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Legumes, also known as fabaceae, are a very large and economically important group of plants (graham and vance, 2003). They are used as food crops, forages, and green manure throughout the world . Most legumes can develop a nitrogen - fixing association with soil bacteria known as rhizobia, which results in the formati... |
Nitric oxide synthases (nos) and arginases compete for the amino acid l - arginine as substrate . The isoforms of nos produce nitric oxide (no) and l - citrulline, whereas arginases produce urea and l - ornithine . The known interactions between the two pathways are thought to result in reciprocal regulation of the in ... |
Leptomeningeal carcinomatosis (lc), also known as leptomeningeal metastases, is a devastating complication of neoplastic disease . The overall incidence is estimated at 38% of cancer patients, usually occurring late in the disease course . The predominant histology arising from solid tumors is adenocarcinoma, and the m... |
It is used for severe staphylococcal and streptococcal infections in patients intolerant of -lactam antibiotics, in methicillin - resistant staphylococcal infections, and against gram - positive organisms with multiple resistances to antibiotics . Vancomycin has also been reported to cause concentration - dependent ren... |
Transcription factors (tfs) are critical regulators of gene expression that control many important biological processes, such as cellular morphogenesis, signal transduction, and environmental stress responses . Zinc finger tfs belong to one of the largest tf families in plants and can be categorized into at least 14 fa... |
Despite the limitations we see so clearly in hindsight, the publication of the dsm - iii in 1980 represented a major advance . Earlier editions of the dsm had provided lists of mental disorders but no guidance as to how a clinician was to make these putative diagnoses . Even where objective diagnostic tests exist in ge... |
Plasticity is the ability of the brain to undergo enduring morphological and functional change in response to the demands of its environment . In humans, transcranial magnetic stimulation (tms) can be used to induce short term changes in cortical excitability that are believed to be underpinned by nmda - dependent syna... |
To describe use of bilateral temporal and occipital stimulator leads for a refractory headache disorder . A 31-year - old female had a 10-year history of chronic, severe occipital and temporal region headaches . The patient underwent permanent implant of an occipital stimulator system that resulted in sustained, compet... |
It has been produced in colombia since the nineteenth century and is the main export to more than 36 countries; in 2008 it represented close to 12.4% of the harvest of mild arabica type coffee and 12.2% of worldwide coffee exports . There are approximately 590 coffee growing municipalities, 513,000 coffee growers, 640,... |
The occurrence of stent fractures (sf) is recognized as a potential complication of stent deployment . Its incidence varies markedly in published reports, ranging from less than 1% to more than 16% [13]. Little is known about the precise incidence of sf in the real world . However, sf is likely to be underrecognized du... |
Resting energy expenditure (ree) is the major component of total energy expenditure, considering the amount of energy the body requires to keep its vital functions . Ree is usually measured by indirect calorimetry (ic), a noninvasive method, which is based on the consumption of o2 and production of co2 . However, due t... |
The use of biological materials and soft tissue substitute implants in surgical repair is the main method of treatment for soft tissue defects and deformities . For use in plastic surgery, a bioimplant material should ideally have high tear strength, low hardness, high thermal stability, high chemical resistance, and g... |
Therapy patients, these techniques may not reliably differentiate treatment related scar tissue from viable residual and recurrent tumor tissue, creating a dilemma for the treating clinician . Nuclear medicine techniques which depend on differential metabolism of active tumor from scar tissue will be able to identify v... |
Violin string adhesions between the liver and the diaphragm seen in fitz - hugh - curtis syndrome have been reported to cause large intestinal volvulus but not small intestinal volvulus . We report a 45-year - old lady with small intestinal volvulus from entrapment of a loop of ileum in string adhesions between the liv... |
A 71-year - old woman presented to our clinic for evaluation of right ocular pain and loss of visual acuity for the previous week . On ophthalmic examination, visual acuity was 20 / 50 in the right eye (od). There was an anterior chamber reaction (+ +) and a vitreous cell reaction (+) in the od . Fundus examination rev... |
Schizophrenia is a disorder often characterized by positive, cognitive, and negative symptoms (mueser and mcgurk, 2004), which may have different neurobiological bases (rolls, 2012; rolls et al ., 2008). The positive (psychotic or thought disorder) symptoms may include hallucinations, delusions, and paranoia . The cogn... |
Cardiac complications are the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in diabetic patients . First introduced by rubler et al . In 1971, diabetic cardiomyopathy (dcm) is characterized by the direct effect of diabetes on cardiac structure and function in the absence of coronary artery disease, hypertension, or other ca... |
