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Attempting to motivate our children to go to bed at a reasonable time, parents have for generations invoked these three time - honored rewards . Health is the absence of something, namely sickness, and is only fully appreciated when we no longer have it . Yet, when we are really sick, health becomes our paramount conce...
Generalized convulsive status epilepticus (gcse) and non - convulsive status epilepticus (ncse) are important neurological conditions potentially associated with significant morbidity and mortality.1 even with the best current practice, the mortality of patients with refractory gcse is up to 50% . Therefore, there is a...
Poly(vinyl alcohol) (pva) is a biocompatible polymer with a great variety of biomedical and pharmaceutical applications . Pva in aqueous solution is able to form chemical or physical gels under a variety of conditions . The physical gelation capacity of pva solutions has been well known for a long time; however, the pr...
A 35-year - old woman was admitted complaining of a headache over the last two months . She had undergone a right temporal lobectomy for generalized tonic - clonic seizures 10 years earlier . Laboratory tests were normal except for an increased erythrocyte sedimentation rate of 45 mm / hr . A pre - contrast ct showed a...
(the woodlands, tx) as previously described (6). Sglt2 and db / db backcrosses were performed at the jackson laboratory (bar harbor, me) and shipped to yale for studies . Mice were housed at yale university school of medicine and maintained in accordance with the institutional animal care and use committee guidelines ....
Lentiviral (lv) vectors, such as those derived from hiv-1, show exceptional promise as gene transfer agents and have been proven to be effective vehicles for transduction of epithelial cells of various organs, including airway epithelial cells in the lung . The epithelium lining the bronchi / bronchioli is the target c...
When stress is applied to a crack introduced in ductile materials, dislocations are activated and propagate from the crack tip . The stress concentration at the crack tip is accommodated by dislocation activities such as dislocation glide and multiplication, which lead to an increase in fracture toughness . Fracture to...
Governance, broadly defined as the process by which the authority of a country exercises government formation, sound policy making and effective policy implementation, is regarded as a crucial determinant of population health . The effect of governance on the health of a country's population is determined by the govern...
To assess the correspondence between distinct basal ganglia pathways and hypothesized cognitive processes, we applied the high spatio - temporal resolution of single - unit electrophysiology to a stop - signal task based around our prior studies of rodent decision - making (fig . 1, table s1). Each rat was trained to p...
It is present, in fact, in compounds with different activities such as inhibitors of p38 map kinase, inhibitors of hiv - ep1 cellular transcription factor, inhibitors of coagulation factor xa, and -chemokine receptor ccr5 antagonists in anti - hiv therapy; in particular we have focused our work on the development of ne...
To develop a compact system for basic experiments, we chose a sealed x - ray tube with a molybdenum target (oxford instruments inc ., ca). The voltage we could apply ranged from 10 to 50 kvp (voltage - peak), and the maximum current was 1 ma . We clearly observed strong characteristic radiations of 17.479 kev and 19.60...
Cervical spondylosis is a common cause of chronic neck pain, radiculopathy and/or myelopathy resulting in significant disability . When patients do not respond to conservative therapy, anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (acdf) usually is used to achieve neural decompression, maintain cervical lordosis, and provide...
Although herpes simplex virus (hsv) infections are very common worldwide, herpes simplex encephalitis (hse) is a rare disease with an incidence of one case per 250,000500,000 individuals per year . Approximately 50% of patients with hse are older than 50 years.1 cytomegalovirus (cmv), another member of the herpesvirus ...
The estimated incidence of bnc after open retropubic radical prostatectomy (rrp) ranges from 3% to 26% [1 - 8]. Robot - assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (ralp) is becoming a more frequently performed procedure because it clearly has a lower rate of postoperative complications than rrp . In particular, the in...
Organizing pneumonia (op) is characterized by an indolent clinical course and a favorable prognosis although a fulminant variant has been documented . Pulmonary air leak comprising pneumothorax, pneumomediastinum, and subcutaneous emphysema is rarely a presenting feature of an op . The exact pathogenesis and an appropr...
Over the past few decades continuous progress has been made in the development of insulin therapy . The need for basal insulin was felt around 60 years ago, and so longer - acting insulins like lectin and neutral protamine hagedorn (nph) were developed . Studies have also shown that missing two basal insulin injections...
Induction of anesthesia of the donor mouse is initiated with 5% isoflurane . The mouse is orotracheally intubated with a 20-gauge intravenous catheter and then placed on a rodent ventilator, using 100% oxygen at a rate of 125 breaths / minute and approximately 0.5 ml tidal volume (2% of its body weight). Heparin at 100...
