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Infantile postural asymmetry (far better known as congenital muscular torticollis) is characterised predominantly by asymmetric movement patterns, such as trunk convexity and unilateral restriction in head turning1,2,3 . To direct the focus on the trunk, the designation infantile postural asymmetry the expected cause o... |
Air pollution is a risk factor for various diseases including eye irritation, respiratory infections, and heart disease [13]. Conjunctiva is sensitive to environmental particles considering the direct contact of conjunctiva with the outside environment . Conjunctiva protects the ocular from outsides deleterious agents,... |
They say passing a kidney stone is the worst pain you could ever have . I still feel it now, intense as ever, 10 years later . Dan vento is talking about the time his daughter suffered a relapse of an uncommon form of cancer called osteosarcoma . But a year later, jennifer s left knee began to swell and hurt again, the... |
Early breast cancer detection, accurate diagnosis, and personalized therapies have become goals of clinical medicine in the genomic era, and in the last few decades molecular genetics advances have contributed greatly to the development of those goals . The ability to identify genomic characteristics, determine copy nu... |
, the disorder is characterised by lisch nodules, optic gliomas, choroidal hamartomas and congenital hypertrophy of the retinal pigment epithelium (chrpe). It appears that reduction of neurofibromin expression can lead to abnormalities in the differentiation and migration of melanoblasts and melanocytes which gives ris... |
It is now widely recognized that the acquisition and storage of information require long - lasting modifications (i.e., plasticity) of synaptic transmission among neurons [13]. Long - term potentiation (ltp) and long - term depression (ltd) constitute two forms of synaptic plasticity that are thought to play important ... |
Jack (35), a college teacher and a father of two children aged 5 and 13 years, has been a jehovah s witness as long as he can remember . His youngest child has accompanied him to religious meetings, but the 13-year - old has never been a part of the jehovah s witness community . The family doctor came to see him, and s... |
During the early years that followed the discovery of x - ray, radiographers were unintentionally, incautious when dealing with it because of its unknown biological harmful effects . Many cases of cancer, sterility and death due to x - ray / radiation toxicity were documented during the early years of the 20 century . ... |
Since the first description was more than 20 years ago, arrythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (arvc) is increasingly recognized from pathology to diagnosis . The main pathologic feature is the gradual replacement of the right ventricular myocardium by fibrous tissue and fat . Patients with arvc often die at a ... |
T2d is a long term condition requiring lifestyle changes, such as dietary changes and increases in physical activity as well as medication - taking, to control it and avoid life - threatening complications . As such, the illness is self - managed with the ultimate aim to keep blood glucose levels within set targets . S... |
Molecular photochromism and high photostability are among the crucial requirements for optically driven molecular memories, photoswitches, and data processing materials . In this context special attention is paid to aromatic schiff bases whose photochemistry is governed by an ultrafast excited - state intramolecular pr... |
Bladder is the most common site in the urinary system to be afflicted by cancer . At presentation, approximately 30% of bladder cancers (bca) are muscle invasive; radical cystectomy (rc) remains the treatment of choice in these cases . However, in select patients, partial cystectomy (pc) may offer equivalent oncologica... |
Periodontal diseases are inflammatory conditions of bacterial origin that involve large proportions of inflammatory cells and the sequential activation of different components of the host immune and inflammatory response, aimed at defending the tissues against bacterial aggression, reflecting the essentially protective... |
Is magnified by the high prevalence of risk factors and by health systems which are often unable to effectively deliver the acute and long - term care these patients require [1, 2]. A recent review of the global impact of traumatic brain injury (tbi) identified that opportunities to adequately address this burden are c... |
The distribution of sandflies correlated with the appearance of cases of leishmaniasis in endemic regions, especially in forested areas . However, with human intervention and the disappearance of their natural habitat, some species appear to have adapted to degraded habitats, contributing to expansion of their spatial ... |
The pathogenesis of human cancer is characterized by a multistep process involving multiple molecular alterations leading to dysregulation of a variety of signaling pathways (hanahan and weinberg 2011). Acute myeloid leukemia (aml) is a clonal disorder of hematopoietic stem cells characterized by disrupted maturation a... |
Behet's disease (bd) is characterized by recurrent aphthous stomatitis, genital ulcers, and various skin lesions . Bd can also involve other systems such as ocular, gastrointestinal, articular, neurological and cardiovascular systems . The frequency of cardiovascular involvement is estimated to be 4 - 46%.1)2) common v... |
