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One of the ways of modifying and controlling the properties of transition metal complexes is the use of appropriate ligand systems such as pincer ligands . Usually consisting of a central aromatic backbone tethered to two two - electron donor groups by different spacers, this class of tridentate ligands has found numer...
Dientamoeba fragilis is a pathogenic amoeboid protozoan parasite that is closely related to the trichomonads . The parasite has been shown to cause gastrointestinal disease in a wide range of patient groups, has a world - wide distribution and is often more prevalent than giardia . One study found that 32% of d. fragil...
Inflammatory bowel disease (ibd) comprises two major gastrointestinal disorders namely crohn s disease (cd) and ulcerative colitis (uc). Ibd can affect people of all ages, but is most often diagnosed at a young age . It is now understood that it may relate to the complex interaction between genetic and environmental fa...
Methylphenidate (mdp) is a central nervous system (cns) stimulant, of the phenethylamine class, available on the market with the following trade names: ritalin, equasym xl, concerta, quillivant xr, methylin, metadate and focalin . Its street names are the following: bennies, black beauties, cat, coke, crank, crystal, f...
2 . Spiny follicular hyperkeratosis is a rare but characteristic paraneoplastic cutaneous manifestation of multiple myeloma . Sfh is also reported in association with chronic renal failure, crohn's disease, hypovitaminosis a, hiv infection, lymphoma, other malignancies and rarely drugs like sorafenib and cyclosporine ....
This work adds one more tool to separate the effects of dipole dipole interactions (dd) and heisenberg spin exchange (hse) on epr spectra of dilute solutions of nitroxide free radicals (nitroxides) in low - viscosity liquids . We briefly summarize the progress to date in earlier papers in this series and refer the read...
Guidelines for the dietary management of infants diagnosed with cow s milk protein allergy (cmpa) recommend the substitution of cow s milk with extensively hydrolyzed casein or whey protein formulas (ehf) [3, 4, 6, 13]. Up to 14% of infants with cmpa will also react to soy infant formula (sif) [1, 4], even though toler...
Radiation biology is a branch of science that deals with the study of the action of ionizing radiation on living organisms . As radiation interacts randomly with cells and tissues, understanding the random nature of cell killing radbiostat is an educational matlab - based software designed for computer - assisted learn...
According to the new diagnostic criteria for dementia, the use of cognitive tests assumes great importance during the process of diagnostic investigation . Several tests are used in gerontology, and those with higher accuracy are the most important . The cambridge mental disorders of the elderly examination (camdex) is...
A 44-year - old woman without any specific medical history presented to the emergency room of our hospital after a snake bite, (agkistrodon ussuriensis, chinese viper) near the right lateral malleolus, in a parking lot three months before being referred to the pain clinic . At that time, the patient complained of sever...
Muscle fatigue triggers a decrease in the skin s sensory faculty1, an accumulation of metabolites within muscle fibers, and inadequate motor command in the motor cortex2 . Musculoskeletal disorders change muscle tone and stiffness of the body3, and abnormal muscle tone may cause muscle damage4 . Therefore, muscle fatig...
A 46-year - old male patient was referred to dayananda sagar dental college and hospital with a gradually enlarging swelling of the right mandible crossing the midline . The patient had noticed the tumor 5 years before and enlargement of the tumor 4 months prior to admission . Intraorally, a bony hard painless swelling...
We selected 30 ffpe - fixed tissue samples from 2003 to 2011 and 15 methacarn - fixed paraffin - embedded (mfpe) tissue samples from 2009 to 2011 from the department of pathology at seoul national university bundang hospital . We used 10% neutral buffered formaldehyde (formalin; samchun chemicals, pyeongtaek, korea). T...
Samples were collected in city limits at all locations; sites were usually 1 mile downstream of the downtown area . All samples, either undiluted or diluted in luria - bertani (lb) broth (12), were plated (0.1 ml, spread plate) on lb agar some with and some without ampicillin (150 g / ml) at the collection site . Plate...
Diffusive gradients in thin films (dgt) was developed as an in situ passive sampling technique for trace metal measurements and has been applied for the analysis of inorganic solutes in water, sediment and soil, for organic pollutants and for chemical imaging of solutes in plant rhizospheres . Passive sampling of metal...
As a gastrointestinal (gi) disease chronic constipation is very common in the general population with a prevalence of nearly 20% . It is also very common in children with a frequency between 3% and 16% . In dealing with this disease, it is important to be sure that it is not secondary to other conditions, like thyroid ...
