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Recent literature on the intracranial epidural abscess in infancy is sparse, different from that of the subdural lesion . The treatment modalities include burr hole drainage, craniotomy and transcranial needle aspiration, last being less popular even in the computed tomography (ct) and magnetic resonance imaging (mri) ...
Osteoporosis, which affects nearly 1 out of 2 women after 50 years of age, is a cause of morbidity and mortality in proven cases of fracture . The sirtuin proteins (silent information regulator proteins) belong to the class iii histone deacetylases (hdac). Hdacs, of which 18 have been identified, are classified into 4 ...
We report a severe case of bacterial keratitis in which staphylococcus lugdunensis was identified as the causative pathogen . Bacteria in the genus staphylococcus are classified as coagulase - positive staphylococci or coagulase - negative staphylococci (cns). Coagulase - positive staphylococci, which include s. aureus...
Two basic reasons aligned the adoption of this technique . First, to develop an understanding of issues relating to patient behavior; the use of cam second, no previous research is reported from iraq to identify the use of cam in the management of chronic diseases . The individual open - ended interview guide was used ...
Cerebellar tissue was taken from a dead 12-year - old stallion from a privately owned ranch in the municipality of juarez in nuevo leon state, mexico, approximately 240 km south of the texas border . The horse was first observed with neurologic symptoms on june 20, 2003, and it was euthanized 7 days later . The horse h...
Genome - scale experiments have accumulated massive information over recent years and have greatly contributed to our understanding of gene expression and its regulatory mechanisms . These experiments have clearly revealed the ubiquitous nature of alternative splicing and isoform dosage effects (1,2). It is in this reg...
Acute lung injury (ali) and its more severe manifestation, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ards) are life - threatening conditions caused by a variety of insults such as sepsis, trauma, pneumonia, inhalation of toxic chemicals or fumes, and pulmonary aspiration . In the us there are an estimated yearly 190,000 new...
Ovarian pregnancy (op) comprises 0.15% of all pregnancies and 1% to 3% of ectopic gestations . Two cases of op detected and treated during laparoscopy for suspected ectopic pregnancy are described . We used clinical examination, serum -hcg levels, and transvaginal ultrasonography (tvs) preoperatively to confirm the sus...
Inclusion criteria for mhd patients were as follows: (1) age, 18 years; (2) mhd vintage, 6 months; (3) mhd treatment, thrice weekly; (4) no hospitalizations during the previous 3 months, except for vascular access repair; (5) no amputations or prostheses in lower extremities; (6) able to ambulate and ability to complet...
Despite the increasing use of composites due to more conservative cavity preparation and superior esthetics, their bond strength to dentin is still concerning and compromises their longevity [1, 2]. This is particularly problematic in deciduous teeth since the bond strength of composite to deciduous teeth is less than ...
In korea, the breast cancer mortality rate among women is relatively low compared to the high incidence rate of this cancer . The crude incidence and mortality rates were 63.7 and 8.0 per 100,000 in 2011, respectively . Female breast cancer is the second most common malignancy, and its incidence has ranked second to th...
Endosseous dental implants may be considered as the most popular treatment option for partially and fully edentulous patients . It is generally accepted that implant success is primarily dependent upon or achieved by osseointegration, a direct contact between the implant surfaces and living bone.1 numerous studies have...
The sarcoplasmic reticulum (sr) is an intracellular organelle that forms an intricate tubular network throughout ventricular myocytes . The sr is a structurally diverse organelle that consists of junctional, corbular, and network sr . The network sr is formed by a series of interconnected tubules that span the region b...
Rabies is an important public health problem worldwide and more than 55,000 people die annually of the disease . The king edward memorial hospital, mumbai, is a tertiary referral centre where a rabies clinic runs 24 hours . In view of lack of information about the demographics of the disease in an urban environment dat...
We report a family with pre- and postnatal growth deficiency, insulin resistance, and early - onset diabetes (table 1). The female proband was born at term weighing 1.85 kg (<5th centile), and all other intrauterine growth parameters were <5th centile (table 1). She was hypoglycemic at birth and treated with intravenou...
Endogenous damage (e.g., oxidative metabolism linked) and external exposures (e.g., environmental pollution linked) all damage dna causing a number of modifications including base and backbone alterations, single strand breaks (ssb) and double strand breaks (dsb) that may limit survival and the regenerative potential o...