Melioidosis is predominantly a tropical disease and most cases are reported during the rainy season in endemic area . It is characterized by abscess - formation in the lung, liver, spleen, skeletal muscle and prostate with the lung being the most commonly involved organ . The clinical features are variable from rapidly... |
We used data from the third national health and nutrition examination survey (nhanes iii) mortality follow - up file (7). For this database, the national center for health statistics linked nhanes iii participants aged 17 years by probabilistic matching to the national death index to determine mortality status through ... |
A single dna molecule is a long chain of nucleotides (base pairs). There are four such nucleotides which are represented by the set of symbols {a, t, g, c}. It is generally accepted that genomes of two humans are almost 99% identical at dna level . However, at certain specific sites, variation is observed across the hu... |
A 74-year - old man startled his dog and sustained a penetrating bite to his hand . A few days later, the patient developed fever, chills and weakness, resulting in a fall . Significant comorbidities included chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, hypertension, dyslipidemia and idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy, grade ... |
Rhabdomyolysis is characterized by muscle necrosis and the release of intracellular muscle contents into the systemic circulation . The spectrum of the syndrome ranges from asymptomatic serum muscle enzymes elevation to life - threatening extreme enzyme elevations, electrolyte imbalances, and acute renal failure . We r... |
Breast cancer is the most common cancer and leading cause of cancer death among women worldwide.1 among danish women, breast cancer accounted for 29% of all incident cancers, and was the cause of 16% of all cancer deaths among women during the period 19992006.2 to improve survival of danish patients with breast cancer,... |
Patients with acute cholangitis are at risk for developing severe infection that can be fatal unless appropriate medical care is provided at an early stage . Advances in antibiotic therapy and acute care as well as a wide diffusion of expertise in biliary endoscopy have resulted in reduction of morbidity and mortality ... |
Microfluidics is the science and technology that deals with fluids usually in the range of microliters (10) to picoliters (10). Since microfluidics typically deals with fluids in the microliter scale, it has several advantages, including low consumption of samples, short analysis time, and high sensitivity [1 - 4]. The... |
Because many prenatal disorders involve more than one organ, an important clue of prenatal diagnosis is to look for multiple anomalies . Therefore, finding a specific lesion commands detailed examination of the fetus to rule out a possible involvement of other organs . This approach is clinically important as identifyi... |
Design of primers for rt: we used clustalw to align the orfs and utrs of the 124 na - type prrsv strains for which complete genomic sequences were registered in public databases (ddbj / embl / genbank) (table s1 and fig . 1.phylogenetic relationships of 124 na - type prrsv strains obtained from public nucleotide databa... |
Goats are one of the most important livestock species in the world, mostly because of their meat and milk production . According to ibge (2010), the brazilian goat population was estimated at 9.31 million heads, with 90% of the animals being raised in the northeastern region of the country . In recent years, there have... |
This analysis was conducted in the context of an ongoing observational study of early events in the natural history of type 2 diabetes in which a cohort of women recruited at the time of antepartum screening for gdm is undergoing longitudinal metabolic characterization in pregnancy and the postpartum period . The study... |
Neonatal group b streptococcus (gbs) infection ranging from 0.5 to 2 per 1000 live birth is the result of vertical transmission to the infant during delivery in colonized mothers . Attempts at identifying gbs colonized pregnant women near term by assessing the risk factors for gbs, failed to diagnose all cases . Univer... |
Although s. pneumoniae is the most common cause of community - acquired pneumonia (cap) in many countries, there are considerable geographic differences in the incidence of other pathogens . Tuberculosis (tb) is often overlooked as a cause of cap, particularly when it presents as an acute illness (2). Although the pres... |
Patients with spinal cord injuries (sci) have motor and sensory disorders, resulting in disabilities in daily activities1 . Although they should receive intensive care and rehabilitation treatment after injury, most patients experience disorders (e.g., impingement syndrome, osteoarthritis, bursitis, paralysis, parasthe... |
There has been a shift towards new roles for art galleries as places for learning and such settings are seeking ways to reach out to more diverse audiences, including persons living with dementia . Researchers believe that, as a brain is being progressively affected by dementia, an individual can still experience the d... |
