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A woman in her 30s with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (aids) diagnosed by the fourth - generation hiv testing, with a cd4 count of 3 (1%) cells / mm, presented with weight loss and cachexia . She was started on lamivudine, zidovudine, and nevirapine and then developed hypersensitivity rash and hepatitis . At that ... |
Postoperative complications of blepharoplasty range from skin changes to vision - threatening emergencies.1 some of these complications occur early in the postoperative period, such as retrobulbar hemorrhage, infection, and eyelid hematoma . Other complications occur later in the postoperative period, such as eyelid ma... |
The erythrocyte sedimentation rate (esr) is an acute phase reactant (apr). The rate of sedimentation in a period of one hour called esr and also biernacki test . Esr test is a common hematologic nonspecific indicator of inflammation . To perform a test, nonclothing blood is placed in a vertical tube (westergren) and er... |
However, the source of thrombi in these patients is not necessarily from the dilated left ventricle (lv). Several studies have documented that dilated lv is associated with dilated left atrium (la) and left atrial appendage (laa). On the other hand, la size serves as a significant and useful clinical predictor for isch... |
A time - motion study is a business efficiency technique combining the time study work of frederick winslow taylor with the motion study work of frank and lillian gilbreth . It is a major part of scientific management (taylorism). (1) a time and motion study is used to determine the amount of time required for a specif... |
Dual antiplatelet therapy consisting of aspirin and an adenine diphosphate (adp) p2y12 receptor antagonist is recommended as the standard antiplatelet regimen for patients with coronary artery disease.1 clopidogrel, an adp p2y12 receptor antagonist, strongly inhibits formation of thrombosis by impeding platelet binding... |
Cross sensitivity is defined as sensitivity to one substance that renders an individual sensitive to other substances of similar chemical structure . Cross sensitivity has been reported commonly among various lactam antibiotics and sulfonamides . For the diagnosis of cross sensitivity, various methods like prick test, ... |
Amblyopia is the leading cause of decreased vision among children, with refractive errors as the most important cause of this condition . Because of the importance of early diagnosis and treatment of amblyopia, however, this method is limited because it requires an experienced examiner and an excessive amount of time .... |
Recently, magnetic thin films used in magnetic components, such as inductive devices and magnetic heads, have attracted more and more attention because of the increasing demand for improvement and miniaturization of electromagnetic devices [1 - 3]. The basic requirements for these films operated in the ghz range are hi... |
Genomic structures corresponding to crisprs were observed first in 1987 in escherichia coli (1) and were subsequently reported in other organisms under different names [trep (2), srsr (3,4), drvs (5), lctr (6), spidr (7)] until the crispr acronym was proposed by jansen et al . The direct repeat sequences carry in gener... |
Every year, approximately 7.7 million individuals develop dementia or alzheimer's disease, a number that translates to one new case every 4 seconds . This figure is expected to increase as assessments and diagnostic criteria improve and as life expectancies continue to increase . Dementia affects more people in latin a... |
Cognitive dysfunction is known as one of the common complications that occur after stroke and it accounts for 10 - 82% of total patients with stroke24,25). Cognitive impairment after stroke can cause serious social problems, and these include decreased quality of life of patients and severe economic loss with an increa... |
Female genital tuberculosis (fgtb) is common in developing countries and associated with significant morbidity in the form of menstrual dysfunction, infertility, tubal block, peritubal adhesions, intrauterine adhesions, and perihepatic adhesions . Fallopian tubes are involved in about 90% of the cases with findings suc... |
Periodontitis, a worldwide complication of diabetes (known as diabetic periodontitis), is diagnosed by destruction of periodontal cementum, ligament, and alveolar bone . Both types of diabetes in clinic, type 1 diabetes (t1d) and type 2 diabetes (t2d), exhibit dramatically higher risk and severity of periodontitis [24]... |
Porokeratoses are a group of cutaneous entities of unknown etiology, characterized by disordered epidermal keratinization and, at histological examination, by the presence of coronoid lamella, a column of parakeratotic cells extending through the stratum corneum . Disseminated superficial porokeratosis (dsp) is a disti... |
Hemangiomas are common lesions of the head and neck area, and they predominantly originate from the lips, tongue and buccal mucosa . The capillary type is lobulated and it lacks a capsule, it is purplish in color and it infiltrates the involved glands . Microscopically, solid masses of cells and multiple anastomosing c... |