Nurses are among multidisciplinary team members who play a significant role in health care and are involved in pharmacological management of the patients conditions . They should have enough knowledge and skills regarding pharmacological and medication management, in order to establish a safe and high quality care (1)....
A 66-year - old female was presented to the emergency room with sudden weakness on her left side and dysarthria while taking aspirin . Diffusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging (mri) showed several small acute infarctions scattered in her right frontal cortex and basal ganglia . Mr angiography revealed a severe ste...
Six cases were reported from 2007 to 2012 to the oral and maxillofacial unit of annaswamy mudaliar general hospital, bangalore, out of which four patients were males with the lesion occurring between the second decade of life and sixth decade of life [figures 1a3c]. In all cases, the mandible was involved with the grea...
Frequent episodic and chronic childhood tension - type headache (tth) is a prevalent and debilitating situation for the child and family . After clarifying the diagnosis in an interdisciplinary setting, because many parents are reluctant to choose preventive medication for their child, patient education is an important...
Fat embolism syndrome (fes) is a rare and potentially lethal complication of long bone fractures . The incidence of clinically significant fes occurs only in 0.9 - 2.2% of long - bone fractures . Hypoxia or respiratory distress, deteriorating mental status, and petechial hemorrhage are the main diagnostic criteria; sec...
As a result of a massive scale - up in malaria control programs by the who as part of the millennium development goals, the number of malaria deaths decreased worldwide by about 20% between 2000 and 2009 1 . Although this represents some progress in reducing the disease burden, malaria nevertheless remains a major glob...
Currently, nanoparticles (nps) are used in several scientific applications, but among these silver nanoparticles (ag - nps) are predominant . This is because of several characteristic features of this type of metal np.13 antimicrobials and nanocomposite fabrication are some of the highly useful applications, among othe...
The rapid spread of resistance among common pathogenic microorganisms is a serious challenge around the word . This phenomenon affects antibiotics' effectiveness and limits available options for the treatment of common infections in human . Serious infections due to beta - lactamase producing microorganisms, especially...
Approximately 1 - 5% of peripheral blood t cells express the t - cell receptor instead of the conventional t - cell receptor . The versus t - cell lineage commitment during intrathymic t - cell development seems to be controlled by the signal strength provided to the t - cell receptor . In healthy donors, most blood t ...
Castleman's disease (cd) is a rare lymphoproliferative disorder caused by faulty immune regulation resulting in excessive b - lymphocyte and plasma - cell proliferation in lymphatic tissue . Marked interfollicular vascular proliferation leads to mass formation, which can encase bronchi and sometimes cause mural erosion...
Nasolacrimal duct obstruction (nldo) is a common congenital abnormality that occurs in 30% of neonates (range 6 to 84%).1 only 2 to 4% of these children become symptomatic, and most cases of nldo resolve spontaneously in the first year of life.1 2 3 4 dacryocystocele or congenital mucocele of nasolacrimal duct is a rel...
A 61-year - old man with a history of impaired glucose tolerance, hypertension, and chemical pneumonitis without chronic lung disease sought care at a community hospital in northwestern minnesota after experiencing 2 days of fever, productive cough, and exertional dyspnea . During recent travel through parks in the wes...
Research took place in the first half of 2007, and the basic criteria in selection were male veterans who had experienced war trauma . To form group a, all veterans who were diagnosed with ptsd in mostar clinical hospital and came for a doctor's appointment were asked to participate in the study . To form group b, init...
Owing to the development of modern technology, the use of smartphones has been increasing rapidly . According to the pew research center1, smartphone users represent 56% of the entire us population, and the average amount of time spent on a smartphone per day is 5.1 hours . It was reported that the average time spent o...
We report a 32-year - old iranian male diagnosed with a case of miliary tuberculosis affecting the prostate . Computerized tomography increased the clinical suspicion of miliary tuberculosis extending to the prostate where a trans - rectal urethral biopsy was obtained . A strong clinical suspicion and availability of s...
The acridinones represented by imidazo- and triazoloacridinones are a new group of potent antitumor compounds (cholody et al ., 1990, 1992, 1996) from which one of the most active derivatives called as c-1305 has been selected for extended preclinical trials and the other one called c-1311 (for review see mazerska et a...
Field work for this study was conducted in late july, august, and early september of 20112013 at study sites located in ellsworth, mcpherson, and reno counties in central kansas (fig . The habitat at all study sites was qualitatively similar and consisted of native midgrass prairie vegetation intermixed with both natur...
