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The importance of nodal staging as a prognostic factor in oncology and as an accuracy indicator for resection in colorectal cancer has been demonstrated in many studies . The current nodal staging in the 7th american joint committee on cancer (ajcc) staging system is based on the number of metastatic lymph nodes, while... |
Dengue is the most rapidly spreading mosquito - borne viral disease in the world and in the last 50 years, incidence has increased 30-fold . In pakistan (world health organization [who] eastern mediterranean region), the first confirmed outbreak of dengue hemorrhagic fever occurred in 1994 and since then dengue infecti... |
A level of pain that completely incapacitates one individual may cause only a minor annoyance in another . Characterizing the genetic factors affecting susceptibility to chronic pain could lead to novel treatment or prevention strategies, which are desperately needed . A recent paper by costigan et al . The authors per... |
Hepatitis c virus (hcv) is a parentally transmitted hepatotropic rna virus that causes chronic hepatitis, which may lead to cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (hcc). Evidence suggests that clearance and control of hcv infection during acute phase is dependent on vigorous and multispecific cd4 and cd8 t lymphocyte r... |
San francisco, ca) is a monoclonal antibody against vascular endothelial growth factor (vegf) which was approved by the united states food and drug administration for the treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer.1 ophthalmologists have used intravitreal injection of avastin off - label, for a number of indications inc... |
Mung bean (phaseolus radiatus l.) is a leguminous species grown in different parts of the world, primarily especially in asia including china, india, burma, and thailand . Mung bean commonly is a common source of protein in the asian diet or nutrient supplements . Mung bean has been reported to possess antioxidant, ant... |
Sarcoidosis is a multisystemic granulomatous disease of unknown etiology characterized by the presence of non - caseating granuloma consisting of epithelioid cells . Heart, spleen, bone marrow and less often eye, skin and salivary glands are common extrapulmonary sites of disease manifestation . The liver has sarcoid n... |
Despite positive changes in professional definitions, such as removal of homosexuality from dsm in 1973, deviations from gender specific heterosexual development still constitute a reason for concern for most of the parents . Unique stressors associated with homosexuality such as stigma, discrimination and bully victim... |
Icter is the most prevalent disease in newborns and although most of the newborns affiliated with this seem healthy in other fields, there is always a fear for toxic complications of indirect hyperbilirobinemia on the central nervous system in these newborns . Icter happens when liver cannot pick enough amount bilirobi... |
The demand for blood and blood products in nigeria is high due to road traffic accidents, surgical and obstetrical blood loss, and anemia from other causes . Despite several the goal of clinical blood transfusion is to provide qualitative, safe, and adequate blood to recipient.1 the challenges in achieving these goals ... |
Over many years, the interference of tracheostomy on swallowing has been studied; tracheostomy may increase the risk of aspiration, as it interferes directly in the pharyngeal phase of swallowing.1 the type of cervical incision, surgical technique applied, type of cannula used, and inflation of the cuff may, separately... |
Papillon - lefevre syndrome belongs to a heterogeneous group of skin diseases that are characterized by hyperkeratosis of palms and soles . Papillon - lefevre syndrome is inherited as an autosomal recessive disorder characterized by palmoplantar hyperkeratosis and early loss of primary and permanent teeth . Papillon - ... |
Mitochondrial transmembrane potential apoptosis - inducing factor apoptotic protease - activating factor 1 bcl2-associated x protein b - cell cll / lymphoma 2 bh3 interacting domain death agonist dna - dependent protein kinase electron transport chain high temperature requirement protein a2 inhibitor of apoptosis inhib... |
Gingival health and appearance are the essential components of a charming smile . Although clinical gingival pigmentation does not indicate a medical problem, black gums may cause complaints regarding esthetic problems, particularly in patients with a high smile line . According to dummett and barens, the distribution ... |
