text
stringlengths
0
868k
In humans, gait involves a method in which, as bipedal species, use their lower limbs for make coordinated and cyclical movements to move . The gait period begins when the foot loose the contact with the floor and ends with the next contact with the floor of the same foot . Thus, from the above definition it is possibl...
Steroid response is characterized by a secondary ocular hypertension associated with corticosteroid administration, which may result in development of secondary open - angle glaucoma . Thought to be related to decreased aqueous outflow facility at the trabecular meshwork (tm), steroid - induced open - angle glaucoma (s...
Osteoarthritis (oa) is the most prevalent disease of arthritis which induces the joint pain and limits activity1 . It is multi - factorial disease (e.g., genetic, aging, obesity and mechanical stimuli)2,3,4,5,6 . These factors contribute to oa progression by either direct or indirect regulation the anabolic and catabol...
To achieve our physics goal, we have developed the experimental apparatus shown in fig . 1 . It consists of an ultra - slow antiproton beam source (musashi)16, a positron accumulator17, ultra - low energy beam transport lines and the cusp trap, which is a superposition of the strong magnetic field gradient provided by ...
Cd99 is a 32-kda cell surface sialoglycoprotein, which is expressed in a wide variety of human cells . Functionally, cd99 is considered to act as an adhesion molecule or as a signal - transducing molecule (1, 2). Since original report that demonstrated its diagnostic utility in ewing's sarcoma / primitive neuroectoderm...
Poland's syndrome (ps) is uncommon but not rare, occurring in 1:30,000 live births . Patrick clarkson associated poland's name to the syndrome when he published his series of three similar cases 81 years later in the same institution, the guy's hospital in london . Ps present as ipsilateral involvement of the chest mus...
In today s modern world, socioeconomic development has led to reduced population growth and increased life expectancy, so that the growth of the older adult population exceeds that of the total population of the world.1 old age is one of the stages in human life, but given interpersonal relationships and the ruling cul...
Alzheimer's disease (ad) is a fatal and progressive neurodegenerative disorder that affects millions of people worldwide . It is currently the sixth leading cause of death in the united states (us), with about 80,000 deaths associated with ad in 2009, and has imposed substantial burden on patients, their caregivers, me...
Vagal paragangliomas are rare tumours that are estimated to account for 5 - 25% of all paragangliomas of the head and neck region (1,2). They can develop anywhere along the course of the vagus nerve and their clinical presentation depends on where it is located in the parapharyngeal space . The most common symptoms are...
For phase i, participants aimed to control blood glucose, high blood pressure, and abnormal lipid levels and reduce or eliminate obesity and physical inactivity . Physicians aimed to increase guideline - based diabetes care . For phase ii, the consortium addressed phase i lessons learned and pursued the original goals ...
It is the sixth most common cancer worldwide and the third cause of cancer death . Incidence of hcc has risen over the last 58 years with no significant change in the survival rate in the last two decades . In egypt, liver malignancies constitute 11.75% of the malignancies of the digestive organs and 1.6% of total mali...
Eight patients four female and four male, operated for cataract surgery by phacoemulsification, were referred to our facility with acute onset of pain, redness, sticky discharge, decreased vision . At admission, all patients underwent slit lamp examination, fundus evaluation and b - scan ultrasonography . There were no...
A transcriptional factor encoded by the aml1 (runx1) gene, aml1, was first identified on chromosome 21, which is disrupted in t(8;21)(q22;q22). This translocation leads to the generation of the aml1eto fusion protein in aml.5 aml1 not only regulates the transcription of various genes that are important for hematopoiesi...
Subjects who had been randomized to the accord lipid study in the northeast clinical network were recruited for a study of ppl; 150 of the entire cohort of 529 individuals participated in the ppl study, which was not a requirement of the overall accord lipid trial . While recruiting the subjects, we were blind to their...
Spinal epidural lipomatosis (sel) is a rare condition, manifested by increased deposition of adipose tissue in the spinal epidural space . Important aetiological factors include exogenous or endogenous hypercortisolism, hypothyroidism, hyperprolactinaemia, adrenal tumours and other endocrinopathies . There are many cas...
There is unequivocal evidence that the major environmental exposure which increases susceptibility to melanoma of the skin, is sun exposure . Suboptimal vitamin d levels are unequivocally associated with reduced bone health and accumulating literature suggests that suboptimal levels of vitamin d increase risk of many o...