Lignocellulose is the major component of biomass, representing the most abundant renewable organic source in soil . It consists of three polymers types, cellulose, hemicelluloses, and lignin that are strongly intermeshed and chemically bonded by noncovalent forces and by covalent cross - linkages . The enzymatic hydrol... |
It has been reported that after complete debridement and disinfection, total obliteration of the root canal space with biocompatible materials constitutes one of the most important requisites for successful root canal treatment . In this respect, the outcome of the endodontic treatment indicates the extent to which the... |
Failure to follow up on abnormal test results (missed test results) is a global patient safety concern.15 electronic health records (ehrs) are increasingly used to notify practitioners of abnormal test results.68 ehr - based test result notification systems can reduce, if not eliminate, many of the communication proble... |
Adult tissue stem cells are thought to be involved in tissue maintenance and repair processes . When numbers are low, tissue stem cells are replenished by mesenchymal stem cells (msc) via the blood system . Depletion of the stem cell population has been suggested to contribute to a large number of degenerative diseases... |
It is well recognized that the introduction of a cf structural feature within a bioactive molecule often imparts desirable physiological properties. (1) as a consequence, fluorinated biologically active compounds are increasingly common in the realm of pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals . This widespread interest and in... |
Breast cancer (bc) ranks second among the death - causing cancers in women and is the most common nonskin cancer in the united states . Although the prevalence of bc is highest among white women, the mortality rate is highest among black women . Although bc diagnosis and death rates have decreased since 2000, the morta... |
Rett syndrome (rtt; omim #312750) is a severe x - linked neurodevelopmental disorder in which most patients develop loss - of - function mutations in the methyl - cpg - binding protein 2 (mecp2) gene . Most grow and behave normally for the first 6 months, achieving expected milestones in motor, language and social skil... |
An emerging field in protein science is the study of intrinsically disordered proteins (idps), which do not fold into well - defined 3d structures in vitro but are functional in vivo . Idps appear to be abundant in nature it has been predicted that about one - third of eukaryotic proteins contain extended disordered re... |
Nematodes of the genus gnathostoma are clinically important as etiologic agents of foodborne parasitic zoonoses in humans . More than 20 species have been reported in this genus from various parts of the world; however, about 13 species are currently recognized as valid ones . Among them, 6 species, namely, g. spiniger... |
Descemet stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty (dsaek) has proven to be an excellent method for treating bullous keratopathy . However, since the occurrence of infectious keratitis can be related to non - physiological conditions, patients undergoing dsaek need to be carefully evaluated after the procedure . Aft... |
Nursing is a practice - based discipline, and clinical experiences are vital in the nursing education program . These experiences acts as a mediator to bridge the gap between theory and practice, and make nursing students prepare for real - world situations . A well - directed clinical education promotes students criti... |
The problem of obesity in the united states has reached epidemic proportions . Over the past several decades, the prevalence of obesity has doubled, and it is now estimated that 2030% of american adults are obese, and nearly two - thirds are either overweight or obese [1, 2]. Obesity - related comorbid conditions inclu... |
All animal care and experiments conformed to the guidelines for animal experiments of the university of tokyo and were approved by the animal research committee of the university of tokyo . Target sequences for tyr and gdf8 (supplementary table 1) were designed, and plasmid vectors coding grnas with t3 promoter for eac... |
In vaccinology the term prophylactic refers to a vaccine that will prevent a disease before its manifestation . While being common procedure for vaccines against pathogens, this concept has also been adopted for non - infectious diseases . In the case of cancer, prophylactic vaccines can be targeted at carcinogenic pat... |
Lymphoid neoplasms of the conjunctiva may appear as an isolated tumor or as part of systemic disease.15 generally, conjunctival lymphoma presents as a mass lesion on the superficial ocular surface . These lymphomas are classically described as salmon - colored patches, and may present bilaterally in up to 20% of patien... |
Amphibians are the most threatened vertebrate group, suffering large - scale declines in species diversity since at least, according to historical data, the 1970s (stuart et al ., 2004). A decade ago the iucn's global amphibian assessment indicated that a third of the estimated amphibian species had declined or become ... |