Persistent left superior vena cava (plsvc) is a congenital but benign vascular anomaly with a prevalence of 0.3 - 0.5% in the general population . Plsvc is one of the most common cardiovascular anomalies but is generally asymptomatic, and it is thus often identified accidentally during cardiovascular ultrasound / ct sc...
Gait is the most natural motion performed by humans in their ordinary life and has the highest frequency in human activities . Numerous musculoskeletal muscles and nerves of the lower extremities respond together during gait1, 2 . During gait, movement occurs through a series of interactions among the heel bones, the s...
To fabricate the vertical wse2/mos2 heterojunction devices, wse2 was grown using a physical vapor deposition process on a si / sio2 (300 nm sio2) substrate . A total of 0.2 g wse2 powder (alfa aesar, 13084) was added into an alumina boat as precursor . The blank si / sio2 substrates (1 cm 5 cm) were loaded into a home ...
Breast cancer (bc) is the most common malignancy (1, 2) and the second leading cause of cancer - related mortality in women (3). Global statistics indicate increasing rate of bc incidence, especially in developing countries (4). Although bc is one of the most common cancers in women, its prevalence widely varies in dif...
The study was conducted in neurophysiology division of defence institute of physiology & allied sciences (dipas), delhi, from april to july 2010 . Ten healthy young male volunteers (21 - 30 yr) with average education level of viii - x standard of the indian education system (10 yr of total education) drawn randomly fro...
Cardiac resynchronisation therapy (crt) is most effective in heart failure patients with left bundle branch block as it specifically aims to resynchronise the delayed electrical activation of the left ventricle [12]. However, crt is indicated in a much broader spectrum of patients with heart failure . A large european ...
Fried seeds subjected to grinding by adding sufficient water to it for 30 - 45 min . The mixture was filtered through muslin cloth and pea nut milk is separated . Solvent {ethanol: acetone (1:1)} was added to the milk and then subjected to refrigeration for 30 min . Indomethacin was dissolved in chloroform and bio - po...
Although modern treatment approaches lead to marked improvements in outcome of patients with chronic heart failure (chf) during the last decades, this group of patients is still affected by high mortality rates.1 consequently, strategies to identify patients at very high risk for cardiovascular events may help to inten...
Cell invasion is important in many biological processes, particularly in the invasive stage of cancer and in embryonic development [23, 32]. There has recently been some interest in how to mathematically model cell cell and cell extracellular matrix adhesions in the context of cancer invasion, since the latter is belie...
Although ascites has been reported in cases with cervical cancer, it is due to other causes such as ovarian metastasis . A 78-year - old diabetic woman who presented with ascites and abdominopelvic mass was misdiagnosed with ovarian cancer and treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy followed by radical hysterectomy and a...
Inhalation of particulate matter (pm) from fossil fuel combustion is associated with adverse health effects, including reduced lung function (1) and increased mortality (2). Although the mechanism for pm - induced health effects is not fully defined, animal models and in vitro studies suggest that pro - inflammatory cy...
A 36-year - old japanese man was referred to us for the evaluation of bilateral retinal hemorrhages . He developed an acute vision decrease in his left eye, pain in his right chest area, and headache after he had trekked at an altitude of 4600 m in tibet for 1 week . Because of the illness, he descended 3 days later, a...
Multiple surveillance systems are used in the united states each year to characterize seasonal influenza epidemics and to detect unusual events such as infections with novel viruses or those with pandemic potential . These systems track a variety of outcomes, including laboratoryconfirmed influenza hospitalizations, ou...
Ganglioneuromas are rare benign tumors of neural crest origin; they arise from peripheral sympathetic ganglia or the adrenal glands . These tumors are most commonly discovered in older pediatric patients or adults; they are discovered incidentally, through thoracic or abdominal imaging studies performed for unrelated c...
The baylisascaris genus of nematodes (family: ascarididae) is comprised of nine recognized species, each parasitizing distinct definitive hosts and a vast array of intermediate hosts (bauer, 2013, kazacos, 2001, sorvillo et al ., 2002). The most widely studied of these is b. procyonis, which primarily utilizes the comm...
The epithelial ovarian carcinoma is one of the most fatal gynecological cancers across the globe . In spite of early recovery by surgical and chemotherapy treatments, the database globcan related to the world health organization (who) has reported incidence of about 192000 cases in the world, in the year of 2000 . 6000...
