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Regulation of nuclear protein transportation through nuclear pore complexes (npcs) is an essential function in eukaryotic cells . Most macromolecules larger than 4060 kda are transported actively through the npc mediated by transport factors such as members of importin- superfamily (fabre and hurt 1994; davis 1995; mac...
Complete esophageal obstruction (ceo) is an uncommon phenomenon characterized by lumen obliteration that can arise from both benign and malignant etiologies . The former, being more frequent, is commonly the result of chemoradiation therapy of head and neck and lung cancers . However, incidence is dose - dependent with...
Bone marrow transplantation (bmt) from an hla - matched related donor is the treatment of choice for children and young adults with severe aplastic anemia (saa). Patients without an appropriate sibling donor usually receive immuno - suppressive therapy, and those who fail it, undergo bmt from an hla - matched unrelated...
Ocular symptoms in behet s disease (bd) begin mostly before 30 years of age according to international surveys, and bd activity may decrease with age . Anti - tnf antibody has recently demonstrated strong effects against recurrent uveitis in bd, but the efficacy and safety of anti - tnf therapy in elderly patients rema...
Although the hippocampus has not typically been identified as part of the neuronal circuit for language and aphasia, recent evidence suggests that the hippocampus is closely related to naming, word priming, and anomic aphasia . We present herein a case that presented with limbic encephalitis (le), bilateral symmetric, ...
National health and wellness survey (nhws; n = 75,000), an annual, cross - sectional study of the u.s . Adult (aged 18 years) population . A stratified random sample (with strata by gender, age, and ethnicity) was implemented to ensure that the demographic composition of the sample was aligned to that of the correspond...
According to barker's theory, certain risk exposures few months before pregnancy, during pregnancy, and in early childhood might have a role in the occurrence of some disorders in adulthood . It is, therefore, essential to monitor the medical status of neonates, particularly those at certain risks, to keep them healthy...
Members of this genus growing at temperatures between 35 and 75 c are widespread throughout the world and can be recovered from various natural environments with temperatures ranging from 80 c to that of glacier ice (such as hot springs, petroleum reservoirs, compost, marine hydrothermal vents, soils, lake and ocean se...
Pityriasis rubra pilaris (prp) is a rare chronic inflammatory keratosis, clinically characterized by gradually developing to reddish or orange extending plaques and keratotic follicular papules . Five types of prp were classified by griffith, and there are refractory cases (particularly in type ii) in contrast with spo...
Individual identification is an important and challenging task in forensic investigation, which was based on scientific principles . Tsuchihashi and suzuki established that the arrangement of lines on the red part of the human lip is individual and unique . The grooves were named as sulci labiorum and corresponding lip...
Traumatic distraction injuries to the craniocervical junction are typically treated with occipitocervical fusion procedures.1 2 3 high failure rates of nonoperative management have been reported.4 the existing literature includes few reports of craniocervical injuries treated successfully with prolonged immobilization....
As reported in the previous issue of critical care, vincent and colleagues investigated the possible increased risk of patients with insulin - treated diabetes for morbidity and mortality in the intensive care unit (icu). Literature is conflicting at this point, with studies showing increased risk, decreased risk, or n...
Missing values are endemic across health and social studies.1) missing data reduce statistical power and representativeness of the sample and might cause misinterpretation of the results by introducing bias.2) socioeconomic status (ses) variables such as education, income, marital status, and occupation are often unans...
Mass spectrometric analysis of proteome samples from eukaryotic cell lines, tissues or biological fluids is still hampered by the vast complexity of samples and concentration differences of proteins within making comparisons of proteomics and transcriptomics data difficult . Online and off - line two - dimensional (2d)...
The markhor (capra falconeri) is an endangered wild goat in a continuous decline; the global population is <2,500 mature animals (5). In tajikistan, <350 animals may survive in fragmented subpopulations in the remote hazratishoh and darvaz mountain ranges along the afghanistan border (6). They live sedentarily over rel...
All of the subjects underwent a comprehensive ophthalmologic examination, which included best - corrected visual acuity (bcva); slit - lamp biomicroscopy; refraction measurement using auto refraction, calculation of the spherical equivalence (se) based on the spherical diopter (d) plus one - half of the cylindrical dio...