The smoking of tobacco is the most prevalent cause of lung cancer, which is the leading cause of cancer mortality in the world towards the end of the 20th century [1, 2]. Each year approximately 200 000 new cases of lung cancer are diagnosed in the united states, and there were over 160 000 lung cancer related deaths i... |
Most cases of isolated third nerve palsy are attributable to disease states that affect the vascular system, including diabetes mellitus and hypertension.1 however, we must carefully consider other causes in young patients without vasculopathic risk factors . Multiple sclerosis, sjogren s syndrome, antiphospholipid syn... |
Trauma is one of the most common causes of hospital admission and in - hospital mortality [1 - 3]. Recently, the mortality rate in severe trauma patients has decreased [4 - 6] due to emphasis on damage control resuscitation (dcr). Blood product transfusion plays an important role in early dcr and improved survival [7, ... |
Common foreign bodies ingested by children include coins, magnets, disk batteries, bezoars, fish or chicken bones, buttons, pins, pen or bottle caps, and marbles . Potential small bowel complications owing to the ingestion of foreign bodies include bowel obstruction, perforation, fistula, bleeding, abscess formation, a... |
Virtually all colon cancers display either chromosome instability (cin) or microsatellite instability (msi - h) indicating that genomic instability is central to colon cancer formation . In hereditary colorectal cancer syndromes, germline forms of key genetic defects inactivation of the dna mismatch repair system (mmr)... |
Inflammatory fibroid polyps (ifps) are rare, localized, non - neoplastic lesions originating in the submucosa of the gastrointestinal tract . The disease was first described in the stomach by vanek in 1949 and is a benign, non - encapsulated lesion, composed mainly of loose connective tissues, vessels and with an eosin... |
The clinical features of 45,x/46,xy patients are variable, and the typically include, turner - like syndrome with bilateral streak gonads with mllerian structures and turner syndrome stigmata, mixed gonadal dysgenesis (mgd) with unilateral testis and a streak gonad, male gender with bilateral testes (any combination of... |
Failure to ensure drinking - water safety may expose the community to the risk of outbreaks of intestinal and other infectious diseases . Water - borne diseases are caused by ingestion of contaminated water with pathogens contained in human or animal excreta . The disease burden of unsafe water, sanitation and hygiene ... |
Ketamine, a dissociative anesthetic agent, is an n - methyl - d - aspartate receptor antagonist . Ketamine abusers presenting with severe dysuria, frequency, urgency, gross hematuria, and suprapubic pain have been reported worldwide since the first description by shahani et al . . Performed augmentation enterocystoplas... |
Chronic pain is a complex and multifaceted condition that affects at least 100 million adults in the united states and is a leading cause of disability worldwide 1, 2 . Refractory chronic pain poses special challenges to clinicians . In the context of evaluation for advanced pain management, deer et al ., in their arti... |
A 58-year - old female patient with relapse - remitting multiple sclerosis since 1992 had been treated from 1999 until 2007 with interferon beta-1a at two different doses . Because of leukopenia and increasing relapses, immunomodulatory therapy was switched to natalizumab (tysabri) in 2007 . After only one relapse whil... |
We identified patients reported to the oregon health division with pulmonary tb during 20052006 who lived within the portland metropolitan region (clackamas, multnomah, and washington counties). This region had a combined population of 1.55 million in 20052006 (7). In 2000, the predominant ethnicity in this region was ... |
The incidence of encephalocele is reported to vary in different parts of the world depending on the geographic region, gender of the affected infants, and nutritional supplementation during pregnancy, maternal age and parity . Difficult or failed tracheal intubation is feared by all anesthesiologists, and there have be... |
All authors of this letter declare that we qualify for authorship as defined by icmje . Each author has participated sufficiently in the work and takes public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content of this article . Mine onenerk and sule canberk drafted the manuscript; pembegul gunes, and murat erkan co... |
According to the world health organization, cardiovascular disease is the number one cause of death . Globally more people die annually from cardiovascular disorders than from any other cause.1 in particular, the global burden of disease study classified ischemic heart disease as the leading cause of global mortality, ... |
Can electrophysiological assessments of brain function be useful to the intensive care physician in their daily clinical practice? First, it should be emphasized that collaborations between intensive care physicians and electrophysiologists, particularly in this highly specialized context, lead to the publication of re... |
Diarrhea is the second leading cause of death for children less than five years of age worldwide (1). Despite efforts in the past two decades that have resulted remarkable progress in reducing mortality, diarrhea in children different types of microbes or parasites can cause diarrhea yet viruses are often the causative... |