Simple enones are known to undergo ni - catalyzed cycloaddition with diynes (eq 2). However, these conditions fail to provide any cycloadduct product with tropone as shown in eq 3 . Thus, we focused our investigation on discovering an alternative ni - catalyzed cycloaddition protocol.2 diyne 1 and tropone a were used a...
Work - related injuries in the upper extremities are of the most common work - related disorders which are visited by general practitioners and specialists in occupational medicine (1). In studies conducted in different countries, these injuries account for the most of reported injuries with the occupational settings (...
Focal epilepsies account for about two - thirds of all adult epilepsy patients, and temporal lobe epilepsy (tle) is the most common type of focal epilepsy (1,2). Temporal lobe epilepsy is subcategorized as mesial (i.e., amygdalohippocampal) and neocortical (i.e., lateral) temporal . Mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (mtle)...
Leukocytospermia is a kind of common disease of male reproductive tract infection, which is usually caused by bacterial infection . An increase of white blood cells in seminal plasma can lead to the decrease of sperm quality and the increasing number of inflammatory cytokines such as interleukin il-6 is the main factor...
Focal myositis is an idiopathic inflammatory myopathy and a rare inflammatory pseudotumor of the skeletal muscle with unknown etiology (1). The disease typically disappears spontaneously, does not last more than 4 years, and has no recurrence (1,2). This myositis can be treated successfully with steroids or nonsteroida...
Nod.iapp mice were bred in our colony by backcrossing c57bl6.iapp mice (6) onto the nod background; these mice have been fully backcrossed to the nod mouse (10 generations). All experimental procedures were in accordance with the guidelines of the institutional animal care and use committee, national jewish health . (7...
Refrain: mosquito s in his crab hole, bidin his time, venezuela virus working up the line, boys in beltsville heard the news, horses in texas got the crab hole blues . Down in maracay back in 36, kubes and rios found a virus doin tricks, horses die, this one s gotta be, new cause of cephalitis, v - e - e . The years ro...
Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (jia) is the most common inflammatory rheumatic disease in childhood, affecting one in 1000 children . Jia is characterized by severe joint inflammation in one or more joints, which persists for at least six weeks, with disease onset before the age of 16 . This heterogeneous group of disea...
A 29-year - old man (contact 1) transported 8 dromedaries from oman to united arab emirates on may 7, 2015 (table 1). The same day, as part of a national policy for controlling mers, samples were collected from the dromedaries at a screening center located at the united arab emirates border . The samples were tested by...
From msm who attended the amsterdam municipal health service sti outpatient clinic in 2000 and 2001, randomly selected stored specimens of c. trachomatis dna positive (as assessed by ligase chain reaction, abbott laboratories, chicago, il, usa) rectal samples were tested for the c. trachomatis variant by real - time pc...
Immune (idiopathic) thrombocytopenic purpura (itp) is an autoimmune disorder characterized by persistent thrombocytopenia due to antibody binding to platelet antigen(s) and causing their premature destruction by the reticuloendothelial system, particularly in the spleen . The american society for hematology guidelines ...
We selected excised salivary gland tumors, excluding biopsy or consultation cases, from the surgical pathology files of the asan medical center from 1990 to 2012 . For retrieval of masc candidates, 196 salivary gland tumors (mec, n=137; acicc, n=43; anos, n=11; cac, n=2; other unusual salivary gland neoplasm, n=3) the ...
A 2-year - old girl presented with partial seizures that manifested as twitching of the left angle of the mouth and jerking of the left upper limb but usually did not result in a loss of consciousness . The child s motor and cognitive development were within the normal ranges . At the age of 3 years, she was referred t...
Selecting an optimal stride length in distance running affects metabolic cost demonstrated by increases found in oxygen uptake when non - ideal stride lengths are used (5). Well - trained runners naturally select stride rates and lengths that minimize oxygen uptake at distance running speeds (1, 5, 12, 13, 16). A recen...
Attention has widespread effects on brain activity . From thalamus and colliculus to many regions of cortex, for example, responses to visual input are enhanced when this input is relevant to behavior (oconnor et al ., 2002; ignashchenkova et al ., 2004; roelfsema et al ., 1998; moran and desimone, 1985). Often, attent...
Irrational and inappropriate use of drugs can lead to suboptimal clinical benefit and possible adverse drug reactions (adrs). Availability of clinically relevant, contemporary, and unbiased drug information goes a long way in promoting rational use of drugs . There are various sources of information which are utilized ...