Hospital spending, the largest component of health spending, was also the biggest contributor to overall spending growth . Hospital spending recently climbed 7.5 percent in 2001, and 9.5 percent in 2002 from growth that had only averaged 3.4 percent from 1993 - 1998, a time marked by a shift in enrollment to managed ca...
Idiopathic membranous nephropathy (imn) is a common cause of nephrotic syndrome in adults and has been identified as an autoimmune - mediated disease [13]. A number of studies have shown that 5282% of imn sera have autoantibodies directed towards the m - type phospholipase a2 receptor [46], a 180 kda protein that is ex...
Type 2 diabetes mellitus (t2 dm) is a chronic metabolic disease with insulin resistance and insulin secretion deficiency being the two major pathophysiological defects . The prevalence of t2 dm and prediabetes in china was 9.7% and 15.5%, respectively, which implies that there were 92.4 million adults with diabetes and...
Meningiomas are common slow - growing primary central nervous system (cns) tumors that arise from the meningothelial cells of the arachnoid and spinal cord and account for 30% of all primary intracranial tumors . These tumors show more predilection for women than males and often seen in middle - aged or elderly age gro...
A 39-year - old woman visited the emergency room with a progressive cough, dyspnea, and blood - tinged sputum for the previous 5 days . The patient did not use tobacco or alcohol, nor did she have any specific medical history . At initial presentation, her blood pressure was 107/54 mmhg, pulse rate 74 beats per minute,...
The diabetes heart study (dhs) is a family study in which siblings concordant for type 2 diabetes, as well as unaffected family members, were recruited from internal medicine and endocrinology clinics in western north carolina . The dhs design has been described in detail previously (5). To summarize, entry criteria re...
This study analysed baseline data from a randomized controlled trial (rct) involving young people's use of legal products to get high . The rct employs a 2-group (experimental vs. control), design with repeated cross - sectional surveys of youth to assess the determinants of inhalant use and determine the effects of an...
In a recent review entitled the search for chemistry of life s origin, eschenmoser has propounded a glyoxylate scenario, wherein glyoxylate (1) and its formal dimer, dihydroxyfumarate (dhf, 2), are proposed to be the central starting materials of a chemical constitution of a possible primordial metabolism, serving as s...
Cell injury releases actin, the most abundant cell protein . Gelsolin and vitamin d binding protein (vdbp) together depolymerise and clear cell - free actin . The actin scavenging system was investigated in pre - eclampsia (pe), a procoagulant and proinflammatory state with placental and vascular damage . Plasma gelsol...
This measure has shown predictive power for later morbidity and mortality. [13] studies have also ascertained a good test - retest reliability of srh and it has even been asserted that a person's health status cannot be exactly evaluated without inclusion of srh . Qualitative studies have displayed that not all the res...
This article is the first of its kind for this journal, and we thank the editorial board for the invitation to review the highlights of 2009 in cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesia . The dominant themes for 2009 will initially be outlined in the introduction of this article and then subsequently explored in depth in ...
This study was a cross - sectional hospital - based study the study covered both ever - married men and women, attending the dhiraj general hospital . Out of the total sample size, an equal number of participants were selected from three sources 1) hospital staff 2) spouses of non - psychiatric patients and 3) spouses ...
Bone morphogenetic protein (bmp) appears to be one of the most promising biomaterial and for clinical use in reconstructive surgery for bony defects and augmentation . Therefore, bmp is noted in the field of bone reconstructive surgery . Since recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein-2 (rhbmp-2) has become availabl...
With population ageing all over the world, the impact of dementia is set to accelerate in the coming years, in that it is a chronic disease and is one of the major contributors to disability and increases the burdens to caregivers as well as health and social care systems . In hong kong special administrative region (h...
Meteoric ablation is the source of metals such as calcium, sodium, and iron in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere (mlt) [plane et al ., these metals occur as neutral atoms in layers between 80 and 100 km and atomic ions which become dominant above 95 km . Lidar observations of the neutral metal layers have shown tha...
The case of corrosive injury - induced pharyngeal stricture, rather than esophageal or gastric injury, was reported rarely . The treatment of corrosive burns, such as timing of endoscopy, antibiotics or steroid therapy, and possible surgical intervention, remain controversial.1 most reported cases of pharyngeal strictu...