This 1300-page virtual volume represents the 20th annual database issue of nucleic acids research (nar). It includes descriptions of 88 new online databases, 77 update articles on databases that have been previously featured in the nar database issue (table 1) and 11 articles with updates on database resources whose de... |
Pro - mmp-1, pro - mmp-2, pro - mmp-8, and pro - mmp-9 were purchased from calbiochem . Proenzymes were activated immediately prior to use with p - aminophenylmercuric acetate (apma 2 mm for 1 h at 37c for mmp-2 and mmp-8, apma 2 mm for 2 h at 37c for mmp-1, and apma 1 mm for 1 h at 37c for mmp-9). For assay measuremen... |
Sterols, also known as alcohol steroids, are hydrophobic compounds that occur naturally in most of the living forms . This class of compounds can be easily incorporated into sediments, where they remain well preserved, representing good tracers of sources, changes, and preservation of organic matter (om). Sterols have ... |
Rheumatoid arthritis commonly affects the cervical spine, and if left untreated, can result in progressive debilitating neurological morbidity and increased mortality . There are several, overlapping pathological processes occurring in the cervical spine of the symptomatic rheumatoid patient . These include: atlanto - ... |
All age groups are equally affected, with females two to three times more commonly than males . Lupus vulgaris is caused by hematogenous, lymphatic, or contiguous spread from elsewhere in the body . The most prominent histopathologic feature is the formation of typical tubercles with or without caseation, surrounded by... |
Characteristically regarded as response to tissue injury or pathogenic insult, inflammation is a multifaceted process that involves a host of resident and recruited immune cell types working together to promote the elimination of insult or injury and initiate tissue repair . In the female reproductive tract (fmrt), com... |
Tc derived from the follicular epithelial cell can be divided into well - differentiated, poorly differentiated, and undifferentiated types on the basis of histological and clinical parameters . Differentiated thyroid carcinomas (dtcs) include papillary (ptc) and follicular (ftc) histotypes . Anaplastic thyroid carcino... |
Lumbar fusion is a procedure for treatment of degenerative lumbar disease, as a degenerated and mobile lumbar segment could lead to pain8). Additionally, lumbar fusion operations, such as instrumented posterolateral fusion (plf) and posterior lumbar interbody fusion (plif), can provide patients suffering from chronic l... |
Colonoscopy revealed a deformed appendicular orifice with a mass causing indentation of the cecum (figure 1). Computerized tomography (ct) of abdomen showed solid mass close to 2 cm involving the base of appendix (figure 2). Ct abdomen showing appendix in midline with a filling defect at its base (green arrow) and a 1.... |
Korean society is rapidly aging in comparison to other developd countries . In 2000, korea became an aging population with 7.2% of the total population aged 65 or older . It has been estimated that korea will become an aged society in 2019, and a super - aged society in 202617). Hence, it is safe to assume that osteopo... |
They are heterogeneous cells with distinct functions and respond differently to various microenvironmental signals and thus have distinct functions . Macrophages derived from hematopoietic stem cells in bone marrow or from progenitor cells in the embryonal yolk sac differentiate into two distinct types of macrophages (... |
Sensory information about human movements is obtained by comprehensively processing proprioceptive sensations provided by cutaneous afferent sensory organs as well as articular mechanoreceptors and muscle receptors1 . Humans maintain an appropriate posture and perform precise motions based on information sent by propri... |
Attention - deficit hyperactivity disorder (adhd) is characterized by inattentiveness, hyperactivity, impulsivity, or a combination of these features.1 adhd is the most common behavioral disorder in school - aged children (the incidence ranges from 3% to 7%)1 and is frequently accompanied by serious complications such ... |
Acute sore throats are one of the most commonly seen conditions in general practice, rating as the third most common disease to be treated in the united states . The disease encompasses any upper respiratory tract infection most often caused by viruses or bacteria in which pain in the throat is the predominant symptom,... |
Although prostate - specific antigen (psa) testing for prostate cancer screening has lowered death rates due to prostate cancer, there is growing concern that clinically insignificant prostate cancer would be detected in many men in the population, and also at an earlier age, leading to therapies that otherwise would h... |
Trace elements like zinc, copper, manganese, and selenium act as essential components of antioxidant enzymes . Several antioxidants and trace elements in the human body copper and zinc act as cofactors for the proper functioning of superoxide dismutase (sod). Zinc is required to maintain adequate levels of glutathione ... |
Polarized cells have an uneven distribution of active atpases and they position their mitochondria so that atp is produced close to where it is needed . Transportation of mitochondria to meet local energy needs is especially critical in neurons, where the site of mitochondrial production in the cell body (davis and cla... |