A subset of patients with myositis have unique autoantibodies . This has informed and altered our approach to the diagnosis and management of the inflammatory myopathies . The identification of myositis - specific autoantibodies (msa) and myositis - associated autoantibodies (maa) is important because they are associat... |
Modes of transmission and distribution factors - various scenarios should be considered when trying to understand the transmission dynamics of t. cruzi . The emergence of transmission of t. cruzi and the maintenance cycle of chagas disease involve a diversity of elements . There is diversity in vector species, their be... |
The data were collected from the records of patients presenting to outpatient department for piol surgery for myopia . The inclusion criteria for the icl implantation were preoperative best - corrected distance visual acuity (bdva) of 6/24 (snellen equivalent) or better, stable refraction for at least 1 year and a clea... |
Two great changes in developed countries are taking place: populations are ageing and becoming increasingly overweight . The average weight of both men and women at the age of 45 years is 20% higher than it was 20 years age [24]; on the other hand, ageing workers can be found in almost all types of occupation . The int... |
In 2001, we enrolled 603 children (116 years of age) attending the sickle cell clinic at mulago hospital, kampala, in our study . By design, plasma specimens were tested by using an elisa for hcv antibodies to recombinant antigens c22, c200, and ns5b (elisa-3.0, ortho - clinical diagnostics, raritan, nj, usa) according... |
For the better part of the past 20 years, dentistry has seen the development of many new all - ceramic restorative systems . The need to develop such materials and associated technology has been driven by the patient expectations for excellent esthetics and by biocompatibility concerns of metals intraorally . The combi... |
Parry romberg syndrome (prs) is an orphan or rare disease and is a poorly understood degenerative condition, seen most commonly as asymmetry of the face affecting dermatomes of one or multiple branches of the trigeminal nerve and rarely affects the limbs causing hemiatrophy . Some authors refer to it as parry romberg s... |
Flat foot is a disease that is either congenital or acquired, having characteristics such as talus medial rotation, decreased medial arch height, and forefoot supination and abduction1 . Flat foot also causes excessive movement to be pronated and shock absorption to be decreased . In general, a normal foot experiences ... |
Acute mesenteric ischemia (ami) is an emergency situation that is caused by circulatory disturbances of mesenteric vessels and is frequently associated with atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disorders . Ami is a complex disease entity including acute mesenteric arterial embolism and thrombosis, mesenteric venous throm... |
Pica actually refers to the latin word for magpie, a bird thought to have odd feeding habits . Incidence of pica has also been linked to iron and zinc deficiency . Whether the pica is an eating disorder or obsessive compulsive disorder is still controversial . The patient was a 27 year old young indian lady living in t... |
Recently, global nursing experts have been aggressively encouraging nurses to pursue creativity and innovation in nursing in order to improve nursing outcomes (1, 2). The world of healthcare is changing (3). Nurses worldwide are engaged in innovative activities on a daily basis; activities motivated by the need to impr... |
Cirrhosis secondary to hepatitis c virus (hcv) is the most common indication for orthotopic liver transplantation . Acute recurrence can occur within 6 months after transplantation, is often more severe than the primary hcv disease, and leads to fairly rapid progression to cirrhosis . Recurrent viral infection with pro... |
Human primary cell cultures and cell lines have become fundamental tools for basic research in numerous life science faculties as well as for the production of bioactive reagents in biomedicine and biotechnology . They are already used for several decades and frozen cell cultures or blood and tissue samples obtained ma... |
Chikungunya (chikv) and dengue (denv which is divided into 4 serotypes, 1 to 4) viruses are both arthropod - borne viruses belonging respectively to the genus alphavirus, togaviridae family and flavivirus, flaviviridae family, and transmitted to humans via a bite of infected aedes mosquitoes (aedes aegypti, aedes albop... |
A newly diagnosed acromegaly patient aged 45-year - old woman was referred to our clinic for an ophthalmologic examination from the endocrinology department of our hospital . Serum igf-1 level was 750 ng / ml (reference ranges of igf-1 in ages 4685: 94166 ng / ml). Complete ophthalmological examination including cct wi... |
Osteoporosis is a worldwide disease characterized by low bone mass and poor bone strength caused by an imbalance between bone forming osteoblasts and bone resorbing osteoclasts.1 an estimated 200 million people are affected worldwide with the great majority being women.2 reports demonstrate that within the lifetime of ... |
During july december 2012 and 2013, sick raccoon dogs and arctic foxes, which were farmed for fur products on 6 farms (farms a f) in jilin and liaoning provinces, china, were received for quarantine inspection at the fur animal disease laboratory, institute of special animal and plant sciences, chinese academy of agric... |