Atypical prostatic hyperplasia (aph) is a pseudoneoplastic lesion that can mimic prostate adenocarcinoma because of its architectural and cytological features . In this prostatic disease, there is an imbalance between prostate cell growth and apoptosis . The occurrence rate of aph is not known and its associations with...
The honey bee insect belongs to the order hymenoptera of the family apidae of the genus: apis, subordinated by the western honey bee apis mellifera jemenatica ruttner that has spread out all around the earth . It is in several geographical areas and spaced eras, and such isolation has resulted in a large number of stra...
It is one of the most common gynecological disorders in the reproductive age women and its prevalence in the general population varies between 0.7 and 44% . Endometriosis is usually found in the pelvis and especially the ovaries, uterosacral ligaments, and round ligaments . On the other hand, it is observed in extrapel...
Dentigerous cyst is a type of odontogenic cysts and has a rate between 20% and 24% in all the jaw cysts . These cysts form between the enamel epithelium and the enamel of the crown of the affected tooth, and the fluid accumulation occurs in the related area . Dentigerous cyst always includes the crown of an unerupted o...
In this issue of critical care, carlier and colleagues describe pharmacokinetic / pharmacodynamic (pk / pd) target attainment in critically ill patients receiving meropenem or piperacillin / tazobactam as extended infusions . These investigators found that 48% of patients did not achieve the desired pk / pd target (100...
Malignant neoplasm of lymphoid cell is lymphomas which is divided into 2 groups: hodgkin and non - hodgkin . Primarily hodgkin's lymphoma is lymph nodes's disease, which has been known with the presence of two nuclear cells called reed - sternberg cells and lymphoid stroma composed of many non - neoplastic cells . Non ...
The majority of the studies of the neuropathology of mci, especially degenerative / amnestic mci, suggest that in most instances mci is associated with a less fervent manifestation of the neuropathologies that are generally associated with dementia . Unselected mci samples derived from memory clinic or general geriatri...
The portability of a handheld dynamometer (hhd) is excellent, and its clinical application for measurements is simple . The relative intra - class and inter - class reliabilities of an hhd are 0.840.991 and 0.840.942, respectively . Conventionally, the sensor unit of an hhd is fixed during the measurement of muscle str...
Chylous ascites is considered a relatively rare postoperative complication, but it cannot be disregarded because van der gaag et al . 1 reported that the incidence after pancreaticoduodenectomy was 9%, and malik et al . 2 reported that it was 6.7% . For treatment, there are conservative and surgical treatments . Howeve...
With the obvious increasing prevalence and mortality rate, cancer has become one of the primary causes of morbidity and mortality . The underlying mechanisms of the tumorigenesis are obscure because of the involvement of multiple risk factors containing complicated gene - gene and gene - environment interactions . Many...
The concept of preimplantation genetic screening (pgs) for chromosomal abnormalities to improve clinical outcomes in patients undergoing in vitro fertilization (ivf) is based on the observation that aneuploidy represents the leading genetic cause of miscarriage and is likely the most prevalent genetic abnormality in hu...
In denmark, women planning to conceive are advised to take a daily supplement of 400 g folic acid (fa) until the 12th week of gestation to reduce the risk of neural tube defects (ntds).1 starting fa supplementation before conception is an important component of effective prevention of ntds, since the neural tube closes...
Villous adenomas are common lesions of the gastrointestinal tract but they are rarely located in the urinary tract including the bladder . . They should be accepted as important lesions because the malignancy potential of them is still not known [1, 2]. Here a 43-year - old male patient was admitted to our hospital wit...
Primary neuroendocrine cancer of the bladder is a rare histological occurrence, constituting 0.48 - 1% of all bladder cancers . The 5-year survival rate is around 8% and the prognosis is extremely unfavorable . Due to the morphology of the tumor, treatments based on small cell lung cancer, we treated a case in which ch...
Intensive care unit (icu) admission in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (copd) patients is generally due to infections by bacterial or viral agents, but fungal agent may occur in immunocompromised states . Among fungal agents candida is the most common species, of which a new fluconazole resistant strain of candid...
Tumorigenesis is a multistep process beginning with the transformation of a single cell by the accumulation of at least six distinct characteristics . These include infinite lifespan, resistance to antigrowth signals, resistance to apoptosis, autocrine production of growth signals, sustained angiogenesis, and tissue in...
