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The global prevalence of high - fat diets has led to an epidemic of obesity, insulin - resistance, and type 2 diabetes . One - third of children presenting with diabetes are diagnosed as type 2, a clinical diagnosis formerly rare in children, and often attributed to obesity - induced insulin - resistance . Systematic s... |
The oculocardiac reflex is a subtype of vasovagal response classically described as bradycardia in response to traction on an extra ocular muscle or compression of the eye . The afferent signal is transmitted via the ophthalmic branch of the trigeminal nerve, initiating parasympathetic signals via the vagal nerve to th... |
From september 2009 to august 2010, a survey was conducted at public animal cremation services centers in hokkaido and gifu and the commercial animal cremation services centers in tokyo and aichi (fig . 1.location of the survey . The animal cremation service centers in hokkaido and gifu are public facilities, whereas t... |
Widespread evidence of horizontal gene transfer (hgt) among bacteria and archaea has provoked ongoing debate as to whether genetic clusters in these organisms represent species or simply represent points along a continuum of genetic exchange . A variety of evolutionary forces have been invoked in these debates, but chi... |
Identifying carriers of autosomal recessive or x - linked disorders before pregnancy has the potential to benefit prospective parents . Couples can become aware of the possible genetic risks to future offspring and of the reproductive options available . These options include not only prenatal diagnosis followed (or no... |
Germantown, ny) and c57bl6 (ly5.2) and b6sjl (ly5.1/ly5.2) mice (the jackson laboratory, bar harbor, me) were maintained under virus - free conditions . Mice were purchased at either 1618 or 1822 g (age 68 wk), were given food and acidified water ad libitum, and were housed for a minimum of 1 wk before experimental use... |
To maintain balance, simultaneous and continuous processing of data from multiple systems, including sensory information from visual, vestibular, and proprioception stimuli is required1 . Moreover, cognitive integration, cerebellar function, and sensory and motor feedback are essential for maintaining balance2 . Balanc... |
Colloidal plasma substitutes are widely used for intravascular volume expansion, especially for the prevention and treatment of perioperative hypovolemia, such as he s solutions among colloids . The administered colloids interfere with hemostasis, resulting in high risk of bleeding or an adverse effect through the degr... |
A healthy 68-year - old patient presented in july 2005 with spontaneous dislocation of an in - the - bag pciol in his right eye, which was lying on the retina . His ophthalmic history was remarkable for axial myopia (right eye 27.13 mm, left eye 26.32 mm) and previous bilateral uneventful phacoemulsification and implan... |
Hormones, including estrogens, androgens and progesterone, affect the female voice throughout the lifespan and accordingly, hormone deficiency influences fundamental speaking frequency13 . Testosterone has been claimed to be associated with lower female voice2 . However, despite case reports and questionnaire studies r... |
Dizziness is one of the most common clinical complaints among patients who are referred to the emergency department (ed); it has both benign and serious etiologies and affects 2030% of the general population . Approximately 2.6 million people who suffer from dizziness there are tremendous costs associated with managing... |
Constituents of the endocannabinoid biosignaling system include two principal cannabinoid g - protein - coupled receptors (gpcrs) 1 and 2 (cb1r and cb2r, respectively), their main endogenous cannabinergic ligands (anandamide, aea; 2-arachidonoylglycerol, 2-ag), and enzymes responsible for endocannabinoid biosynthesis a... |
In april 2007, a 39-year - old pregnant woman with amniotic sac rupture was admitted to a hospital in orleans, france, at 28 weeks and 4 days of gestation . Treatment was started with betamethasone (12 mg 1/d) for fetal lung maturation and amoxicillin (1 g 3/d) for 4 days . Because of a high serum level of c - reactive... |
The theme of body posture in relation to school has been of interest to several researchers, in regard to postural changes1, 2 and/or back pain risk factors3,4,5 and back care programs6 and in regard to knowledge concerning the prevalence of postural changes in different cities7 . Regarding the prevalence of postural c... |
