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Although chemical substances are a very important factor in the realization of current industrialization, because they were used indiscriminately without a full understanding of the damage they could cause, issues have arisen on a continual basis, such as global environment changes like ozone depletion and global warmi... |
This randomized controlled study was conducted in a tertiary care teaching institute of rajasthan after taking approval from the institutional ethics committee . Data were collected in the approved pro forma after taking written consent of the patient . All the sputum - positive tubercular patients aged between 18 and ... |
The adverse effects of asthma in pregnancy are related to asthma severity and the intensity of treatment [13]. Acute asthma exacerbations have been identified as the most significant event to affect fetal morbidity and mortality in pregnancies complicated by asthma [4, 5]. A number of studies have examined the effects ... |
Aryl hydrocarbon receptor nuclear translocator - like (arntl) protein is a transcription factor and a core component of mammalian circadian rhythms regulatory network . Convergent functional genomics approach, integrating the genetics with functional genomics in human as well as animal models identified the arntl gene ... |
It is the combination of feelings and perceptions which can affect and be affected by the culture of a society . Moreover, individuals appearance plays a substantial role in their social relationships . For centuries, humans have been concerned about their beauty as well as grooming and adorning themselves; therefore, ... |
The chinese atrial fibrillation registry (cafr) prospectively enrolled consecutive af patients from multiple centers, confirmed by objective tests such as 12-lead electrocardiograms (ecgs) or 24-hour holter monitorings before registration . The protocol was approved by the institutional ethics committee first in beijin... |
Takeuchi et al.1 explained that the transverse ligament becomes degenerated and hypertrophic because of chronic mechanical stress by atlantoaxial subluxation . Then, a part of the ligament develops reactive granulation tissue with a small vessel formation . Finally, rupture of these small vessels cause repeated episode... |
The residual or resistant clubfoot represents one of the most difficult treatment challenges for the pediatric orthopaedist . Often residual deformity is not obvious at the time of initial correction . With continued growth of the child, the persistent or undercorrected deformity becomes more apparent (refer to case se... |
Herpes zoster (hz) is an infectious disease caused by reactivation of latent varicella zoster infection . This common viral disease afflicts between 20% and 30% of the population at some point in their lifetime; up to 50% of individuals over 80 years of age are affected.1,2 the dermatological symptoms of hz are typical... |
An important goal of visual system studies in animals is to understand vision in humans . In past decades, emphasis has been placed on studying carnivores and nonhuman primates based on the belief that advanced species resemble humans in both behavior and brain organization more closely than less advanced species, such... |
The surgical extraction of an impacted mandibular third molar is one of the most common procedures performed by oral and maxillofacial surgeons . Most mandibular third molars are impacted in the mandibular ramus area near the second molar, and the level of difficulty of extraction is classified according to the degree ... |
The half of deaths in developed countries and 25% of deaths in developing countries were due to coronary vascular disease . One way to improve the cardiac patient's ability is cardiac rehabilitation program that was begun in 1960 for the first time . The aim of this program was the secondary prevention of coronary hear... |
Congenital candidiasis (cc) is rare and usually caused by intrauterine candidial infection and manifests within first 6 days of life . It may be localized involving only skin or generalized resulting in respiratory distress, meningitis, sepsis, and death . A total of 10 - 35% of the women suffer from candidial vagintis... |
Epiretinal membrane (erm) formation reflects a number of pathological changes occurring in vitreoretinal junctions . Retinal glial cells, fibrous astrocytes, and mller cells proliferate and migrate from neurosensory retina, through surface and breaks of the internal limiting membrane (ilm). In most cases, the disease i... |
This is an institutional review board (irb) approved retrospective sequential review of case notes and x - rays of all children admitted to our institution between 2005 and 2009 with a displaced supracondylar humerus fracture . All children were followed at least 24 months . Upon admission to the emergency department, ... |
Motor branch or recurrent branch of the median nerve, also called as the thenar branch, innervates the intrinsic muscles of the thumb (abductor pollicis brevis, opponens pollicis, and the superficial head of the flexor pollicis brevis). It has an important role in the movements of the thumb and thus in many activities ... |
Catatonia was first described by kahlbaum in 1874, as a brain disorder, which has cyclic, alternating and progressive course . Over the years, understanding about catatonia has increased and it is now well - known that besides the primary psychiatric disorders, catatonia is associated with many neurological and medical... |
