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Tuberculosis (tb) affects the economically productive age group and has emerged as a significant cause of socio economic burden . Many indian children have to leave school permanently and have to take up jobs in order to supplement the household income because of their parent's tb and more women were rejected by their ... |
Nucleotide substitutions found after comparison of each new allele's sequence with their most homologous allele table s2 . Origin and hla phenotypes of potential stem cell donors carrying new hla alleles table s3 . Broad ethnic categories used to classify ethnicity data from potential donors registered with dkms in the... |
Two objectives were pursued during this acute experiment - 1) validate a new animal model able to constitute a trade - off between small animal species and human for spinal cord stimulation purposes and 2) assess direct spinal stimulation impact on animal bladder and bowel functions accordingly, the implemented experim... |
Cerebral amyloid angiopathy (caa) is characterized by the deposition of beta amyloid proteins within the cortical and leptomeningeal vessels . It is a common pathological finding in elderly patients, regardless of concomitant cognitive impairment, and 1040% of elderly brains have pathological evidence of amyloid deposi... |
Parental obesity increases the risk of obesity in offspring through genetic, biological, and environmental influences [13]. Maternal obesity, weight gain, and increased body mass index (bmi) between pregnancies and gestational diabetes increase risks of offspring obesity, type 2 diabetes mellitus (t2 dm), and cardiovas... |
With encouraging results obtained in the first part of the study, a clinical study was planned with the purpose to evaluate the clinical efficacy and remineralization potential of two high fluoride releasing materials, i.e. Glass ionomer type vii (gc vii) and silver diamine fluoride (sdf) as indirect pulp capping mater... |
Recently, it has been suggested that infection with helicobacter pylori may have a pathogenic role in diabetes mellitus.13 however, there is no definite evidence regarding the role of h. pylori infection that may cause insulin resistance . In the present study, we aimed to elucidate whether h. pylori deteriorates glyce... |
The ultimate goal of periodontal therapy is the regeneration of periodontal tissues that have been destroyed due to periodontal disease . Periodontal regeneration is the reconstruction of the lost tissues as evidenced histologically in the formation of new cementum, new alveolar bone, and functionally oriented periodon... |
Corticosteroids are used in preterm infants to suppress inflammation, to facilitate extubation, and/or to prevent chronic lung diseases [13]. However, such early dexamethasone (dex) therapy can result in an adverse neurodevelopmental outcome [4, 5]. For example, dex treatment reduces cerebral gray matter volume without... |
Benth (leguminosae), popularly known as mucun, mucun - de - caroo, and olho - de - boi or bull's eye, is a vine that grows in the caatinga and cerrado regions of northeastern brazil . In folk medicine, the seed and root bark of this plant have been widely used to treat prostate disorders and kidney stones . Previous st... |
In the previous issue of critical care, gu and colleagues report the results of a systematic review and meta - analysis of oral hygiene with and without a toothbrush on ventilator - associated pneumonia (vap). Over the past two decades an increasing body of data has demonstrated that poor oral hygiene increases the inc... |
Current interest in the role of environmental microbial exposure as a determinant of susceptibility to allergic diseases dates back to the hallmark publication by strachan (1989) introducing the hygiene hypothesis, which inferred from epidemiological evidence that shared infections between siblings during early life pr... |
Although patients have been receiving assistance one way or another for as long as peritoneal dialysis (pd) has been in existence, assisted automated peritoneal dialysis (aapd) is becoming increasingly recognized as a distinct dialysis modality . Assistance may be provided by trained members of the family, paid nurses ... |
Aging liver exhibits metabolic alteration, slower hepatic clearance, fibrosis, reduced blood flow, and perfusion . Ultrastructure of the sinusoids also undergoes changes that are characterized with narrowing of sinusoidal diameter, reduced fenestration, and thickening of the endothelial wall of the capillary [4, 5]. He... |