Type i collagen is the major extracellular matrix protein in dentin comprising 85 - 90% of the organic matrix . Type i collagen is a triple helix containing two alpha 1 and one alpha 2 polypeptides, which are expressed from col1a1 and col1a2 . Mutations in these genes cause osteogenesis imperfecta (oi), an autosomal do...
Trial effect describes the phenomenon whereby patients receiving standard of care (soc) as part of a clinical trial have superior survival compared to those on soc off trial . Systematic reviews to date do not support trial effect but were performed before many soc regimens were adopted . It is the first cohort study p...
Penneedles (novofine) were developed for self - administered injections of insulin and human gh formulations . Early penneedles measured 27 g in external diameter and 12.5 mm in length and were used exclusively to inject insulin . In 1993, a needle with an external diameter of 30 g and 8 mm in length was launched, foll...
Modeling neuropsychiatric disorders in animals is an extremely challenging task because of the peculiarity of human symptoms, the lack of biomarkers, and the early state of knowledge of the relevant neurobiology and genetics . Defective social behaviors are among the symptoms shared by different neuropsychiatric disord...
In recent times, there is an increase in the number of patients seeking cosmetic dental procedures to enhance their smile and personality . Hence esthetic dentists today should be well equipped to meet the demands of modern society . An individual's facial and dental appearance influences their personality and social i...
Xylans, major structural heteropolysaccharides in plants, are -1,4-linked polymers of xylopyranosyl units with a degree of polymerization ranging from 70 to 200 . Depending on their origin, xylans may also contain variable amounts of arabinosyl- and 4-o - methylglucuronic acid residues and acetyl groups (18, 21). Endo-...
Embryonic stem cells (escs) are available sources for clinical therapies because of their unlimited self - renewal ability and potential to generate differentiated cell types (pluripotency) (1). Self - renewal and pluripotency properties are regulated by an array of protein coding genes such as those encoding transcrip...
Implantable cardiac defibrillators (icd) have been proven to be highly effective in reducing mortality in patients at risk of sudden cardiac arrest [1, 2]. However, this benefit entails some morbidities, mainly associated with the pain of shocks, both appropriate and inappropriate . Up to 25% of patients receiving mult...
Percutaneous renal biopsy (prb) is an essential tool in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with renal disease.1 modification of the procedure by the addition of ultrasound (us) visualization has led to the widespread utilization of needle biopsy in the management of kidney disease.1 the use of real - time us guida...
The health system in israel provides a level of quality care which reflects the potential of the clinical advances that have taken place in recent years . The israeli governmental health system and the health funds, providers of health services, are committed to invest in the delivery of high quality health care, while...
Sample population - this hospital - based study was performed using the database from the chagas disease laboratory of the centre for studies on chagas disease (nedoc), which started in 1978 and provides clinical and laboratory diagnoses for this infection . The population referred to nedoc for diagnosis derives from t...
Endodontically treated teeth have been reported to have shorter survival time than vital teeth [14, 20, 29, 33, 35]. This is believed to reflect that endodontically treated teeth are often structurally compromised because of a series of events: caries or trauma, endodontic therapy, and preparation for restorative proce...
Parasitic helminths are able to modulate their host's immune system in order to survive, proliferate, and maintain their population . Their immunomodulation includes polarization to th2 cell response and promotion of regulatory b lymphocytes (b - regs) and regulatory t lymphocytes (t - regs). This modulation is not onl...
Menopause is the term used to describe the end of a woman's reproductive lifespan, following at least twelve consecutive months of amenorrhea . The ovarian aging process that dictates the onset of menopause results from a gradual decrease in both quantity of oocytes and their quality, altogether referred to as ovarian ...
Thirty - two normally sighted college students (20 female and 12 male) comprised the normally sighted group . Mean acuity (early treatment diabetic retinopathy study [etdrs] chart) was 0.10 logmar, and mean contrast sensitivity (pelli - robson chart) was 1.98 . The data for one subject were excluded because distance re...
The diffusion of brain endogenous metabolites, as measured by diffusion - weighted mr spectroscopy (dw - mrs), has the enormous potential to yield specific information about the intracellular environment, due to the cell - specific compartmentation of most metabolites (for review, see nicolay et al) (1). In recent work...
The american joint committee on cancer / union for international cancer control (ajcc / uicc) tumor - nodes - metastasis (tnm) staging system provides the most reliable guidelines for the prognostication and treatment of carcinomas . In fact, clinical outcome can signicantly vary among patients within the same tnm stag...