One hundred twenty - one thoroughbred mares (222 years old) in hokkaido, japan housed under natural conditions were used for measuring the levels of circulating estradiol . For determining the correlation between the results for whole blood and serum, five pregnant mares, 819 years of age, were used . Whole blood sampl... |
United states healthcare costs continue to escalate with no immediate relief in sight . In 2005, healthcare spending totaled us$2.0 trillion16% of the gross domestic product (gdp) (poisal et al 2007). Further, healthcare spending is projected to account for 18.4% of gdp by 2013, when more than one out of every four dol... |
In recent years, it has been revealed that astrocytes perform a significantly wider range of functions than previously appreciated . Interest in astrocyte function has increased dramatically because of their newly discovered roles in synapse formation, maturation, efficacy, and plasticity . Today, astrocytes are recogn... |
The evaluation of vibration sensation informs the clinician about the integrity of mechanoreceptors in the skin, rapidly conducting large - diameter afferent fibers in the peripheral nerves and the dorsal column - medial lemniscus pathways in the central nervous system [1, 2]. Therefore, diminished vibration sensation ... |
Chronic arsenicosis is a major health and occupational problem in rural parts of west bengal such as in the parts of the gangetic plain of india . Chronic arsenicosis occurs due to accidental ingestion of repeated amounts of small doses by those working with metal or by taking food or drink in which there are traces of... |
Alzheimer's disease (ad) is a prominent neurodegenerative disorder characterized by chronically progressive global cognitive decline . Mild cognitive impairment (mci) has been recognized as intermediate between normal elderly cognition and dementia . A proportion of individuals with mci may progress to ad and have typi... |
Renal angiomyolipoma (aml) is an infrequent tumor that, in most cases, follows a benign course and has clearly defined radiological and histological characteristics . We present a case of giant renal aml, which is the heaviest ever reported, encountered in a tertiary care hospital in india . A 49-year - old lady, a nat... |
The eye is an immune privileged site where the introduction of antigens does not elicit an inflammatory immune response . The first line of protection is the blood - ocular barrier, which impedes harmful pathogens from entering the eye via the peripheral bloodstream . A regional immune system provides a second multilay... |
Kidney diseases are common in hiv - infected patients.17 the most common one is hiv - associated nephropathy (hivan), as well as drug toxicities of various kinds . Interstitial nephritis is a possible complication of hiv infection.8,9 it is usually caused by drugs such as indinavir, foscarnet, abacavir, and co - trimox... |
Tiered approaches are the basis of environmental risk assessment schemes that support the registration of pesticides (e.g. Campbell et al . 2008). In this context, a tier is defined as a complete exposure or affects assessment resulting in an appropriate predicted environmental concentration (pec) or regulatory accepta... |
Several guidelines have been published regarding the treatment and prevention of deep vein thrombosis (dvt)1, 2 . The guidelines underscore the fact that comprehensive measures for prevention of dvt are necessary3 . Guidelines for the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of pulmonary thromboembolism and deep vein thromb... |
Primary stabbing headache is a short duration headache disorder that is characterized by brief paroxysms of sharp head pain often located in the first division of the trigeminal nerve, occurring at an irregular frequency, lacking any accompanying symptoms, and not attributable to any underlying cause . Stabbing headach... |
When do such problems become abnormal and merit a specific psychiatric diagnostic label, remains a question under study with no clear cut answers . We present a case of a young girl for whom clinical attention was sought for transient eating problems . A 12-year - old young lady belonging to lower socioeconomic rural b... |
Alzheimer's disease (ad) is the most common cause of dementia among the aging population . Early memory deficits and progressive loss of higher cognitive functions are common clinical features of ad patients . Pathologically, ad is characterized by insoluble aggregates of extracellular amyloid - beta (a) peptides (seni... |