For this study, we selected 20 patients at seoul national university hospital in south korea who had undergone hepatic resection due to hcc from july to september, 2010 . These patients have clinical evidence of chronic hepatitis b, such as serologic evidence of virus, more than 6 months of abnormal liver function, or ... |
Is required when performing activities in narrow spaces, such as a kitchen or bathroom . In community - dwelling elderly individuals, hip fractures are eight times more likely to result from falls sustained while turning than from falls sustained while walking2 . Walking and turning are the main contributors to recentl... |
Patients with retinal degeneration (n = 5) and subjects with healthy vision (n = 5) participated in this study (table). All subjects had complete clinical ocular examinations, including best - corrected visual acuity . All testing was performed with dilated pupils . The tenets of the declaration of helsinki were follow... |
Candida albicans is unique among major pathogenic fungi in that it is intimately associated with human hosts (1). Primary infection with c. albicans occurs from acquisition of maternal flora in the perinatal period and is followed by a state of colonization, which evolves into a state of commensalism, except in rare ca... |
The complex rumen microbiome plays essential roles in digesting feeds and supplying nutrients to host animals . To positively affect rumen functions, dietary interventions have been attempted to modulate this microbiome . The rumen microbiome as a whole and its individual populations are often analyzed to unveil the un... |
Traumatic bone cyst (tbc) is an uncommon non - epithelial lined cavity of the jaws . Traumatic bone cysts have been reported in the literature under a variety of names: solitary bone cyst, haemorrhagic bone cyst, extravasation cyst and simple bone cyst . The multitude of names applied to this lesion implies the lack of... |
Dental plaque is implicated in the etiology of dental caries, gingivitis and periodontitis, therefore the removal of plaque is thought to play a key role in the prevention of these diseases . The relationship between plaque levels (oral hygiene) and periodontal disease is complex and not well understood . Similarly, wh... |
Seto et al . (13) reported successful results in four patients that underwent an esophageal bypass using a gastric bypass and cardiostomy . This treatment is palliative and involves the restoration of the ability to ingest food and to prevent aspiration by inserting an esophageal or airway stent in most cases . Radiati... |
Terrien's marginal degeneration (tmd) is a rare peripheral corneal ectatic disorder typically occurring in males over 40 years old1 with a variant with episodic inflammation occurring in younger patients.2 initial management involves prescription of glasses or contact lenses for astigmatism, however, surgical intervent... |
Hepatitis c virus (hcv) infection is one of the most important health issues throughout the world . However, such crude estimates might mask significant differences in prevalence rates among countries, and even in different parts of the same country . According to data reported by the world health organization, worldwi... |
Hirschsprung's disease (hd) is a motor disorder of the gastrointestinal tract that is caused by a failure of neural crest cell migration during intestinal development . The incidence of hd is approximately one in 5,000 live births,1 and the main treatment is surgical resection of the affected segment . Most patients ex... |
The saliva is believed to be an important regulatory factor in the process of caries formation . The flow rate and consistency of the saliva, its buffering capacity, remineralization and anti - microbial properties as well as the presence of immunological factors in the saliva affect the process of caries formation . D... |
Expansion of polyglutamine (polyq) domains causes inherited neurodegenerative diseases, such as huntingtons, disease, various types of spinocerebellar ataxia, and spinobulbar muscular atrophy (sbma) [1, 2]. The formation of intranuclear inclusions of polyq - containing proteins in the brain is one of the pathological f... |
Central nervous system (cns) tumors are the tenth most common tumors in adults constituting 1.3% of all cancers and are the seventh leading cause of mortality in the developed countries . Intraoperative cytology preparation was first introduced by eisenhardt and cushing in the early 1930 and badt in 1937 . This feature... |
We identified all patients with pe discharged from nongovernmental acute care hospitals in pennsylvania (from 1 january 2000 to 30 november 2002) using the pennsylvania health care cost containment council (phc4) database . This database contains information on demographic characteristics, insurance status, icd-9 clini... |