We assembled snp array data from 29,589 unrelated people and 222 nuclear families genotyped at 490,000910,000 snps from the candidate gene association resource (care), studies at the children s hospital of philadelphia (chop), the african american breast cancer consortium, the african american prostate cancer consortiu... |
Medical costs in the united states have risen rapidly and substantially, making health care expenditure one of the most troubling economic and social problems for the u.s.a . The local, state and federal governments as well as citizens are generally aware of the magnitude and seriousness of the problems of health care ... |
The prediction of a protein structure from its primary sequence is one of the most interesting problems in computational biology (1). Native proteins usually fold much too fast (by at least tens of magnitude) to involve an exhaustive search (2). It is a classical puzzle of the protein folding that biological proteins c... |
Psoriatic arthritis (psa) is a frequent inflammatory disease that affects both peripheral and axial joints, enthuses, and the skin (psoriatic dermatitis, ps). It is usually seronegative for rheumatoid factor and it has been included in the spectrum of the spondyloarthropathies (spa). According to the traditional moll a... |
Blood is an invaluable, life - sustaining fluid . Without a sufficient amount of blood, the cells of the human body could not receive adequate oxygen and nutrients they need to survive . Large volume of blood could be lost as a result of numerously varying serious conditions such as road traffic accidents, obstetric an... |
Age - related ocular diseases such as cataracts will assume increasing importance in the public health of the polish nation . Cataracts are a common cause of visual acuity (va) loss and reduced quality of life in the elderly population.1 over the last few years, life expectancy in poland has been increasing steadily, a... |
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (als) is a progressive degeneration of motor neurons in the brain and spinal cord whose cause is unknown . It is also unclear whether the motor neuron degeneration begins in the perikaryon (cell body) as a neuronopathy and proceeds anterogradely, or along the axon as an axonopathy and proc... |
The use of combined chemo- and radiotherapy for childhood cancer treatment has led to an increased survival rate and posed new challenges concerning health problems, organ damage, and quality of life after anticancer therapy . Gonads are particularly exposed to the deteriorating effects of certain chemotherapeutics and... |
Serum specimens from the patients were tested at the centers for disease control and prevention (cdc) in serial fourfold dilutions by indirect fluorescent antibody (ifa) testing for reactivity to b. microti (11), wa1 (8), and b. divergens antigens . The antigen sources were human isolates of b. microti and wa1 and a bo... |
The study protocol was approved by the ethics committee of the medical university of vienna and followed the guidelines set forth in the declaration of helsinki . All patients signed written informed consent prior to inclusion and passed a screening examination including physical and ophthalmological examination during... |
Polyvinyl chloride (pvc) is one of the most commonly manufactured plastics in the world, used in a wide variety of products including packaging, pipes, automotive parts, construction materials and furniture . Pvc is polymerized from vinyl chloride (vc) monomer, which is one of the highest production volume chemicals gl... |
Hydrophobic match or mismatch in transmembrane (tm) helices (or proteins) refers to the match or mismatch between the length of the hydrophobic core of the helix and the native thickness of the hydrocarbon region of the membrane (figure 1). Positive mismatch refers to a situation in which the helix is longer than the m... |
Various -glucans have been extracted from various sources such as fungi, baker's yeast, barley, oats, and seaweed . The physicochemical properties of -glucans differ depending on characteristics of their primary structure, including linkage type, degree of branching, molecular weight, and conformation (e.g., triple hel... |
Efforts have been ongoing in many countries to develop integrated ecosystem - based assessments using physical chemical properties, biological abundance and diversity, and/or chemical characterisation to define the ecological quality of aquatic environments . (2008) was produced after the international meeting, ecosumm... |
Rheumatoid arthritis (ra) is a chronic, progressive, inflammatory autoimmune disease in which the body's immune system mistakenly attacks the joint . The disease produces an inflammatory infiltrate of immune cells as well as a series of destructive events such as synovial hyperplasia, pannus setting, bone and cartilage... |
The interaction of ultraviolet or visible light of a specific wavelength with certain molecules or photosensitizing chemicals leads to a delayed type hypersensitivity reaction that causes photocontact dermatitis . The primary investigation for the detection of photodermatitis is the photopatch test, which helps in the ... |
The work of wu and colleagues is in accordance with the recent concept of sepsis - induced immunosuppression . There is now agreement that many severe septic patients survive the first critical hours of the syndrome but eventually die later in a state of immunosuppression that is illustrated by patients' difficulty to ... |
Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, or transient apical ballooning syndrome, is a non - ischemic cardiomyopathy that mimics the onset of an acute myocardial infarction . Its incidence was recently reported to be 1.72.2% among patients presenting with acute coronary syndrome . Takotsubo is also called broken heart syndrome becaus... |
(itbl) are often used as synonyms for hilar or intrahepatic diffuse bile duct strictures, necrosis, ecstasies, or dilatations (see figure 1) [1, 2]. The reported incidence of itbl after olt varies between 1.4% and 20% [35]. This complication encounters for major morbidity and mortality, creates high costs, and aggravat... |
Granulomatosis with polyangiitisis (gpa) is an idiopathic systemic form of vasculitis characterized by involvement of the upper and lower airways and the kidneys . The exact cause of gpa is unknown, but it seems to have characteristics of an autoimmune disease . Ent manifestations are present in the vast majority of pa... |
The incidence of such infections is estimated to be 510% of patients admitted to tertiary care hospitals, although this may go up to 28% in the intensive care unit (icu). Nosocomial infections contribute to 0.710% of deaths compared to 0.14.4% of all the deaths occurring in hospitals . Nosocomial infections are most co... |
A 54-year - old male patient with a height of 170 cm and weight of 77 kg visited a private hospital due to a headache and weakness in left muscle that started the day before his hospital visit . During the examination, the patient showed decreased consciousness, and internal hemorrhaging in the cerebral ventricle was o... |
The sars outbreak in vietnam began with the admission of a traveler from hong kong on february 26, 2003, to hospital a, a 56-bed, three - story, privately owned and expatriate - operated facility located in hanoi . Within 2 weeks, extensive nosocomial transmission of sars occurred in workers, patients, and visitors in ... |
Since the international subarachnoid aneurysm trial, endovascular coil embolization has been widely used for the treatment of intracranial aneurysms (1, 2). Moreover, improved devices and advanced coiling techniques have made it possible to treat an increased number of aneurysms, including those with difficult configur... |
Osteonecrosis of the femoral head (onfh) is a debilitating disease that can often lead to mechanical failure, with collapse of the articular surface and structural joint deformity.1,2 however, some cases of onfh remain asymptomatic if the necrotic lesion undergoes no collapse . The prognosis of onfh largely depends on ... |
Behet's disease (bd) is an immune - mediated, systemic vasculitis, in which blood vessels of all sizes (small, medium, and large) in both the venous and arterial circulation can be affected . Clinically it is characterised by recurrent aphthous ulcers of the mouth and/or genitals in combination with other systemic mani... |
Since 2000, over 160,000 children have come to the united states as international adoptees . More than 25% of these children have come from eastern european countries having received primarily institutional care . Children in these orphanages frequently endure significant social deprivation that may impact their physic... |
Sixteen client - owned cats, presented to the irion animal hospital, seoul, korea, over a period of 7 months (november 2014 may 2015) were included in the study . All of these cats were undergoing minor dental treatment, and all of owners of these cats were voluntarily participated in this study . The mean age of cats ... |
Familial adult myoclonic epilepsy (fame), or benign adult familial myoclonic epilepsy (bafme), is a neurological disease of an autosomal - dominant inheritance, which is characterized clinically by adult onset of finger tremulous movement mixed with myoclonic jerks . Linkage studies have mapped fame - associated loci t... |
Ureteral injury is one of the most problematic complications with significant postoperative morbidity in pelvic and abdominal surgical procedures . Unrecognized ureteral injury can cause prolonged postoperative morbidity leading to fistula formation, sepsis, or renal functional loss . According to the literature, many ... |
Since its inception, cell communication and signaling (ccs) has been published by biomed central as an open access journal . Biomed central is an independent publisher committed to ensuring high quality publications in the fields of biomedical research . Articles published in ccs are freely available to everyone online... |
Enterovesical fistula is an abnormal communication between the bladder and the intestine (1). It may occur as a result of postoperative complication of radical cystectomy and bladder substitution from the ileum, also called neobladder . . Divided ileal loops are side - to - side or end - to - end anastomosed . Surgical... |
Ghent university multidisciplinary research partnership bioinformatics: from nucleotides to networks; fund for scientific research (fwo)flanders (belgium) (postdoctoral research fellowship to f.i . ); institute for the promotion of innovation through science and technology in flanders (iwt - vlaanderen) (phd to k.p . )... |
Rheumatoid arthritis (ra) is a chronic immune - mediated condition that leads to significant disability if not sufficiently treated . Biologic drugs are recommended for treating ra1 if nonbiologic disease - modifying antirheumatic drugs (dmards) are not tolerated by the patient or do not induce low disease activity or ... |