A 15-year - old female developed fever, stinging eyes and headache, followed one day later by sudden appearance of flaccid blisters on the face with subsequent dissemination to more than 70% of the whole integument and development of mucosal erosions . Thirty days before, she had been operated on the nose and medicated... |
Neuroepithelial cells, which constitute the wall of the neural tube, proliferate by repeating symmetric cell division, where each neuroepithelial cell divides into two neuroepithelial cells (progenitor expansion phase, figure 1; alvarez - buylla et al ., 2001; fishell and kriegstein, 2003; fujita, 2003; gtz and huttner... |
Urinary bladder metastasis from solid tumors is rare and represents 2% of all bladder neoplasms . Direct extension from the cervix, prostate and colon is not unusual but metastasis from a distant organ is extremely rare . Breast cancer represents as a primary site in about 2.5% cases of all metastatic bladder cancer . ... |
The events of 11 september 2001, and the subsequent mailings of anthraxladen envelopes within the usa, forever changed the way americans view public health and national security . As recently confirmed (the wmd terrorism research center, 2011), despite the investment of considerable financial and human resources since ... |
Hiv-1 associated neurocognitve disorders (hand) commonly follow progressive virus infection in the infected human host. (1) clinical disease features range in severity from subtle deficits to incapacitating dementia and include asymptomatic neurocognitive impairment, mild neurocognitive disorder, and hiv - associated d... |
Exposed root surfaces in the anterior region may have several consequences: impaired aesthetics, increased risk of root caries, and hypersensitivity . Whereas circularly denuded root surfaces (facial / oral and interproximally recessions) due to periodontitis respond neither completely nor predictively to surgical cove... |
Rosette forming glioneuronal tumor (rgnt) a rare slowly growing tumor affecting mainly the young adults which has been included as one of the glioneuronal tumors in the 2007 version of the world health organization (who) classification of central nervous system tumors . The neoplasm is composed of distinct neurocytic r... |
Disability due to chronic pain (dcp) results in absence from work and is a major public health concern in japan and many western countries.14 various screening tools have been developed to identify chronic pain subgroups and comorbid factors.57 a widely used powerful tool is the start back tool (start), a 9-item screen... |
These comorbidities might lead to the overuse or misuse of antipsychotic drugs, which has been suggested to increase mortality in this patient population . Recognizing the increased use of polypharmacy in elderly patients with dementia, the centers for medicaid and medicare services (cms) encourages health care provide... |
The main public health strategy for containing influenza is annual vaccination, which is recommended for the elderly and others belonging to risk - factor categories, which present the highest morbidity and mortality, as reported by the world health organization (who) recommendations . Influenza viruses are constantly ... |
Twelve wistar strain male rats, aged 120 days and with a mean weight of 250 to 300 g, were obtained from the breeding center of the anatomical and biological sciences center, shahid beheshti medical university (sbmu) tehran, iran . The animals were maintained under natural light and humidity conditions (temperature 22;... |
Antibiotics are well known to alter neuronal functioning, with penicillin being the best studied on not only a clinical level but on a basic science level as well . After multiple reports emerged on the probable relation between high dose penicillin and seizure, detailed animal studies emerged that showed toxic doses o... |
Pain is defined as an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience arising from any part of the body . It is associated with actual or potential tissue damage or described in terms of such damage by international association for the study of pain . It is an experience and in this respect, it differs from nociception . N... |
Shafer in 1983 introduced the term ameloblastic carcinoma (ac) to describe ameloblastomas in which there had been histological malignant transformation . It is currently defined as a rare odontogenic malignancy that combines the histological features of ameloblastoma with cytological atypia, even in the absence of meta... |
Near - infrared spectroscopy (nirs) offers a new monitoring tool to be used in critically ill patients . Nirs measures the saturation of hemoglobin in the skeletal muscle and serves as an index of perfusion . We have studied the value of tissue hemoglobin oxygen saturation (sto2) in a number of settings, including inte... |
Post - kala - azar dermal leishmaniasis (pkdl) is a dermal manifestation of leishmania donovani infection and often follows resolution of clinical visceral leishmaniasis (vl). However, it may also manifest without prior history of vl in a small minority of patients . Pkdl is characterized by macular, papular, or nodula... |