Debate about the objective validity of observational studies continues at the current times in the era of randomized controlled trials (rcts) and evidence - based practice of patient care. [13] however, there is an emerging realization in favor of observational studies in view of the dilemma about rcts. [46] vandenbrou...
Insects that sting to defend their colonies or subdue their prey belong to the order hymenoptera, which includes bees, wasps, hornets, yellow jackets and fire ants.1 honeybees are beneficial to man because they produce honey, which has nutritional and medicinal benefits . They are also important pollinators essential f...
Cost - effective and efficient methods for the selective detection of quadruplex structures present in many structural forms of dna have been difficult to develop . These techniques include, but are not limited to, nuclear magnetic resonance (nmr) spectroscopy, circular dichroism (cd), raman spectroscopy, and absorptio...
Parasite cultures - t. vaginalis isolates 30236 and 30238 from american type culture collection, tv - lacm1 and tv - lacm2 (fresh clinical isolates from female patients) and tv - lach1 and tv - lach2 (fresh clinical isolates from male patients), all from clinical and toxicological analysis laboratory, faculty of pharma...
The vector - borne diseases caused by mosquito are one of the major health problems in most of the countries . It is affecting the socioeconomical status of many nations and it is an important pest against human causing allergy too . That includes a local skin reaction . The diseases like filariasis, dengue, yellow fev...
Candidiasis: oral or pharyngeal candidiasis are the commonest fungal infections observed as the initial manifestation of symptomatic hiv infection. [47] many patients can have esophageal candidiasis as well . The commonest species of candida involved are candida albicans although nonalbicans species have also been repo...
This disease is common in all age groups and approximately involves 5 - 10% of the adult population (1). Asthma is prevalent in all areas of iran and has been reported in about 10% of the iranian population (2). It was estimated that more than 17.5 million people had asthma in the united states in 2009 (3). The annual ...
Glucocorticoids and mineralocorticoids are mainstays of the treatment of individuals with congenital adrenal hyperplasia (cah). Several different glucocorticoids are in common use, including hydrocortisone, prednisone / prednisolone, and dexamethasone . Each of these agents has different pharmacokinetic and pharmacodyn...
In atopic individuals, exposure to an allergen would result in the production of specific ige antibodies that bind to fc receptors (fcri) on tissue mast cells and basophils . On re - exposure, the allergen cross - links bound ige molecules . This results in the immediate release of histamine and various enzymes from th...
It was eagle in 1937 that first defined stylalgia as an autonomous entity related to abnormal length of the styloid process or to mineralization of the stylohyoid ligament complex [13]. The stylohyoid complex is made of styloid process, stylohyoid ligament, and the small cornus of the hyoid bone . All these structures ...
Toxoplasma gondii is one of the most important infectious diseases, having a worldwide distribution . Acquired toxoplasmosis is usually benign and asymptomatic, but it can be dangerous and have serious consequences in immunocompromised people and pregnant women . The disease is transmitted through consumption of contam...
Dermatophytes belong to three genera of trichophyton, microsporum, and epidermophyton, which are able to break down keratin in tissues such as epidermis, hair, nails, feathers, horns, and hooves . There are various forms of this disease including tinea corporis, tinea pedis, tinea capitis, tinea barbae, tinea cruris, t...
Numerous species are susceptible to infection with influenza a viruses (iav) including wild and domesticated avian species, horses, dogs, ferrets, swine, whales, and seals.1 iavs often cause asymptomatic infections, particularly in wildfowl and shorebirds,1 and additional species are known to serve as intermediate host...
() in brazil, lc is one of the five most common cancer types, according to estimates for 2012, and it is the cancer type that took the most lives in 2010 . () with this data, it is evident that lc is a health challenge in brazil and worldwide . It is known that 85% of all cases of lc are classified as non - small cell ...
Primary hyperparathyroidism is a disorder which presents as a spectrum of signs and symptoms due to abnormality in calcium, phosphate, and bone metabolism caused by increased secretion of parathormone (pth). There can be variable presentations including recurrent nephrolithiasis (10 - 25%), peptic ulcers, mental change...
Fm and fb are coinventors on a patent application regarding a diagnostic cf - mirna signature cited herein.
Portal hypertension is a universal consequence of cirrhosis, responsible for many important complications such as variceal bleeding, ascites, hepatic encephalopathy, hepato - renal syndrome, and hepatic insufficiency . The onset of these complications marks the transition of liver disease from a compensated to a decomp...