Visual working memory (vwm) performance relies on the ability to maintain relevant information over a short period of time in the service for other mental tasks . It is assumed that vwm capacity in general is limited to an average of four objects [4, 5]. Bays and colleagues demonstrated that two independent limiting fa...
The dense scar tissue and the small size of target lesions necessitate exact surgical localization . Many different techniques have been employed to achieve such precision, including preoperative ultrasound, ct, mri, and sestamibi scanning . Intraoperative selective venous sampling and serum parathyroid hormone (pth) m...
Development of the cathode materials for lithium ion battery is vital to meet the demands of portable devices, power tools, e - bikes, future usages of electric vehicles, and so on . Among three promising candidates for cathode materials (licoo2, linio2, and limn2o4), lithium manganese oxides (limn2o4) are inexpensive ...
A 44-year - old male, who was 175 cm tall and weighed 70 kg, was admitted to the emergency room after being hit hard on his abdomen by a rope . At first, the patient complained of pain in the abdomen and both lower limbs . There was no noteworthy record in his case history, and the preoperative blood test did not show ...
Clofarabine, a purine nucleoside analog of cladribine, is used in adult and pediatric regimens to treat acute myeloid leukemia (aml) and acute lymphoblastic leukemia (all). Use of clofarabine has been studied as monotherapy and in combination with cytarabine, or idarubicin . It is incorporated into the dna of tumor cel...
Red blood cell (rbc) transfusion is a lifesaving therapy for patients with haemorrhagic shock, anaemia, and surgery . To augment utilization and minimize waste, rbcs rbcs undergo a series of structural and functional alterations, referred to as the storage lesion cellular atp and 2,3-dpg depletion have been observed du...
Shortly after their breakthrough discovery of electron capture dissociation (ecd), mclafferty and coworkers reported that electron capture by (m + 34h) ions of carbonic anhydrase (~29 kda) and (m + 33h) ions of an ige construct (~49 kda) gave only signals corresponding to molecular ions with reduced charge [i.e., (m + ...
We report the case of a patient who presented a severe visual loss in the course of a hepatitis c. the ophthalmic examination shows a both ischemic and hemorrhagic bilateral retinopathy called purtscher - like retinopathy . This case illustrates a cryoglobulinemia complicating by a purtscher - like retinopathy . The di...
Hydroxypropylmethylcellulose (hpmc) k4 m and ethyl cellulose (ec) were purchased from qualikems pvt ltd . Hpmc k4 m polymer was used as hydrophilic matrix forming agent while solution of hydrophobic polymer ec in ethanol was used as granulating agent . 32 full factorial design was applied to the experiment and total 9 ...
Ncbi's pubmed (), a biomedical literature database incorporating medline, is the primary source of peer - reviewed biomedical information for scientific researchers, practising health professionals and the general public . Rapid response times from the search engine entrez and integration with other ncbi - hosted datab...
Dna transposons are ubiquitous elements that allow genetic fragments to be integrated into host genomes and in nature are used, for example, to confer drug resistance in bacteria . They also have potential use as the delivery vehicle of new or modified dnas in gene therapies . The mechanism of transposition is multi - ...
Many skills, including those most elemental to survival eating, fleeing, and attracting mates must be learned by associating a context with a function . The rules of synaptic learning have largely been gleaned from studies of the hippocampus and neocortex, both of which are highly adapted for learning . First, learning...
This study was approved by the university of angers ethics committee, and patients gave their written, informed consent . Between 15 may 2007 and 30 november 2011, hba1c was measured by the standard high - performance liquid chromatography method in 2,139 patients 18 years of age who were being investigated for suspect...
An intact inner - medical cooperation plays an essential role for proper care processes and thus the overall quality of care . However, tensions between different specialist groups are not rare, both in germany and in other countries . Studies from canada show that family doctors do not feel themselves respected enough...
Surgery for hemodialysis (hd) access is the most commonly performed vascular surgical operation in the united states, predominantly because of a steady increase in the prevalence of end - stage renal disease (esrd). Native arteriovenous fistula (avf) is the recommended vascular access for hd patients by the dialysis ou...
Acute neuropathic pain (anp) occurs consequent to medical disease or surgery or trauma exhibiting pain with sensory dysfunction . Acute post - surgical neuropathic pain is characterised by the presence of signs and symptoms of neuropathic pain distinct from the typical post - operative nociceptive pain, which is usuall...