Chronic suppurative otitis media (csom) is defined as long - standing chronic suppuration of the middle ear cleft and its mucoperiosteal lining resulting in discharging ear and deafness . Chronic suppuration can occur with (tympano - mastoid type) or without (tubo - tympanic type) cholesteatoma . The tubo - tympanic ty... |
To report surgical results of canaloplasty surgery for primary open - angle glaucoma (poag) in japanese patients . Three eyes of 3 patients underwent canaloplasty alone and 8 eyes of 6 patients underwent canaloplasty combined with cataract surgery . Canaloplasty was performed with a 10 - 0 polypropylene tensioning sutu... |
The studies included in stage 1 were drawn from 11 epidemiological studies of prostate cancer among african american men . These studies included: the multiethnic cohort (mec; 1,094 cases /1,096 controls), the southern community cohort study (sccs, 212/419), the prostate, lung, colorectal, and ovarian cancer screening ... |
The incidence of diabetes mellitus is increasing worldwide; this trend is particularly strong for type 2 diabetes mellitus (t2dm)1 . T2 dm is a chronic disease characterized by decreased insulin sensitivity and overall poor glucose control . The systematic review by boule et al . Indicates structured exercise programs ... |
Cardiovascular disease (cvd) is the leading cause of mortality in both men and women in developed countries . Nonetheless, sex - associated differences regarding the age of cvd onset and its progression are observed worldwide . Incidence of cvd in premenopausal women is markedly lower than age - matched men in epidemio... |
Prostatic acid phosphatase (pap), a glycoprotein synthesized by the prostate gland, is traditionally used to diagnose prostate cancer . Pap has two isoforms, secreted and transmembrane isoforms, and, more than in the prostate gland, is also extensively expressed in nonprostate tissue such as nervous tissues .. recent s... |
, it ranked first among both kuwaiti and non - kuwaiti women . During the period from 2000 to 2008, it constituted 36.0% and 39.5% from the newly diagnosed cancer cases in kuwaiti and non - kuwaiti females, respectively . Excision of the primary tumor (by mastectomy or breast conserving surgery) and sentinel lymph node... |
Among natural amino acids histidine is one of the strongest metal ion coordinators . Hence, histidine plays an important role in metal ion coordination in proteins and peptides . Histidine is a tridentate ligand, which provides ligands at the imidazole imido nitrogen, the amino nitrogen, and the carboxylate oxygen . Th... |
Over the past several decades, numerous studies have described pharmacologic strategies to utilize matrix metalloproteinase - inhibitors (mmp - is) to prevent connective tissue breakdown associated with various inflammatory and other diseases, for example, periodontitis, arthritis, osteoporosis, cardiovascular disease,... |
Peroneal nerve entrapment is the most frequent nerve entrapment in the lower extremities and the third most common entrapment in the body, following the median and ulnar nerves . Peroneal neuropathies often develop after trauma, direct injury or upon entrapment during the course of the nerve proximal or distal to the f... |
Pneumothorax is more frequent in the neonatal period than at any other time in life . Symptomatic pneumothorax occurs in 0.08% of all live births and 5% to 7% of infants with birth weight of below 1500 the development of a pneumothorax with ensuing hypoxia and hypercapnia is a potentially life - threatening event . To ... |
, urinary incontinence (ui) affects about one third of healthy elderly people, and up to 90% of nursing home patients . The proportion of the elderly population is increasing worldwide; it is currently around 10%, and is expected to reach 20% within 40 years . Accordingly, the prevalence of conditions such as metabolic... |
However, graft dysfunction remains a problem affecting up to one - third of the recipients, despite reports of good to excellent long - term outcome . The organ dysfunction is considered multifactorial, but ischemia and reperfusion (i / r) injury is probably the most important contributing factor, although the detailed... |
The indications for laparoscopic pyeloplasty are flank pain, infection, stone formation, and decreased renal function . Many studies have reported that laparoscopic pyeloplasty has an excellent success rate ranging from 9098% [15]. Success is usually defined as improvement in hydronephrosis, as determined by ultrasound... |
Breast carcinoma is the most frequent cancer among women with considerable invasive and metastatic behavior . The recent increased knowledge in molecular mechanisms of this cancer and consequent targeted treatments have improved its outcome . It belongs to the family of d - type cyclins, which regulate cell cycle progr... |