It is generally agreed that nutritional factors are important for the development of osteoporosis . Among several negative factors for bone formation are sodium, protein, caffeine, oxalate, fibre, phytate, and increased acid load, whereas calcium, vitamin d, salads, herbs, and vegetables seem to be bone promoting facto...
Hiv-1 genome has several codons that are poorly used by the human genome (poor codons) and that limit expression of viral proteins such as hiv-1 envelope glycoprotein gp120 . It is not known why the hiv-1 genome has evolved to contain these poor codons . To overexpress gp120 for biochemical and vaccine research studies...
We conducted a retrospective cohort study using a convenience sample of patients at least 18 years of age admitted to the emergency or inpatient ward of one of the seven hospitals in the detroit medical center (dmc) system with a positive clinical laboratory confirmation of influenza from january 1 through march 31, 20...
Although reports of the coexistence of hydrocephalus and neurofibromatosis type 1 (nf1) have already been published, and cervical spine neurofibromas in patients with nf1 are common, a bilateral dumbbell - shaped c2 spinal roots location and the onset of hydrocephalus following its resection are not . We present a 37-y...
Spontaneous or nonlesional intracerebral hemorrhage (n - ich) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in stroke patients11). Overall, stroke case fatality (ischemic stroke and subarachnoid hemorrhage) has shown a gradual decrease9). However, the case fatality rate of n - ich has not changed and it is higher than th...
A 66-year - old man visited the hospital with a one month history of chest discomfort and sporadic swelling in the face and arms in the morning . Positron emission tomography (pet) revealed a hypermetabolic mass on the right side of the distal trachea . A chest - computed tomography (ct) found a 6.5 cm mass in the same...
Thyrotoxic periodic paralysis (tpp) is mainly reported in young asian males in their 3 - 4 decade of life, classically evident as acute paralytic attack and hypokalemia in the background of thyrotoxicosis . Tpp should be considered as a cause of acute weakness to avoid missing a treatable and curable serious condition ...
Thymic carcinoma is a rare, invasive neoplasm, and its clinical course tends to be more aggressive than that of thymoma [1, 2, 3]. The extent of disease at presentation often precludes complete surgical resection, and systemic chemotherapy plays a very important role in treatment . Because of its rare occurrence, only ...
Social anxiety disorder (sad) is one of the most common anxiety disorders, characterized by fear and avoidance of social situations . Specific sad refers to the fear and avoidance of a particular performance situation such as public speaking, while generalized sad refers to fear and avoidance of a wide array of social ...
Array cgh (acgh) has shown itself to be a mature technology capable of detecting genomic gains and losses at a resolution of at least 250 base pairs . Clearly at this resolution there will be masses of data that will challenge the analyst, particularly in the light of the general variance of the genome from individual ...
Type 2 diabetes (t2d) involves insulin resistance in skeletal muscle, the liver and adipose tissue . One of the most contentious issues in metabolic research is the role of mitochondrial dysfunction in the development of insulin resistance . The term mitochondrial dysfunction can describe impairments in numerous mitoch...
Any drug from a given dosage form to be absorbed must be present in the form of solution at the site of absorption . Low aqueous solubility is one of the major problems encountered during formulation development of new chemical entities especially in the process of generic product development . More than 40% of new che...
Several studies are available on laparoscopic duhamel pull through for hirschsprung disease.1 2 3 advantages of laparoscopic approach have been already published decreasing the hospital stay and postoperative adhesions . For a clear reason, regarding the laparoscopic approach for duhamel pull through, the longer operat...
Many organ systems are involved in this syndrome, including the central nervous system (cns)., we will focus on the posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (pres) which is sometimes also seen in pe and eclampsia . Image diagnostics such as computer tomography (ct) and magnetic resonance imaging (mri) of the cns pe...
The ability to place a diagonal s2 screw requires a thorough understanding of each individual patient's anatomy . Standing anteroposterior and lateral lumbar radiographs and an anteroposterior pelvic radiograph the overall alignment of the spine and pelvis in deformity the coronal and sagittal plane should be evaluated...
Complete passive fitting of one - piece cast implant supported frameworks has been hard to achieve according to reports from the last three decades.1 in addition to load bearing capacity, marginal accuracy and clinically acceptable levels of misfit are crucial factors influencing the clinical long - term reliability of...
