisome proliferator response element...
Sensory gating, which is often described as an ability to filter out irrelevant information that is repeated in close temporal proximity, is essential for the selection, processing, and storage of more salient information [13]. On the one hand, it protects the brain from an overload of sensory information . On the othe...
Root canal systems resemble river systems in many ways . Both follow highly variable and unpredictable pathways . The canal morphology often is complex and unpredictable, severely limiting the practitioner's capabilities and posing challenges to modern medicines, materials and instruments . The past decade has seen man...
Hepatitis b virus (hbv) infection remains a major health problem, even though methods for preventing vertical transmission and treatment guidelines have been introduced . Hbv is particularly endemic in sub - saharan africa, the pacific, and asia . It frequently causes chronic hepatitis, which, subsequently, progresses ...
Molecular dynamics (md) simulations have become a popular method for examining dynamical properties of large biological systems . These systems typically consist of thousands of degrees of freedom (dof), rendering all but the most trivial quantitative analysis of the trajectory prohibitively complex . One interesting p...
We report a case of metastasis to the proximal phalanx of the left hand as the initial manifestation of a lung adenocarcinoma . A 61-year - old male smoker presented in december 2013 at the chu sud runion with pain in his left ring finger and in the ribs, both secondary to indirect trauma a few weeks ago . He had no ot...
Hymenoptera possess a huge variety of exocrine glands (e.g., hlldobler and wilson 1990). The chemistry and function of different types of these have been studied for a number of social species, whereas comparatively little is known from solitary bees and wasps . Recently, a postpharyngeal gland (ppg) has been described...
Spectral domain optical coherence tomography (sd - oct) is a noninvasive modality for acquiring high resolution, 3d cross - sectional images of the retina, and is today the most important ancillary test for the diagnosis and management of macular diseases . Usually, serial oct acquisitions are compared over time to det...
Encephalopathy with status epilepticus during sleep (eses), is an epileptic encephalopathy, a condition in which the epileptic processes themselves are believed to contribute to the disturbance in cerebral function it is characterised by heterogeneous clinical manifestations and a specific electroencephalographic (eeg)...
Incontinentia pigmenti (bloch sulzberger syndrome), a rare, hereditary syndrome inherited by x - linked dominant gene, primarily affects female infants and is lethal in males . The ip gene has been mapped to xq28, which encodes nuclear factor b essential modulator (nemo). The clinical manifestations include vesicular, ...
The act looked to expand healthcare coverage to the 46.6 million uninsured while controlling costs specifically related to the inefficiencies of medicare . Procedures and tests within other specialties have been scrutinized; however, diagnostic imaging, in particular, has been the focus of such cost - cutting measures ...
More than 80% of the inhaled styrene undergoes bioactivation to styrene oxide (so) by cytochrome p450 mono - oxygenases . So is widely used also in industries as a diluent for epoxy resins and as a chemical intermediate in the manufacturing of cosmetics, agricultural chemicals, and surface coatings . A review of the li...
Secondary leukemia or de novo leukemia should be considered when a new leukemia develops after successful treatment of various malignancies . Secondary leukemia refers to the appearance of a new, biologically - unrelated leukemia different from the primary malignancy, following the treatment of the primary malignancy; ...
Toluidine blue (also known as tolonium chloride) is an acidophilic metachromatic dye that selectively stains acidic tissue components (sulfates, carboxylates, and phosphate radicals). Toluidine blue (tb) has an affinity for nucleic acids, and therefore binds to nuclear material of tissues with a high dna and rna conten...
The development of efficient metal - based anticancer drugs currently still is a scientific challenge . The design of such species requires careful selection of the metal center and ligands surrounding their coordination sphere in order to achieve the desired biological activity but, keeping in mind that it is also des...
Alzheimer's disease (ad) is the most common form of dementia in elderly people and is characterized by chronic cortical atrophy and neurodegeneration, resulting in behavioral changes, loss of memory and language function, and general cognitive decline . It is an irreversible and progressive brain disease and usually di...