Every subject was studied on 2 separate days in random order with 24 week intervals . On both days, breakfast (51 g carbohydrate; 4.8 g fat; 5.8 g protein) was given at 10:00 a.m. on the snack day only, a snack (30 g soya beans; 75 g yogurt) was given 2 h before the breakfast . The details of metabolic testing, hormone...
Progress in diabetes care over the last decade, such as the routine use of recombinant insulins, continuous subcutaneous insulin infusions, and continuous glucose monitoring, has improved and lengthened the lives of millions of patients . As patients live longer they are more likely to develop impaired awareness of hyp...
Dna damage tolerance enables a cell to resolve replication problems such as damage - induced fork stalling (lawrence, 1994; lehmann, 2002; ulrich, 2005). Replicative bypass of dna lesions occurs via translesion synthesis (tls) by specialized damage - tolerant dna polymerases or by an error - free damage avoidance pathw...
Dapagliflozin, a member of sodium - glucose cotransporter-2 (sglt2) inhibitors family, exhibits glucose - lowering effect in patients with t2 dm [1, 2]. Treatment with dapagliflozin has been shown to improve glycemic control and reduce body weight and systolic blood pressure (sbp) [38] without increase in hypoglycemia ...
Septic acute kidney injury (aki) is associated with poor outcome compared to septic patients without aki, hence sepsis is regarded as the most common trigger of aki in seriously ill patients . Sepsis leads to aki in ~50% of all critically ill patients.1 there are various other studies that reported that 40%75% cases of...
Necrotizing fasciitis / fournier s gangrene is a rare, life - threatening soft tissue infection that can rapidly progress to systemic toxicity if not treated promptly . Its aetiology is poorly understood, and it can often be triggered by a very minor inciting event, such as an insect bite or minor trauma . Early detect...
In the last few years, a new class of highly conserved ~21-mer non - coding rnas, micrornas (mirnas), has emerged as an important player in post - transcriptional gene expression control in different physiological and pathological conditions: metabolism, proliferation, cell death, differentiation and development, viral...
The recent development of engineered humanized monoclonal antibodies has increased their therapeutic efficacy and decreased their toxicity, expanding their potential for the treatment of cancer . Tumors of epithelial origin, among which we have head and neck cancers, are one of the leading causes of death worldwide . T...
Psychotic disorders and schizophrenia are disabling conditions characterized by positive symptoms, negative symptoms, and cognitive impairments . Most individuals with schizophrenia have a poor long - term outcome resulting in personal suffering and psychosocial disabilities including impaired interpersonal and vocatio...
Recently, the use of water soluble fluorescent conjugated polymers (cps) as either chemical or biological sensing elements has received wide interest [15]. Cps contain a large number of absorbing and delocalized molecular units, and the transfer of excitation energy along the whole backbone of the cp to the energy / el...
Attempts to minimize this include minimal tumor manipulation prior to ligation of the venous drainage . Laparoscopy has become a standard option for the management of adrenal tumors . In cases of pheochromocytomas, most surgeons prefer to use the transperitoneal approach, with the belief that it affords a better view a...
Spirituality is associated with mental health, managing substance abuse, marital functioning, parenting, and coping . It has been suggested that spirituality also leads to finding purpose and meaning in life . This article focuses on the karma yoga described in bhagavad gita and its meaning in relation with positive ps...
Especially, by modifying the surface properties of mechanical roughness, osteogenesis ability of the implant is enhanced . Not only topography but also chemistry of the tio2 surfaces affect cellular attachment, proliferation, osteoblastic activity, differentiation, and formation of mineralized nodules on the surface . ...
Fossil records and molecular data suggest that am symbiosis is evolutionary ancient and that it occurred with the first terrestrial plants . However, species diversity of amf is low, with only approximately 240 recognized species [3, 5], although molecular studies have suggested the existence of a significantly larger ...
Access to zinc is essential for organisms throughout the three domains of life . It is the only metal that occurs as a cofactor in all six classes of enzymes, from oxido - reductases to lyases (1), and the average proportion of enzymes containing zinc is 8.8% in eukaryotic proteomes (2). In pathogens, virulence - assoc...
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (als) is a rapidly progressive neurodegenerative disease that primarily affects upper and lower motor neurons, resulting in death three to five years after symptom onset in the majority of patients (1). The pathomechanism of als is largely unknown, but research efforts have been focused on...
Regional anesthesia techniques provide important advantages including excellent pain control, reduced side - effects, and shortened stay in the post anesthesia care unit . However, these early advantages can be short - lived and limited by the relatively brief duration of action of currently available local anesthetics...