Early embryonic developmental arrest is a state of embryonic growth arrest in early pregnancy in which either no developed embryonic bud can be detected through b - scan or no embryonic heartbeat is detected despite the presence of embryonic bud . This condition is a complication commonly observed in early pregnancy an...
A typical shotgun proteomics produces thousands of tandem mass spectra (hereafter referred to simply as spectra), each of which can be tentatively assigned a corresponding peptide using a database search procedure (reviewed in ref (1)). Some of those assignments will be correct, while others will be false, and the stat...
Hesc (wa-09; passages 3545) and ips lines (ips, ips; passages 410) were cultured on mouse embryonic fibroblasts plated at 1215,000 cells / cm (mefs, globalstem). A medium of dmem / f12, 20% knock - out serum replacement (gibco), 0.1 mm b - mercaptoethanol, 6ng / ml fgf-2 was changed daily . Cells were passaged using 6 ...
The genus staphylococcus consists of more than 50 species, which have traditionally been grouped in coagulase - positive and coagulase - negative staphylococci (cons). The majority of cons are commonly found on human and animal skin and mucous membranes, and these have been regarded as nonpathogenic or less virulent co...
Recently, it was reported that the total prevalence of diabetes mellitus in the chinese adult population is 11.6% . Diabetes has become the second most common cause of end - stage renal disease (esrd) in china . With the rapidly growing use of peritoneal dialysis (pd) as renal replacement therapy in china, the issue of...
Lung cancer is the leading cause of death, both in the united states as well as worldwide . There are two main classifications for lung cancer, namely, non - small cell lung cancer (nsclc) that accounts for 75%80% and small cell lung cancer that make up the remaining 20%25% . Despite extensive research in diagnostic an...
Hepatitis means inflammation of the liver and includes wide range of clinical and pathological conditions (1, 2). According to the latest statistics of world health organization, hepatitis has chronically affected more than 350 million people in the world and is one of the major problems of the health care system (35)....
Children with spastic diplegia suffer from spasticity in the lower extremities, muscle weakness, imbalances in muscle contraction, and joint deformity1, which can induce various abnormal gait patterns such as excessive energy consumption during gait2 . Gait, 4-point kneeling, and reflex creeping are forward movements u...
The work presented here describes the use of the freely available software cell profiler to perform algorithm - guided breakdown of fluorescent microscopy images of adherent cells to identify individual cells and defined subcellular regions . This approach, referred to as image segmentation, allows the subsequent multi...
Tissue loss or degeneration caused by congenital abnormalities, disease, or injury is of great consequence given human tissue's limited intrinsic potential for healing . In particular, articular cartilage shows little or no intrinsic capacity for repair in response to injury or disease, and even minor lesions or injuri...
The number of patients waiting for solid organs is on the rise in every country . Despite all efforts, the number of available organs is inadequate and 525% of all patients on the waiting list will die [13]. Organ transplantation is one of the few medical procedures which cannot be carried out without positive attitude...
Symptomatic patients with suspected zika virus infection were enrolled in a research study approved by the brazil ministry of health (certificado de apresentao para apreciao tica 45483115.0.0000.0046, no . Acute zika virus infection was diagnosed for 15 patients whose serum samples tested positive by a qualitative reve...
Clearly, in view of such a demographic trend, caregiving to the rising number of dependent elderly is a major problem that india is going to face in the near future . Against this background, in the present study, we have tried to ascertain how the caregivers provide home - based care for the adult bedridden patients i...
The generic term non - alcoholic fatty liver disease (nafld) describes an incremental metabolic dysfunction of the liver starting with hepatic steatosis and steatohepatitis that can progress to end - stage liver diseases like cirrhosis and hepatocellular cancer . Obesity is one of the principal causes of hepatic steato...
Part a enrolled 57 healthy men in a double - blind, dose - escalating, placebo - controlled design to establish the maximum tolerated dose (mtd) and determine the pharmacokinetics of tirasemtiv . Each treatment period enrolled a cohort of 8 subjects (randomized to achieve 6 active drug and 2 placebo subjects per treatm...
Graves disease is the most common cause of spontaneous hyperthyroidism in patients younger than 40 years of age and represents 50 - 80% of all cases of thyrotoxicosis . It is an autoimmune disorder caused by stimulating antibodies like thyroid stimulating immunoglobulin (tsi) which bind to and activate thyrotropin rece...