Alopecia areata (aa) is common cause of reversible hair loss afflicting approximately 1 to 2% of the general population . A wide range of clinical presentations can occur, from a single patch of hair loss to complete loss of hair on the scalp (alopecia totalis, at) or over the entire body (alopecia universalis, au). Th... |
The benguela upwelling system (bus) along the southwest african continental margin is one of the most productive upwelling regions in the world oceans (carr, 2001). Decreasing water depth and increasing primary productivity result in (i) a> 100fold increase in sediment organic matter content from oligotrophic surface s... |
The use of nanoparticles for cellular imaging is among the most important clinical breakthrough of the past decade . In particular, superparamagnetic iron oxide (spio) nanoparticles enhance contrast in magnetic resonance imaging (mri), which allows clinicians to monitor anatomical, physiological, and molecular changes ... |
Leptin deficiency or dysfunction is one of the main causes for insulin resistance (ir) and lipid metabolism disorders [1, 2]. It has been found that the majority of type 2 diabetes patients have higher levels of body fat, but normal or increased leptin in the plasma [36], indicating leptin resistance (lr). Certain leve... |
Canine ehrlichiosis, a tick borne disease, was first recognized by donatien and lestoquar (1935) and has since been reported in dogs geographical widespread (bretischwerdt 1995). At the end of 1960 an epidemic outbreak of the disease with high mortality has been reported in american military dogs and south asia . This ... |
Zhigancao, glycyrrhizae radix et rhizoma praeparata cum melle, originates from the processed dried roots or rhizomes of glycyrrhriza uralensis fisch . It is most frequently used in traditional chinese medical formulary to harmonize all drugs and detoxify the adverse effects of herbs . Clinically, it treats disorders su... |
Consumption of green tea is inversely associated with risk for cardiovascular diseases and stroke,1 as well as with lower cardiovascular and total mortality.2 improvement of endothelial function is thought to be one major mechanism for these beneficial effects . Green tea improved flow - mediated dilation in chronic sm... |
Indeed, the ten leading companies newly marketed compounds increased their revenues by only ~10%, and the average innovation deficit was ~1.31.8 new chemical entities per year (drews 2003). As the time from drug discovery to launch is currently ~12 years and costs ~$750 million / drug, the pharmaceutical industry is de... |
The anterior cruciate ligament (acl) is one of major knee ligaments and is critical to knee stability . Injury to the acl can be a debilitating musculoskeletal injury seen most often in athletes . The incidence of acl injuries is currently estimated at approximately 200,000 in usa annually, with 100,000 acl reconstruct... |
Over the past year, multiple noteworthy trials with the potential to evolve current clinical practice and guidelines have been presented at international meetings including the american college of cardiology (acc, san diego, usa, march 2015), european association for percutaneous cardiovascular interventions (europcr, ... |
Non - alcoholic fatty liver disease (nafld) is a major cause of chronic liver disease globally, and is characterized by a spectrum of steatosis, inflammation and fibrosis . Non - alcoholic steatohepatitis (nash) is a more severe form of nafld, and is characterized by lobular inflammation and hepatocyte ballooning;1,2 f... |
Type 2 diabetes (t2d) is the most common form of diabetes and an increasingly prevalent metabolic disease . It is associated with microvascular and macrovascular complications and is considered one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality . According to the international diabetes federation (idf), there were appr... |
Down syndrome (ds) is one of the most frequent congenital disorders in humans . Many of them develop symptoms of alzheimer s disease (ad) at a relatively young age, and a high proportion of ds individuals develop dementia at a later stage . Ds is caused by a trisomy of chromosome 21 as a consequence of nondisjunction d... |
World - wide, 13 million people develop sepsis each year, and as many as 4 million people have died . In 1996, there were 4.774 patients admitted to a teaching hospital in surabaya, indonesia, and 504 patients were diagnosed as having sepsis, with a mortality rate of 70.2% . In a study at a teaching hospital in yogyaka... |
Daytime running lights (drls) are a safety feature intended to reduce crashes by increasing the contrast between vehicles and the background . Currently, finland, sweden, norway, canada, denmark, hungary, and iceland all require vehicle lights during daytime hours . Finland was the first to institute drl legislation in... |
Although prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer - related deaths in men in the us, early detection with serum prostate - specific antigen (psa) has led to the over - detection and over - treatment of indolent prostate cancer(13). Recently, active surveillance, where men newly diagnosed with prostate canc... |
The leptomeninges are composed of the pia and arachnoid mater connected by strands termed arachnoid trabeculae . In the young, the leptomeninges and dura mater have been traditionally thought to contain few, if any, inflammatory cells, and any increase in cellularity is potentially equated to a pathologic condition, in... |