The development of reasonablecost power sources for largescale electric transportation is becoming increasingly important for economic and ecological reasons . Liion batteries (libs) are the most promising energystorage systems for electric vehicles (evs) and hybrid plugin electric vehicles (hpevs).1, 2 however, furthe... |
Triggered by initial reports on lasers with mirrorless feedback, random lasers with noncoherent (which essentially is amplified spontaneous emission, ase) and coherent feedback moved closer in the focus of extensive research activities . Coherent light amplification using high refractive index dielectric or metallic na... |
My lab is fascinated by understanding how tissues renew themselves throughout an organism s lifetime . Specifically, we are interested in understanding how cells orchestrate tissue growth and make cell - fate choices that result in balanced tissue regeneration . Tissue regeneration is often looked at as a process happe... |
Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (osas), which is caused by a complete or partial obstruction of the upper airway producing apnea or hypopnea, is a sleep disorder characterized by repetitive cessation of breathing occurring during sleep . According to the american academy of sleep medicine, a diagnosis of osas can be m... |
Anterior cruciate ligament (acl) injuries in the skeletally immature athletes have been reported with increasing frequency, accounting for 31% of the total knee injuries (shea et al . Non operative management is an appealing option in reason of the risk of physeal damage, however the recent literature uniformly indicat... |
Chronic cough is a frequent presenting complaint to not only the general practitioner but also the otolaryngologist and respiratory specialist . Diagnosis can be difficult, especially in primary care, but empirical treatment for common causes such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, gastro - oesophageal r... |
Although rare, tumor involvement of the inferior vena cava (ivc) by hepatobiliary, pancreatic or duodenal malignancies can be difficult to assess preoperatively, and can compromise an adequate oncological resection, especially when found incidentally at laparotomy . However, radical resection with negative histological... |
In 1996, deleuze et al . Initially suspected the role of defects in the multidrug resistance 3 p - glycoprotein (mdr3) in a subtype of progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis (pfic). This refers to a heterogeneous group of familial cholestatic conditions caused by defects in biliary epithelial transporters . The ... |
Mast cells, like blood cells, are derived from pluripotent bone marrow hematopoietic stem cells but, unlike blood cells, they leave the bone marrow as progenitors and migrate into virtually all vascularized tissues to complete their differentiation under the influence of factors present at each tissue site . It is the ... |
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Culicoides spp . Latreille (diptera: ceratopogonidae) or biting midges are small (0.5 - 2.0 mm in length) bloodsucking insects that have a broad distribution and impact on human and veterinary health as vectors of viruses (bluetongue, african horse sickness, epizootic hemorrhagic disease of deer, akabane, aino, chuzan,... |
The esthetic demand for restorative treatments that reestablish natural teeth s aspects is a major concern in dentistry.1 among the available options, ceramic restorations are an excellent alternative because of advantages, such as aesthetic, biocompatibility, chemical durability, fluorescence, compression and wear res... |
Tiam1 is involved in a number of cellular processes including migration and the regulation of cell - cell adhesions and survival . Althoughtiam1 has been implicated in cellular proliferation, its role during the cell cycle is unknown . In mdck ii cells expressing either gfp - tagged tiam1 or ha - tagged tiam1, we were ... |
Among adults with type 2 diabetes (t2 dm), suboptimal medication adherence is common (1,2) and is associated with higher healthcare costs and worse health outcomes (2,3). Few interventions have been designed to promote adherence to diabetes medications, resulting in limited knowledge about what content should be includ... |
Childhood nephrotic syndrome (ns) is the commonest glomerular lesion encountered in childhood [1, 2]. Although various histological features have been described, the most important determinant of outcome of this condition is steroid responsiveness which is, however, not uniformly distributed globally . High steroid res... |
In 1959 ernst mayr (figure 1) flung down the gauntlet at the feet of the three great population geneticists ra fisher, sewall wright and jbs haldane (figure 2): " but what, precisely, " he said, " has been the contribution of this mathematical school to the evolutionary theory, if i may be permitted to ask such a provo... |
Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (pres) was first reported as reversible posterior leucoencephalopathy syndrome in 1996 . Initially, it was described in acutely ill patients who had a reversible syndrome of headache, altered mental function, seizure, and loss of vision associated with findings indicating pr... |
