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It is considered as well a cause of acute or chronic pancreatitis (ap or cp). Hypercalcemia secondary to the secretion of parathyroid hormone (pth) plays a major role in the pathogenesis, but other mechanisms may be involved . This is a retrospective and descriptive study from january 2011 to december 2014, including a... |
Abdominal compartment syndrome (acs) is defined as a sustained intra - abdominal pressure (iap)> 20 mm hg with evidence of organ dysfunction / failure.1 acs may occur in association with medical or nonmedical critical diseases, and has been recognized as one of the causes of organ dysfunction.2 the risk factors for the... |
Tuberculosis (tb) remains as one of the deadliest communicable diseases accounted for 9 million infections in 2013 . Although it is more common in man than woman, an estimated 510,000 women died as a result of tb in 2013 . Congenital infection by vertical transmission is rare but high neonatal mortality (up to 60%) and... |
Genetic disorders are rare conditions that are accorded a low public health priority in india, even though these account for significant suffering of patients and their family members12 . Subsidized treatment services are of limited availability causing significant out of pocket (oop) expenditure for parents in india .... |
Participants from each of the 14 cohorts (table 1; supplemental table s1 in the online appendix, available at http://care.diabetesjournals.org/cgi/content/full/dc10-11150/dc1) were excluded if diabetes was present at the time of glucose and insulin measurement (defined by self - reported diabetes, pharmacologic treatme... |
Since fixation surgery with the use of mini - plates in the oral and maxillofacial area was introduced in the 19th century, there has been an increase in the use of mini - plates1 . In 1978, champy et al.2 introduced a surgical technique in which mini - plates were used in the oral and maxillofacial area, and the mini ... |
This comparative control study investigated aqueous humor levels of 8-ohdg and mda in 15 highly myopic eyes and 23 control eyes . Highly myopic eyes were defined as those with myopia of -6 diopters (d) or more or axl 26 mm or longer . In the controls, aqueous humor samples were collected from senile cataract patients f... |
The 14-member macrolides, clarithromycin (cam) and erythromycin (em), and the 15-member macrolide, azithromycin (azm), are widely used for the treatment of airway inflammation . Low - dose, long - term macrolide therapy has been reported to be very effective for patients with chronic airway diseases, such as diffuse pa... |
Hus and thrombotic thrombocytopenia purpura (ttp) constitute a group of diseases known as thrombotic microangiopathies in which organ damage results from platelet aggregation and fibrin plugs in small vessels . Hus, in particular, is characterized by microangiopathic hemolytic anemia (damage to red blood cells as they ... |
Deep neck space infections usually represent the overgrowth of the normal flora of the contiguous mucosal surfaces from which the infection originated . They can spread anywhere and are susceptible to serious complications within hours such as mediastinitis, septic shock with disseminated intravascular coagulation, ple... |
Hysterosalpingography (hsg), a standard procedure for the evaluation of women with infertility and repetitive pregnancy loss, is associated with complications such as uterine perforation, infection, allergic reactions, syncope, hemorrhage and shock, and pulmonary or retinal embolus . We report the case of a 33-year - o... |
Cardiac resynchronization therapy (crt) improves functional capacity, quality of life, and reduces heart failure (hf) symptoms . Crt alone without icd was also shown to reduce mortality in patients with severe hf . Based on large clinical trials [2, 3], the current recommendations to select patients for crt focus on el... |
High serum hepatitis b virus (hbv) dna levels are an independent risk factor for disease progression to cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (hcc) in patients with chronic hepatitis b (chb).1,2 by contrast, reducing hbv dna concentrations to very low or undetectable levels through long - term nucleos(t)ide analogue (... |
In hilbert spaces, multipliers are operators that have the form (1)mm,,f=n=1mnf,nn, where =(n)n=1 and =(n)n=1 are sequences in a hilbert space h and m=(mn)n=1 is a scalar sequence, called the symbol . Multipliers mm,,, where and are general bessel sequences and m is a bounded scalar sequence, were first considered in .... |
Animals: four beagle dogs (2 males and 2 females, 2 years old, weighing 9.9 to 11.3 kg) were included in this study . The dogs had no evidence of disease based on their histories and a clinical examination in which a blood sample had been taken as part of a routine health check . They were accustomed to being restraine... |
An old but time - tested proverb if the eyes are a window to the soul, then the mouth is the doorway to the body reflects the importance of oral health . Even the evidences from the early civilizations like the babylonian, assyrian, and sumerian suggest an interest in cleanliness of the mouth . Medical books of ancient... |
Central nervous system dysfunction is associated with mortality and morbidity in patients with cardiovascular disease, post - workout recovery and faster heart rate being mediated by the dynamic interaction between the sympathetic nervous system (sns) and the parasympathetic nervous system (pns), as components of the a... |
Anemia after total joint replacement has been shown to increase length of stay, decrease immediate postoperative physical function, and increase the likelihood of requiring a blood transfusion . Allogeneic blood transfusion, while important in treating anemia, are not without risks and have been shown to lead to immuno... |