Bacterial meningitis has an annual incidence of 46 cases per 100 000 adults and results in approximately 135 000 deaths worldwide each year . Since the development of the haemophilus influenzae type b vaccine, the most common bacterial pathogen for community - acquired meningitis is streptococcus pneumoniae which has a... |
Rarely, it shows unusual growth patterns with associated extrauterine smooth muscle deposits that seem to be derived from a benign uterine leiomyoma (benign metastasizing leiomyoma, bml). Hendrickson and kempson defined bml as a muscle tumor in association with one or more smooth muscle tumors of the uterus and without... |
Vps4b, a member of the aaa (atpases associated with diverse cellular activities) protein family, plays an important role in the lysosomal degradation pathway, which functions in ligand - induced membrane receptor downregulation . In lysosomal degradation, endocytosed receptors are sorted into multivesicular bodies (mvb... |
Adynamic bone disease and secondary hyperparathyroidism are associated with not only viability and quality of life (qol) but also mortality in long - term dialysis patients . It is generally considered that ca and bone metabolism between peritoneal dialysis (pd) and hemodialysis (hd) patients provided remarkable differ... |
The maxillary sinus is the first of the paranasal sinuses to develop, and its growth ends with the eruption of the third molars at approximately 20 years of age.1 the inferior sinus wall is a curved structure formed by the lower third of the medial wall and the buccoalveolar wall,2 and the floor is formed by the alveol... |
Rarely a wire may break inside the bone and protrude into the neighboring joint, necessitating its removal in order to avoid damage to articular cartilage and consequent early degenerative arthritis . Several techniques have been described for the removal of a broken intramedullary nail.15 bone endoscopy (actually medu... |
The explicit encoding of the duration of events within the sub - second range is crucial for a number of everyday tasks from timing action such as deciding when to step onto an escalator or when to move off at traffic lights to picking up social signals encoded in the duration of mutual gaze . However, the mechanisms u... |
In a recent issue of critical care, pan and colleagues report the largest study to date on blood plasma - type gelsolin (pgsn) as a promising biomarker in subarachnoid hemorrhage (sah). In a cohort of 262 well characterized sah patients and 150 control subjects, pan and colleagues found that low blood pgsn (compared to... |
This article explores how these goals have been implemented through the research program of 1 small commodity board, the california dried plum board (cdpb). The cdpb obtains funds for research through a grower's check - off program, which supports a limited number of projects on dried plums (also known as prunes) based... |
One hundred years after carlos chagas identified and described the trypanosoma cruzi (t. cruzi) infection, there are still millions of infected people and thousands of newly diagnosed cases each year with chagas disease (cd). The scientific community has intermittently increased the knowledge and understanding of how t... |
To control the thermal landscape, we developed an array of sixty - four 1 inch - square individually addressable thermoelectric modules arranged in an 88 grid (fig . This array forms the floor of our test arena and is covered with black masking tape . To confine flies to this surface, a 3 mm high, 8 inch diameter heate... |
Postoperative cognitive dysfunction (pocd) is a subtle disorder of thought processes, which may influence isolated domains of cognition such as verbal memory, visual memory, language comprehension, visuospatial abstraction, attention, or concentration . It is to be distinguished from postoperative delirium, which tends... |
Such techniques involve remote manipulations of tissues with thin instruments directed through small incisions made into an abdomen distended with gas . The surgeon interacts with images created by a camera lens assembly and displayed on a video monitor . Surgeons accustomed to traditional techniques experience difficu... |
The slc25a13 gene on chromosome 7q21.3 is known to be responsible for adult - onset type ii citrullinemia (ctln2). The slc25a13 gene consists of 18 exons and encodes a liver - type mitochondrial aspartate - glutamate carrier named citrin (1, 2), which plays an important role in malate - aspartate nadh shuttling, urea s... |