A 53-year - old male patient visited our hospital due to a huge mass in the anterior area of the left lower leg as the chief complaint . Forty four years ago, the patient was bitten by a snake and the area below the left knee joint was tied with a string and maintained for 3 months to prevent the spread of snake venom ...
Pneumoperitoneum is characterized by the sonographic appearance of linear enhancement and thickening of the enhanced peritoneal stripe sign (epss) associated with either dirty shadowing or multiple reflection artifacts at the air - soft tissue interface between the nondependent abdominal wall and intra - abdominal stru...
The mobile cardiac telemetry (mct) system is a small sensor and monitor that patients wear as they go about their daily lives . Whenever cardiac events occur, mct instantaneously transmits the data to a center for analysis and response, which in turn sends a report along with graphs and trends to the patient s physicia...
The laparoscopic repair of incisional and ventral hernias has been established as an option for repairing these entities . The initial report of this operation used staples to fixate the mesh . During the evolution of this operation, the use of additional fixation devices provides the necessary approximation of the pat...
Blockade or destruction of portions of trigeminal nerve distal to the gasserian ganglion is a well - demonstrated procedure to manage neuralgic pain in the distribution of the nerve . Mandibular nerve block with alcohol is a frequently implemented procedure customarily in an outpatient context with minimal monitoring t...
The traditional treatment modality of scaling and root planing remains the gold standard for the non - surgical management of chronic periodontitis . Mechanical therapy may, however, fail to reduce or eliminate the anaerobic infection at the base of the pocket, within the gingival tissue or in furcations . Some of the ...
. The anatomical and physiological integrity of the auditory system and hearing sensitivity are crucial for oral language normal acquisition and development . Therefore, language, learning, cognitive development and social inclusion of children may be affected by any type of hearing loss . Hearing loss (hl) impairs ove...
Cervical cancer is the third most common cancer affecting women, after nonmelanoma skin cancer and breast cancer, and is the third leading cause of death by cancer among women worldwide, with higher incidence in developing countries [1, 2]. It is estimated that about 500,000 new cases are reported every year, with appr...
The development of clinical practice guidelines (cpgs) in western countries started in the 1980s and increased rapidly in the 1990s . The number of publications related to cpgs recently exceeded 1,000 per year (1). In korea, an increased interest and emphasis on the development of cpgs has been presented in the healthc...
Neurodevelopmental delay is genetically heterogenous and affects between 1% and 3% of the general population.1 the usage of next - generation genomic techniques such as whole - exome sequencing (wes) has facilitated the identification of numerous novel pathogenic variants implicated in the evolution of neurodevelopment...
After the benefits of fast post - operative recovery and reduced morbidities without compromise in long - term oncologic outcomes were demonstrated by many studies [17], laparoscopic colectomy revolutionized colorectal surgery and gained wide acceptance to become the preferred approach for colon resection . On the othe...
Tumors are situated in a metabolically challenging environment where blood supply, and the supply of oxygen and other nutrients that come with it, is scarce . We found that nearly 40% of invasive ductal carcinoma have high expression of acetyl - coa synthetase 2 (acss2). Acss2, an enzyme that converts acetate to acetyl...
None of the patients had traveled abroad during the previous 6 months or reported any contact with pigs before the onset of the disease . Hev infection was determined by detecting hev rna by using molecular tools (5). We sequenced 2 fragments within orf1, the hypervariable region, and the rna - dependent rna polymerase...
They constitute 2% of all skin tumors and reported incidence rates differ from 0.7% to 9.0% . Msc originate most commonly from breast, lung and gastrointestinal tissues, and are recognized as a poor prognostic factor . In this paper, we present a case of relapsing gastric adenocarcinoma with signet - ring cell (src) mo...
Trials were identified through a search of a web site of glaxosmithkline (gsk) (11), manufacturer of rosiglitazone, which contains results of all completed trials sponsored by gsk, with a description of all serious adverse events (including those considered not related to study drug), such as incident malignancies . Pu...
The ebi s biosamples database provides a single point of entry to sample data stored in ebi assay databases and delivers a dedicated query interface and api for accessing sample data . Samples are arranged into sample groups for ease of query, submission and to allow attributes to be added at the group level rather tha...
The cranial skeleton is composed of an assortment of neural crest and mesoderm- derived cartilages and bones that have been highly modified during evolution . Cranial malformations, although uncommon, compromise not only function but also the mental well - being of the person . Recent advances in human genetics have in...