Many techniques of hysterectomy are being used in the surgical treatment of benign gynecological disease . Laparotomy is still the commonest and the easiest one, yet it is the most invasive . Abdominal laparoscopic hysterectomy and vaginal hysterectomy (vh) should be preferred because they are minimally invasive . Vh d...
The survival of gastric cancer has steadily improved in the past decade along with advanced diagnostics and screening programs and improvement of chemotherapy . However, the prognosis of unresectable gastric cancer is still poor, with peritoneal seeding, distant metastasis, and distant lymph node metastasis . Para - ao...
The skin is continuous with the mucosa at the transitional or vermilion border, a reddish zone covered by thin keratinized epithelium . The line of contact between the lips (oral fissure) lies just above the cutting edges of the upper incisor teeth and on each side a labial commisure forms the angle of the mouth, usual...
About 3% of the american population will develop epilepsy by the age of 75.1 the diagnosis of epilepsy significantly affects a patient's quality of life, and also imposes a considerable medical and economic burden.2 despite the high prevalence of epilepsy, there is an epilepsy treatment gap, defined as the proportion o...
The first step in adoptive t - cell therapy is choosing an optimal taa for car t - cell targeting . Ideally, the taa is highly expressed on the surface of all tumor cells but not on important normal tissues (or at least lowly expressed). However, unlike the success story of cd19 cars in leukemias, where cd19 is consist...
Diabetes is a complex, chronic illness requiring continuous medical care with multifactorial risk - reduction strategies . Diabetic vascular complications are the most common cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide, with numbers of affected individuals steadily increasing . Diabetic retinopathy (dr) is the most comm...
Efavirenz is a non - nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor that can be added to tenofovir and lamivudine as first - line antiretroviral therapy.in patients taking efavirenz, 0.14% may develop stevens johnson syndrome 2 weeks after the introduction of efavirenz (600 mg once daily). Stevens johnson syndrome (sjs) an...
Impacted cerumen is defined as accumulation of cerumen that causes symptoms and may prevent an assessment of external auditory canal including tympanic membrane . It is a common condition and has an incidence in the united kingdom of around 2.3 million people . Cerumen impaction is reported to be present in approximate...
During the last few decades, ultrasound and computed tomography have increased the detection of renal masses smaller than 4 cm . Because of the high incidence of small renal masses and based on the fact that studies have shown that partial resection has the same oncological efficacy as radical surgery, partial nephrect...
There is a widespread interest in the genetic structure and variability of natural populations, but not many studies have addressed the effects of contaminants in marine environments on population genetics (for review see e.g. Belfiore and anderson 2001; medina et al . The evolutionary response of populations can be su...
Reconstructing the knee in young, active patients is a major challenge in orthopaedic surgery . Repair techniques for cartilage and osteochondral defects include microfracture, osteochondral autograft, osteochondral allograft, and autologous chondrocyte implantation . The use of fresh allografts is mainly indicated in ...
Hydatid disease is a parasitic infestation caused by echinococcus granulosus and less frequently by echinococcus multilocularis . Although hydatid liver disease may be asymptomatic for many years, one common complication of hydatid disease is perforation of the cyst into the peritoneal cavity after trauma or spontaneou...
Keloid scars have afflicted humans for many centuries, described as far back as 3000 bc in the edwin smith papyrus . Keloids are proliferative scars, defined as benign mesenchymal tumors that extend beyond the wound margin, that do not regress spontaneously and tend to recur following excision . Keloids are a common ma...
Breast cancer after its removal is not a physical disability but perhaps an altered psychological effects on patients . During the treatment process of this disease the patient has to deal with multiple issues . The impact of breast cancer and its treatment methods, such as mastectomy, on patients, include adverse effe...
We enrolled only persons who were caucasian or first nation, and persons of mixed ethnicity were excluded . For this study we are only reporting survey results for the healthy controls among first nation and caucasian cohorts . Healthy controls of caucasian and first nation descent were recruited through advertisements...
Partial anomalous pulmonary venous connection (papvc) is relatively uncommon congenital anomaly and covers 0.51% of congenital heart diseases . The quite rare combination (35%) of papvc with hypoplasia of the right lung and dextroposition of the heart is designated as scimitar syndrome . The term scimitar, referring to...