Their occurrence was first described in 1670 by thilesus . However, at that time fistulas were a common complication of chronic and untreated cholecystitis . According to a 2005 study, 226 cases have been reported in total, with fewer than 25 in the last 50 years . The reduced incidence in current times can be attribut... |
Tropical fevers are defined as infections that are prevalent in or are unique to tropical and subtropical regions . They occur in different parts of the indian subcontinent throughout the year, especially in rainy and postrainy season . These fevers include leptospirosis, enteric fever, malaria, dengue, scrub typhus (c... |
Angiogenesis, the formation of new vessels from existing vessels, plays an important role in pathological conditions in various organs . Pathological angiogenesis in the eye is the most common cause of blindness in all age groups . Retinopathy of prematurity (rop) occurs in children, diabetic retinopathy (dr) in young ... |
Smallholder agriculture in semiarid areas is hampered by accelerated soil erosion, induced soil moisture deficits, soil fertility depletion, and soil crusting and compaction . The soil crusting and compaction problem is attributed to inherent soil properties and poor tillage practices . The semiarid areas of kenya are ... |
Pregabalin (pg) chemically is 3-amino methyl hexanoic acid, with the chemical formula c8h17no2 . Its structural and pharmacological features correspond to the mammalian neurotransmitter gamma - aminobutyric acid (gaba), and it is primarily used as anticonvulsant drug . However, its effects are much broader being analge... |
World health organization and unaids report about 39.5 million hiv - infected people worldwide and about 2 million people in latin america . In 2009, around 70,000 people were estimated to be infected in peru . The advent of haart has altered the course of hiv infection, transforming it from a fatal illness to a chroni... |
The jichi medical school (jms) cohort study is a prospective, population - based study aimed at exploring the risk factors for cvd in 12 communities in japan . Details regarding the jms cohort study design and additional descriptive data are available in the supplementary data or in our previous reports (1315). Enrollm... |
Approximately 26% of american adults are suffering from a diagnosable mental disease, and nearly half (45%) of them meet criteria for two or more disorders strongly related to comorbidity . Major depressive disorder (mdd), one of the most common mental disorders, affects almost 15 million american adults (about 7% of t... |
Reed's syndrome refers to the onset of uterine leiomyomas with cutaneous leiomyomas, the latter occurring segmentally or affecting a particular dermatome, that are classified into type 1 and 2 . Type 1 is caused by a novel postzygotic segmental mutation; type 2 reflects an additional postzygotic loss of heterozygosity ... |
Dna double - strand breaks are extremely toxic dna lesions that arise from a variety of sources, including ionizing radiation, radiomimetic drugs [2, 3], oxidative stress [4, 5], abortive or inhibited topoisomerase reactions, and immunological processes such as v(d)j and class - switch recombination . Thus, dsb repair ... |
A 65-year - old man with a medical history of stage iii nasopharyngeal cancer, end - stage renal disease treated with dialysis, hyperthyroidism, type 2 diabetes mellitus, hypertension, atrial fibrillation, and secondary hyperparathyroidism presented at the oral medicine clinic of the college of dentistry, university of... |
Cerebral palsy includes a group of nonprogressive movement disorders due to brain lesions or abnormalities in early development . Its prevalence of 2 per 1000 newborns overall rises to 77 per 1000 preterms born at below 28 0/7 weeks of gestation [2, 3]. A major cause is cystic periventricular leukomalacia (cpvl) compri... |
The belgian pharmacologist bacq discovered the existence of toxins in nemertines during the mid- 1930s while searching for invertebrate neurotransmitters . An aqueous homogenate of a small intertidal hoplonemertine species (amphiporus lactifloreus), like acetylcholine (ach), contracted isolated frog skeletal muscle and... |
Recent work has demonstrated the importance of the abdominal muscles in ensuring sufficient spine stability to prevent buckling and enhance function2, 3 . The curl - up, performed as an abdominal exercise, has been shown to produce reasonable levels of activity in the rectus abdominis (ra) muscle while minimizing the r... |
To report the ultrasound biomicroscopy (ubm) and surgical findings in a subject with a syndrome of ectopia lentis, spontaneous filtering blebs, and craniofacial dysmorphism (traboulsi syndrome). Case report, using a 40-mhz ubm wide - field anterior segment scan and anterior segment optical coherence tomography (oct). A... |
Normally, maintenance of the intestinal epithelium involves a dynamic process in which intestinal stem cells (iscs) located at the crypt base undergo differentiation, proliferation, and migration along the crypt villus axis . At the end of this journey, intestinal epithelial cells (iecs) these processes appear to be dy... |
Although proinflammatory effects of acute hyperglycemia in inflammatory conditions and septic patients have been extensively investigated in clinical as well as experimental settings, there are still controversies about its relevance and mechanisms [1, 2]. . Found no beneficial effect of treating acute hyperglycemia in... |