Pseudomembranous colitis (pmc) is a nosocomial infection mainly caused by the use of antibiotics and is commonly associated with abdominal pain and diarrhea . A gradual increase in pmc incidence has been observed, coincident with increasing antibiotic consumption.123 despite the use of antibiotics for the primary manag... |
Comparar o crescimento somtico, a funo pulmonar e o nvel de atividade fsica entre escolares nascidos prematuros com muito baixo peso e escolares nascidos a termo e com peso adequado . Foram recrutados escolares com idade de 8 a 11 anos residentes na mesma rea de abrangncia do estudo: prematuros e com peso <1.500 g e co... |
The presence of a thick keratinized gingival covering serves as an effective barrier that is resistant to damage by various types of insults . As such a narrow zone of keratinized tissue favors gingival recession and inflammation in patients with subgingival restorations, impedes proper impression taking in prosthodont... |
The treatment of intracranial aneurysms has been revolutionized by the introduction of detachable coils for endovascular therapy, and it has been demonstrated that it is a safe and effective method for treating aneurysms . It is not unusual, however, to encounter either transient or permanent ischemic events after embo... |
Receptacle consisting of superposed three cells, 103~113 20~30 m; the basal cell usually stouter or tapering to the foot, about 1.5 times longer than broad, 38~43 25~30 m; the subbasal cell slightly longer than the basal cell, about 2 times longer than broad, 43~45 20~23 m; the third cell slightly narrower than the oth... |
Neonatal sprague - dawley rats (seven days old) together with their maternal rats were obtained from a commercial breeder (orient co., seoul, korea). The experimental procedures were performed in accordance with the animal care guidelines of the national institutes of health (nih) and the korean academy of medical scie... |
The cases reported involved metastasis from cutaneous or mucosal melanoma, gastric adenocarcinoma, hypernephroma, and various lung neoplasms . The less common metastatic tonsillar tumors originate from mesothelioma, hepatocellular carcinoma, ovarian androblastoma, seminoma, anaplastic thyroid carcinoma, pancreatic aden... |
The term neuronal plasticity was already used by the father of neuroscience santiago ramn y cajal (1852 - 1934) who described nonpathological changes in the structure of adult brains . Old dogma that there is a fixed number of neurons in the adult brain that cannot be replaced when the cells die (for review see). In a ... |
Most eukaryotic cells express several thousand proteins, and multicellular organisms commonly express tens of thousands of proteins, exponentially increasing the probable total number of macromolecular interactions in these organisms, all passing information on pathways linking each other throughout the cell . For exam... |
Indeed, while their short - term effects for acute exposure are well known [1, 2] and some fatal cases [25] have been reported, chronicle exposures to these xenobiotics are not studied yet, even if toxic effects (abortion and liver damage) are suspected in people involved in these jobs . In addition, scientific researc... |
The risk factors for the development of prostate cancer include men of african ancestry with high incidence rate reported in some sub - saharan countries including ghana, 7% in men between 50 yrs and 74 yrs and nigeria with incidence rate of 127 per 100,000 population . In ghana, prostate cancer has been found to be th... |
The common peroneal nerve (cpn) injuries are the most common among lower limb nerve injuries because of its fixed attachment in the region of the neck of the fibula . The involvement of cpn following varus displacement of the knee is commonly expected to be traction neuropraxia . The spontaneous recovery is usually exp... |
The cross - sectional study was undertaken in the schools located within the registered rural and urban field practice areas of the department of community medicine, jnmc, aligarh, uttar pradesh, india . The total population of male adolescents (10 - 19 yrs) in all the schools was 2347, out of which a sample of 410 stu... |
Obesity in humans has been established as a risk factor for a multitude of maladies including cardiovascular disease (cvd), type 2 diabetes mellitus (t2 dm), hypertension, renal disease, and neurologic dysfunction . Furthermore, obesity has been causally linked to a variety of cancers either as a risk factor or as a ne... |
Four separate searches were completed on ovid medline in - process and other non - indexed citations and ovid medline 1994 to present . The searches targeted literature on: (i) oesophageal cancer, chemoradiotherapy (crt) and functional imaging; (ii) pancreatic cancer, crt and functional imaging; (iii) oesophageal cance... |
Bladder cancer is the second most common urological malignancy in humans, and it was estimated in 2012 in the united states that 73,510 new cases of cancer of the urinary bladder were diagnosed along with 14,680 deaths . In korea also, bladder cancer is the second most common genitourinary tumor and is about five times... |