Patients with ibd may have disabling symptoms such as frequent diarrhea, often with blood or mucus discharge, abdominal pain, weight loss, malabsorption, malnutrition, and fatigue 1 . Moreover, patients may be affected by extraintestinal manifestations involving other organs such as the joints, eyes, skin, liver, and b... |
Cytokines are small proteins initially thought to be components of the immune system, but have since been found to play a much broader role in physiology . Interleukin-6 (il-6) is a cytokine originally identified as a b - cell differentiation factor (bsf-2) in 1985 1, as a factor that induced the maturation of b cells ... |
Meigs syndrome is defined as the coexistence of benign ovarian fibroma, hydrothorax, and ascites . By contrast, pseudomeigs syndrome is limited to other ovarian or pelvic tumors associated with hydrothorax and ascites 1 . Both are treated by resectioning of the tumors, which could control the fluid accumulation in the ... |
It has been well established that elevated serum cholesterol levels are associated with increasing cardiovascular risk as the population ages.13 meta - analyses have suggested significantly higher cardiovascular mortality rates in older individuals compared with their younger cohorts, with a 10-fold higher risk seen wi... |
Advanced glycation end - products (ages) have been shown to accumulate in various tissues under diabetic conditions, and they participate in the development of vascular complications such as diabetic retinopathy [1, 2]. Our recent results showed that even a low concentration of ages, for example, 10 g / ml, can induce ... |
The strong quantum confinement effect of colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals (ncs) has made these materials the subject of extensive research [1 - 5]. In the past decades, binary semiconductor ncs, identified as groups ii vi and iii v, have been studied intensively because of their size - dependent photoluminescence (... |
A 70 year - old male presented to the emergency department of our institution after being involved in a motor vehicle accident . He had sustained a minor injury of the head (glasgow coma scale 15/15), the chest (seat belt burn) and lower extremities (bruises). His past medical history was significant for diabetes melli... |
Bacteria of the genus actinomyces are gram - positive bacilli which generally colonize mouth, colon and vagina ., if actinomycosis occurs, it often presents as an indolent, slowly progressive infection characterized by abscess formation, which can progress across tissue boundaries, can present with mass like features w... |
Acute megakaryoblastic leukemia (amkl) with t(1;22)(p13;q13) represents <1% of all acute myeloid leukemias (aml), and is associated with the rbm15 (ott)-mkl1 (mal) fusion gene . It occurs at higher incidence in the pediatric population and accounts for approximately 70% of infants with amkl 1,2 . In contrast to infants... |
From may through october 2008, we trapped small mammals at 5 sites in southern sweden (figure 1). Our primary objective was to obtain samples from bank voles, myodes glareolus, but other species were also sampled when captured . A nested pcr was performed with primers for anaplasmataceae specific for the 16s rrna gene ... |
Central venous catheters (cvcs) have an essential part to play in the management of a critically ill patient . They are useful for hemodynamic monitoring, for administration of specific medications like vasoactive drugs, parenteral nutrition and for hemodialysis . These are associated with substantial risks of complica... |
Colorectal adenocarcinoma (crc) is one of the most common cancers worldwide and the third leading cause of death in the united states . Crc can be histologically subtyped into adenocarcinoma (ac), which accounts for the large majority of cases; mucinous ac; signet - ring cell carcinoma (srcc), and other even less frequ... |
Digital impression systems using intraoral scanning have been available since the introduction of cerec 1 (sirona s bluecam) as part of the single - sitting dental appointment concept . These systems offer remarkable benefits compared with conventional impression methods, including easier data storage, smaller storage ... |
In united states, about 595,800 establishments make up the healthcare industry . According to the american hospital association, in 2009 about 21 percent of hospital jobs are in service occupations, such as nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides, or cleaners . The international labour organization's (ilo) key indi... |