Compounds that stabilize microtubules (msa), which include taxanes (paclitaxel, docetaxel), are effective anticancer drugs . It is known that the therapeutic effect of these drugs is associated with cell cycle arrest, followed by initiation of apoptotic processes . However, the exact mechanism that links cell division ...
Hek293 cells were maintained in dulbecco's modification of eagle's medium (dmem) supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum (sigma). Mda - mb-231 and mda - mb-468 breast cancer cells were obtained from the atcc (rockville, md) and grown in dmem / ham's f-12 medium supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum . Plasmids for m...
Ovarian cancer is responsible for almost half of deaths from cancer of the female genital tract because malignant tumours often spread outside the ovary by the time a definite diagnosis is made . They tend to affect the axial skeleton and are associated with abdomino - pelvic disease . Median interval time between diag...
It is assumed that it mediates protection by stimulating macrophages for mycobacteria killing [13]. The concept is supported by the increased susceptibility of ifn--deficient mice to experimental tb [46] and severe mycobacterial infections in humans bearing mutations in ifn-/ifn- axis [79]. However, several recent stud...
Ectopic liver tissue develops at various sites near the liver, such as the gallbladder, intra - abdominal ligaments, omentum, retroperitoneum and thorax [1, 2, 3]. The incidence of ectopic liver tissue has been reported to be 0.240.47% [3, 4]. Ectopic liver is a very rare entity, usually asymptomatic, but occasionally ...
Four different types of dendritic cells exist in lymph nodes, namely, histiocytic, fibroblastic, interdigitating, and follicular cells . Their main function is the presentation of antigens and the generation and regulation of the germinal center reaction . Follicular dendritic cells participate in the immune system by ...
A rapid and good outcome osseointegration is a fundamental prerequisite for a successful dental implantation and depends on the shape, structure, and composition of the used surface . The main requirements for a good material are its ability to promote attraction and adhesion of bone precursor cells and their prolifera...
Anterior crossbite is defined as a malocclusion resulting from the lingual positioning of the maxillary anterior teeth in relationship to the mandibular anterior teeth.1 dental crossbite involves localized tipping of a tooth or teeth and does not involve basal bone.2 patients with anterior dental crossbite will show a ...
Ewing s sarcomas is a rare primitive neuroectodermal tumour (pnet) which has an annual incidence of 2.9 /million population in usa 1jeffery toretsky et al (2008) they are very uncommon in african and asian population . It is commonly associated with reciprocal translocation between chromosome 11 and 12 t (11:12) or les...
In general we differentiate between the terms benefit basket (also benefit package) and benefit catalogues . The benefit basket refers to the totality of services, activities, and goods covered by publicly funded statutory / mandatory insurance schemes (social health insurance, shi) or by national health services (nhs)...
Lymphocytes survey antigen by circulating through blood, lymph nodes (lns) and lymph and shape specific immune responses in lns . To enter lns, lymphocytes must undergo extensive interactions with high endothelial cell venules (hevs) (butcher, 1991, frster et al ., 2008, ley et al ., 2007, muller, 2011, springer, 1994,...
High rates of infection of target cells with two or more retroviral vectors are often required to achieve a desired biological outcome . In particular, the production of induced pluripotent stem (ips) cells requires a high rate of coinfection in order to obtain a sufficient fraction of cells that express all four repro...
Bsis can be primary or secondary bsi, based on the source of origin . Primary / intravascular bsi originates from the cardiovascular system itself; while, some other infectious focus in the body gives rise to the secondary / extra vascular bsi . Coagulase negative staphylococcus (cons) and staphylococcus aureus are the...
Leopold iii, the saint, was the austrian margrave from 1095/1096 until his death in 1136 . His successful marriage policy led to substantial economical and political wealth of the house of babenberg, which ruled austria between 976 and 1246 . With his second wife agnes of waiblingen, daughter of the salian king henry i...
Nearly 30%65% of adult urban indians are either overweight, obese, or have abdominal obesity . Abdominal obesity plays a major role in the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and hypertension . Indian data suggest that standard cutoff points to define abdominal obesity, are not appropriate for asi...
One of the neuropathologic features invariably found in the brains of individuals with alzheimer's disease (ad) is the amyloid - beta (a) containing senile plaque (sp). Blood samples have been assessed for changes in a levels driven by the abundant data that a in the brain was the prime candidate for precipitating ad ....
