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Root canal irrigation plays an important role in the debridement and disinfection of the root canal system.1 the currently available evidence strongly favors naocl as the main endodontic irrigant.2 several investigations have shown its antibacterial effectiveness and tissue dissolution capacity.35 however, naocl is tis...
Thus, informed consent was not required for this retrospective study . From june 1997 to june 2005, 30 consecutive patients, who had surgically proven early hepatocellular carcinoma, were identified after a computerized search of the pathologic database at our institution . Next, a pathologist of our institution with 2...
Petrochemical industry is one of the leading industries with a weightage of 14% in the industrial production index . In india, these industries are involved in the manufacturing of certain organic solvents such as benzene, toluene, xylene, ethyl benzene, and styrene . Organic solvents are used in refining automotive ga...
Chronic hepatitis b virus (hbv) infection causes serious damage to human health and must be recognized and treated correctly . Effective antiviral therapy can stop the progression of liver injury and prevent the development of cirrhosis, hepatocellular carcinoma, and complications . In the mid-1970s, interferon - alpha...
Gene map construction can be dated back to the early 19 century when a gene responsible for red - green color blindness was assigned to the human x chromosome 1 . The idea of mapping a genome became a reality in the mid-1970s, due to recombinant dna technology that helped develop a variety of strategies to facilitate m...
Our aim was to describe a case of a 25-years - old male diagnosed with anterior megalophthalmos in both eyes and present the usefulness of pentacam hr in such a case . At birth, the lengths of both corneas of the proband were found specifically enlarged . At examination under anesthesia, buphthalmus was excluded with i...
Basement membranes form the natural supporting structure upon which cells migrate, proliferate, and differentiate . They contain a tissue - specific composition of extracellular matrix components, containing collagen type iv, laminin, heparan sulfate proteoglycans, and nidogen . In mammals both isoforms bind to a wide ...
The implication of viruses in the pathogenesis of neuropsychiatric disorders has been posited since the foundations of modern psychiatry . Few years after the outbreak of the 1918 flu pandemic, the nosographic analogies between postinfluenza encephalitic manifestations and psychotic traits prompted menninger to conject...
Since they were first reported by kunze and schiefer in 1971, spontaneous dissecting aneurysms localized in the anterior circulation appear to be rare.10) the etiology and prognosis of dissecting aneurysms remain obscure . The natural history of ruptured dissecting aneurysms is ill - defined but the risk of early reble...
Foodborne illness is a serious worldwide health concern.1 the increased rate of hospitalizations and deaths due to gastrointestinal disorders caused by bacterial infections has become a significant challenge for medical professionals.2 among the many pathogenic bacteria responsible for enteric diseases, salmonella ente...
The complications of diabetes mellitus (dm) could be acute or chronic.1 acute complications of dm include diabetic ketoacidosis (dka), hyperglycemic hyperosmolar nonketotic state (hhnk), lactic acidosis, and normo - osmolar nonketotic hyperglycemic state (nnhs); of these, dka and hhnk are the two most common hyperglyce...
Unlike other mycobacteria, mycobacterium leprae is unique in the fact that it is an obligate intracellular parasite and serves as excellent model to study how these bacteria exploit the functions of their host cells . Genome reduction is a common phenomenon of these obligatory intracellular parasites that target overla...
B. subtilis strain 168 (trp) and derivatives of strain jh642 (trp phe) were used for all experiments (supplementary table) and were constructed by standard procedures31 . The pria mutation was constructed by attaching an ssra * tag onto the 3-end of pria . Ssra * encodes a tag that makes the gene product unstable in th...
Sodium iodide symporter (nis) is a plasma membrane glycoprotein that mediates uptake of iodine into the thyroid for the biosynthesis of thyroid hormones . Nis is also used as a reporter gene in small and large animal imaging studies and in humans to monitor the pharmacokinetics and fate of gene, cell and virus therapie...
A 30-year - old, right - hand dominant woman was presented with a rapidly growing mass of the right thumb, without any history of trauma . She had first noticed a small mass in the dorsoradial aspect of the right thumb approximately one month ago . There was no generalized fever or local inflammatory signs . Her medica...
In 1986, the italian environment ministry has officially recognized a number of high - risk areas across italy, and over the last two decades other areas have been added to the list . The current number of high - risk areas is 53, including 3 in sicily, where past and current industrial activities caused environmental ...