Compared to open surgery, the laparoscopic approach is associated with more acceptable and aesthetically pleasing surgical scars, less post - operative pain, shorter hospital stays and faster recovery after surgery . Although laparoscopy has many advantages, it is also associated with disadvantages, such as slow learni... |
Chronic pain is a complex neurobiological phenomenon with a variety of factors contributing to peripheral and central pain - signaling mechanisms . A common underlying mechanism of chronic pain is the presence of inflammation at the site of the damaged or affected tissue which causes release of several inflammatory med... |
We developed a web - based questionnaire (technical appendix) and distributed it through workplace email prior to the ebola responder s return . The questionnaire provided background information about the returning ebola responder and asked 26 questions related to 13 hypothetical scenarios and 5 demographic questions .... |
A subclavian artery aneurysm (saa) is a rare peripheral aneurysm.1 although rare, an saa can cause life - threatening complications such as rupture, thrombosis, and embolism.2 recently, we experienced a case of a ruptured saa presenting as hemoptysis, which was successfully treated by endovascular stenting . Two weeks ... |
First record of thermospheric ir cooling rates over a complete solar cycleir cooling in current solar maximum conditions much weaker than prior maximumvariability in thermospheric ir cooling observed on scale of days to 11 years first record of thermospheric ir cooling rates over a complete solar cycle ir cooling in cu... |
Hiv - infected patients, with the increasing life expectancy, appear to have a significantly greater risk of cardiovascular disease (cvd) than hiv - negative individuals . It now appears clear that both hiv infection itself and antiretroviral therapy (art) are associated with a higher risk of cvd and metabolic disorder... |
The present study was conducted both on patients admitted in the hospital and those attending outdoor clinic in the department of psychiatry, s.n . The patients were represented from and around agra city and comprised the people of urban and rural origin and of all socioeconomic statuses . The clinical sample consisted... |
The toranomon hospital health management center study included a cohort comprising mainly apparently healthy government employees who underwent an annual health screening in tokyo, japan . Routine health checkups are common in japan because the japanese government and companies encourage people to receive periodic exam... |
One of the important goals of bioinformatics is to decipher the genome dna sequence of a species . Access to a reference genome sequence for a species significantly facilitates biological studies, as proven by all the genomics - guided research in the wake of the human genome project . It is conventionally believed tha... |
Anaplasmosis, ehrlichiosis, lyme disease (ld; borreliosis), and rocky mountain spotted fever (rmsf) are tick - borne bacterial diseases capable of causing significant clinical signs in several species, including humans and domestic canids . Many symptoms caused by these diseases are nonspecific, and case presentations ... |
In the new definition of sexual health by the world health organization (who), sexual health was considered a necessary underlying condition for reproductive health, not only during reproductive years but also throughout the life span . In this new conceptualization, the neglect and denial of sexual and reproductive he... |
This was an open - label trial designed to provide safety, tolerability, and efficacy data on feast after the earlier refinement of the technique . Participants were recruited from the brain stimulation service of the medical university of south carolina (musc). The protocol was approved by the musc institutional revie... |
Young inmates, compared with their peers, begin high risk sexual activity earlier; have more partners, initiation of injection drug use, and higher rates of sexually transmitted diseases . Factors such as low socioeconomic status, high risky sexual behaviors, injection drug use may be evolved in them before incarcerati... |
The strains we studied were collected from patients of low socioeconomic status in three cities: so paulo and ribeiro preto, in so paulo state, and rio de janeiro, in rio de janeiro state, brazil . The so paulo strains were collected from 505 diarrheic and 505 nondiarrheic children (14 years of age) who visited hospita... |
Common congenital anomaly of coronary vessels, include origin of left circumflex artery from the right sinus of valsalva, origin of left coronary artery from pulmonary artery, presence of a single coronary artery, hypoplastic coronary vessels, coronary artery aneurysms, and coronary artery fistula . We report here an i... |
Pyogenic granuloma and capillary hemangioma are well - known and commonly occurring benign vascular lesions of the oral cavity . Pyogenic granuloma is a relatively common, soft - tissue tumor of the oral cavity that is believed to be reactive and not neoplastic in nature . The name pyogenic granuloma is a misnomer sinc... |
It is characterized by the presence of facial port wine stains, neurological abnormalities like seizures and mental retardation, ocular disorders, oral involvement and leptomeningeal angiomas . A 13-year - old boy presented with the chief complaint of swollen, bleeding gums and deposits on the teeth . Detailed medical ... |