This year in the united states approximately 24,000 women will be diagnosed with ovarian cancer, and there will be approximately 14,000 associated deaths, predominantly from epithelial ovarian cancer (eoc). Worldwide, it is estimated that 204,449 patients with ovarian cancer will be diagnosed this year with an estimate...
Bronchobiliary fistula (bbf) is a very rare condition defined as an abnormal communication between the biliary tree and bronchial tree . It was first reported by peakcock in 1850.1 the causes of acquired bbf are as follows: consequence of local infection such as hydatid or liver abscess, trauma, obstruction of biliary ...
Non - suicidal self - injury (nssi) is defined in the available psychological literature as the self - inflicted, direct, socially unacceptable destruction, or alteration of body tissue that occur[s] in the absence of conscious suicidal intent or pervasive developmental disorder . Nssi has been recently included as a d...
A 72-year - old man with a history of melanoma in situ presented for his regular follow - up visit . The nodule was not present in the previous visit held six months earlier (figures 1, a and b). The dermoscopic examination revealed a nonpigmented lesion characterized by a polymorphous vascular pattern, consisting of d...
The use of normative grip strength data at followup is difficult because of the influence of growth and neuromuscular maturation . As an alternative, infant welfare centers throughout the world use growth diagrams to observe normative growth . The aim of this study was to develop similar growth diagrams for grip streng...
The popularization and constant technological advances of computers have made them a necessary and almost inevitable item in many people s lives . Unfortunately, people with medullary lesions or some sort of condition that impedes movement of the upper limbs are unable to adequately use the standard interfaces or devic...
It is also a fundamental culprit in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis, a chronic vascular disease that underlies the development of circulatory problems including coronary artery disease and cerebrovascular disease . In these scenarios, atherosclerosis runs a silent asymptomatic course, until stenosis or plaque ruptu...
Infective endocarditis (ie) is an infection of the endocardial surface of the heart . Ie also produces a wide variety of systemic signs and symptoms through several mechanisms, including both sterile and infected emboli and various immunological phenomena . Subacute left - sided bacterial endocarditis is a serious cond...
Physicians who were aware of the study alerted our team of investigators to patients> 18 years of age who had reported fever during february december 2013 . Alternative syndromes that warranted exclusion included skin and soft tissue infections, urinary tract infections, cavitary or lobar pneumonia, and pyogenic intraa...
Fecal incontinence is often defined as the involuntary passage or inability to control the discharge of fecal matter through the anus, and affects up to 7.1% of individuals in the united states . Fecal incontinence not only causes considerable embarrassment, but it reduces self - esteem, induces social isolation, and i...
Sample preparation: the dna origami structure was designed by using cadnano software (version 0.2.3; http://cadnano.org/legacy;7 design schematics in figure s1). Curvature along the length of the lever was introduced by a pattern of base deletions and insertions as described previously (deletion pattern in figure s2).1...
Pal has been isolated and characterized from a number of plant species, some fungi and few bacterial sources . They include seedlings, shoots, leaf - sheath, cell culture [17 - 19], fruit, mycelium [21, 22], and prokaryotic cells . Most known pal sources for enzyme isolation and its properties are well tabulated and do...
Implant dentistry initially aimed to restore fully edentulous arches using implant - fixed complete dentures . With the high success rates that followed, the principles of the implant treatment were applied in the restoration of partially edentulous patients . Further, objectives include the long - term functional stab...
Both the patients gave history of persistent dark spot (positive scotoma) near the center of vision and complained of inability to focus on the welding spot . On examination, visual acuity was reduced in both eyes to 6/18 (partial) of patient 1 and only one eye of patient 2 . Ophthalmoscopic examination of the fundus r...
Worldwide postpartum infection is estimated to occur in 6% of all deliveries 2 and cause 510% of all maternal deaths 3 . It is a serious, rapidly progressive, and life - threatening condition . Despite preventive efforts, antibiotic and early treatment intervention, severe complications can occur primary caused by the ...
The microorganisms that have been associated with this disease include streptococcus mutans, lactobacilli and candida albicans, among others . C. albicans is a highly acid - tolerant yeast . It is able to secrete organic acids and reduce the salivary ph to a value lower than that produced by streptococcus mutans . Sick...