Five thoroughbred foals (age, 833 weeks; median age, 31 weeks; weight, 122270 kg; median weight, 249 kg) exhibiting ataxia with suspected cervical myelopathy (n=4) and limb malformation (n=1) due to poor prognosis for athletic performance were used in this study . Case descriptions are listed in table 1table 1.case des... |
We enrolled 108 volunteers (65 males, 43 females) with rp, ranging in age from 16 to 85 years, who were members of the korean retintis pigmentosa society . A korean national rp survey was conducted at seoul national university hospital's retinal clinic from july to december 2006 . Rp was diagnosed in the recruited pati... |
Forward genetic screens for mutant organisms provide a powerful tool for understanding the molecular basis underlying a plethora of biological processes . The specific advantages of the model organism caenorhabditis elegans, such as self - fertilization, short generation time, transparency and ease of handling, prompte... |
Reactive oxygen species (ros) such as h2o2 cause oxidative damage that is linked with many diseases and aging . Hence, cells use h2o2 as a signaling molecule to initiate transcriptional responses to limit this damage . For example, in fungi, following activation by h2o2-induced oxidation of specific cysteines, ap-1-lik... |
Brachytherapy, owing to the close apposition between the target and the radiation source, is undoubtedly the radiotherapeutic technique that offers maximum conformality . Ultrasound (usg) makes use of the different echogenicity between different tissues, and serves as an effective tool for delineating tumors and differ... |
The current impact of diabetes at individual and societal levels in the usa is substantial . According to the centers for disease control and prevention (cdc), approximately 29.1 million individuals in the usa (9.3% of the population) the cdc estimates that 25.9% of americans aging 65 or older have this chronic illness... |
The occurrence of headache as the chief complaint on admission to an emergency room (er) is between 1% and 16% [14]. Headache is a symptom related to many disorders, ranging from benign to more serious diseases . Although most headaches are benign, it is the responsibility of er and primary healthcare physicians to obt... |
Globally, cannabis is among the most widely used illicit drugs with an estimated 180 million people aged 1564 years using it for nonmedical purposes . In recent decades, the use of cannabis has been growing much more rapidly than the use of other substances, and the most rapid growth since 1960 has occurred in high - i... |
Adrenal incidentaloma (ai) is an adrenal mass that is discovered incidentally during a radiologic examination performed for indications other than to investigate for primary adrenal disease . The association of ai with morbidity is not well known and its management is still controversial . Although ai are considered ho... |
Serrated adenomas of the colorectum were first described in 1990 by longacre and fenoglio - preiser1 . Since the initial description, many attempts have been made to distinguish serrated lesions at the histopathologic, immunologic, and molecular levels.215 although there has been great interobserver variation in classi... |
The advent of laparoscopic cholecystectomy (lc) revolutionized the care of patients with cholelithiasis . However, after its early introduction, it became clear that lc had its own unique complications . The most significant complication was that the rates of common bile duct (cbd) injuries were 2 times to 15 times hig... |
The gastric bypass in its various forms has been performed since 1967 . In 1991, the national institutes of health issued a consensus statement advocating surgery as the most consistent and effective therapy for morbid obesity . Since then, obesity has become an epidemic with obesity rates of more than 20% in many stat... |
These include corneal tattooing, painted contact lenses, retrobulbar alcohol injections, and opaque intraocular lenses (iols). Opaque iols have been available for many years and are increasingly being used by clinicians for patients with intractable diplopia.1 the authors illustrate three unique scenarios involving com... |
Rhinosporidiosis is a disease caused by the fungus rhinosporidium seeberi, affects human beings and domestic animals predominantly in india and sri lanka . The infection occurs when the endospores of the fungus entering the body through nasal mucosa and related structures from the stagnant water and dust particles . Rh... |
Esophageal cancer is the eighth most commonly diagnosed cancer worldwide, with squamous cell carcinoma and adenocarcinoma comprising the two main esophageal cancer histologies. [13] esophageal adenocarcinoma (eac) is the major histological type of esophageal cancer diagnosed in the western world today . Risk factors as... |