It comprises a heterogeneous group of epilepsy syndromes characterized by a shared predisposition to develop unprovoked epileptic seizures (fisher et al ., 2014). Based on the origin of seizure activity, epileptic seizures and syndromes can be focal or generalized (berg et al ., 2010). Estimates from twin studies indic...
Maxillary sinus surgery can be defined as a routine and predictable procedure for the prosthetic rehabilitation in the atrophic maxilla [17]. In the past, implant treatment was applied to total edentulous patients [8, 9] and was later extended to partially edentulous patients; however, the resorption of the alveolar ri...
" cell biology is not a notoriously self - critical field . We cell biologists are not reticent about announcing breakthroughs and making promises of imminent revolutions . However, one cannot summarize the history of research and thought about mitosis as a progress from primitive glimmerings to modern revelations . No...
Connectomics, which is conceptualized as the mapping of the organization and the complete interactions of all neural elements in the brain, is currently a popular framework for studying brain structure and function.13 based on advances in in vivo neuroimaging techniques (eg, functional magnetic resonance imaging [fmri]...
The rapidly increasing use of microwave radiation, has raised public concern about possible detrimental effects of non - ionizing radiation sources, which work in this frequency range . Radio detection and ranging (radar) equipments send and transmit high - power radio frequency (rf) waves by producing a high - voltage...
The main purpose of endodontic therapy is a thorough mechanical and chemical cleansing of the entire pulp cavity and complete obturation with an inert filling material . A clear knowledge of the anatomy of root canal systems is an essential prerequisite to carrying out root canal preparation . Many of the problems enco...
The young adulthood period is associated with the greatest gains in adiposity during the life course (1,2). Although middle - aged adults have the highest incidence of diabetes in the u.s ., incidence in younger adults has risen steadily in recent years (3). Research on the clinical predictors of type 2 diabetes, howev...
Dentin thickness is one of the most important factors determining the resistance to fracture of teeth . The tissue loss of the tooth reduces the fracture resistance toward occlusal or traumatic forces . Endodontic treatment of immature teeth has been a problem due to their wide, open apices, and thin dentin walls . Whe...
A cross - sectional, questionnaire - based survey was conducted among internship students attending the department of community and preventive dentistry in faculty of dentistry, benghazi, libya, between july and october 2012 . Surveying new dental graduates is a popular method used to assess their competencies at the t...
Hepatitis e virus (hev), originally recognized as non - a and non - b hepatitis inducing agent, was recently classified into the genus hepevirus and family hepeviridae . Hev is a non - enveloped virus with a diameter of 27 - 34 nm . It has a single - stranded and positive sense rna genome that is approximately 7.3 kb i...
It performs iterative profile searching similar to psi - blast (1), but with full dynamic programing on each cycle and on - the - fly estimation of significance . The scanps web server has been developed to simplify the running and analysis of scanps searches . An innovative aspect of the server is its novel tree - bas...
Freshly prepare carnoy's fixative by combining absolute ethanol, chloroform and glacial acetic acid in proportion 6:3:1 respectively . This, as well as all solutions for submerging collars should be kept in glass staining jars (see reagents section for recommendation). Prepare the following solutions in staining jars: ...
During the study period of 15 february 2009 to 15 february 2011, all danish - speaking pregnant women with pregestational diabetes referred to the center for pregnant women with diabetes, rigshospitalet, before 14 completed gestational weeks with one living intrauterine fetus (n = 222), were offered participation in th...
Abnormal proliferation and/or persistence of synoviocytes and inflammatory cells has long been described in inflammatory arthritis conditions, but only recently substantial attention has been drawn to the relevance of abnormal apoptotic processes in disease pathogenesis and treatment . Rheumatoid arthritis (ra) is a ch...
Hematogenic metastasis from primary esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (escc) commonly occurs in the lungs, liver and bones . Metastasis to the gastrointestinal tract from primary escc is rare, with gastric wall metastasis being the most frequently observed followed by metastasis to the small intestine . However, colon...
Emerging national data suggests a plateau in obesity prevalence among children in the usa . Yet all age groups continue to have high obesity prevalence, with 16.9% us children aged 212 years affected by obesity . Socioeconomic and racial / ethnic disparities in childhood obesity persist and appear to be widening [14]. ...
The antenatal period is often considered to be an important opportunity for health promotion and guidance, offering the so - called teachable moments . Usual antenatal care associated with normal pregnancy puts women into greater contact with health professionals, and it is thought that responsibility for their develop...