The actual meaning and the selective advantages induced by this deregulation remain nowadays still a matter of debate despite the pioneering work of warburg about the impact of the alteration of the energetic metabolism in cancer cells . Certainly, several reasons have significantly contributed to delay the advancement...
The foundation for teaching and learning of family medicine for undergraduates was laid in sri lanka in the year 1983 and a limited clinical exposure was introduced to the curriculum of the faculty of medicine, university of colombo . Family medicine was introduced to the undergraduate curriculum of the faculty of medi...
Impairments in physical and cognitive functioning, as well as onset of chronic diseases, are often feared in later life as such changes lead to dependence in tasks of daily living, depression, and hospitalization . Compared to white elders, african american older adults experience a greater number of years exposed to t...
Since first described in 1970 (1), prostate - specific antigen (psa) was considered a useful tumor marker for detecting prostate cancer (pca) and assessing treatment responses and follow - up among patients with pca gradually . A psa level of more than 4.0 ng / ml was considered to have predictive value for the prostat...
Kidney transplantation is the treatment of choice for selected patients with end - stage renal disease (esrd). Health - related quality of life (hqol) has emerged as an important outcome to quantify the success of transplantation in the long term [1, 2]. Although hqol has been systematically assessed to uniformly docum...
Glucagon - like peptide-1 (glp-1) is a key incretin hormone with diverse physiological functions in both the periphery and central nervous system (cns) that are mediated by the glp-1 receptor (glp-1r), a family b g protein - coupled receptor (gpcr). Glp-1r is activated by four endogenous glp-1 peptides (glp-1 (137), gl...
Renal angiomyolipomas (raml) are uncommon benign renal tumours, composed of fat cells, smooth muscle cells and blood vessels . They are associated with a tendency to rupture resulting in sometimes - torrential retroperitoneal hemorrhage as the wunderlich syndrome or as severe potentially exsanguinating hematuria . Thes...
Diabetic ketoacidosis (dka) is an acute metabolic complication that occurs mainly in type 1 diabetes mellitus (1). The risk factors are omission of insulin, infection, trauma and acute pancreatitis (2, 3). Insulin deficiency increase free fatty acid (ffa) and amino acids release from adipose tissue and muscle, respecti...
Posttraumatic cerebral infarction (ci) is a well recognized complication of traumatic brain injury (tbi) and is frequently associated with a poor outcome17). However, its frequency, timing, and risk factors are not well - defined17). Furthermore, few data are available to quantify risk factors related to the occurrence...
Medical interventions directly targeting epigenetic functionalities are among the most promising novel approaches for treatment of serious pathological states such as cancer, metabolic and neurological diseases, inflammation, and viral infections . The first marketed epigenetic drug (vorinostat) provided in 2006 the pr...
Cellulose is the most abundant biomass on earth . It is the primary product of photosynthesis in terrestrial environments and the most abundant renewable bioresource produced in the biosphere [2, 3]. This enzyme is produced by several microorganisms, commonly by bacteria and fungi [47]. The source of cellulose is in pl...
In this issue of critical care, dr haenggi and co - workers from bern university hospital present a study evaluating bispectral index (bis), state entropy (se) and response entropy (re) during sedation in 44 patients in the intensive care unit (icu). The authors used a meticulous protocol with parallel se, re and bis m...
Most thyroid hormones are bound to their carrier proteins such as thyroxine - binding globulin (tbg), thyroxine - binding prealbumin (tbpa), and albumin (alb). Triiodothyronine (t3) distribution in plasma is as follows: 80% bound to tbg; 9% bound to tbpa; 11% bound to alb, and 0.3% available as free t3 (ft3). The tetra...
Sertoli leydig cell tumors are rare sex - cord stromal tumors of the ovary that can present with a variety of histological elements, which may complicate diagnosis and treatment . A 40-year - old female presenting with pelvic pain is found to have a large complex right adnexal mass and elevated alpha - fetoprotein . Th...
Insulin resistance and hyperinsulinemia are associated with hypertension, impaired glucose tolerance, obesity and dyslipidemia (1 - 4). Hyperinsulinemia is characterized by low high density lipoprotein (hdl)-cholesterol and high low density lipoprotein (ldl)-cholesterol, which causes coronary arteriosclerosis . This re...