Within 10 days after implanting porous silk fibroin film (psff) into hypodermal tissue of rat, the formation of the capillary network system in materials was observed . According to bai et al . [2, 3], newly formed arterioles were found in materials not long after implanting psff into hypodermal tissue of rat, which sh... |
The equilibrium of the body is the ability of human beings to remain in the upright position, perform acceleration, and rotational movements of the body without oscillating or falling.1 to maintain body equilibrium, proper interaction of vestibular, and proprioceptive visual systems is necessary.2 a disorder in the rel... |
Malignant glaucoma was first described by von graefe in 1869.1 it is a rare postoperative complication characterized by a flattening of the anterior chamber and elevated intraocular pressure (iop), and is also known as ciliary block glaucoma or aqueous misdirection . Various medical, laser - based, and surgical treatme... |
Atypical fibroxanthoma (afx) is a rare neoplastic skin disease, responsible for 0.2% of malignant skin cancers . Afx was first reported by helwig in the early 1960s and is characterized as a neoplasm of low - grade malignancy of fibroblastic origin . Afx generally occurs on the actinic - damaged skin of the elderly, es... |
A previously well 34-year - old man presented with generalized tonic - clonic seizure and transient right side weakness . For evaluation of the recurrent hemoptysis, a lung ct was performed, which showed multifocal ground - glass opacities in both lungs, consistent with a diffuse alveolar hemorrhage (fig . The renal ul... |
Experiments were performed on previously prepared cells of mouse melanoma cell line (b16-f1). Cells are grown in two separated 25 cm culture flasks (tpp, zda) to 70 - 80% confluence in dmem culture medium (dulbecco's modified eagle's medium) supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum, 0.15 mg / ml l - glutamine, 16 mg / ... |
Arterial hypertension is prevalent in renal transplant recipients (rtr) and is a powerful predictor of impaired graft and patient outcome . Diagnosis of arterial hypertension has traditionally been based on measurements of blood pressure (bp) in the office or clinic . However, it is known for many years that bp, in mos... |
Diseased leaves and crowns of creeping bent grasses were carefully observed with the unaided eye and 10 samples were collected from a golf course located in hampyeong, korea in 2007 . The diseased plant parts were sterilized in 1% sodium hypochlorite for 1 min followed by several rinses with sterile distilled water . P... |
Chickenpox and herpes zoster are caused by varicella zoster virus (vzv), a dna virus belonging to the herpes virus group . The vzv remains latent in the nerve cell bodies and less frequently the nonneuronal satellite cells of the dorsal root, cranial nerve, or autonomic ganglia . Herpes zoster, also known as shingles, ... |
In this cross - sectional study, we compared the symptoms of anxiety and depression in patients afflicted with one of the five different chronic conditions and healthy subjects, all of whom were selected from the outpatient clinic of baqiyatallah hospital in 2006 . Baghiatollah hospital was a governmental hospital that... |
Stained histological sections contain highly detailed information on tissue composition . Because of a resolution in the order of micrometers and the availability of a variety of specific stains, human observers can accurately indicate which cells or tissue types are present at each location . One of the applications f... |
Infantile systemic hyalinosis (ish) is a very rare autosomal recessive disorder characterized by connective tissue involvement as hyaline deposition in skin, gastrointestinal tract, muscles, glands and other organs . We report eight iranian children (4 male and 4 female) with ish referred to our hospital from 1996 to 2... |
Hysteroscopic loop resection has been a mainstay of treatment for the removal of intrauterine pathology, including polyps and myomas . Traditionally, this procedure has been performed in the operating room, with the patient under general anesthesia, primarily due to the use of electrocautery, nonionic distension media,... |
Dyslipidemia is a metabolic complication of diabetes mellitus characterized by low levels of high - density lipoprotein - cholesterol (hdl - c), and high levels of total cholesterol (tc), triglyceride (tg) and low - density lipoprotein - cholesterol (ldl - c). These lipoprotein abnormalities are held to be responsible ... |