Subclassification and study of cancer patients based on mutational status presents opportunities to learn the significance of genomic alterations (and their combinations) and to develop additional therapies (and combinations of therapies). However, the large number of mutations known to be important in cancer developme...
Pluripotent embryonic stem cells (escs) have the potential to differentiate into any cell in the adult body, making them an ideal source of cells for tissue regeneration when other options are absent . Since escs display robust teratoma forming potential in vivo, differentiated products are thought to be a better optio...
Although spinal cord abnormalities in patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (aids) have been infrequently reported in the literature, myelitis is a known complication of aids and is occasionally the initial complaint . The incidence of myelopathy may be as high as 20%, with 50% of the cases reported post - m...
Recently, the world health organization indicated that drug - resistant a. baumannii is defined as the first priority pathogen, in which researches and developments for new antibiotics are urgently needed . The bacteria has been revealed to persist on dry surfaces for a month and presented several drug - resistant mech...
Mirabegron is the first of a new class of drugs licensed for the management of overactive bladder syndrome (oab) in over 30 years . Oab is defined as urinary urgency, usually with urinary frequency and nocturia, with or without urgency urinary incontinence, in the absence of any other pathology.1 oab occurs in both men...
Diabetes is one of the most common chronic diseases among women of reproductive age, observed in about 10% of pregnancies in the us and approximately 0.20.5% of these are in women with type 1 diabetes (t1d). T1d pregnancies are associated with an increased rate of complications, including late intrauterine death or maj...
Genetics and environment have both been implicated in the exponential rise in the prevalence of diabetes mellitus and impaired glucose tolerance that affects 65.1 million people and leads to the mortality of 1 million / year in 2013 in india . In addition to these diabetics, there is a larger number of prediabetics, wh...
In 1988, reaven introduced the term syndrome x, which consisted a cluster of syndromes including hyperinsulinemia, hypertension, dyslipidemia, hyperglycemia, and resistance to insulin - stimulated glucose uptake (1). He claimed that insulin resistance (ir) plays a central role in the etiology and clinical course of pat...
Ocular complications of atopic dermatitis (ad) include blepharitis, keratoconjunctivitis, keratoconus, iritis, cataract, and retinal detachment.1 among these, retinal detachment is the severest complication that affects the younger population and significantly impairs their quality of life . Previous single center2 or ...
The stage 1 samples for the gwa scan included 1,999 t2d case subjects and 1,976 nondiabetic control subjects drawn from the nutrition and health of aging population in china (nhapc) study (312 case and 815 control subjects), the gut microbiota and obesity study (gmos) (82 case and 163 control subjects), the fudan - hua...
Primary chest wall chondrosarcoma is a relatively rare malignant tumor [1, 2, 3]. When a patient with a history of long - term asbestos exposure has a pleural tumor with multiple plaques on chest computed tomography (ct), malignant pleural mesothelioma is usually suspected . A 62-year - old man with a history of long -...
Soft tissue recessions frequently cause esthetic disharmony and dissatisfaction . Compared with soft tissue coverage around a tooth, the coverage of an implant site is obviously unpredictable . Particularly in the cases of thin mucosa, a significant greater amount of recession takes place compared to thick mucosa . To ...
Older adults with hoarding behaviour are often at a high risk of being homeless making aging in place extremely complex . This paper reports on a study that examines the value of a community - based planning approach that responds to the needs of this population, a population that is both increasing in number and that ...
Hand - assisted laparoscopic donor nephrectomy (haldn) has become the method of choice for removing living donor kidneys . Similar to open live donor nephrectomy cases, however, most laparoscopic donor nephrectomy cases have been limited to the left side because of the longer renal vein than on the right side, the grea...
Pyomyositis is a primary pyogenic infection of skeletal muscle, an uncommon cause of musculoskeletal infection . Although relatively common in tropical areas, it is very rare in temperate areas1 . In contrast, pyomyositis is observed in immunodeficient hosts, particularly in the human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) infec...
Many cases of implant placement involve insufficient buccolingual width of the edentulous ridge . The methods used to resolve this issue are the following: narrow implant placement, horizontal veneer block bone graft, horizontal guided bone regeneration (gbr), and the ridge splitting procedure1,2,3 . Ridge splitting is...
In recent years, core training has been widely studied since it has been considered a pivotal issue in health, rehabilitation and sports performance (hibbs et al ., 2008). However, the definition of the core varies with the interpretation of the literature (hibbs and thompson, 2008). Anatomically, the core region has b...