There are only limited case reports of isolated tubercular involvement of the parietes even though tuberculosis is a rampant in developing countries and with the rapid spread of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (aids) it has made inroads into the developed nations as well . The common organs of involvement are the l...
Amino acid transport across the saccharomyces cerevisiae plasma membrane is an active and highly regulated process mediated by transmembrane proteins called permeases.based on their amino acid sequences, these permeases can be grouped into an amino acid permease family (aap) that includes 18 members of proteins [14]. A...
Castleman disease (cd) is a rare lymphoproliferative disorder most frequently occurring in the mediastinum . Few cases of endoscopic ultrasonography - fine - needle aspiration (eus - fna) findings of this lesion have been reported, where no real - time tissue elastography (rtte) has been described in the literature to ...
The aging of the population and the tendency to treat younger patients with various hip disorders have increased the incidence of primary and revision thas in western countries during the past 20 years [16, 24, 35]. Annually, more than 40,000 revision procedures are performed on patients in the united states alone . A ...
There is almost universal agreement that hormone therapy (ht) effectively treats and prevents menopausal symptoms and osteoporosis . These effects have been reported in a variety of well - respected observational and randomized clinical trials (rcts) (raz and stamm 1993; writing group for the pepi trial 1996; greendale...
Water - soluble colloidal semiconductor quantum dots (qds) are a new class of fluorescent probes with excellent optical properties . Researches have recently been focused not only on their photoluminescence (pl) behaviors, but also on their biomedical applications of labeling of cells, protein trafficking, dna array te...
Recruitment to the whitehall ii study took place between 1985 and 1988 among all office staff, aged 3555 years, in 20 london - based civil service departments (22). Informed consent was obtained from all participants, and the university college london medical school committee on the ethics of human research approved th...
Magnetic resonance spectroscopy (mrs), firstly introduced for clinical use in 1990, was recognized as one of the most promising tools in detecting metabolic activity profiles that could help in non - invasive histological discrimination of brain tumors . Since then and for the last decades, mrs combined with other magn...
After decades of study, subarachnoid hemorrhage (sah) induced cerebral vasospasm persists to be a major cause of morbidity and mortality in patients who suffered from aneurism rupture [17]. Because of the lack of effective therapies to change this condition, the precise mechanisms of this disease content, in a multifac...
Drosophila circadian locomotor rhythms are generated by subsets of clock - containing neurons in the brain . Under light - dark (ld) cycles, the small ventral lateral neurons (s - lnvs; m oscillators) and a small subset of lateral and dorsal neurons named e oscillators drive morning and evening activity peaks . In cons...
Pyogenic granuloma (pg) also known as granuloma telangiectaticum is a benign vascular tumor commonly seen in infants and children but can also occur in adults, particularly in pregnant women . Although the exact cause is not known, possible inciting agents are trauma, chronic irritation, drugs, e.g., retinoid, mitozant...
Periodic knowledge, attitude, and practice (kap) studies serve as an educational diagnosis of a population or community and are an important way to measure changing beliefs and behaviors over time . It tells us what people know about certain things, how they feel, and how they behave . This information helps programs s...
Bacterial contamination of ex vivo stored injectable biological fluids such as blood and blood components preserved in plasma is a major complication for transfusion medicine, resulting in both wasteful discarding of valuable blood products and, more significantly, health risks for recipients of contaminated donor bloo...
Dual atrioventricular (av) nodal physiology, responsible for atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia (avnrt), has been reported in up to 12 percent of patients with the wolff - parkinson - white syndrome . However, supraventricular tachycardia, due to coexisting dual av nodal pathways and an accessory pathway (ap)...
We studied 4,482 animals (1,966 cattle, 1,237 buffaloes, 813 sheep, and 366 goats) from production and breeding farms in various governorates in egypt during 2007; the animals had no history of having been tested for brucellosis . We used serologic tests recommended by the national brucella committee, which represents ...
The cast metal core is a component frequently used to restore endodontically treated teeth with extensive coronal destruction [1, 2]. Post retention in the root canal is fundamental for the longevity and success of treatment . Length, shape, diameter, and post surface, as well as the type of cement used, are factors th...
A 47-year - old woman working in a car manufacturing plant was pinned between a conveyer belt and the car body during assembly ., she was unconscious . Upon arriving at the emergency department, she was still unconscious, with facial cyanosis, severe edema, and petechiae . Radiographs and computed tomography (ct) scans...