Systemic lupus erythematosus (sle) is a systemic autoimmune illness with a complex and multifactorial pathogenesis . Patients can exhibit a wide range of symptoms including increased photosensitivity to ultraviolet radiation (uv) exposure, combined with immunological markers of antinuclear antibody positivity . It is t... |
Sudden cardiac death is a significant public health issue, affecting 150,000 - 450,000 patients in the united states each year [1, 2]. Clinical trial data has shown that implantable cardioverter - defibrillators (icds) significantly reduce mortality in patients with depressed left ventricular ejection fraction (lvef) a... |
Tuberculosis (tb) is a pandemic and is among the top 10 killer infectious diseases, second only to the human immunodeficiency virus . It has a worthy reputation as one of the great mimickers in medicine with a multitude of clinical pictures and variations . Skeletal involvement is not common and is observed in 1 - 3% o... |
Studies have shown that 30 minutes of moderate intensity exercise can confer health benefits if performed on most days of the week (5 days / wk) [1, 2]. These benefits include weight maintenance, weight loss, cardiovascular risk management [4, 5], and the avoidance of metabolic dysfunction such as type 2 diabetes . Fur... |
After common bile duct exploration and choledocholithotomy, insertion of a biliary drainage catheter has been applied as the standard procedure to prevent complications . Among them, t - tube insertion has been applied most widely because of the advantage of decompressing the bile duct efficiently, as well as assessing... |
Men develop renal cell carcinoma more often with a 1.5: 1 -ratio compared to women . With a mean age of 65 years at first diagnosis, 25 - 35% of patients present with metastatic disease . Due to improved imaging techniques such as ultrasound and ct - scanners in the developed countries, tumors are nowadays discovered i... |
The complement system, comprising more than 30 proteins, represents one of the early components that interact with the pathogen . It contributes to host defense against infection directly by its opsonic, inflammatory, and lytic activities and indirectly by enhancing antibody responses . Complement interacts with mycoba... |
The term hospice originates from hospitum which was an inn on the road during medieval times providing a place of shelter and rest for travelers, pilgrims and the sick and injured warriors . At present time, this term suggests the site or the system of care for patients in their final stages of life . In fact end of li... |
As a pioneer writes ups, mandibular fractures have been extensively described in early egyptian writings . This incidence is affected by several factors including the patient's age, sex and socioeconomic status, as well as the etiology of the trauma . The anatomical distribution of the fracture site is largely dependen... |
Psoriasis is a chronic, relapsing, and often painful, immune - mediated inflammatory skin disorder that affects> 3% of the us adult population over age 20.14 the majority of these patients present with plaque - type psoriasis (psoriasis vulgaris), which is characterized by erythematous, well - circumscribed papules and... |
Pheochromocytoma (pcc) is a rare catecholamine - producing neuroendocrine tumor originating from the chromaffin cells of the adrenal medulla . Even if a pcc is initially diagnosed as benign on the basis of histopathological findings, it is possible for metastasis to occur in other organs after resection . The standard ... |
To support an unsaturated fe(-h)fe unit, we synthesized the bulky hexadentate ligand, [sip2o]h2 (2). Compound 2 is synthesized by the controlled hydrolysis of previously reported bis(o - diisopropylphosphino - phenyl)-chlorosilane (1) (scheme 1). The ligand exhibits a singlet in the p{h} nmr spectrum (= 0.5 ppm) and a ... |
As part of a community - based hiv-1 prevention campaign, february 2001january 2003, we collected oral questionnaire data about basic demographics and behavior associated with exposure to the blood or body fluids of wild animals . In addition, blood samples were collected and transported to a central laboratory for hiv... |
Among congenital malformations, neural tube defect (ntd) cases occupy a special place because of the implicit damage that occurs in the different structures of the nervous system, damages which render them incompatible with life . The most common types of ntd are anencephaly, spina bifida and encephalocele, all of whic... |
Nitride materials are highly attractive semiconductor materials because of their great potential for the development of optoelectronic devices in blue / green light emitting diodes, semiconductor lasers, and optical detectors [1 - 4]. The most common orientation of sapphire used as a substrate for gan is c - axis sapph... |
Suid herpesvirus 1 (suhv-1) is the causative agent of aujeszky's disease, a disease of great impact on the swine industry . Due to the important economic losses caused by this disease, notification of any outbreak infected young pigs suffer from neurological damage, whereas infected adults suffer from abortion and resp... |