The classification of ehlers - danlos syndrome (eds) is based on the extent of clinical and pathological features . Vascular eds (type iv eds, mim #130050) is the most malignant form and owes its bad reputation to a susceptibility to sudden death from spontaneous catastrophic bleeding or the rupture of blood vessels or... |
Lead poisoning is one of the most serious environmental health hazards, with a particularly acute effect on young children . The u.s . Centers for disease control and prevention estimated that approximately 2.5% of children aged 15 years in the u.s . Have elevated blood lead levels . The percentage of affected children... |
We applied the blastp program (5) to identify, for each predicted protein sequence in the h37rv genome (genbank accession no . Ae000516). Following genbank annotations, we compared 3,972 predicted proteins in h37rv with 4,187 predicted proteins in cdc1551 . We used a strict search criterion (e = 10 - 50) to identify tr... |
The consequences associated with professional burnout affect both the health care professionals and recipients . Increased professional burnout is associated with absenteeism, physical illness, emotional problems, poor job performance and negative attitudes for the health care professionals in general . Health care rec... |
The typical clinical presentation of poi is pain in the right side of the abdomen, and this may lead to a misdiagnosis of acute appendicitis or cholecystitis . Here, we present a case of poi, with pain in the left lower quadrant . A 50-year - old woman admitted to the emergency room with a history of worsening abdomina... |
Early childhood caries (ecc) is one of the most common chronic diseases of the childhood . According to the american academy of pediatric dentistry (2003) ecc may be defined as the presence of one or more decayed, missing (due to caries) or filled tooth surfaces in any primary tooth in a child 71 months of age or young... |
Cytomegalovirus (cmv) is a significant cause of morbidity among solid organ transplant recipients . Active infection can result in the well - defined direct effects of either cmv syndrome or tissue - invasive disease, while the indirect effects include potential immune - mediated injury of the allograft as well as an i... |
A pure ground - glass nodule (ggn) in the lung may represent an early lung malignancy, such as adenocarcinoma in situ (ais) or minimally invasive adenocarcinoma (mia) (1). Approximately 20 - 30% of patients with adenocarcinoma and a predominantly pure ggn who undergo surgery have additional ggn lesions, either in the s... |
Treatment of metastatic kidney cancer has changed dramatically over the past years with the use of vegf - targeted therapies and mtor inhibitors . However, resistance occurs . We report here two cases of patients who benefited from the addition of bevacizumab to temsirolimus . A 48-year - old man presented with several... |
The inflammatory bowel diseases (ibds) are chronic illnesses affecting the gastrointestinal tract: they predominantly comprise crohn's disease (cd) and ulcerative colitis (uc). Although cd and uc share some features, they have distinctive endoscopic and histological characteristics and disease patterns . Furthermore, t... |
Piroxicam (pxm), an enolic benzothiazine and potent member of the oxicam series, suppresses the synthesis of proinflammatory enzymes, reducing lipid mediators such as prostaglandins (pgs) and thromboxane (txs), and also inhibits ornithine decarboxylase (odc) induction,1 both pathways participating in carcinogenesis . F... |
Optical coherence tomography (oct) is a noninvasive method that evaluates biological tissues by in vivo imaging.1 since its introduction, oct has undergone several improvements and revolutionized the diagnostic, monitoring, and therapeutic approaches to many retinal diseases and glaucoma . Computerized algorithms can b... |
Prolonged - release (pr) fampridine tablets (known as sustained / modified - release fampridine in some countries and extended - release dalfampridine in the united states) are approved for improving walking in ms based on results from two pivotal trials that demonstrated consistent improvements in walking speed on the... |
Delusional disorder is an uncommon psychiatric condition characterized by nonbizarre delusions of a single theme, in the absence of other mood or psychotic symptoms . It is differentiated from schizophrenia by the absence of bizarre delusions and impairment of functioning only in relation to the delusional belief . The... |