Esteya (nucletron, an elekta company, elekta ab, stockholm, sweden) is an electronic brachytherapy device that has been recently introduced for treatment of non - melanoma skin cancer . Clinical use and quality control of this equipment, which have been described in other research papers [1, 2, 3, 4, 5], are based on c...
Low birth weight (lbw) has been defined by who as weight at birth of less than 2.5 kg . By international agreement, lbw has been defined as a birth weight of less than 2500 grams, with the measurement being taken preferably within the first hour of life, before significant postnatal weight loss has occurred . It contri...
1982 as a group of facultative anaerobic, asporogenous, and gram - stain positive rods . According to yassin et al . (2011), this genus consists of four species, namely, arcanobacterium haemolyticum, arcanobacterium hippocoleae, arcanobacterium phocae, and arcanobacterium pluranimalium . More recently, arcanobacterium ...
The eye has a special relationship with the immune system, known as immune privilege . The term was coined in the 1940s by sir peter medawar, who noticed that foreign tissue grafts placed in the anterior chamber (ac) of the eye were not rejected . While the concept of immune privilege is simple, research into its natur...
Prevention of hospital - acquired infections and ventilator - associated pneumonias is a key concern in the reduction of mortality in both the critical care and general ward patient populations . A number of recent articles have evaluated differing approaches relating to this topic [1 - 4]. Climo and colleagues studied...
We screened 262 patients who were hospitalized due to acs between january 2011 and december 2014 in our clinic . Among the 262 patients screened, we enrolled 244 patients whose personal and hospital data were sufficient . Eighty - one patients were diagnosed with non st - elevation myocardial infarction (nstemi), and 1...
Cardiovascular disease, as a cause of mortality in women, is becoming more prevalent than before and will continue to increase, partly because of increasing life expectancies among koreans.1) in women, the cardiovascular system is exposed to multiple cyclic hormonal changes during the childbearing years, acute hemodyna...
Two years ago, i analyzed the journal metrics of the korean journal of urology (kju). At that time, i manually calculated the 2012 journal citation reports (jcr) impact factor ranking from the web of science, which corresponded to the upper 84.9% . The hirsch index (h - index) from the web of science was 8 . That retro...
Supplementary material is available for this article at 10.1007/s13659 - 013 - 0003 - 1 and is accessible for authorized users.
The pediatric endocrinologist has the difficult task of carefully adjusting medications in actively growing children with cah so as to avoid overtreatment as well as undertreatment . Glucocorticoid excess may result in poor linear growth, weight gain, hypertension, and other unwanted side effects . On the other hand, u...
Over the past 3 decades, advances in cardiology have led to enhanced care of cardiac patients resulting in decreased mortality rates.1 cardiac imaging modalities have improved diagnostic acumen, allowing more specific therapies, resulting in improved outcomes.2 however, this improvement in health care outcomes has not ...
The oculomotor nerve dysfunction is a well recognized manifestation of the internal carotid - posterior communicating artery (ica - pcoma) junction aneurysm and is considered to be a valuable localizing sign caused by direct pressure on the nerve . Remote intracranial aneurysms from the ocular motor system may also occ...
Alternative reproductive tactics (arts) are widespread in many animal taxa (e.g., [1, 2]). In particular in externally fertilising fishes there is an enormous potential for arts [35]. So far, arts have been described for more than 170 fish species, 19 of which are cichlids . Due to the diversity of arts and fertilisati...
Obesity is the most important public health problem that increases the risk of type 2 diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and premature death; and the subsequent financial burden on healthcare systems (1). In the developed european countries and us, obesity prevalence was remarkably increased in the...
Stroke is a transient or permanent alteration in the function of one or several areas of the brain, and is a consequence of a circulatory disorder . Patients who have suffered a stroke usually present motor and sensory impairments, cognitive and perceptive deficits, and emotional disorders1 . About 5575% of survivors 6...
Skim milk powder (smp) and nonfat dry milk (nfdm) are important foods / ingredients in the international food supply . In 2011, the united states pharmacopeial convention (usp) initiated a project to characterize compositional and functional variations of these powders and develop nontargeted methods for detection of a...
Currently, copd is considered the leading cause of morbidity and the fourth leading cause of mortality worldwide . () its prevalence has been increasing substantially because of the aging of the population, and it is estimated that, in 2020, copd will be the third most common cause of death in the world . () in additio...