Insomnia is defined as the subjective perception of difficulty with sleep initiation, duration, consolidation, or quality, which occurs despite adequate opportunity for sleep, and results in some form of daytime impairment . Chronic insomnia is diagnosed according to the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental diso...
Nowadays, the incidence of fungal agents causing candidiasis has increased remarkably, especially in patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus (hiv), immunocompromised hosts, intravenous drug abusers, bone marrow and solid organ recipient, those who present underlying valvular heart diseases, implantation of ...
Since its establishment by sir william osler in the late 19 century, enormous strides have been made in the overall structure and regulation of residency training to the point that it is now about the only path toward post - graduate medical specialization in most countries . Today, every country has its own accreditin...
The chinese american population is one of the most rapidly growing minorities in the united states [1, 2]. According to the usa bureau of the census (2010), the number of chinese americans increased 229% from 1.62 to 3.8 million from 1990 to 2010 . One - third of chinese americans (1.25 million) reside in california, a...
White matter hyperintensities (wmh) are a common sign of cerebrovascular disease visible on brain imaging in older people (o'sullivan, 2008). Wmh contribute substantially to loss of independence at older ages through a 3-fold increased risk of stroke and a 2-fold increased risk of dementia (debette and markus, 2010); i...
The eye is an optical device that transmits and focuses light onto the neural retina (fig . The retina, a 0.2-mm - thick central nervous tissue, is the first station of the visual system . In addition to acting as a light receiver, the retina carries out considerable image processing through circuits that involve five ...
Treatment of metastatic tumours of proximal femur usually used to be either palliative in the form of radiotherapy and chemotherapy or a very radical in form of hemipelvectomy and hip disarticulation . Both forms of treatment were associated with dismal outcomes . Now with the technological advancement and refinement i...
Our institutional review board approved our retrospective study with a waiver of the informed consent from each patient . This was a retrospective study for patients with pulmonary cryptococcal infection who were seen in a single tertiary - referral hospital over the course of a 14-year period (january 1995 to december...
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (als) is a fatal paralytic disorder caused by degeneration of motor neurons in the brain and spinal cord . One tenth of the total als cases occur in familial forms (fals), while the other is sporadic with no known genetic components (sals). The clinical phenotypes between fals and sals are...
Untreated vertically acquired hiv infection is associated with high mortality rates with a 50% probability of dying by 2 years of age among african cohorts in the pre however, as hiv epidemics have matured, survival estimates have been successively revised upward, and a substantial number of perinatally infected childr...
The first patient is a 39-year - old male who complained of posterior neck pain and occipital headache on the right side after a rear - end collision, which occurred one month ago . At the time of the accident, he suffered from radiating pain in the right arm, but the radiating symptom subsided by the time of his first...
The ability of a biological organism to sense and react to a complex environment requires the development of an intricate sensory system . The adaptive immune system uses dna recombination to generate a large array of t - cell and b - cell receptors to sense potentially harmful entities in the environment . In contrast...
Urinary incontinence is one of the major urinary symptoms in children and adolescents and can lead to major distress for the affected children and their parents . Normal daytime control of bladder function matures between 2 and 3 years of age, whereas nighttime control is normally achieved between 3 and 7 years of age ...
Over the past 10 to 15 years, new treatment paradigms in rheumatoid arthritis (ra) have been developed, including early diagnosis, intensive (treat to target) management using disease modifying antirheumatic drugs (dmards) alone or in combination, and the advent of targeted biologic therapies . These new paradigms have...
Nanostructured titania particles are very attractive for several applications such as photocatalysis, coating, gas sensing, and photovoltaics [1, 2]. The morphology and crystallinity of the titanium dioxide (tio2) particles greatly influence the efficiencies in these applications [35]. The active sites on titania surfa...
Tricuspid regurgitation (tr) after orthotopic heart transplantation (oht) is common, with reported prevalence that varies from 19% to 84% . The prevalence and severity of tr increase with the length of followup . In most cases tr is mild and asymptomatic, but some cases of moderate or severe tr are related to morbidity...
The deletion of the short arm of chromosome 18 is thought to be one of the rare chromosomal aberrations . Here the proband is a five - and - a - half - year - old girl who has had phenotypes manifested mainly by ptosis, broad face, broad neck with low posterior hairline, mental retardation, short stature, and other mal...