Bleomycin a2 (blm, 1, figure 1) is the major component (70%) of the clinical anticancer drug blenoxane, which is currently used for the treatment of hodgkin s lymphoma, melanomas, head and neck carcinomas, and testicular cancers . Blm exerts its biological effects through a metal ion and oxygen dependent dna cleavage t... |
The process of hydrated excess proton solvation and transport in aqueous systems displays many unique characteristics due the unique nature of the net positive charge defect that an excess proton creates . By altering the covalent bonds and hydrogen bonds of surrounding solvent molecules, the hydrated excess proton cha... |
A 40-year - old man presented with involuntary movement of his right hand and left foot . The symptom started when he was approximately 35 years of age and had slowly worsened . His disability progressed over the following years and was restricted to his right hand and left foot . He had no significant medical history ... |
Most of the reported cases have been associated with the superior mesenteric artery, and to our knowledge, only 25 cases of the spontaneous isolated celiac artery dissection can be found in the literature (1). Of the reported cases, only 2 cases of spontaneous celiac artery dissection awareness of the visceral artery d... |
Hepatitis c virus (hcv) is a major public health problem all over the world; it is currently estimated that about 85% of those infected with hepatitis c virus will become a chronic carrier and may develop severe end stage liver diseases including cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma . Currently, the most important ri... |
Radiologically, they are similar to ependymomas, and histopathologically, they are similar to neuroendocrine tumors . Most of them are non - secreting tumors, although they are of sympathetic origin . Back pain is the most common symptom, and they are not associated with tachycardia, flushing, or hypertension . The tre... |
The procedure included augmentation with transcortical wiring of an onlay - type prosthesis in twelve knees (nine patients) after it had been determined that conventional resurfacing was inadequate . This technique was indicated when the thickness of the remnant patella was less than 8 mm and the cortical rim was not i... |
One of the most important functions of proteins is serving as enzymes in catalyzing biochemical reactions . Enzyme nomenclature (1) is available through the nomenclature committee of the international union of biochemistry and molecular biology (nc - iubmb) enzyme list (2) and the enzyme database (3). Information on th... |
Thyroid eye disease (ted) is a chronic inflammatory disease of the eye that can occur in patients with systemic thyroid disorder . It is the most common cause of bilateral and unilateral proptosis with a female preponderance and peak incidence in the 5th decade of life.1) although thyroid ophthalmopathy is not uncommon... |
An important parameter necessary to achieve a proper endodontic treatment is the quality of root canal filling . The success rate of root canal treatments (rcts) is reported to be> 90% . The success of this treatment depends on many factors, and the technical quality of rct is one of the most important . On the other h... |
The basic helix - loop - helix (bhlh) family of transcriptional regulators are key players in a wide array of developmental processes in metazoans, including neurogenesis, myogenesis, hematopoiesis, sex determination and gut development (reviewed in). The bhlh domain is approximately 60 amino acids long and comprises a... |
Stainless steel alloys have remained the material of choice despite the emergence of the more recent titanium, composite and polycarbonate orthodontic brackets . Stainless steel alloy contains 8%-12% nickel, 17%-22% chromium and other elements such as copper, iron molybdenum, manganese, silicon and sulfur[3 - 5] in the... |
It is well known that the stress transfer between an implant device and a bone is not homogeneous when young's moduli of the implant device and the bone are different; this is defined as stress shielding . In such conditions, bone atrophy occurs and leads to the loosening of the implant and refracturing of the bone . T... |
, neurological side effects of carcineurin inhibitor are becoming controversial recently . The neurological change related to tacrolimus was first presented as posterior reversible leukoencephalopathy in 1996 . Until now, there have been many clinical symptoms reported and they are referred to various names including p... |
Morphine and codeine are naturally occurring alkaloids in opioid plants, have long been used as a drug, and are also abused . While the presence of illicit drugs or their metabolites in urine is an evidence of intake, their concentrations in blood are expected to correlate with their effects on the central nervous syst... |