Pancreatic beta cell dysfunction is a key pathophysiological target in diabetes mellitus [13]. The concept that glucose via glycation as well as glucotoxicity is one of the main damaging molecules is widely accepted [4, 5]. Furthermore, hyperglycemia increases the production of ages, a group of compounds derived from t... |
Tuberculosis (tb) is an infectious disease that affected approximately nine million individuals in 2013, killing an estimated 1.5 million . Roughly 13% of patients with tb are also infected with human immunodeficiency virus (hiv), and approximately one fourth of deaths from tb (360,000 cases) occur among hiv - positive... |
Zoonotic diseases are of great public health importance in india (4), where 68% of the workforce relies on farming that is in close contact with domestic animals and poultry with frequent exposure to sick or infected animals . Other than causation, factors that contribute to the dissemination of zoonoses are: unhygieni... |
Autonomous cortisol secretion in patients with no typical signs or symptoms of hypercortisolism is defined as " subclinical cushing syndrome " (scs). An increased frequency of hypertension, central obesity, impaired glucose tolerance or diabetes, hyperlipemia, and osteoporosis have been described in patients with scs, ... |
For years, it was thought that while communicable diseases (cd) were hurting low and middle - income countries, noncommunicable diseases (ncd) mostly affected - high income countries . As shown in other parts of this special issue, however, ncds are probably the most important health threat the world is confronting in ... |
There have been only a few studies that examined the effectiveness of statins in clinical practice, outside the controlled trial setting . Most of these studies have not included rosuvastatin as it was introduced to the market later . This investigation provides estimates of ldl - c lowering and ldl - c goal attainment... |
Juvenile polyposis syndrome (jps) is an uncommon hamartomatous disorder with significant gastrointestinal malignant potential . Approximately one - third of all jps cases have familial juvenile polyposis (fjp), with a history of similar lesions in at least one first - degree relative.1 fjp is a rare (<1 out of 100,000 ... |
Low back pain (lbp), a very common complaint among middle aged population affecting 90% of all adults at least once in a lifetime and is usually associated with muscle spasm that is responsible for persistence pain . Higher incidence of lbp is reported in indian population in younger patients due to occupational exposu... |
In recent years, the importance of exercises to strengthen core stability has been stressed and such movements have increased in popularity . The term core is used to describe the lumbo - pelvic and abdominal regions of the body, and core stability refers to the ability to maintain body position stability by exercising... |
Schizophrenia comprises a group of chronic and debilitating psychiatric disorders, characterized by abnormalities in thinking, perception, and emotion . Schizophrenia is rare in children, affecting about 1 in 1,000, compared to 1 in 100 in adults, with a male / female rate of 1.67 (campbell et al 1997; nicolson and rap... |
However, infectious disease research has been and still is the province of many separate disciplines including veterinary medicine, plant pathology, and human medicine, where these fields are defined by the host organism being studied rather than by the concepts that cut across taxonomic boundaries . In the past decade... |
The breast is the most common site of primary malignancies in adult women, but is an uncommon site for metastasis from extramammary malignancies . The incidence of metastasis to the breast varies from 1.7 to 6.6% in autopsy series, due to the inclusion or exclusion of patients with leukemia or lymphoma in different rep... |
At baseline, the dcct studied 1,441 subjects aged between 13 and 39 years with type 1 diabetes for 115 years who were generally in good health . Subjects were randomly assigned to intensive (int) or conventional (conv) therapy and were followed for a mean of 6.5 years (1). The edic study enrolled 1,375 of the surviving... |
Cartilage biopsies, bone marrow (bm), and blood samples were taken from 30 patients with oa (aged 62 - 85 years) undergoing total knee replacement . The average age of the study participants was 74.5 6.4 years, and there were 22 female and 8 male subjects included in the study (table 1). All subjects assessed had osteo... |
Combined chemoradiotherapy is increasingly being used to treat advanced head and neck cancers . During radiotherapy, the ear structures are often included in the radiation fields and it is generally accepted that radiation - induced sensorineural hearing loss can result . Cisplatin (cddp), widely used as an effective a... |
Malocclusion is considered one of the most common dental problems together with dental caries, gingival disease, and dental fluorosis.1 malocclusion may cause unpleasant appearance, impaired oral function, speech problems, tempromandibular disorders, increased susceptibility to trauma and periodontal disease.2 identify... |
Infective endocarditis (ie) is a severe acquired heart disease, which is frequently observed in kawasaki disease, neonates and infants suffering from severe infections, as well as children with a correction of congenital heart disease (chd) at a younger age . Although antibacterial therapy is the current mainstay for i... |
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