Clinical research in the intensive care unit (icu) setting is essential to ensuring that patients are treated with interventions that are both effective and safe . Unfortunately, lack of clarity as to when research risks are acceptable in relation to anticipated benefits has impeded important clinical trials . Federal ...
Spasticity is a frequent consequence of stroke1, 2 . In the lower leg, this malposition or malalignment causes mechanical stress to foot joints in the lateral forefoot area, and joints under this stress are likely to be inflamed and painful4 . Foot pain causes difficulty in standing and walking, and thus limits daily l...
Alzheimer's disease (ad), the most common form of dementia affecting populations aged over 65 years worldwide, is sporadic, genetically non - obvious, and rarely inherited (1). The main well - known pathological features of the disease include the abnormal extracellular deposition of misfolded amyloid- (a) senile plaqu...
In previous papers, we have shown that heteroatom - substituted chiral [d1]methyllithiums, the smallest organometallic compounds, can be prepared in homochiral form by tin lithium exchange from the respective tributylstannyl derivatives at low temperatures . They differ in their chemical as well as in their macro- and ...
The framingham study s original cohort has been evaluated biennially since 1948 and screened prospectively for incident dementia since 1978 . A sample drawn from the offspring (and spouses of the offspring) of the original participants (framingham offspring cohort) was enrolled in 19701972 and has been examined eight t...
Children of parents with a chronic medical condition (cmc) are at an increased risk for developing health - related and social - emotional problems, such as somatic complaints, social isolation, and excessive concern to acquire an illness themselves (compas, 1994; earley and cushway 2002; faulkner and davey 2002; peder...
Since their discovery in 1967, radio pulsars have provided insights into physics on length scales covering the range from 1 m (giant pulses from the crab pulsar) to 10 km (neutron star) to kpc (galactic) to hundreds of mpc (cosmological). Pulsars present an extreme stellar environment, with matter at nuclear densities,...
Furthermore, the most frequent indication for surgery is spinal stenosis.1 after decompression (laminectomy or foraminotomy), the structural integrity of the lumbar spine can be weakened, and requires additional support . This is achieved by vertebral fusion, which is the current standard for outcome and the most commo...
Innate immunity mediated through pamp recognition by prrs is the earliest stage of immunity against viral infection . The subsequent modulation of the adaptive immune response by prr signaling has been studied using cells and mice deficient in specific tlrs, rlrs, or their associated signaling adaptor proteins . Recent...
Inorganic particulate contamination by carbon dioxide (co2) insufflation apparatus and gas delivery systems for laparoscopy was first identified in 1989 . Creation and maintenance of a pressurized flow of gas to establish and preserve abdominal wall separation for safe endoscopic observation and manipulation is routine...
Advances in medical care and neonatal medicine have led to changes in survival pattern of high risk neonates (1). One of the complications that have been found in these high risk neonates is lbw (<2500 grams). According to world health organization (who) statistics, the rate of lbw is 17% worldwide (6% in developed cou...
The parainfluenza virus 5 (piv5) belongs to the paramyxoviridae family, which contains significant pathogens to mammals such as measles, mumps, and hendra viruses . Two glycoproteins in the lipid envelope, a receptor - binding protein (hn, h, or g) and a fusion protein (f), are required for membrane fusion . The f prot...
Plasma and serum samples are generally acceptable for the detection of various physiologically active substances; however, drawing blood can induce stress in animals . In the instance of collecting repeated blood samples from mice, using the saphenous and lateral tail vein these sites yield a 5% volume of circulating b...
The superior semicircular canal dehiscence (sscd) syndrome was described by lloyd b. minor et al1 in 1998 . Third opening or third window between the superior semicircular canal and the middle cranial fossa, secondary to a bony defect in the canal . This abnormal communication can result in vertigo and oscillopsia indu...
Continued improvements in therapeutic medicine have resulted in prolonged survival of patients with cancer, and consequently, physicians must manage the long - term complications of cancer and its treatment . Bone metastases are a common complication in patients with a variety of solid tumors,1 and the skeleton is 1 of...
One of the most major public health problems over the world is cardiovascular disease including coronary heart disease (chd), peripheral vascular disease and stroke.1 countries in the middle east bear a heavy burden from chd . The prevalence of chd is due to high rate of its risk factors, particularly obesity, smoking,...
Giving birth is one of the most amazing physiologic events in human life and it can be safe and pleasant in many circumstances, but in some situations it might end with known difficulties and complications for mother and her fetus . It means regular uterine contractions with adequate frequency and intensity resulting i...