Percutaneous suprapubic cystostomy (spc) is a common procedure in urological surgery and is used in a wide range of disorders . It allows drainage of the bladder in case of urinary retention when subvesical obstruction, due to benign prostrate hyperplasia, urethral strictures or phimosis, prevents transurethral cathete...
Experimental therapy in humans is limited by technical and ethical considerations, and studies in closely related nonhuman primates are constrained by high cost, limited availability, paucity of genetic models for human diseases, and lack of genetically inbred strains suitable for stem cell or tissue transplantation . ...
Amyloidosis is a disease condition in which the extracellular deposition of pathological insoluble fibrillar proteins occurs in various organs that can impair tissue structure and function.1) amyloidosis may be systemic or localized and is currently classified according to the type of precursor protein.2) the three mos...
A 54-year - old man presented with a 3-month history of cough and shortness of breath during exercise . On physical examination, he had an audible expiratory stridor . Computed tomography (ct) of the neck and chest revealed a 1.5 cm polypoid tumor arising from the posterior wall of the upper thoracic trachea (fig . 1)....
Npinter (the noncoding rnas and protein related biomacromolecules interaction database) aims at integrating the diverse body of experimental knowledge about functional interactions between noncoding rnas (ncrnas) (except trnas and rrnas) and protein related biomacromolecules (prms) (proteins, mrnas or genomic dnas) int...
A compartment syndrome exists when the increased pressure in a closed anatomic space threatens the viability of surrounding tissue . When this occurs in the abdomen, the impact on end - organ function within and outside the cavity can be devastating . The abdominal compartment syndrome (acs) is not a disease; as such, ...
This work was supported in whole or in part with federal funds from the intramural research program of the national institutes of health, national cancer institute (contract hhsn261200800001e). The new england bladder cancer study, the national cancer institute bladder cancer genome - wide association studies, and foll...
This report includes the first 565 patients from the rio de janeiro type 2 diabetes cohort study enrolled between august 2004 and december 2008 in the type 2 diabetes outpatient clinic of our tertiary care university hospital and followed up until june 2012 . All participants gave written informed consent, and the loca...
Estimates for current inpatient hospital length of stay (los) and costs due to osteoporotic fractures in mainland china remain relatively unknown except for four studies conducted in the years 2000,1 19982002,2 19982003,3 and 19982007.4 the consequences of osteoporotic fractures include increased morbidity, disability,...
Neuroendocrine gastro - entero - pancreatic (gep) tumours, which comprise pancreatic islet cell tumours, non - functioning neuroendocrine pancreatic tumours and carcinoids, are usually slow growing . If the tumour is localized, the therapy of choice is surgery . When a metastatic tumour causes a syndrome by hormonal ov...
Burn patients usually suffered from tremendous pain [13], especially after tangential excision surgery . Good postoperative analgesia may help reduce pain related multiple problems, such as anxiety, emergency agitation, and lack of confidence in medical team . Moreover, burn patients are predisposed to sepsis and multi...
The global health effort to eradicate poliomyelitis (polio) has encountered a number of unforeseen and unpredictable challenges which have been well documented . This article provides a timely review of these challenges and looks toward overcoming the remaining barriers to eradication . The authors undertook a comprehe...
Ankle inversion sprain often occurs during sports - related activity, landing on an inverted and plantar flexed foot after jumping, and running on uneven surfaces1 . It involves pain, lateral ligamentous injury, excessive ankle inversion, swelling, and limitations in ankle range of motion3 . Some patients with ankle in...
The study group comprised 305 nondiabetic offspring participating in the eugene2 (european network on functional genomics of type 2 diabetes) project (17) who had one parent with type 2 diabetes and one parent without a history of type 2 diabetes and a normal response to an ogtt . All subjects were caucasian and were c...
Growth in health care expenditures in the united states accelerated during the previous 3 years, rising to a level of $604.1 billion in 1989 . Other highlights from the 1989 national health accounts include: health expenditures grew 11.1 percent from 1988 to 1989 . National health expenditures (nhe) amounted to 11.6 pe...
Retroperitoneal mucinous cystadenomas are grossly and microscopically similar to benign mucinous cystadenoma of the ovary, which are clinically and pathologically common tumors . The primary mucinous cystadenomas of the retroperitoneum, however, are extremely rare, and their histogenesis remains unclear . We report a c...
Worldwide, approximately 800 women die from pregnancy and childbirth - related causes every day . In 2013 developing countries accounts 99% of all these maternal deaths which is higher in women living in rural areas and poor communities . Improving maternal health and decreasing maternal mortality is the objective of f...