Many models have been put forward as an attempt to explain and counteract the real - life outcomes of several different inflammatory events in which neutrophil leukocytes play an outstanding role . Trauma, infection, hemorrhage, the response to both elective and emergency surgical interventions, and other pathological ...
Subclinical hypothyroidism (sch) is bio chemically defined as a serum thyrotropin thyroid stimulating hormone (tsh) is above the upper - limit of the statistically defined reference range while the serum free thyroxine (ft4) is within its reference range . The prevalence of subclinical hypothyroidism (sh) in the pediat...
The first double - umbrella device developed for intracardiac use, which was introduced in 1976, received little attention.1) however, since the development of the double - umbrella device for transcatheter closure of patent ductus arteriosus (pda) by rashkind et al.2) in 1979, percutaneous transcatheter closure techni...
A 25-year - old woman presented to the ophthalmology outpatient department with acute, marked loss of vision in both eyes over the last seven days . She had been well seven months earlier when she developed high - grade fever with chills and rigors associated with headache and vomiting . At that time she was seven mont...
The clinical syndrome of osteopetrosis is characterized by abnormal bone modeling and remodeling due to failure of osteoclastic bone reabsorption . This results in skeletal fragility in spite of increased bone mass, hematopoietic insufficiency, which is a result of decreased marrow space, nerve entrapment syndromes, gr...
It is produced starting from whole or minced meat marinated for 12 hours at 4c with red or black pepper, salt, onion powder or pieces, sliced tomato or tomato sauce, olive oil, lemon juice, vinegar, milk or milk powder, yogurt and eggs (vazgecer et al ., 2004). After that, the kebab is shaped like a cone around a skewe...
Inbred lines were derived by full sib inbreeding isofemale lines from raleigh, nc for 20 generations . P - element mutations and co - isogenic control lines were obtained from the berkeley drosophila gene disruption project . Flies were reared on standard medium at 25c, a 12-hour light / dark cycle, and controlled dens...
Animals and treatment: two farms rearing japanese shorthorn cows in aomori prefecture in northern japan were surveyed from may 2009 to october 2010 . Ivermectin pour - on formulation has been used on both farms for nematode control since before the start of this survey . Farm 1 routinely used the drug 3 or 4 times a ye...
Adult onset still's disease (aosd) is a rare systemic inflammatory disorder of unknown etiology, characterized by quotidian or double quotidian spiking fevers with an evanescent rash, arthritis, and multi - organ involvement . It was first described by eric gl bywaters in 1971, with description of 14 patients . A 21-ye...
Nitroglycerin (1,2,3-propanetriol trinitrate) (tng) is a vasodilator that has been widely used for the treatment of angina pectoris . For the acute treatment of angina it decreases the smooth muscle tonus of blood vessels through the local production of nitrous oxide (no). Because of its lipophilic nature, it is rapidl...
Vesicoureteral reflux (vur) is present in about 1% of healthy children and in 30% to 50% of children with symptomatic urinary tract infections (utis). Treatments for vur can be classified into four types: observation, antibiotic prophylaxis, open surgery, and endoscopic treatment . The endoscopic treatment of vur was f...
Dengue is a leading infectious disease, with 96 million symptomatic cases estimated in 2010 . An important feature of dengue is the four serotypes (den-1, den-2, den-3, and den-4) and the recent acknowledgement of a new serotype, which may run concurrently in a given region, leading to certain epidemics for a specific ...
Pure ovarian choriocarcinomas are extremely rare malignancies which are of gestational or non - gestational in origin . The gestational type may arise from an ectopic ovarian pregnancy or present as a metastasis from a uterine or tubal choriocarcinoma, while the non - gestational type is a rare germ cell tumor with tro...
Liver is not only the important metabolic, energy supply, and immune regulation organ of the human body, but also the main organ of drug metabolism . Certain chemical or medicinal agents, when taken in overdoses and sometimes even when introduced within therapeutic dosages, may injure the organ and so cause hepatotoxic...
Quasi 1d metal oxide nanostructures have attracted considerable interest in the last years for fundamental studies and also for potential applications . In particular, they present properties which range from metals to semiconductors and insulators: the performance of these devices is strongly correlated to their struc...
The most visible signs of aging are those of the skin.1,2 in 2001, chung et al investigated the modulation of skin collagen metabolism in aged and photoaged human skin . The authors concluded that the natural aging process decreases collagen synthesis and increases the expression of matrix metalloproteinases (mmps).3 d...