Archival tissues of formalin - fixed, paraffin - embedded (ffpe) tumor blocks were retrieved from consecutively archived specimens . A set of 177 t / nk - cell lymphomas diagnosed in severance hospital from 1999 to 2013 were included . The subtypes of t / nk - cell lymphomas were as follows: extranodal nk / t - cell ly... |
The following terms were used to describe the different kinds of genetic maps used in this study, as suggested by hudson et al . (2012): 1) sex - averaged map: a consensus map for both parents of a pedigree; 2) consensus map: an integrated map based on segregation data from individual component maps; 3) composite map: ... |
Low - grade lymphomas are chronic diseases, and some patients may live for many years following initial diagnosis.1 therefore, for many patients it is currently regarded as appropriate not to treat immediately at diagnosis, but rather to watch and wait . Once patients do require treatment, there are many therapies avai... |
Morphologic variants of papillary thyroid carcinoma (ptc) have been described already, some of which have worse prognosis and more recurrence rate than conventional ptc . Interestingly, the first clinical presentation of the tumor may be a metastasis to a lymph node of the neck from a small occult primary tumor . Cysti... |
In june 2006, a dutch farmer contacted the pig health unit of the veterinary faculty of utrecht university about an outbreak of exudative epidermitis among his swine . On his breeding farm (farm a), which had 200 sows (22.5 piglets / sow / year), a high preweaning mortality rate (20%) was caused by exudative epidermiti... |
It is known that in patients with ischemic heart disease, anxiety and depression are predictive of adverse short- and long - term outcomes [1, 2]. In fact, patients who have anxiety or depression during hospital admission are at increased risk for higher rates of in - hospital complications such as recurrent ischemia, ... |
Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from all culture - positive tb patients in seattle and king county, washington, during 20032004 were genotyped by spacer oligonucleotide typing and mycobacterial interspersed repetitive unit methods . We included patients who had an isolate that matched the outbreak strain or who had... |
The pcos is the most common cause of menstrual disorders, ovarian dysfunction, and infertility of women . Observational studies postulate that up to 15% of women suffer under this condition during their reproductive life . Pcos etiopathology is not clear, but most probably a strong genetic cause that is influenced by g... |
The relationship between pulp of the tooth and surrounding periodontium was first described in 1964, and since then the term endo - perio has become an integral part of the dental vocabulary . Unfortunately, this term has been used indiscriminately to categorize disease of either periodontal or endodontic etiology, wit... |
Inhalation of ambient particulate matter (pm) causes respiratory and cardiovascular health problems and mortality in humans . Pm may induce these effects by producing reactive oxygen species (ros), including hydrogen peroxide (hooh) and hydroxyl radical (oh), in the body . Though less reactive than oh, hooh is of inter... |
Infestation with the liver flukes fasciola hepatica and fasciola gigantica, has traditionally been associated with substantial production and economic losses in livestock, particularly sheep and cattle (1). Several studies have shown that f. hepatica occurs in temperate areas, while f. gigantica occurs mainly in tropic... |
, this inoculation primarily infects the intervertebral disc and subsequently spreads to the adjacent vertebral structures4). Most patients with early postoperative spondylodiscitis can be treated with conservative methods, such as intravenous antibiotics, immobilization, and bracing . However, more aggressive approach... |
Many benign tumors can affect the orbit and, if symptomatic or cosmetically disfiguring, most can be removed via various cutaneous and bony approaches . Many of these approaches involve removal of the lateral orbital wall, with replacement after tumor excision [17]. This approach can produce excellent operative exposur... |
Patients with congestive heart failure (hf) are at high risk of dying from its progression as well from sudden cardiac death related to ventricular tachyarrhythmia . Over the last decade, cardiac resynchronization therapy (crt) and implantable cardioverter defibrillators (icds) have markedly improved the prognosis of h... |
Studies of wld, an aberrant fusion protein with critical nicotinamide mononucleotide adenylyltransferase (nmnat) activity responsible for the slow wallerian degeneration phenotype, indicate this often shares molecular features with injury - induced axon degeneration (conforti et al ., 2014). New, endogenous regulators ... |
The size and form of the dental arches vary among individuals according to tooth size, tooth position, pattern of craniofacial growth and by several genetic and environmental factors . Survey of arch size could help clinicians in the selection of stock trays, the size of artificial teeth, and the overall forms of artif... |
It is generally agreed that up to 30% of patients with igan eventually progress to end - stage kidney disease . The diagnosis of igan can be confirmed only by renal biopsy that shows mesangial cell proliferation and mesangial iga deposits . In the circulation, recently, the key feature has been considered to be the def... |