For several decades there has been a demographic shift towards an ageing population taking place across the european continent, albeit at varying speeds . The number of children being born has universally decreased across europe and the birth rate is falling below replacement levels in some member states such as german... |
Cloacogenic carcinomas (ccs) are relatively common neoplasms of the anal canal and are thought to arise from cloacogenic remnants at this site . Histological and ultrastructural studies have indicated that these neoplasms may also arise from transitional cloacogenic epithelium lining the anal ducts or from the basal la... |
Gastric antral vascular ectasia (gave) is a rare disorder associated with chronic upper gastrointestinal bleeding that mainly affects elderly women . It has a unique endoscopic appearance characterized by multiple longitudinal stripes of red vessels (watermelon stomach) or a diffuse spread of red vessels (diffuse antra... |
Wilms tumor is the most common primary malignant renal tumor in children, accounting for 6% of all pediatric malignant tumors 1, however, it is very rare in adults, with an incidence of about 0.2 per million per year in the usa and europe 2 . Only approximately 300 well - documented cases of adult invasion of the renal... |
Many studies provide evidence pointing to a clear role of vitamin d in the pathogenesis of autoimmune diseases, especially autoimmune thyroid diseases (aitds), as vitamin d deficiency is linked with high levels of anti - thyroid antibodies, abnormal thyroid function, increased thyroid volume, and increased tsh levels [... |
Asthma and copd have been regarded as two distinct disease entities that often overlap.13 asthma and copd overlap has a prevalence of 15%20% in patients with obstructive airway disease (asthma or copd)46 and is associated with significant health status impairment,4 increased exacerbations,5 and increased hospitalizatio... |
Porcine parvovirus (ppv), first isolated from sows in germany, has been found to occur worldwide [24]. This syndrome is characterized by stillbirth, mummified fetuses, early embryonic and fetal death, delayed return to estrus, and infertility (abbreviated as smedi) [5, 6]. Ppv is also shown to be an agent able to incre... |
The prevalence of as ranges from 2% to 9% of aged population over 65 years old, and it is increasingly diagnosed in the contemporary era of aging society.1) given no established medical treatment to improve prognosis of as patients, decision to proceed with corrective surgery is crucial . Progression of as is usually l... |
Migraine is typically characterized by a pulsating headache with or without aura, nausea, and vomiting . The drugs commonly used in acute migraine attacks are sumatriptan (which is one of the triptans chemically grouped under serotonin agonists) and ergot alkaloids, while propranolol and calcium channel blockers are us... |
The data from the articles by goldstein et al . Suggest that both cardiologists and their patients tend to think that once a device such as an icd is in place, one ought not stop it . As a general rule, philosophers have suggested that the conditions under which one could justify withholding a treatment are those under... |
Total joint arthroplasty, in particular tha, has had a revolutionary role in improving the quality of life . The use of bone cement for the implant stability versus biologic fixation with bone ingrowth in cementless tha has been a controversial issue for years . While immediate cement fixation in very old people or in ... |
Noninvasive prenatal testing (nipt) is becoming increasingly popular in the united states, with increasing advocacy in the medical community . Some obstetricians one recent study concluded that cfdna testing had significantly lower false positive rates and higher positive predictive values for trisomy 21 and 18 than st... |
Common placebos are usually inert tablets or sham surgery based on false information . Since the publication of henry k. beecher's in 1955, the phenomenon has been considered to be clinically important . Placebo effects were shown to be genuine psychobiological events attributed to the overall therapeutic context . Fro... |
Prior to the genome era, compositional signatures (1) or sequence alignments (2) were used to delineate the phylogenetic patterns across organisms . The availability of entire genome sequences has sparked a further development of methods for phylogenetic reconstructions on a genome - wide scale . Following this long tr... |
Hyperplasia refers to tissue growth into the oral cavity, located over the alveolar ridges or the soft tissues of the vestibular sulcus . Its etiology is multifactorial, but some irritative factors are more commonly associated, such as periodontal disease, poor oral hygiene, smoking, and poor denture fitting . The trea... |
There is much controversy regarding the use and timing of enteral feeding support in patients with dysphagia and aspiration risk . The decision process becomes far more complex in those patients with advanced dementia, due to ethical and moral issues associated with the continuing comfort care per os (po) feeds with th... |