Cyclophophamide is an alkylating agent used extensively in the treatment of malignant and rheumatological diseases . Its side effects include bone marrow depression, infection, alopecia, sterility, bladder malignancy, and hemorrhagic cystitis1). However, it is less well known that intravenous cyclophosphamide reduces t...
Carpal tunnel syndrome (cts) is caused by median nerve (mn) compression at the wrist [1, p. 67] the carpal tunnel (ct) is a narrow unyielding space that entraps the mn between the transverse carpal ligament (tcl) ventrally and carpal bones dorsally . Vigorous or repetitive finger activity can also contribute to cts, be...
Alzheimer disease (ad) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that causes loss of memory, mental confusion and several cognitive disturbances . It frequently occurs at around 60 years of age, but may also have an early onset at 40 years (khachaturian, 1985). Dementia is an increasingly common diagnosis in the agin...
The number of deaths in canada is expected to increase 33% by the year 2020 and the current number of canadians with access to hospice palliative care is estimated to be 15%.1 each death potentially affects the immediate well being of an average of five other people, or more than one million canadians each year.2 the m...
Treatment failure for head and neck cancer is mainly related to locoregional tumor recurrence (25%54.9%), whereas distant metastasis occurs less frequently (2.3%3.9%). To increase the chances that a salvage procedure will be curative, a definite diagnosis of locoregional tumor recurrence has been obtained through invas...
Genome stability is critical to cell survival and normal cell growth such as genome instability caused numerous human cancers (1). It ensures that replication, repair and recombination occur with high fidelity (2). There are still many unknown details of dna metabolic, because of the multiple functions of proteins that...
Fibroblasts represent a heterogeneous population of mesenchymal cells that play important roles in the production and maintenance of extracellular matrix (raghow 1994; ohnishi et al . 1998; phan 2008). In addition, fibroblasts have important regulatory roles modulating the function of many other cell types (knight 2001...
Secondary hyperparathyroidism is a frequent complication of chronic renal failure as a consequence of renal osteodystrophy . Brown tumours, as unifocal or multifocal bone lesions, represent a serious complication of advanced hyperparathyroidism with a frequency of 1.51.75 percent in secondary hyperparathyroidism and 34...
It constitutes a wide range of neoplasms that differ in their location, age distribution, growth potential, extent of invasiveness, and tendency for progression . The diagnosis is primarily based on histopathological criteria defined by the world health organization (who) that grades astrocytomas as pilocytic astrocyto...
The cerebellum is essential for the proper coordination of locomotion and posture [14]. To achieve optimal spatiotemporal control of the multiple motor domains involved in these complex behaviors, the cerebellum must orchestrate select repertoires of motor synergies through projections to the spinal cord [57] and cereb...
Patients were a subset of 292 individuals autopsied by mhbb under a mount sinai institutional review board mhbb is a longitudinal study of hiv - associated nervous system complications; it enrolls hiv - positive and hiv - negative individuals who undergo prospective neuromedical evaluations, and its entry criteria were...
Lymphedema is defined as an excessive lymphatic fluid accumulation in subcutaneous tissues, due to inability of the lymphatic system to maintain normal tissue homeostasis 1 . Secondary lymphedema which is more common than the primary form can develop as a consequence of distruction or obstruction of lymphatic channels ...
Ground - nesting insect societies face challenges similar to those confronting human societies when colonizing floodplain environments . Without means to prevent flooding, frequent inundation makes a non - nomadic lifestyle impossible, because, in addition to loss of life, infrastructure repairs become prohibitively co...
Mice - c3h / hej mice were purchased from the jackson laboratory (bar harbor, me, usa). This strain of mouse is susceptible to infection with the g. lamblia clone gs / m-83-h7 (byrd et al . 1994). G. lamblia culture - g. lamblia trophozoites [clone gs / m-83-h7 (atcc 50581)] were obtained from the american type culture...
Emesis is important in terms of ridding the upper gastrointestinal tract of toxins and pathogens . The act of vomiting by an individual infected with an infectious disease such as norovirus disseminates the agent into the local environment . Electron microscopic studies have suggested that as many as 310 norovirus part...
Multiple sclerosis is a chronic progressive disease resulting in damage to the myelin sheath and nerves of the central nervous system (brain, spinal cord, and optic nerves). It is thought to be an autoimmune disorder, is usually diagnosed during early to late adulthood, and affects 23 times more women than men.1 approx...