According to the world health organization (who), stroke is a fatal cerebrovascular disease and the second most prevalent cause of deaths worldwide1 . Visual, perceptual, cognitive, and motor control problems are experienced by stroke patients, and these lead to difficulties during functional activities of daily life2,... |
Angiokeratoma corporis diffusum (fabry disease) is a widespread form associated with deficiency of galactosidase a. the localized form includes solitary angiokeratoma, angiokeratoma circumscriptum neviforme, angiokeratoma of mibelli and angiokeratoma of fordyce . Angiokeratoma of fordyce is the commonest type of angiok... |
It is well known that g - rich sequences can adopt unusual dna secondary structures with biological significance, the g - quadruplexes . These structures are four - stranded helical complexes, composed of stacks of g - tetrads, a cyclic array of four guanine bases which are connected by hoogsteen hydrogen bonding . The... |
The primary pathology is the discordance between the diameter of the flexor tendons of the finger and the fibro - osseous canals in which those tendons lie, which will lead to limitation of the tendon function necessary for hand movement . When the finger is flexed, catching or locking occurs . Steroid and local anesth... |
During a 7-week period, all ethnic chinese people with diabetes born outside of australia and who have resided in australia for at least 1 year were approached to complete the translated phq-9 questionnaire and a combined questionnaire about their sociodemographic and diabetes - related clinical data . This took place ... |
One aim of nursing education is to motivate nurses to acquire skills for offering appropriate quality health care services to patients with multiple complex health problems . Studies have shown that, in the clinical setting, the most important barrier to clinical education is students' lack of interest and motivation .... |
Ehlers - danlos syndrome (eds) is a clinically, genetically and biochemically heterogeneous group of inherited connective tissue disorders . The major manifestations of eds are skin fragility, skin hyperextensibility and joint hypermobility [1, 2]. The disorder was first reported in 1668, but it was not until the early... |
Chemokines are a large family of structurally related proteins that play an essential role in leukocyte migration and differentiation . Chemokines are small soluble molecules that are important in the communication between different cells [3, 4]. In recent years, significant advances have been made in understanding the... |
In the healthy central nervous system (cns), microglial cells are the immune cells belonging to the innate part of the immune system . Beneficial functions of microglia include release of trophic and anti - inflammatory factors [1, 2] and clearance of cellular debris . In contrast, microglial cells can exhibit detrimen... |
Dry eye is a multifactorial disorder of the ocular surface characterized by symptoms of ocular discomfort and visual disturbance and is associated with reductions in the quality and/or quantity of tears . Symptoms of dry eye include eye irritation, stinging, dryness, eye fatigue, and fluctuating visual disturbances . D... |
Solar cells using hybrid perovskite semiconductors as the active material have recently seen a remarkable rise in performances with device efficiencies exceeding 20% . The recent renaissance of photovoltaic research has enabled hybrid mapbx3xyx (ma = ch3nh3; x, y = i, br, cl) perovskites, in their 3d structural form, t... |
Fabry disease (fd) is an x - linked recessive disorder caused by lysosomal -galactosidase a deficiency and is characterized by the systemic accumulation of globotriaosylceramide (1). Fd is recognized as a multiorgan disease with involvement of the heart, kidney, brain and gastrointestinal system (2). Recently, endocrin... |
Polyynes, and materials based on chains of linear sp carbon atoms, have long been a focus of research, as models for carbyne, the elusive 1d allotrope of carbon . This field has been stimulated by the extraordinary mechanical, charge - transport, and nonlinear optical properties of these materials and by the use of pol... |
Protein phosphorylation is an important and dynamic type of protein modification, orchestrating a variety of cellular signaling processes . About 2% of the human and mouse proteomes encode protein kinases (pks) with 518 and 540 distinct pks determined in human (1) and mouse (2), respectively . In vivo or in vitro ident... |