Bone dysplasias are characterized by the replacement of normal bone with fibrous tissue containing abnormal bone or cementum.1 familial gigantiform cementoma, which is a subgroup of osseous dysplasias, is a rare condition of the jaw (table 1).2,3,4 its true incidence is unknown, as is the gender and ethnic predispositi... |
Cervical cancer is a major health challenge with approximately 530,000 news cases and 270,000 deaths annually worldwide despite remarkable advances in screening and prevention through the development of human papillomavirus (hpv) vaccine . While the majority of cervical cancer cases can be potentially cured with surger... |
Anca - associated vasculitides (aav) are autoimmune diseases characterized by inflammation of the blood vessel wall and include microscopic polyangiitis (mpa), granulomatosis with polyangiitis (gpa, formerly wegener's), and eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (egpa, formerly churg - strauss syndrome). Antineu... |
Atherosclerotic disease of the coronary arteries is one of the most common causes of mortality and morbidity . Despite all the methods of diagnosis and the new strategies in the treatment of patients, cardiovascular diseases (cvds) are considered as the most important cause of mortality in iran over the last decade.1 a... |
Coccygodynia, first described by simpson in 1859, is disabling pain in the coccyx that is usually provoked by sitting or changing from a sitting to a standing position . This tail bone pain may radiate rostrally to the sacrum or lumbar spine or laterally to the buttocks . Patients may rarely present with associated rec... |
A 29-year - old woman with marfan's syndrome was scheduled to undergo the elective bentall's operation and thoracic aortic replacement with artificial graft . There were no abnormal findings or special histories on the preoperative evaluations . On patient's arrival at the operating room, after anesthetic induction, th... |
The aim of this study was to identify the definition, therapeutics, and mechanism of diabetes from the resources of itm in order to provide new recommendations for the treatment of diabetes . We searched therapeutic itm books such as exir - e - aazam, tibib - e - akbari, as well as material medical itm books such as ma... |
Recent advances in computer hardware and software have greatly extended the time scales that can be covered by biomolecular simulations . These longer time scales (beyond nanoseconds) one important characteristic of these force fields is the ability to accurately model the formation of salt bridges, or pairs of amino a... |
Depression is a common mental disorder, with an estimated global burden of 350 million . Lifetime prevalence rates range from approximately 3% to 16.9%, with most countries falling somewhere between 8% and 12% . Depressive disorder is diagnosed when the patient suffers from depressed mood, loss of interest and enjoymen... |
Stroke is defined as rapidly developing symptoms and/or signs of focal and global loss of cerebral function lasting for at least 24 hours with no apparent cause other than of vascular origin . Therefore, effective risk factor intervention represents the most appropriate to reduce stroke morbidity and mortality . While ... |
Attendances to emergency departments due to accidental digital auto - injection of adrenaline seem to be on the rise . For every 50000 epipen units administered correctly, one is accidentally performed into a digit, usually the thumb (1). We present the case of a 32 year old gp who unwittingly deployed an epinephrine p... |
Managed care is increasingly becoming a preferred administrative vehicle for states to control their medicaid budgets and assure access to and coordination of services . Managed care now serves 23 percent of the medicaid population . As reported by the kaiser commission on the future of medicaid (1995), enrollment in s... |
Dna, with its building block dna bases that store the genetic information, is indispensable in protein biosynthesis . Investigations on long - distance charge transfer through dna are of ongoing interest . Moreover, the interaction of excited triplet states of aromatic carbonyl compounds with dna bases is also of inter... |
When angiotensin - converting enzyme-2 (ace2) was serendipitously discovered ten years ago, neither of the two groups at the centre of its discovery [1, 2] could have guessed at the disproportionate number of distinct roles it plays in biology, from cardiovascular regulation to viral infection . As so often happens in ... |
With attention to the role of diet or medical nutritional therapy on chronic disease, the dietary pattern approach, which involves diet quality indices, has been suggested as a powerful tool because of the complexity of diets [1 - 3]. In recent decades, several indices have been developed and validated, including the d... |
The cath database is a hierarchical classification of domains into sequence- and structure - based families and fold groups . Table 1 shows the population of the latest release of cath (version 2.5.1, released january 2004). In the lowest level of the hierarchy, sequences are clustered according to significant sequence... |
A literature search of the pubmed online database was carried out to identify studies that reported the causes of death after tavr on august 10, 2014 (figure1). The search terms were as follows: (percutaneous or transcatheter or transfemoral or transapical or transsubclavian or transaortic or transaxillary) and (aortic... |
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