Epileptic disorders affect 50 million people around the world, which is one of the most prevalent diseases of central nervous system (cns) throughout childhood and adolescence up to 16 years of age[24]. There were numerous studies on the presence of immunological alterations in patients with epilepsy and antiepileptic ...
Cdna library and bioinformatics analysis - adult female r. microplus ticks were collected from naturally infested cattle and the sgs were immediately dissected from 30 ticks . An r. microplus sg library was used and its construction has been described in detail by maruyama et al . The bioinformatics analysis of the tra...
Hypertensive disorders account for approximately 2%-10% of all pregnancies . Among these pre - eclampsia (pe) is one of the major causes of maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality worldwide whereas uncomplicated gestational hypertension has a better prognosis . Gestational hypertension is defined as the new onse...
Central retinal vein occlusion (crvo) is a cause of visual loss in developed countries.1,2 crvo is divided into two types: nonischemic and ischemic crvo.1,3 the visual prognosis for patients with ischemic crvo is worse than that for patients with nonischemic crvo.2,3 patients with ischemic crvo and branch retinal vein ...
Colon cancer is the third most commonly diagnosed cancer and the third leading cause of cancer death in both men and women in the usa [1, 2]. Today, there is a wide array of methods used to diagnose cancer including biopsy, endoscopy, and diagnostic imaging . Imaging techniques utilize the fact that tumorigenic tissue ...
Acquired bilateral nevus of ota - like macules (abnom) or hori's nevus is an acquired dermal melanocytoses most commonly seen in women of asian descent after the third decade of life . It presents clinically as multiple speckled blue - brown and/or slate - gray macules occurring bilaterally on malar areas or less commo...
The neodymium - doped yttrium aluminum garnet (nd: yag) laser is used to reduce tooth sensitivity, remove caries, bleach teeth, roughen the ceramic surfaces and improve the adhesion of composite resins . The erbium - doped: yttrium aluminium garnet (er: yag) laser has been used in different fields, such as caries remov...
M phase, also called as cell division, is the most crucial and fundamental affair of a eukaryotic cell cycle (1), separating and distributing the sister chromatids into two daughter cells equally and faithfully . During cell division, numerous proteins spatially and temporally organize protein super - complexes at the ...
Clinically, scs is an indolent neoplasm with rare potential to metastasize and therefore is associated with a good prognosis . Sarcomatous transformation of gcts is associated with a significant propensity for aggressive and malignant tumor behavior . Specifically, the development of a sarcomatous component in testicul...
Since its first report in 1992, laparoscopic adrenalectomy (la) has increasingly become the preferred operative approach for adrenal disease . Difficulty with open surgical exposure and the small size of the adrenal gland make this organ particularly amenable to a minimally invasive approach . Additionally, numerous st...
Recist (response evaluation criteria in solid tumors) criteria have been widely used for response assessment both in general clinical practice and clinical trials . The criteria have been designed to be objective and reproducible . However, in recist, the focus is on unidimensional imaging and volumetric changes are no...
Chronic kidney disease (ckd) is an important public health problem in china because of its high prevalence and adverse effects on patients outcomes as well as placing a burden on health - care system . In addition to entering end - stage renal disease (esrd), patients with ckd are at increased risk of mortality and car...
Patients after a stroke have difficulties maintaining their center of mass (com) within their base of support (bos). They use compensation strategies involving a posterior tilt of the pelvis during trunk movements . These strategies are performed at the upper trunk level and for the pelvis, even when the bos is unstabl...
Suprachoroidal hemorrhage (sch) is an accumulation of blood within the suprachoroidal space, which is a potential space situated between the choroid and the sclera . Sch has been reported to occur after all types of intraocular procedures.1 sch has also been reported following the valsalva maneuver, hemodialysis, and t...
Study design: this prospective study was approved by our institution's scientific research board and was conducted in accordance with the world medical association declaration of helsinki . Patients were randomly allocated to groups (conservative treatment, group a; intervention, group, b) by computer - assisted softwa...
Quality management is crucial in intensive care units (icus), and quality indicators are used as tools to monitor performance improvement . Icu outcomes vary widely among hospitals and are likely to be related to differences in icu design and care pathways . The objectives of our survey were to study whether optimum qu...
The several research studies that have been made practically all over the world to clarify the causality of preeclampsia have not reached their goal, although they have yielded a more precise knowledge about the mechanisms related to the pathophysiological processes of disease as well as the identification of different...