Cervical carcinoma is the most common malignancy in women in india and second only to breast cancer in women in worldwide data . Hematogenous dissemination usually occurs with more advanced disease, poorly differentiated tumors, and aggressive cell types such as adenosquamous or neuroendocrine tumors . Skeletal muscle ...
The end plate is a bilayer of cartilage and bone that separates the intervertebral disks from the adjacent vertebrae (fig . The future vertebra starts as a cartilage anlagen that arises from chondrification centers of the sclerotomes during the sixth embryonic week (fig . 2).7 the anlagen begins ossification at its cen...
During follicular development, mammalian oocyte acquires a series of competencies that play critical roles at fertilization and subsequent stages of embryonic development . Recent studies indicate that these competencies involve remodeling of chromatin occurring in the germinal vesicle (gv), when gamete and somatic cel...
The carney complex (cnc) is a rare dominantly inherited syndrome characterized by skin pigment abnormalities, endocrine over activity and cardiac myxomas . About 600 patients worldwide have been reported by the national institute of health (nih) - mayo clinic (usa) and the cochin centre (france) by january 2008 . Cardi...
During the last decade, dyssynchronous heart failure has become recognized as a special form of heart failure . Patients with heart failure and dyssynchrony respond differently to various therapies, including cardiac resynchronization therapy (crt) [72, 92]. Dyssynchrony has become the term that is used for either non ...
The air / water interface is characterized by a discontinuity and asymmetry in intermolecular interactions, which results in molecular properties that differ from the bulk . For instance, it has been shown that molecules residing at the surface can show a different molecular conformation . The degree of acid dissociati...
Uveitis is a sight - threatening disease, and may be associated with other systemic diseases . It is the fifth most common cause of severe visual loss in the developed world, and up to 20% of legal blindness is due to complications of uveitis.12 it may be due various infectious, immunological, and sometimes unknown age...
The identification and appropriate treatment of subaxial cervical - spine injuries is essential to optimize outcomes . Injuries to the cervical spine are present in only 1%3% of people who sustain blunt trauma; however, the morbidity and mortality associated with these injuries can be devastating 1,2 . Numerous classif...
A 15-year - old boy received 2 tick bites near the village of glubinnoe, in the northern part of primorsky district, on may 30 and june 1, 2004, respectively . The first prodromal symptoms developed on june 8 . A high fever with strong headache and paresis of cervical muscles developed in the next 2 days . On june 11, ...
Periodontitis is a chronic inflammatory disease, which is characterized by the irreversible destruction of the tooth - supporting tissues, that is, periodontium . The periodontium consists of the gingiva, periodontal ligament (pdl), root cementum, and alveolar bone . Periodontopathogens, such as porphyromonas gingivali...
In 2012, prostate cancer was the fifth most commonly diagnosed malignancy in korean men, with an estimated 9,258 new cases detected annually . Nearly 50,000 korean men are living with prostate cancer, of whom 1,460 die from the disease each year . Compared with western countries, prostate cancer is less common in korea...
A common feature of huntington disease (hd), an autosomal dominant condition, is a severe loss of neurons in striatum, the main information processing unit of the basal ganglia . Ample evidence obtained from transgenic mice that model hd indicates that prior to the death of these neurons, they become dysfunctional and ...
Diabetic polyneuropathy (dpn) is the most common long - term complication in diabetes mellitus and affects more than 50% of patients1 . Dpn can affect any part of the nervous system (distal, proximal, large, small, motor, or autonomic fibers). Accurate diagnosis of peripheral neuropathies is possible with the use of cl...
The influence of polymorphisms in different genes is involved on the metabolism of chemotherapeutic agents and it has been studied especially in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (all). Despite actual chemotherapy protocols cure almost 80% of pediatric patients with all, the majority of adult patients still die fr...
Gastric cancer is the fourth most common cancer and second leading cause of cancer - related deaths worldwide . It has been estimated that there were 21,000 new cases of gastric cancer and 10,570 deaths from gastric cancer in the united states in 2010 . Present with locally advanced disease in which the tumor penetrate...