Intraspinal juxtafacet cysts (commonly, synovial or ganglion cyst) can be an uncommon cause of lower and radicular pain, neurogenic claudication, and cauda equina syndrome2,9,10,13). Spinal synovial cysts generally arise from a degenerated facet joint and often presenting as a gradual onset of back pain and potentially... |
Cell culture tissue culture reagents were purchased from commercial sources (invitrogen). The human pancreatic epithelial cancer cell lines, panc-1, aspc-1, capan-1, capan-2, bxpc-3, l3.6, miapaca-2, and cfpac-1, were obtained from american type culture collection and maintained according to the supplier's suggestions ... |
Endometrial cancer (ec) is the most common gynecologic cancer in the united states . This year, ec was among the first malignancies to be linked with obesity, and there is consensus that excess adiposity is a major risk factor for the disease . Overweight and obese women are two to three times more likely to develop ec... |
Diseases that affect the buccal cavity are considered a serious public health problem . Among the more prevalent periodontal diseases and dental caries are usually caused by the presence of biofilm as a result of ineffective mechanical oral hygiene practices . For this reason, chemical agents are important to reduce gi... |
The inevitable exposure of salivary glands to radiation occurs frequently during radiotherapy of the head and neck region, which results in decreased saliva secretion, called xerostomia, shortly after a few radiation fractions . This may persist for the rest of the patient's life, contributing to oral infections, carie... |
Root canal dressings are used usually during the endodontic treatment of teeth with apical periodontitis . Calcium hydroxide is considered the standard intracanal medication because of its antibacterial effect . However, clinical studies have shown that it is not possible to sterilize the root canals in necrotic teeth ... |
Caesarean section may sometimes be the only means to save the life of the mother and/or foetus . Current estimates in cameroon put the national caesarean section rate at about 2%, with the lowest rate of 0.4% being reported in the far north region . This is lower than the national rate of 515% of the estimated live bir... |
Pig eyes were obtained from a local abattoir . Only eyes that could be identified as right eyes were used . Within 2 hours of death, the bulbar conjunctiva was preserved, while the palpebral conjunctiva was removed together with adnexal tissues . Eyes irrigated with pbs were placed with the optic nerve into a cryogenic... |
Urinary tract infections (uti) are the most common infectious complications in patients receiving renal transplantation for end stage kidney disease . Uti could be associated with an increased morbidity and mortality risk, can worsen the graft and patient survival in renal transplant recipient . A significant proportio... |
Postoperative vomiting places undue pressure on the repaired diaphragm and gastric wrap, risking early failure of the surgery.1 as such, patients undergoing laparoscopic fundoplication need effective, parenteral, nonopioid analgesia . Lidocaine is an inexpensive and widely accessible local anesthetic that possesses ana... |
The distal intestine is populated by a stunning quantity of bacteria, comprised of relatively few phyla that are highly diverse at the species level . This heterogeneous composition presents a vibrant metabolically active life - form, sharing the same habitat as our enteric organs . Realistically, enteric microbiota ar... |
Mood disorders are one of the most common psychiatric disorders that are expressed as diminished mood during periods of depression and elevated mood during periods of mania . Bipolar disorder is a complex chronic condition characterized by interactive periods of depression and mania or hypomania . The incidence of recu... |
The unfortunate complication of a colotomy resulting from a colonoscopic polypectomy can be disastrous . Using the versatility of laparoscopic surgery we report a case of cecal perforation, in a 70 year old female, following colonoscopic polypectomy that was treated successfully with laparoscopic application of an endo... |
Bednar tumor or pigmented dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans (dfsp) is a rare, aggressive, cutaneous tumor that constitutes 1 - 5% of all dfsps . A 40-year - old female presented with right shoulder swelling present since few months and gradually increasing in size . A complete excision was performed without any prior fin... |
Colon cancer (cc) is the third most common cancer in both genders worldwide and the second cause of cancer - related death in western countries, only overcome by lung cancer [1, 2]. In cuba, cc is one of the most frequent tumors and the third cause of death by cancer in both men and women . Despite the significant adva... |
The study was designed as a multicenter, retrospective collection of cases with using a case reporting form . Only patients who underwent an ia recanalization procedure due to acute anterior circulation ischemia in the internal carotid artery (ica) and the middle cerebral artery (mca), and this was performed within the... |
A 46-year - old man was transferred to our hospital for further evaluation and management of a gastric lesion that had been detected by gastroscopy during a medical checkup at a local clinic . The gastroscopy showed an approximately 2.5-cm sized submucosal mass with two active ulcers on the mucosal surface (fig . The d... |