A, top: to generate the gcass dataset, an almost - intact prenatal human telencephalic hemisphere (gw14.5) was microdissected to separate the dorsal telencephalon from the ventral telencephalon (including medial and lateral ganglionic eminences). Bottom: the dorsal fragment was flash - frozen and serially sectioned (15... |
Cystic disease of the spleen is an uncommon entity with an incidence of 0.07% in general population . It is classified as either primary or secondary according to the presence or absence of an epithelial lining of the lumen . Most cases of parasitic cysts result from infection by e. granulosus, a condition called splen... |
The ability of cells to organize themselves into tubes is critical to generate many animal tissues including the kidney, lungs and vasculature . The drosophila trachea is a genetically tractable system that can be used to study not just tube formation but also the regulation of tube size and tube maintenance . The trac... |
Stroke is the main cause of disability in adults . Although stroke is often associated with older individuals, 45% of survivors are younger than 65 years and 27% are younger than 55 years1 . With the increasing costs of stroke treatment2, 3 and marked heterogeneity in stroke manifestation and recovery, accurate and rel... |
Odontogenic tumors (ots) are a large group of jaw tumors arising from odontogenic apparatus during or after odontogenesis . Histopathologically, they vary in behavior from hamartomatous - like lesions to benign lesions and to frank malignant lesions . They may arise from epithelium or ectomesenchyme or both which are a... |
Improvement of motor skills has a fundamental significance in sports and therapy, and every new approach that may enhance the performance outcome measures deserves the attention of researchers . Whole body cryostimulation (wbc) is one such modality, has been commonly used for decades, and was shown to have advantageous... |
Liver transplantation is currently the treatment of choice for end - stage liver disease, including acute liver failure and some metabolic disorders . However, there is a mismatch between potential recipients requiring transplantation and the availability of suitable livers, resulting in the deaths of patients on the w... |
The following is an original case report in the literature of a patient with post - traumatic bilateral calcaneum fracture, both type iii of sanders classification, that was treated, by the same surgeon, in the left foot with open reduction and internal fixation and in the right foot with closed reduction and applicati... |
Stroke considerably increases the risk of dementia, and the majority of patients suffering a stroke experience some degree of cognitive impairment . Cognitive impairment affects secondary prevention, rehabilitation, prognosis and quality of life after stroke . The mechanisms involved in post - stroke cognitive impairme... |
According to the world health organization (who), adults are considered overweight when their body mass index (bmi) is 25 or higher and obese when their bmi is 30 or greater . Multiple strategies and programs oriented toward the prevention and treatment of the obesity have been initiated [4, 5]. These have been impleme... |
Cis - regulatory analysis is a key step in understanding and decoding transcriptional regulatory networks . The researcher is interested in determining which transcription factors (tfs) regulate a gene (or genes) of interest, the locations of binding sites for those tfs, and, if the analysis has an evolutionary compone... |
A 41-year - old man with a history of incarceration and polysubstance drug abuse presented with 1 day of acute - onset headache, upper back pain, and transient bilateral lower - extremity numbness . Prior to arrival at our institution, the patient was complaining of subjectively decreased sensation involving his bilate... |
There are many chemical, physical and geometric cues within the extracellular environment in vivo that will provide signals to cells . It has been know for almost one hundred years that cells will react to the shape of their environment, and in 1952 weiss first used the term contact guidance to describe cell alignment ... |
Cochlear implants have been used to restore hearing in patients with severe to profound sensorineural hearing loss . Since cochlear implantation major complications were those requiring surgical revision or resulting in a serious medical condition such as large scalp necrosis, severe infection, meningitis, and device f... |
Tuberculosis (tb), one of the oldest and contagious infectious diseases is a major cause infection related morbidity and mortality . Worldwide, the disease tb ranks at 1 number as the infectious disease after human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) and india accounts for the second most populous country in the world with on... |
The patient ln was found hyperglycemic at age 17 years (fasting blood glucose [fbg] 120150 mg / dl). After a 6-month nutritional therapy, insulin was required (two nph injections / day). After 2 years, a remission took place; the patient stopped insulin and was treated with sulfonylureas for the following 10 years, whe... |
The prevalence of tuberculosis has rapidly declined in the past years . However, the proportion of extrapulmonary tuberculosis has been increasing in korea.1 gastrointestinal tuberculosis is not a common disease, and it is difficult to diagnose because of its vague symptoms . Moreover, primary duodenal tuberculosis is ... |
A 48-year - old female of 163 cm height and 55 kg weight was scheduled for an open radical hysterectomy and bilateral pelvic lymph node dissection . Her physical and laboratory examinations were unremarkable, with an american society of anesthesiologists i preoperative physical status classification . Her mallampati sc... |