Palatoglossal fusion is a rare anomaly with only a few documented cases in the literature . Management includes emergency attention to the airway access, evaluation for the associated conditions and proper imaging before definitive surgical correction . Here, we discuss a case of palatoglossal fusion presenting with an... |
Diabetes insipidus (di) arises from dysfunction in the interactions between antidiuretic hormone (adh) and vasopressin receptors in the kidney . This dysregulation impairs a patient's ability to maintain physiologic free water levels, and causes significant homeostatic imbalances from massive polyuria, volume depletion... |
Antenatal glucocorticoid therapy (agt) has been a matter of worldwide debate since an epoch - making report by liggins and howie . However, it has been commonly used in japan recently because of clear evidence of prevention of respiratory distress syndrome in preterm infants [24]. This therapy has severe harmful effect... |
A 6-year - old, 19 kg, child was admitted to our hospital with symptoms of proximal muscle weakness and a one - month history of difficulty climbing steps . Preoperative laboratory tests were abnormal: aspartate transaminase (ast) 560 iu / l, alanine transaminase (alt) 773 iu / l, alkaline phosphatase 352 iu / l, lacta... |
In network systems biology, biological systems are first modeled into networks for different research purposes and then are explored with the use of network - based strategies . In the network modeling stage, protein - protein interaction networks, transcriptional regulatory networks, signaling transduction networks, a... |
Complete surgical resection provides the only curative chance for gastric cancer . In spite of recent improvements in overall survival rates, the mortality of patients remains high because many patients are diagnosed in the advanced stages of gastric cancer . In spite of many effective chemotherapeutic agents and vario... |
Langerhans cells are a subset of antigen - presenting dendritic cells belonging to the histiocytic system . According to the world health organization, there are 2 types of langerhans cell tumors: langerhans cell histiocytosis (lch) and langerhans cell sarcoma (lcs). Lch is proliferating disorder of langerhans cells, w... |
Inflammation potentially contributes to destruction of cerebral tissue during the stage of acute ischemic stroke . Originally, inflammation acts as the fundamental part in the process of atherosclerosis [14] which is the most common cause of ischemic stroke by arterial thrombosis or embolism . Subsequently, focal acute... |
The family endamoebidae was originally established by calkins (1926). The all member of endamoebidae family (order: amoebida) including: endamoeba, entamoeba, iodamoeba and endolimax are obligate symbiotic forms exception a species of entamoeba, namely e. moshkovski found in sewage as free living amoeba but occasionall... |
Whether emotion is universal or social is a recurrent issue in the history of emotion study among psychologists.1, 2, 3 some researchers view emotion as a universal construct and that a large part of emotional experience is biologically based.4, 5 ekman argued that emotion is fundamentally genetically determined, so th... |
Calcitonin gene - related peptide (cgrp), identified in 1982, belongs to the calcitonin family of neuropeptides which also include adrenomedullin (am), amylin, calcitonin, intermedin, and calcitonin receptor - stimulating peptide . Cgrp results from the tissue - specific alternative splicing of the primary rna transcri... |
Skeletal hydatidosis occurs in 0.5 to 2% cases, half of which infest the spine. [13] the commonest site is thoracic and sacral involvement is rare . A gentleman aged 27 years presented with back pain, right sciatica and voiding difficulty for last one year . In 2003 he was evaluated elsewhere for back pain when he did ... |
Gastric cancer is one of the most common cancers in korea, and at the time of diagnosis, approximately 20% of gastric cancer patients have stage iv disease that commonly involves the liver, lung, and bone.1,2 brain metastases of gastric cancer are uncommon and have been reported in <1% of clinical cases.3,4 the most co... |
An aggressive multidisciplinary approach to the treatment of cns tumors frequently includes chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery [1, 2]. Each of these modalities carries a certain amount of morbidity which must be weighed against its expected benefit . Radiation continues to play a vital role in the curative and pallia... |