Interhospital transport of critically ill patient may be indicated if additional care, whether technical, cognitive, or procedural, is not available at the existing location . Regionalization of intensive care medicine in centers with high patient volumes appears to improve outcome of patients and therefore may further... |
Mhc class ii molecules are heterodimeric cell surface glycoproteins that bind exogenously derived antigenic peptides and present them to cd4 t cells 12 . Class ii and chains are translocated into the endoplasmic reticulum (er), where they form nonamers with invariant (ii) chain 3 . Ii chain prevents the binding of immu... |
Subjects with chronic insomnia have a higher risk for hypertension [13] and u - shaped associations have also been demonstrated between sleep duration and hypertension . Studies have reported that insomnia is associated with an overall hypersecretion of acth and cortisol, suggesting an activation of the hypothalamic - ... |
Bariatric surgery is most often performed with the laparoscopic roux - en - y gastric bypass (lrgb). Lrgb has favourable effects such as weight loss and correction of metabolic disturbances, but is also associated with serious complications . It is a severe complication, which can lead to massive bowel necrosis that ma... |
Type 2 diabetes mellitus (t2 dm) is a common chronic health condition in the elderly . The number of elderly t2 dm patients has been growing worldwide, especially in upper - middle income countries such as thailand . Based on the findings of the fourth thai national health examination survey in 2009, diabetes was most ... |
Organic molecules containing bulky alkyl groups have shown great potential in drug discovery and medicinal chemistry . Sterically demanding alkyl substituents such as adamantyl or tert - butyl are often introduced into pharmaceuticals to enhance lipophilicity and/or improve the drug s metabolic stability by shielding a... |
This investigation includes a series of blood investigations and imaging; when these investigations found no evidence for a demyelinating disorder (through mri features principally), systemic autoimmune condition (e.g., antinuclear antibodies, dna, aquaporin-4, and myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibodies), or in... |
There is a subgroup of patients with temporomandibular disorder who nomadically pass from one dentist to another seeking bite correction . Their occlusal discomfort is characterized by an uncomfortable sensation mainly affecting corrected dentition, crowns, or dentures in which no abnormality is clinically detectable .... |
This clinical case report described a three - month - old mongrel dog that had the urethral orifice opening 3 cm from the tip of the penis and lacked a completely formed preputial sheath . Urinary incontinence stopped soon after surgery, suggesting that it had been probably due to an ascending urethritis . Hypospadias ... |
Obesity is one of the major cardiovascular disease (cvd) risk factors and is a common health problem both in adults and in children . Not only do obese children have a higher risk of becoming obese adults, childhood bmi is independently associated with later coronary heart disease as well . Visceral fat in particular i... |
Amoebiasis is the second leading cause of death from parasitic disease worldwide.1 amoebic liver abscess (ala) is the most common extra - intestinal manifestation of entamoeba histolytica infestation, and it is associated with significant morbidity and mortality.2 the common complications of ala include rupture into pl... |
In this paper, we specify parasites as eukaryotic pathogens that largely include protozoa and helminths and survive off their host partly or completely for their life cycle . Innate immunity rarely eliminates parasites but can successfully inhibit growth while they recruit antigen - specific t and b cells to differenti... |
Study design and enrolled cats: nine domestic short - haired cats living at a research facility were enrolled; mean age was 6.11 1.71 years, and body weight was 3.51 0.42 kg . All cats were selected from a research colony maintained under standard laboratory conditions at the tottori university . None of the cats had r... |
In korea, the incidence rate of prostate cancer was 32.5 per 100,000 during 2012 and has increased annually with the widespread use of prostate - specific antigen (psa) screening and transrectal ultrasound (trus)-guided prostate biopsy . The current trend in trus - guided prostate biopsy involves the use of an extended... |
It is surprising that a medline search reveals less than 10 articles on topics concerning adult thalassemia . There is a severe resource data crunch at a time when information needs to be readily available to the physicians, the emphasis being on evidence - based medicine . This study aims to evaluate the clinical prof... |
In bioinformatics, the sequence alignment has become one of the most important issues . When the biologists get an unknown sequence, in general they would compare this unknown sequence (denoted as query sequence) with the known database of sequences (denoted as database sequences) to find the similarity scores and then... |
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