Benign and malignant teratomas are among the rare tumors of the central nervous system, and constitute only 0.550.9% of all intracranial tumors . Intracranial teratomas have a predilection for sites along the midline, namely, the pineal region, the suprasellar region, the celebellar vermis, and the 3rd and lateral vent...
The hepatitis c virus (hcv) is an rna virus that belongs to the family of flaviviruses; it is an important cause of liver disease worldwide and is estimated to affect over 150 million people . Hcv is a leading cause of chronic liver disease, including liver cirrhosis, primary liver cell carcinoma (plcc), and liver fail...
All were free from abdominal symptoms such as abdominal pain, change in bowel habitus and epigastric bruit . All patients first underwent selective angiography of the ca and superior mesenteric artery (sma) using a 6.5-f rosch hepatic (rh) angiographic catheter (cook, bloomington, ind . Non - ionic contrast material [i...
Chromosome condensation is mediated by the condensin complex (hirano, 2005) and is necessary to prevent sister chromatids from being entangled during segregation . In budding yeast, condensin is a five - subunit complex containing a pair of smc atpases (smc2 and smc4) and several non - smc proteins (brn1, ycg1, and ycs...
Neonatal jaundice is a common clinical finding in newborns seen in 60% of term and 80% of preterm neonates during the first week of life . Jaundice is benign mostly, but if it continues for prolonged periods of time and if the bilirubin level is markedly elevated, it can lead to kernicterus and permanent brain damage; ...
Painful bladder syndrome (pbs) is defined as chronic (over 6 months) pelvic pain, pressure, or discomfort perceived to be related to the urinary bladder, accompanied by at least one other urinary symptom such as a persistent urge to void or frequency in the absence of an identifiable cause (van de merwe et al ., 2008)....
Approximately 35.3 million people across the world are infected with human immunodeficiency virus (hiv). Early and accurate knowledge of hiv serostatus of an individual is the cornerstone of hiv prevention and therapeutic intervention . In addition to allowing timely initiation of antiretroviral therapy of the hiv infe...
As an experimental fish, the marine medaka, oryzias dancena, is gaining attention as an experimental animal in aquaculture (goo et al ., 2015). This fish is a euryhaline teleost that can live in both fresh water and seawater (robert, 1998). It also has a short interval between generations, with spawning possible only 6...
Whether for sports or daily activities in life, humans rely on body balance1 . Humans have sensory receptors and mechanical receptors in the skin or joints, muscle spindles, and golgi tendons have pressure or proprioceptive receptors1, 2 . When the human body encounters environmental changes, the sensory and motor neur...
Artesunate is a semisynthetic derivative of artemisinin, the principal active component of a medicinal plant artemisia annua which has been used as a remedy for fevers and chills for centuries in china . Artemisinin and its derivatives are the most important class of antimalarial drug effective for both uncomplicated a...
Atraumatic restorative treatment (art) is a dental approach based on the removal of carious tissue with hand instruments followed by placement of an adhesive restoration2,7,24,29 . It is recommended by the world health organization (who), mainly in communities with poor financial resources and for people who have physi...
We present an unusual case of sbo secondary to the omental encasement without previous history of abdominal surgery or acute inflammatory process in the abdomen . A 42-year - old man was admitted to our hospital in emergency department with complain of abdominal distention and obstipation from last 10 days . A plain ab...
Ultraviolet (uv) irradiation is the main etiological factor for nonmelanoma skin cancer . Uv has a wide variety of effects on the skin that contribute to the induction of skin cancer . Our laboratory has for the last several years focused on the role of the epidermal growth factor receptor (egfr) in uv - induced skin c...
Tuberculosis has been known to mankind since the dawn of human civilization but still remains a major health problem in india and the developing countries . Bones and joints are involved in 1 to 3% of all cases of tuberculosis and about 10% of osteoarticular tuberculosis affects the foot and upto 50% of patients do not...
In the previous issue of critical care, fuller and colleagues report the results of a systematic review on the use of lung protective (low tidal volume) mechanical ventilation in patients without acute respiratory distress syndrome (ards) at the onset of mechanical ventilation . Introduction of positive pressure ventil...
The european nucleotide archive (ena) is maintained and developed at the european molecular biology laboratory's european bioinformatics institute (embl - ebi) and serves as europe's primary repository for nucleotide sequence and associated information . Content spans raw sequence reads from all sequencing platforms, r...