A 6-year - old girl was admitted to the hospital after three episodes of generalized, tonic seizures . Her perinatal history was complicated by premature birth (34th week) with weight 2200 g, apgar scale 10 . Her motor development was delayed in the first 2 years of life . At admission, physical examination showed a bo... |
It is used either as a monotherapy or in combination with platinum - based chemotherapeutic agents for the management of certain lung malignancies . Compared to cisplatin - gemcitabine, a standard treatment for non - squamous non - small cell lung cancer (nsclc), pemetrexed - cisplatin combination yielded comparable ef... |
Ubiquitination is a post - translational modification of proteins that regulates many cellular processes, from protein degradation to cell cycle progression and dna repair . Ubiquitin conjugation to substrate proteins is catalyzed by the sequential action of three enzymes: e1 (ubiquitin - activating enzyme), e2 (ubiqui... |
Millions of people in the us suffer from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and the prevalence of chronic bronchitis estimated to be greater than 3% (soriano et al 2003). Patients with chronic bronchitis may experience exacerbations (aecbs) of their lung disease with typical complaints of increased dyspnea, producti... |
In japan, as the number of patients with diabetes mellitus and patients undergoing dialysis increases, the number of patients with peripheral arterial disease (pad) or critical limb ischemia (cli) is also increasing . In the treatment of cli accompanied by ulcer or necrosis, treatment of peripheral arteries as well as ... |
Computerised prescribing is widely used in the united kingdom for repeat prescriptions in general practice . There is evidence that it has improved legibility and clarity, saved time for both medical and clerical staff, and reduced the time spent clarifying prescriptions with the dispensing pharmacist . Its principal u... |
Head and neck surgeries are real challenge to the anaesthesiologist in view of the difficult airway, prolonged surgery, blood loss and fluid shifts . Particularly, maxillofacial surgeries such as le fort i osteotomy and anterior maxillary osteotomy (amo) pose additional challenges in terms of difficulty in nasal intuba... |
Consistently high levels of success in endodontic treatment require an understanding of root canal anatomy and morphology . To achieve endodontic success, the clinician must have a thorough understanding of normal anatomy and of common variations from the norm . The clinician must also be prepared to identify those tee... |
A 27 year old unmarried female patient reported to the dental office [kp dental care, vishwamanava double road, kuvempunagar, mysore-570023, india] for evaluation of painful lower right wisdom tooth . A panoramic radiograph was obtained which showed mesioangularly impacted right and vertically left mandibular third mol... |
One immune hallmark of tumors is their ability to evade immune recognition . Among others, a common way to escape is through loss of antigen presentation by mhc class i molecules (mhc - i) [26]. Defects in the intracellular processing pathway are often the underlying mechanism of the mhc - i downregulation, e.g. Tap im... |
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in the world and progress in the treatment of the different diseases under this heading has been modest in the last 25 years . The two most important reasons for the lack of progress are the fact that the majority of patients with lung cancer present with advanced (metas... |
The online version of this article (doi:10.1007/s13361 - 013 - 0772 - 0) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users . Maldi - ms has come to play a unique role in the analysis of low - molecular - weight biological compounds, principally metabolites [1, 2]. It is well known that the scope o... |
Hypersensitivity pneumonitis (hp) is caused by inhaled antigens that elicit lymphocytic inflammation in the peripheral airways and surrounding interstitial tissue of lung . However, hp can be induced by exposure in a home environment to mould - contaminated air (4). Contamination of homes by trichosporon cutaneum has b... |
Growing evidence exists that cancer cells are under increased intrinsic metabolic oxidative stress compared to normal untransformed cells due in part to mitochondrial dysfunction [13]. Studies have shown that defects in mitochondrial respiration led to activation of the akt (protein kinase b) pathway, which may be an i... |
Pancreatic and gastric heterotopias are defined as pancreatic and gastric tissues outside their typical location without vascular or anatomical continuity with the pancreas proper or the stomach [1, 2, 3]. The reported incidence of heterotopic pancreas or gastric tissue in the general population is low, ranging from <1... |