Malaria is the most important parasitic disease worldwide . It is present in more than 100 countries, putting 1.2 billion people at risk and accounting for more than 800 thousand deaths each year [1, 2]. Cerebral malaria (cm) is the most severe form of malaria and is usually found in children under five years old . Cli...
In resource - rich settings, echinocandins are the antifungal agents of choice for invasive infections caused by candida glabrata due to the relative resistance of this species to azole antifungals . Anidulafungin, caspofungin and micafungin disrupt the synthesis of -1,3-d - glucan, an essential fungal cell wall compon...
Loss of cardiac resynchronization therapy (crt) is a frequent problem that limits the potential benefits associated with this form of non - pharmacological treatment for patients with heart failure.1 it usually occurs in consequence of loss of left ventricular (lv) and right ventricle (rv) capture, loss of atrial sensi...
The study included 22 synthesized thioamide derivatives with 1.3 and 1.2 ring of thiazole, as well as 1,3,4 ring of thiadiazole and pyrazole (table 1). . 1) are provided with a 2,4-dihydroxyphenyl substituent determining the chemical properties and biological efficacy . Chemical structures and analytical data of 2,4-di...
Since the identification of cyp24a1 mutations in children with idiopathic infantile hypercalcaemia, the spectrum of phenotypes attributable to cyp24a1 variants has been expanded, with cyp24a1 mutations identified in cases of idiopathic calcium stone formation and nephrocalcinosis [14]. Cyp24a1 encodes the vitamin d 24-...
Recently, there has been a resurgence of tuberculosis (tb) in developing and developed countries although mostly due to the increasing prevalence of hiv24). Tuberculosis infection involving the spine may be classified as pott's spine and pott's paraplegia, nonosseous spinal tuberculoma (extradural, intradural extramedu...
Fire 3, which is the first head - to - head comparison between two biological agents for the treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer, has been designed to answer this question . This study compared folfiri plus cetuximab with folfiri plus bevacizumab (bev) in the first - line setting for patients with kras wild type ...
The eligible population comprised 151,347 employees with an employment contract between 1995 and 2005 with a record linkage to national health registers through unique personal identification codes, which are assigned to all citizens in finland . For all the participants in the eligible population, the linkage to regis...
Adult b6c3f1 male mice, 67 weeks of age, were kept in animal facility maintaining 22 + / 1 c temperature, 50 + / blind so that the personnel involved in randomization and tce exposures were different from those evaluating the biological end - points . After 7 days of quarantine period, a randomized block design was use...
A 13-year - old male child presented at this tertiary care center with gradual onset loss of vision over a period of 3 years . There was no history of pain, redness, watering, floaters, photopsia, ocular or head trauma, prior ocular surgery, systemic illness / chronic drug therapy, headache, vomiting, or seizures . The...
Durum) is a tetraploid species widely cultivated in the mediterranean basin, canada, usa, argentina and india (blanco et al ., 1998). In tunisia, durum wheat is the primary cultivated crop and occupies more than half of the area dedicated to cereal crops (bnejdi and el gazzah, 2008). Information regarding the nature an...
Historically, medical care systems were developed and organized to diagnose and treat acute illnesses or injuries . Health care professionals, patients, and families focused on rapid identification and resolution of the acute medical problem with infectious diseases being the prototype for this type of patient - physic...
Over the past several years, the implementation of electronic health records (ehrs) has dominated the many changes to outpatient primary care practice, and has resulted in wholesale changes to office workflow as the use of paper for most office functions is phased out.13 there is great interest in learning how best to ...
A 29-year - old woman presenting with lower - extremity pain and walking difficulties was referred by the department of neuropsychiatry to our clinic . Her pain, which was in the toes, was described as continuous, throbbing, crushing, and burning, and its intensity was registered as 8 on the 11-point numeric rating sca...
Of the main anthelmintic drug classes, the benzimidazoles (bzs) have been most widely used since their release / launch onto the market in the 1960s for helminth control in livestock . Bzs represent a class of broad - spectrum anthelmintic substances including several chemical compounds which all share the same mode of...
Several reports on intracranial arachnoid cysts (acs) have placed special emphasis on their association with hydrocephalus, and in the majority of these reports an effort was made to explain the linkage between hydrocephalus development and acs.5)11)12) however, somewhat surprisingly, little is known about the associat...