After the first successful laparoscopic nephrectomy by clayman et al . In 1991, there has been a rapid rise of laparoscopic procedures in urologic oncology . Despite various advantages of a minimally invasive approach, oncological safety of laparoscopy has been a point of debate due to occurrence of port site metastasi...
In 2006, the world health organization (who) reported that out of the 130 million live births every year, 4 million die within the first four weeks of life . Of these deaths, 99% occur in developing countries (approximately half following difficult deliveries at home) against 1% in developed countries . Most of these d...
Major risks recognized due to mercury exposure are dietary methylmercury exposure from fish and seafood, elemental mercury vapour from amalgam in tooth silver fillings, and thiomersal - contained ethylmercury in vaccines [13]. Thiomersal (thimerosal, merthiolate) has been banned in the united states and canada since 19...
Since the discovery of carbon nanotubes in 1991, much effort has been focused on the synthesis of other inorganic tubular nanomaterials, such as mos2, bn, tio2, vox and gan [2 - 6]. Nowadays, various inorganic nanotubes have attracted more and more interests in the nanomaterial research . Nanotubes of inorganic materia...
Atrial tachycardia (at) originating near the atrioventricular node (avn) has been shown to originate from calcium channel - dependent tissue located close to the avn . Further study has concluded that increased pericardial fat is associated with a higher risk of atrial fibrillation (af) [24] and coronary artery disease...
The arteriovenous fistula (avf) is the preferred vascular access for hemodialysis (hd) and is advocated in clinical practice guidelines [14]. Unfortunately, despite much attention and effort by renal organizations to increase fistula rates, many countries fail to meet these evidence - based clinical goals [57]. The nur...
Fear of pain (fop) and anxiety are often measured as covariates in experimental and clinical pain studies . Fear and anxiety are typically defined as related but distinct constructs, with fear representing an alarm reaction toward a presented threat, and anxiety a future - focused fear or worry.1 previous studies have ...
A 73-year - old indian female patient presented with rapidly progressive painless swelling of face, mainly localized in the parotid and submandibular region bilaterally for the duration of one year . The patient had a history of fever for the most recent two months, with unexplained weight loss (weight at the time of p...
Cho cells (subclone cho - k1) were cultured in ham's f12 medium supplemented with 10% fcs, 60 u / ml penicillin, 60 g / ml streptomycin, and 1 mm glutamine . Cells were seeded at a density of 10 cells / mm on coverslips imprinted with squares for localization of injected cells . Intranuclear microinjection was performe...
Adolescence is an important period with regard to establishing a healthy life - style (1). For example, approximately 80% of obese children remain obese even as adults (2). Hence, many studies have investigated adolescents life - styles and the establishment of healthy habits such as increasing physical activity (pa) a...
A 43-year - old male was brought to the emergency department due to inattention and transient episodic memory loss . He was relatively healthy, except for taking medications for a headache that developed a year ago . For 2 weeks prior to admission, he showed excessive daytime sleepiness at work and an indifferent mood ...
Isolated dislocation of the carpal scaphoid is a rare injury . To the best of our knowledge the present case is unique in the following aspects: (1) there was a delay of 2 months in treatment; (2) 6 years mid term followup was conducted; (3) suture anchor repair of the scapholunate ligament was done and blatt's dorsal ...
A total of 917 stool specimens were collected from infants and children with acute gastroenteritis in dhaka children s hospital, bangladesh, during october 2004 to september 2005 . Fecal specimens were diluted with distilled water to 10% suspensions and clarified by centrifugation at 10,000 g for 10 min . The supernata...
Cosmetic, colored contact lenses are worn to give the appearance of a different eye color . A new artificial iris diaphragm implant was first presented by khan in 2004.1 this device was designed to improve the appearance of patients with partial coloboma, traumatic iridectomy, or ocular albinism . However this implant ...
Human body is exposed to a continuous influence of carcinogenic factors (physical, chemical, and biological), representing one of the reasons for the development of genetic mutations . Cells possess an array of mechanisms able to prevent mutations, as well as to repair dna defects and eliminate genetically altered cell...
Lithium is considered the drug of first choice for treating bipolar affective disorders ever since john f.j . Lithium toxicity causes electroencephalogram (eeg) abnormalities which can be correlated with the degree of neurotoxicity . Disorganization and slowing of background activity are the most common eeg changes, wh...