An estimated 1.3 million new cases of invasive breast cancer are diagnosed annually and about 465,000 women are expected to die from this disease worldwide . X - ray mammography is used in screening programs and reduces mortality significantly due to earlier detection of breast cancer . For younger women, the benefit f...
The hyperlipoproteinemias are a collection of hereditary lipid disorders characterized by severely elevated serum lipid levels . The particular pattern of lipid elevation (primarily triglycerides, or primarily cholesterol, or a combined picture) is determined by the particular inherited defect . For example, lipoprotei...
Central nervous system (cns) aspergillosis is one of the opportunistic fungal infections that affect immuno - compromised hosts, such as patients with; prolonged neutropenia, haematopoietic stem cell transplant, solid organ transplants particularly lung and liver, and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (aids) [1, 2]. I...
Physical activity in hot, humid environments is common over a wide range of sports and conditioning settings . Some athletes may also purposefully train in hot, humid environments for the adaptations related to training acclimation and environmental acclimatization (23). In such, athletes, coaches, and sports medicine ...
Congenital dislocation of knee (cdk) is a rare disorder and main pathology described is contracture of the quadriceps tendon . In our observation cdk are of three types viz . Stiff variety where minimal correction is possible; partially correctable where deformity can be passively corrected to a significant degree howe...
Commonly surgery, either open or laparoscopic, has been advocated as rescue therapy . Despite conservative treatment being acceptable for select patients, to limit perivisceral contamination thus avoiding sepsis and its sequelae, when surgery is chosen, usually it is carried out as soon as possible . As a matter of fac...
Takotsubo cardiomyopathy has clinical features that resemble an acute coronary syndrome, such as chest pain, st - segment changes in the anterior precordial leads on electrocardiogram, mild elevation of serum cardiac enzymes, and transient left ventricular dysfunction with marked apical ballooning . The general prognos...
In dentistry the role of endodontics has greatly broadened in scope in the past decade . Although many factors are responsible, the most important reason behind this growth is the extremely high predictability of endodontic success . False assumptions about the root canal anatomy of teeth may lead to misdiagnosis, impr...
Scleroderma is a chronic multi - systemic disorder of unknown etiology characterized clinically by thickening of the skin caused by an accumulation of connective tissue, and by the involvement of visceral organs, including the gastrointestinal tract, lungs, heart, and kidneys . However, this seldom results in bleeding,...
A sufficient number of observations is needed to ensure the necessary power of a statistical test in a variety of studies (e.g., randomized clinical trials).1 thanks to the wide adoption of electronic health records (ehrs) and recent developments in distributed data networks (drns),25 it is technically possible to pull...
Prostatic paraganglioma is an unusual entity in adult patients, with only 10 cases reported in the medical literature . A 34-year - old male with a history of chronic prostatitis consulted for perineal pain . On digital rectal examination the prostate was enlarged and firm, without nodules . The psa level was 0.8 ng / ...
Two decades ago, mossman and coffman proposed that cd4 + t cells differentiate into two subsets with reciprocal functions and patterns of cytokine secretion, termed t - helper 1 (th1) and th2 (1). Th1 cells are characterized by production of interferon - g (ifn-) and induce cell - mediated immunity against intracellula...
Pathologies, infections, or injuries of the central nervous system (cns) are often accompanied by an atypical inflammatory process that occurs locally in the brain parenchyma and does not involve the peripheral immune system, with only limited leukocyte infiltration . Such a localized response is defined neuroinflammat...
Subgingival plaque samples of 90 consecutive periodontitis patients (aged 4069, mean 52.7) were collected at the clinic of operative and preventive dentistry and periodontology, rheinisch - westflische technische hochschule (rwth) aachen, germany, for microbial analysis . In order to display the whole range of periodon...
Gastric cancer is one of the most common digestive cancers worldwide, and it is the fourth most common cancer and the second leading cause of cancer - related death, with about 700,000 deaths annually . The incidence of early gastric cancer (egc) in korea has been increasing because of recent improvements in early diag...
Up to the present time, skeletal tissues have been cultured in vitro as embryonic organ anlage which are predifferentiated or predestined to develop into a cartilage model, or as cartilage models with specialized surviving cells . Biggers summarized the literature with a statement that the fate of a tissue in culture i...