Disporopsis pernyi (hua) diels, which belongs to disporopsis genus of liliaceae family, mainly grows in south asia such as vietnam, laos, thailand, and yangtze river basin of china . It was a well - known traditional chinese medicine which has been widely used for the treatment of abnormal sweating, chronic cough, wome... |
Maple syrup urine disease (msud) is a rare inherited autosomal recessive disorder of branched - chain amino acid (bcaa) metabolism presenting with life - threatening cerebral edema and dysmyelination in affected individuals . Msud affects approximately 1 out of 180,000 infants and has a much higher prevalence in childr... |
Osteoarthritis is the most common joint disorder in the united states and many other industrialized countries (1). In adult individuals aged 60 years and above, the prevalence of symptomatic knee osteoarthritis is estimated at about 10% in men and 13% in women (2). However, the prevalence of osteoarthritis varies accor... |
The world health organization considers leishmaniasis as one of the most neglected tropical diseases which has received little attention and resources despite its serious impacts on both the economic developments and quality of life (who 2012). Leishmaniasis is one of the most important vector - borne disease and publi... |
To evaluate neuroradiological features of mps, including brain abnormal signal intensity and atrophy . The mucopolysaccharidoses (mps) are a group of heritable lysosomal storage disorders caused by a deficiency in glycosaminoglycan (gag)-degrading enzymes . Dermatan sulphate, heparan sulphate, keratan sulphate and chon... |
Patients with cardiovascular disease (cvd) are three times more likely to experience depression than other members of the community.1 depression is more frequently observed in ambulatory cardiac patients (9.3%) than in the general population (4.8%), and in patients undergoing treatment in hospital.2,3 large, internatio... |
The genus flavivirus currently includes 86 viruses, of which 73 are grouped into 53 species (1). More than 40 of these flaviviruses are known to be pathogenic for humans and other vertebrates, in which they cause a variety of clinical diseases from mild febrile illness to severe encephalitis and/or hemorrhagic fever . ... |
Odontogenic myxoma (om) is considered to be a relatively rare benign tumor of mesenchymal origin . It is found in the skin and subcutaneous tissue, heart and also in various sites of the head and neck region . Myxomas of the jaw bones have been traditionally considered to have an odontogenic origin due to the close rel... |
Peroxisome proliferator - activated receptor gamma (pparg) gene is a member of nuclear hormone receptor superfamily, and it regulates the transcription of several genes involved in glucose metabolism, adipocyte differentiation, lipid oxidation, angiogenesis, and inflammation . Ppar displays different protein isoforms g... |
Intravascular lymphomatosis (ivl) is an uncommon systemic disease in which malignant proliferation of lymphocytes occurs exclusively in the vessels . The clinical symptoms are nonspecific in most cases, making an early diagnosis difficult [1, 2]. A unique characteristic of this disorder is that the proliferation of mal... |
The number of cardiovascular implantable electronic device (cied) implantation has increased over the past few years . The conventional access of lead implantation is the subclavian vein, which is often accompanied by high complication rate, including pneumothorax, hemopneumothorax, inadvertent artery puncture, local h... |
For more than 40 years, metal ceramic restorations (mcrs) have been widely used in the fabrication of fixed partial dentures (fpds) and still represent the gold standard nowadays.1 the success of these mcrs depends on the effective bonding between the veneering ceramic and metal substructure, which is believed to devel... |
International organization for standardization (iso) had published an international standard for medical laboratories, iso:15189 medical laboratories particular requirements for quality and competence (1). It was not feasible to implement the requirements of iso:15189 all at once in medical laboratories in different se... |
Eq . 2 can be generalized to the case where the charge moves continuously, corresponding to an infinite number of steps . If we makezi = qmax / n, i=1 n, vi = vo, i=1 n, then all i =, and we can write eq . 4 can also be written as(5)qnor(v)=12[1+coth[qmax(vvo)2kt]2ktqmax(vv0)],which is of the same form of the classical... |
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