Pain is the main symptom of hip joint diseases such as osteoarthritis (oa) and osteonecrosis . Clinical presentation is dominated by pain during rest and joint motion, which results in loss of motion function and limitation in activities of daily living (adl). A previous study reported that physical therapy as a conser... |
The cdnas encoding human egfr aa 251022 (tegfr) with mutations l858r or 746750 were transiently transfected into 24 l of hek 293 gnti cells, and the mutant tegfrs were purified from detergent - solubilized cell extracts as previously described using the anti - egfr ab 528 . 1c), leading us to suspect that the oncogenic... |
Population, they account for approximately 36 percent of total outpatient drug expenditures . Currently, 35 percent of medicare beneficiaries have no outpatient drug coverage, and an additional 8 percent have coverage only through medigap plans, which do not fully shelter beneficiaries from the risk of high drug expend... |
When i was a graduate student in the united kingdom and a postdoctoral researcher in mexico and then at the university of california, irvine, no one really talked about careers outside the ivory tower . In addition, being on a temporary visa in the united states and mexico made it almost impossible to think about a car... |
The clinical spectrum of syphilis may be primary, secondary, latent, tertiary or congenital based on time and nature of clinical presentation . Secondary syphilis is a systemic disease characterized by maculopapular rash, lymphadenopathy with liver and kidney involvement . Though various forms of hepatitis have been de... |
Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tube placement is a commonly used procedure to improve the nutritional state and rehabilitation capability of patients with central nervous system disorders2,4,5,7,8,10,18,19). It has a very low complication rate which, in most cases, is related to shunt infection occurring a few day... |
Malignant ectomesenchymoma is a rare tumor reported in the head and neck, abdomen, and perineal regions . It also has at least one malignant mesenchymal element, generally rhabdomyosarcoma . In this report we present a 43-year - old female, with malignant ectomesenchymoma of the nasal cavity . A 43-year - old female pr... |
In this issue of critical care, han and colleagues report that in a prospective, multicenter study of patients with severe sepsis - induced acute lung injury (ali) and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ards), women were less likely than men to be treated with lung protective ventilation (lpv) during the first 48 hou... |
Nylon net bag technique (house and stinner, 1987; wise and schaefer, 1994) was used in this study . Thirty nylon bags each containing 10 g of rice straw chopped to lengths of 5~6 cm, were prepared . These bags were distributed in different places throughout 10 areas (three bags in each area) of sharkia province of egyp... |
Excessive noise exposure impairs the ability to communicate and, in high enough doses, inflicts permanent damage to the auditory system, which is called noise induced hearing loss (nihl).1) nihl is the second most common form of acquired hearing loss following age - related hearing loss.2) other than occupational and m... |
Bcc is observed most commonly in the head and neck areas, but may afflict any part of the skin . Bcc is the most common skin cancer among people with fair skin, where> 99% of patients are fair skinned . Although the spread of bcc increases with exposure of a population to sunlight, distribution of the disease shows no ... |
Understanding of cellular function, response to stimuli, and changes in development and/or disease states is intricately tied to de - convolution of the proteome throughout these different dynamic states . Much has been done to understand the proteome of lower organisms, however, given the number of proteins and all po... |
Low back pain (lbp) is the leading cause for years lived with disability worldwide and the cost for society is huge . In denmark, the accumulated societal costs related to back pain were estimated at 2.8 billion us dollar in 2005, almost equivalent to one percent of the ngp, with the vast majority of the costs being sp... |
A 5-year - old boy was admitted to the neuropediatric ward of a marseille university hospital in august 2004 for aseptic meningitis . Forty - five days later, he was admitted again with fever and meningitis, and his condition rapidly deteriorated with encephalitis and hydrocephalus developing as described (6). Lcmv inf... |