It is well known that sequence search methods such as blast, fasta or psi - blast (13) are of prime importance for biological research because functional information of a protein or gene can be inferred from homologous proteins or genes identified in a sequence search . But quite often this is certainly the case for th...
Septic shock as well as the resulting mods represent an ongoing challenge in intensive care units . Recent studies have provided evidence that an impaired no homeostasis might play an important role [24]. Dysfunctions of the l - arg / no pathway have been reported to be a reason for the deleterious vascular effects of ...
Gene - environment interactions can identify potential opportunities for personalized health interventions for individuals who are genetically susceptible to type 2 diabetes and related chronic diseases (1). During the past decade, researchers have examined lifestyle interventions, particularly those related to diet, p...
Hematopoiesis emerges early in the vertebrate embryo and occurs in three major distinct waves (costa et al ., the two first waves take place in the extra - embryonic yolk sac (ys) between embryonic day (e)7.0 and e9.0 and give rise to primitive erythrocytes, macrophages, and megakaryocytes (palis et al ., 1999). The e7...
Isolated left ventricular noncompaction cardiomyopathy (ivnc) is a congenital cardiomyopathy caused by a defect in endomyocardial morphogenesis.1) although ivnc has been a known clinical entity for more than a decade, ivnc is still an unclassified cardiomyopathy according to the world health organization classification...
Many animals can memorize the places where an event occurs . For example, using feeders, laca experimentally showed that steers (bos taurus x b. indicus) avoid areas where they learned that no food is available and present long - term spatial memory for returning to previous food loaded locations . Ksiksi and laca more...
Riedel's thyroiditis is a chronic inflammatory disease of the thyroid gland characterized by invasive fibrosis that partially destroys the thyroid gland and extends into adjacent neck structures . It was recognized in 1986 by riedel, who described two patients with hard goiters and tracheal compression symptoms . The d...
Thyroid carcinoma is the most common endocrine malignancy with a prevalence of 335,000 and incidence of 37,200 in the united states in 2009 . Differentiated thyroid carcinoma, namely papillary and follicular thyroid carcinoma, makes up about 94% of these cases . Despite the generally good prognosis of thyroid carcinoma...
Ruptured vertebrobasilar (vb) saccular aneurysms account for 2.7 - 5% of ruptured intracranial aneurysms.8)18) for the past several decades, surgical clipping has been the standard treatment for ruptured vb aneurysms.13)18) however, in recent years, the use of endovascular coiling has become more common . In recent ran...
The basic objective of biomechanical preparation consists of pulp tissue removal keeping the apical foramen as tight as possible, developing a gradual tapered shape of the root in a crown - apex direction, with the use of endodontic instruments associated with chemical irrigating substances6 . The internal anatomic var...
In the past two decades, numerous advancements and improvements in magnetic resonance imaging (mri) have increased its ability to assess the skull base . Food and drug administration (fda) approval of 3-t mri scanners for clinical imaging and the development of unique coils and pulse sequences . These improvements incr...
Pregnant women are vulnerable to tobacco addiction and are an important subpopulation to target for tobacco control efforts because both smoking and smokeless tobacco products pose serious risks to them as well as to fetal and newborn health . The consumption of tobacco during pregnancy has been associated with stillbi...
One of the main challenges of the post - genomic era is the understanding of the mechanisms that control the spatio - temporal regulation of gene expression . The fate of newly synthesized mrna with respect to its nucleo - cytoplasmic transport, stability, translation efficiency and subcellular localization is determin...
Tumor microenvironment consists of tumor cells and stromal cells including fibroblasts, endothelial cells, macrophages, dendritic cells, and lymphocytes, as well as these cells products such as extracellular matrix, cytokines, chemokines, growth factors, enzymes, and cellular metabolites . Macrophages can influence tum...
The prevalence of facet joint pain is 55% in chronic cervical spine pain, 42% in thoracic spine pain, and 31% in lumbar spine pain (1). Various pain syndromes which produce deep and aching pain on the c5 - 6 and c6 - 7 facet joint are frequent in the patients who have been diagnosed originally as myofascial pain syndro...
Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (pgd) is available for many kinds of monogenic disorders, which are caused by a known single gene mutation that can be diagnosed from a single - cell . The most frequent single gene disorders for which pgd is carried out are beta - thalassemia, cystic fibrosis, myotonic dystrophy, hunt...