Given the recent changes in the world population pyramid, aging is currently considered as one of the most critical health issues worldwide (1). It is estimated that the elderly population will grow from 600 million in 2000 to more than two billion in 2050 (2, 3) it was five million in 2006 and has been estimated to do...
Foreign bodies may be ingested, inserted into a body cavity, or deposited into the body by traumatic or iatrogenic injury . Motor vehicle accidents, assaults, and bullet wounds are a common cause for traumatic foreign bodies . The more common iatrogenic lesions include apical deposition of endodontic materials, mucosal...
Metal organic frameworks (mofs) are highly porous solids generally obtained through solvothermal synthesis.1 they consist of metalcontaining inorganic clusters joined by organic linkers and have been of high interest recently due to their large range of potential applications in areas, such as catalysis,2 sensing3 and ...
The incidence of cancer is rising more rapidly in developing rather than industrialized countries . While 14.1 million new cancer cases and 8.2 million cancer deaths were reported worldwide in 2012, 57% (8 million) of new cancer cases and 65% (5.3 million) of the cancer deaths occurred in the less developed countries ....
Fibromyalgia is a characterized subgroup of patients presenting with chronic widespread pain (cwp) and widespread mechanical hyperalgesia . These characteristics are enshrined in the 1990-acr criteria that have been the cornerstone for research studies of the past 2 decades . Contemporary research in subjects fulfillin...
Alzheimer's disease (ad) is a neurodegenerative process whose prevalence increases with age . More than 90% of ad cases are sporadic, and only a little percentage has a clear genetic cause [24]. The main clinical feature of ad at onset is memory loss, accompanied by behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (bp...
More than 20% of japanese people 75 years old have received certification of a need for long - term care from the government.2 human aging often entails conditions such as frailty and disability for a while before death3 but varies widely between individuals . Several reports demonstrated frailty as a predictor of adve...
Small cell carcinoma (scc) originates from neuroendocrine cells, frequently found in the lung . Neuroendocrine cells are distributed in various organs such as the gastrointestinal tract and the thyroid gland; thus, extra - pulmonary scc, although very low in incidence, can be found throughout the body as a rare type of...
Over several decades, the pharmaceutical industry has become heavily reliant on demonstrating functionality in animal models, especially mouse models, as a way to characterize and select vaccine formulations . However, it is becoming increasingly clear that animal testing may not always accurately reflect the response ...
This little and plain part of the human organism has various functions and its abnormalities might cause serious disabilities . In our case report, we present a unique deformity of the uvula in a 56-year - old woman . The aim of this report was to present a very rare condition, unique case uvula is mucosa covered muscu...
Poverty causes human rights violations as those living in extreme poverty were not treated as human beings worthy of human rights, and are discriminated against, often exploited, marginalized and stigmatized, and denied access to rights and resources . Of its nearly 1 billion inhabitants, an estimated 350 - 400 million...
A typical characteristic of dermatophytes is keratinophilic and always invades keratinized structures such as the skin stratum corneum, hairs, and nails . The infection caused by t. rubrum, except for diffusing into the deeper parts of the body in some immunosuppressed patients, is normally limited to the superficial s...
Hepatitis a virus (hav) and hepatitis e virus (hev) are the leading causes of acute viral hepatitis worldwide (1). Although these viruses spread by the fecal - oral route or through contaminated water, hev can be transmitted through animals to humans from exposure to infectious body fluids of infected animals, transfus...
It has been suggested that chronic autoimmune urticaria (cau) in some patients may be associated with systemic autoimmune disorders, commonly hashimoto's thyroiditis . It may thus be hypothesized that a positive asst in cau may be associated with the presence of antithyroid microsomal antibodies (ama) in the serum . Th...
Male landrace pigs (19 to 26 kg) were pre - dosed orally with aspirin and clopidogrel 24 h before surgery, and they were maintained on this dual antiplatelet therapy throughout the study to reduce the risk of in - stent thrombosis . Vascular access was obtained by femoral artery cutdown and the insertion of a 6-f trans...