Numerical investigations of cosmological spacetimes can be categorized into two broad classes of calculations, distinguished by their computational goals: (1) geometrical and mathematical principles of cosmological models, and (ii) physical and astrophysical cosmology . In the former, the emphasis is on the geometric f... |
In most industrialized countries, including germany, the prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and adolescents has increased over the last decades [13]. This has also led to the occurrence of various metabolic or cardiovascular disease risks, previously only observed in adults [4, 5]. In addition to higher r... |
These adverse outcomes are common, for example lenke and levy reported that in women with phe levels> 20 mg per decilitre, 73% had microcephaly and 92% of children had intellectual disabilities . To prevent such outcomes and allow normal development of the foetus, pregnancies must be planned and a strict low - phenylal... |
A 30-years old woman visited at our hospital, complaining of pain in her lower back, left inguinal area, and left leg . Two months before this visit, she was found to have a mass growing in her left thigh, which was causing her pain (fig . Her excisional biopsy revealed fibromatosis of the rectus femoris muscle . Follo... |
Agrochemicals are widely used for decades, in an attempt to protect crops against insect pests . Nevertheless, in the light of the increasing resistance, every year a vast array of new compounds is introduced into the market, with consequential negative side effects and increased costs in food production . More specifi... |
Virgifera leconte (coleoptera: chrysomelidae) is a widespread and serious pest of maize, zea mays (l.). Believed to have originated in mexico, it spread throughout parts of the united states and canada during the twentieth century as maize production increased (krysan and smith 1986; levine and oloumi 1991). Then, over... |
Computer - aided detection (cad) was introduced in breast cancer screening as a technology to avoid perceptual oversights and its effectiveness has been demonstrated in many studies [13]. Nevertheless, there is a continuing debate regarding the usefulness of cad [4, 5]. While most radiologists agree that cad systems ha... |
Atherosclerosis is the leading cause of peripheral artery disease (pad) and coronary artery disease (cad). Some previous studies have reported that pad is a coronary heart disease risk equivalent.1)2) another study, however, reported that risk factors for pad are different to those for cad.3) risk factors for atheroscl... |
Mortality rates due to accidental drowning are higher in japan than in western countries, largely resulting from a higher incidence of sudden unexpected death (sud) of japanese people in hot baths . Although the precise mortality rates are unknown, approximately 10% of suds confirmed by the tokyo medical examiner s off... |
Most treatment studies are done with a very specific purpose in mind: to gain approval or acceptance of a particular therapeutic modality . Research following the regulatory model is specifically geared to the legal requirements of drug approval and registration . Although there is no equivalent to the food and drug ad... |
Wandering spleen, also known as ectopic spleen, is an uncommon clinical entity characterized by hypermobility of the spleen due to laxity or absence of the normal ligaments that attach the spleen to the left upper quadrant . This allows the spleen to essentially drop to the lower abdomen by the force of gravity attache... |
In the library at bailieborough, county cavan, ireland, there is a small ring - bound folder in the local studies section which contains a list of folk healers with a specific listing of which it lists a number of informal local healers but also some from a considerable distance away with either a phone number or a bri... |
Mitchel 1892 first reported presence of an anomalous structure and described as a process of horn like shape, curving from the base downward to cutting edge . Mellor and ripa in 1970 coined the term talon cusp because of its resemblance to an eagle's talon . Its prevalence has an ethnic variation ranging from 0.06 in m... |
The blood brain barrier (bbb) is composed of a tightly sealed monolayer of brain capillary endothelial cells which, together with astrocytes and pericytes, separates the brain from its external environment . The bbb plays an important role in both protecting the brain and maintaining homeostasis in the central nervous ... |
Accordingly, the number of reports of laparoscopic pancreaticoduodenectomy (lap pd) has gradually increased . Although the feasibility and safety of lap pd have been established in institutes particularly experienced in the skilled performance of this technique (hereafter referred to as experienced institutes), the ben... |
Baseline flt imaging in this patient with metastatic malignant melanoma demonstrated splenic (s), peritoneal (p) and bm metastases . After 14 days of treatment with a novel antiangiogenesis agent the upper abdominal peritoneal deposit (vertical arrow) had substantially decreased activity while the lower abdominal focus... |
Many moral psychologists today accept that there are two types of moral reasoning focusing on lawrence kohlberg s justice and carol gilligan s care.1 kohlberg elaborated the cognitive approach to moral development and formulated his moral stage theory,2,3 which came to be very influential in the field for many years.4 ... |
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