An infant weighing 2.91 kg was born at a gestational age of 38 + 0 weeks . Prenatal echocardiography revealed pulmonary atresia (pa) with ventricular septal defect (vsd) and major aortopulmonary collateral arteries (mapcas). Echocardiography performed immediately after birth revealed a disconnected left pulmonary arter...
1, traml is intended as a standardized format that can serve as an interchange between several components: published journal articles that include transition lists as part of their methods; transition databases such as mrmaid, mrmaid - db, srmatlas, passel, and quad that provide recommended transitions based on user in...
Planning the educational programs and informing people regarding the prevention of widespread diseases like cancers is necessary . With regard to high mortality rate of gastric cancer, the present study was conducted to define the effect of education based on health belief model on knowledge, attitude and nutritional p...
Hospitalization for acute heart failure is common and is associated with substantial morbidity and mortality . In the united states, acute heart failure leads to over 1 million hospitalizations annually, and the 1year mortality rate after a heart failure hospitalization ranges from 20% to 30% . A subset of patients hos...
The development of drug resistance is a major concern for successful treatment of human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) infection due to selection of genotypic mutations that may lead to reduced phenotypic drug susceptibility . With common resistance tests minor variants carrying drug resistance mutations in hiv, which ma...
Mesenchymal hamartoma (mh) of the liver is a rare benign lesion mostly affecting children particularly in the first 2 yr of life (1), but a few cases have been reported in adults (2). It is frequently cystic, and consists mainly of mesenchymal stroma and architecturally abnormal biliary structures with hepatocyte lobul...
Tobacco use is widely considered the most preventable cause of illness and death in the united states . Although the consumption of cigarettes and some other forms of tobacco have decreased in the last decade [1, 2], the consumption of smokeless tobacco has recently increased . In addition, traditional cigarette compan...
The hallmark of inflammatory / infectious conditions is the increased production of cytokines, proteases and other pro - inflammatory mediators . The synthesis and expression of these mediators occur in a transitory and strictly controlled way, seeking resolution of the problem and re - establishment of the homeostasis...
Cytokine - induced killer (cik) cells consist of a peripheral blood mononuclear cell - derived heterogeneous cell population which has been treated with different cytokines (cd3mcab, il-2, ifn-, il-1) for a period of time . These cells possess potent anti - neoplastic activity similar to t lymphocytes, and also exhibit...
Donadon and de lima osrio1 have recently published a systematic literature review on the recognition of emotional facial expressions (efe) by alcohol - dependent individuals (adi). Their article offers the first synthesis of the literature concerning this crucial yet underexplored topic, and the authors have to be comm...
Elderly patients usually present with comorbidities that frequently include psychiatric disorders, which increase the risk of complications in this population . Delirium is one of the most common disorders that appear to be associated with a number of pathologic conditions in this group of patients.1,2 however, accordi...
2,3-butanediol, otherwise known as 2,3-butylene glycol (2,3-bd), is a valuable chemical feedstock because of its application as a solvent, a liquid fuel, and a precursor of many synthetic polymers and resins . A wide variety of chemicals can also be easily prepared from 2,3-butanediol . Currently, the manufacturing of ...
Scurvy, a disease of vitamin c deficiency, has been increasingly reported in recent years . This is a report of two cases of scurvy which were revealed by subperiosteal hematoma in children with cerebral palsy and developmental delay . Case 1a 28-month - old boy was admitted to the department of pediatrics because of m...
With the introduction of the 7th edition of the tnm staging system, it was suggested that this system should be used not only for staging of non - small cell lung cancer (nsclc) but also for small cell lung cancer (sclc) and bronchopulmonary carcinoids . Thus, it replaces the much simpler staging system previously used...
It plays important roles in diverse functions such as finding nutrients in prokaryotes, forming multicellular structures in protozoa, tracking bacterial infections in neutrophils, and organizing the embryonic cells in metazoa (baggiolini, 1998; campbell and butcher, 2000; crone and lee, 2002). In dictyostelium discoide...
Distinction between mesothelial proliferations (hyperplasia or mesothelioma) and metastatic carcinomas, especially adenocarcinomas has been one of the most difficult problems in cytology as well as in surgical pathology . Various histochemical and immunohistochemical stains have been applied to solve this problem, as a...