Ischaemic heart disease is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the western world . It was recently estimated that 935 000 new cases of acute coronary occlusion are identified each year in the usa . Several experimental studies have demonstrated that the region supplied by the occluded coronary artery, also ... |
A 31-year old female presented with palpitations during the first trimester of her pregnancy and was found to have an incessant long rp supraventricular tachycardia (svt). Her echo initially showed mild lv systolic dysfunction, normal biatrial / biventricular size and no valvular abnormalities . She was commenced on be... |
Red cell distribution width (rdw) serves as a parameter to measure variation in red blood cell size or red blood cell volume . The term width refers to the width of the volume distribution curve but not the actual width of the red blood cell . Rdw is calculated with the following formula: (standard deviation [sd] of me... |
Macroautophagy, which we will refer to as autophagy, is a highly conserved catabolic process in which cytoplasmic proteins and organelles are engulfed by double - membrane structures called autophagosomes, which are then transported to lysosomes for degradation . Autophagy is a key regulator of many physiological and d... |
Low birth weight (lbw) is associated with an increased risk for a number of conditions arising in adulthood, such as type 2 diabetes, dyslipidemia, coronary artery disease, essential hypertension, and cerebrovascular accidents . Insulin resistance (i.e., reduced insulin sensitivity) is a well - established, early metab... |
Angiogenesis is one of the crucial steps in tumor progression and metastasis [1, 2]. Due to the lack of oxygen supply and the accumulation of toxic products, avascular tumors and tumor metastases cannot grow beyond a critical size of 1 - 2 mm and thus will stay clinically occult [1, 3, 4]. Tumor vessels can grow by spr... |
These pathologic changes usually appear in individuals age 50 or over and result in alteration of central visual function . Lesions are associated with abnormalities of the retinal pigment epithelium and/or the sensory retina (cone and rod photoreceptors), and may be related to the appearance of drusen (hyaline deposit... |
However, the incidence of gbc is relatively high in korea, where it accounts for 6.3 per 100,000 individuals and is the sixth leading cause of cancer - related death . The prognosis of gbc is poor, with a 5-year overall survival (os) rate of 17% to 45%, even in patients treated with curative intent surgery [3 - 5]. Adv... |
It has been established that there are four main molecular breast cancer subtypes according to gene expression profiles that are: basal - like tumours, which mostly correspond to triple negative tumours, luminal a tumours, which are er (oestrogen receptor) positive tumours with low expression of proliferation genes, lu... |
Non - alcoholic fatty liver disease (nafld) is now regarded as the most common liver condition in the developed world, affecting up 30% of the population . It is closely linked with metabolic syndrome and its component parts including obesity, type ii diabetes mellitus, and dyslipidemia . Numerous pharmacological inter... |
The advent of effective chelation therapy in 1960s was a major milestone in the treatment of transfusion - dependent patients . Deferoxamine (dfo), a hexadentate chelator was introduced in 1970's and has been the standard of care until recently and had led to dramatic strides in the survival of thalassemia patients . D... |
In the last three decades, moral distress has been regarded as a growing concern in the health care system and has turned to a focus of research in health care . Researchers and theorists have proven that moral distress has both short- and long - term consequences such as job dissatisfaction of health care providers, b... |
Electronic digital technology innovates the production and transport of clinical information with unprecedented speed and quantity . We may feel overwhelmed with the massive wealth of clinical information in journals . Statistically trained eyes and minds to see the major points of data and judge the validity of data q... |
In diabetes mellitus, high blood glucose levels and advanced glycosylation end products cause constriction and leakage of retinal vasculature, thickening of the basement membrane, and pericyte apoptosis.14 this damage to the vasculature results in ischemia, promoting a cascade of molecular processes including upregulat... |
A 50 year old male patient suffered from a systemic febrile sensation, edema, and pain at his first day of admission . The patient had a prior history of disc replacement surgery using an artificial disc between his fifth lumbar vertebra and first sacral vertebra performed approximately 18 months earlier but no other s... |