Acne vulgaris (av) is the commonest skin disorder, almost 80% of adolescents and young adults had ever suffer from av . Pathogenesis of av had not been known clearly, but several studies had proved that dihydrotestosterone (dht) was the most influential androgen in av, mainly in women, there are correlation between dht... |
Thrombocytopenia occurs in patients with oncological malignancies for a wide variety of reasons including bone marrow infiltration by tumor, myelosuppression by chemotherapy or radiation or peripheral platelet consumption due to disseminated intravascular coagulation or immune - mediated destruction . Immune thrombocyt... |
The main function of the esophagus is the transport of food and liquid from the pharynx into the stomach . A rapidly progressing pharyngeal contraction transfers the bolus through a relaxed upper esophageal sphincter into the esophagus, and as the upper esophageal sphinctercloses, a progressive circular contraction beg... |
Angina pectoris has been recognized as the cause of a variety of cardiac symptoms, including chest pain and pain that may radiate either to arm or to the neck and jaw . Foreman and colleagues anesthetized a primate and recorded the responses from the spinothalamic tract (stt) cells in the t1t5 and c5-c6 segments of the... |
Mitochondrial dysfunction, including damage to the electron transport chain, has been suggested to be an important factor in a range of neuropsychiatric disorders such as bipolar disorder (bpd), depression, and schizophrenia (macdonald et al ., 2006; kato and kato, 2000; cataldo et al ., 2010). This implicates involvem... |
Children who are classified as obese are at greater risk for cardiovascular disease in later life than their counterparts . Prevention of excess weight - gain should be addressed with population interventions that focus on achieving a healthy diet, recommended physical activity, and energy balance . Among the key lifes... |
Corticosteroids are often administered to cancer patients as a component of a chemotherapy regimen, to prevent chemotherapy - induced nausea and vomiting (cinv), to prevent allergic reactions caused by anti - cancer treatments, or as an adjuvant therapy with anti - edema effects [1 - 3]. Dexamethasone has a high therap... |
We encountered a patient with renal failure in the setting of long - standing difficulty urinating, which he previously treated with intermittent self - catheterizations . This case illustrates the importance of taking a detailed history and the dramatic long - term effects of bladder calculi . Urinary calculi are comm... |
Significant gains in oral health levels have been observed over the last few years in countries like germany16, england, usa, scandinavia, scotland18, norway4 and australia11 . Several researchers believe that the use of different fluoride- releasing vehicles has significantly contributed to such dental caries decline4... |
Amyloidosis is a heterogeneous group of diseases differing in cause, treatment, and prognosis . Common to this group of diseases is the mode of pathogenesis [1, 2]. Amylogenic precursors misfold and assume a pathological conformation taking on a beta - pleated sheet fibrillar structure . Aggregation of these pathologic... |
Congenital pouch colon (cpc), an unusual abnormality in which a pouch - like dilatation of a shortened colon is associated with an anorectal malformation, has most frequently been reported from northern india . Cpc has been categorized into four subtypes based on the length of normal colon proximal to the colonic pouch... |
The incidence and mortality of lung cancer ranked first among men worldwide and was the second cause of cancer death among women . In china, lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death whether in urban or rural, for both men and women . Thus, lung cancer is a serious malignant disease affecting public health both ... |
Pain experienced over long periods, such as with herniated intervertebral disc (hivd), shows abnormal aspects in terms of its neurological mechanism1 . Changes in the neurological mechanism in hivd patients lead them to perform abnormal patterns of movement2 . Hivd patients have shown both asymmetry and atrophy of the ... |
Protein kinetics at interfaces plays an important role in biology and biomedical sciences and engineering . For instance, life processes rely heavily on the dynamic interactions between proteins and cell membrane surfaces, such as molecular transportation, cell adhesion, and signal transduction . In addition, the kinet... |
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