Buprenorphine (1a, chart 1) is widely used for the treatment of opioid abuse and as an analgesic . Its mu opioid receptor (mopr) partial agonist character is of primary importance for both indications, but it is apparent that activity at other receptors, in particular, antagonism at the kappa opioid receptor (kopr), ma... |
Preservation of residual renal function (rrf) is important not only for predialysis esrd patients but also for the patients undergoing the dialysis . Rrf is a well - established predictor of the outcome and survival rate in dialysis patients . Prospective randomized trials of dialysis adequacy and many observational st... |
Pleural tuberculosis is the most common extra pulmonary form of tuberculosis in adults, particularly in countries where the prevalence of the disease is high or moderate () () (1 - 3). Although pulmonary tuberculosis can be a manifestation of primary infection, it is most commonly associated with the reactivation of pr... |
Methadone maintenance treatment (mmt) is one of the most effective treatment methods in opioid dependence worldwide (1 - 3). Retention in treatment is a key factor for a successful mmt and considered critical in evaluation of treatment effectiveness (4 - 8). Longer retention in treatment is the most important factor an... |
Type 1 diabetes mellitus (t1 dm) is identified by the progressive autoimmune destruction of pancreatic beta cells, which results in a dramatic decrease of insulin production and consequent metabolic complications . Transplantation of human cadaveric pancreas or allogeneic islet cells could be considered therapeutic in ... |
Within the british national health service (nhs), laparoscopic resection is recommended by the national institute for health and care excellence (nice) as an alternative to open surgery for people with colorectal cancer for whom both methods would be considered suitable, and if performed by a trained surgeon.1 a health... |
We used intrinsic signal optical imaging to reveal feature preference maps for orientation and color in dorsal v4 of macaque monkeys performing a fixation task . Imaging fields of view included a portion of v4 representing the central visual field (<7 eccentricity) and, in some cases, a portion of v2 along the lunate s... |
The second edition of the international classification of headache disorders (ichd - ii, 2004) includes forms of primary headache in which the headache symptom is the disorder, and forms of secondary headache that are attributed to underlying pathological conditions . According to this classification, to establish a di... |
It mimics a number of other clinical conditions such as ganglion, de quervan s disease, carpal tunnel syndrome, granulomatous gout, neurofibroma, and haemangioma . We present case of 58-year - old male patient with swelling over thenar region of left hand where the initial fine needle aspiration cytology (fnac) report ... |
Dermoscopy is mainly used to examine pigmented skin lesions; however, recently, it has been expanded and utilized extensively in dermatology for the identification of different structures and colors not seen by the naked eye . Recently, many studies have been published showing the effectiveness of this equipment in the... |
The present analyses were performed in the rotterdam study, an ongoing population - based study on the determinants of disease and disability among persons 55 years and older . A trained investigator obtained information on health status, medical history, medication use and lifestyle . Subsequently, participants were i... |
Vitreous body is the clear gel that fills the vitreous chamber or posterior chamber (pc) of the eyeball, the space between the lens and the eyewall, whose inner layer is the neurosensorial tissue that receives and transmits the image to the central nervous system called the retina . Its functions are to give volume to ... |
The inflammatory response to infection by pathogens has been intensively studied for many years both in humans and in all the major model organisms . More recently, there has been increasing interest in understanding the situations in which inflammation arises without an external pathogen . These include almost any sti... |
Primary and secondary cancers are amongst the leading causes of morbidity and mortality . Along with the lung and liver, the bony skeleton is one of the most common sites for metastases, with most cases occurring in the spine.13 skeletal metastases frequently originate from carcinoma of the breast, prostate, and lung, ... |
Neuroblastoma (nb) is a neuroendocrine tumor that arises from neural crest elements of the sympathetic nervous system . It is the most common extracranial solid tumor of childhood, with a long - term survival rate of only 15% . Nearly all of the 45% of nb patients diagnosed with high - risk tumors present with metastas... |
Malignant gliomas have remained a malignancy with an extremely unfortunate prognosis [1, 2]. Recent improvements of standard therapies including, when feasible, surgical resection followed by radio - chemotherapy have only extended the 50% survival from 12 months to 16 months [35]. Long - term survival is rare, only 5%... |
Yeast, like my children, are at their most vibrant in high concentrations of sugar . The budding yeast saccharomyces cerevisiae extracts just 2 moles of atp per mole of glucose via fermentation (that is, glycolysis to pyruvate, then reduction of the pyruvate to ethanol), but it grows rapidly with a doubling time of abo... |
Acetate is known to provide side effects such as malaise, perdialytic hypotension, cramps, or lipid and mineral bone metabolism disorders [13] resulting in a worse survival . Consequently, citrate dialysate, known for its improved biocompatibility, has been developed for few years . Compared to acetate, citrate was des... |
Liraglutide is a human glucagon - like peptide-1 (glp-1) analog and acts as a glp-1 receptor agonist . Liraglutide is presently used in selected patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (t2 dm). We assessed the efficacy, safety and tolerability of low dose (0.6 mg) liraglutide in overweight or obese indian patients with ... |
Animal use was approved by the institutional animal care and use committees at the university of oklahoma health sciences center, oklahoma city, oklahoma, and the university of houston and conformed to the arvo statement for the use of animals in ophthalmic and vision research . The cngb1 line, the rds line (originally... |
Recurrence and reflux are the 2 main postoperative remote complications of laparoscopic repair of the not - so - rare paraesophageal hernia (peh). We concluded the same at a free paper presentation of a nonexhaustive nevertheless extensive narrative review of lap - peh repair at the semi - annual meeting (2004) of the ... |
Sample collection: stool samples (n=600) were collected from every fifth patient presenting with non - bloody diarrhoea (290 of 1438), all cases of bloody diarrhoea and diarrhoea associated hus (d+hus) (n=310) in patients from october 2009 to september 2011 in postgraduate institute of medical education and research (p... |
Melanin, a brown pigment, is the most common natural pigment contributing to endogenous pigmentation of gingiva and the gingiva is also the most predominant site of pigmentation on the mucosa . Melanin pigmentation is the result of melanin granules produced by melanoblasts intertwined between epithelial cells at the ba... |
In this study, we used 280 individuals from five species of the genus monochamus: m. galloprovincialis (24, 24), m. saltuarius (11, 31), m. sartor (21, 22), m. sutor (51, 51), and m. urussovii (31, 14). Specimens were identified using the taxonomic key of plavilstshikov (1958) and bense (1995). Most of the material was... |
We collected strains of e. coli from midstream urine from inpatients and from patients in the community . Eighteen strains with reduced susceptibility (mic> 8 mg / l) to cefoxitin were included in the analysis, which represented all resistant strains collected during a 6-month period in 2001 . For the in vitro developm... |
Breast cancer is one of the cancers most frequently observed in industrialized countries, and the one with the highest incidence in women . Epidemiological studies have shown that the rate of breast cancer is 4 to 5 times higher in western countries that in japan [1, 2] suggesting that diet, and particularly diet rich ... |
Spontaneous vitreous and suprachoroidal haemorrhage are very rare complications in patients affected by neovascular age - related macular degeneration (amd) on excessive anticoagulation . Nevertheless, they are extremely serious . While red blood cells haemolysis can result in uncontrolled intraocular pressure (iop), s... |
Hashimoto's thyroiditis (ht) is the second most widespread endocrine disorder characterized by autoimmune thyroid destruction and subsequently hypothyroidism . Traditionally, the pathogenesis of ht has been characterized by thyroid homing of autoreactive t - helpers 1 (th1), cytotoxic t - lymphocytes, and nk cells, all... |
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