Imatinib mesylate (i m) is a selective and potent small molecule inhibitor of tyrosinase kinases implicated in on cogenesis . It is the most active agent for the treatment of chronic myeloid leukemia (cml), gastrointestinal stromal tumors . The common nonhematological side - effects are nausea, musculoskeletal pain, su... |
National taiwan university hospital is a 2,000-bed tertiary referral center in taipei, northern taiwan . Available data for inpatient - days at the hospital ranged from 294,946 in 1990 to 566,165 in 1999 . The number of icu beds increased from 40 - 50 before 1993 to 100 - 120 in 1998 - 99 . The nosocomial infection con... |
The transition period in central and eastern european (cee) countries has brought significant changes to their health systems, including health care financing . The severe economic downturn in the 1990s, coupled in many countries with rising unemployment, inflation, low salaries, tax evasion and a large informal sector... |
Uvc irradiation or numerous carcinogenic chemicals - caused dna adducts are repaired by nucleotide excision repair (ner). Ner consists of a cascade of events including initial damage recognition, dual incision to excise the damage containing oligonucleotide, gap - filling, and ligation [1, 2]. We have previously shown ... |
A 5-year - old cat was examined for vomiting and anorexia of 2 days duration . Histopathologic evaluation of ante - mortem ultrasound - guided needle biopsies of the right kidney was consistent with proliferative, necrotizing and crescentic glomerulonephritis with fibrin thrombi, proteinaceous and red blood cell casts,... |
Doisynolic acids (das), such as (+) -z - bdda, are a group of synthetically produced compounds that exhibit distinct selective estrogen receptor modulator (serm) activity in vivo . Based on the structural similarity to 17-estradiol, das were originally investigated as an alternative to hormone replacement therapy [2, 3... |
A 66-year - old man who had been quadriplegic for 40 years because of cervical vertebral injury during the korean war was admitted for further evaluation of frequent urinary tract infection . 1a), and ivu demonstrated a round filling defect with linear radiopacity in the bladder, suggesting calculus (fig . . Ultrasonic... |
Neuroendocrine cell carcinoma (nec) of the colon, sometimes described as small cell carcinoma of the alimentary tract, is an extremely rare tumor, representing less than 1% of colonic cancers . Most patients are diagnosed at an advanced stage, presenting with clinical symptoms and macroscopic characteristics identical ... |
In patients with medial knee osteoarthritis with varus deformity, high tibial osteotomy (hto) provides excellent results14). Pre - operative planning for appropriate correction gap and angle has a significant impact on the outcomes of hto57). One method used for preoperative planning in hto requires an intraoperative a... |
Diabetes mellitus is the most important risk factor for coronary artery disease (cad). Type 2 diabetes mellitus (dm2) has reached epidemic proportions globally, affecting populations of both developed and developing countries . Cad is often asymptomatic in dm2 patients until the onset of myocardial infarction or sudden... |
Renal cell carcinoma (rcc) is the most common kidney malignancy [1, 2]. Although most patients without metastasis can be cured by nephrectomy alone, approximately 30% of rcc patients have metastasis, and nephrectomy is usually not curative for these patients [1, 2]. In rcc patients with metastasis, bone metastasis is d... |
Hepatocellular carcinoma (hcc) is a liver cancer prevalent in asia, especially in the mainland china [1, 2]. As an established human hepatocarcinoma cell line with epithelial morphology, hepg2 cells are used routinely for a variety of biochemical and cell biological studies [35]. The barrier to gene delivery, nuclease ... |
Major abdominal surgery can often be complicated by massive hemorrhage with all the sequelae that profound anemia entails in this setting . Therefore, blood transfusion is considered a cornerstone of perioperative care practice and is used to augment oxygen delivery in the hope of avoiding the deleterious effects of se... |
Paleoparasitology is a new interdisciplinary line of research, for studying parasites of humans and animals in ancient communities . According to available documents paleoparasitological studies elaborate some attractive subjects, including the geographical origin of the parasites, status of zoonotic diseases, types of... |
Commercial products are often available in dark grey powder or pellets . It is generally misused intentionally for suicidal purpose and accounts for about 2.6% of the mortality due to poisonings in an iranian report . It is proposed that after ingestion of metal phosphides, phosphine (ph3), the active ingredient, will ... |
Dialysis patients are surviving longer due to advances in nephrological care leaving those who are not fortunate enough to receive a transplant on long - term dialysis . In most cases of prolonged renal replacement a critical factor in outcome for haemodialysis patients is definitive vascular access (va) either in the ... |
The goal of sustainability, as stated in the national environmental policy act1 (nepa), and recently (2011) reiterated by the national research council2 is to create and maintain conditions, under which humans and nature can exist in productive harmony, that permit fulfilling the social, economic, and other requirement... |
Balb / c mice develop murine plasmacytoma (mpc) upon intraperitoneal administration of pristane, (2,6,10,14-tetramethylpentadecane), a component of mineral oil [15]. Il-6, tgf-1, and other factors are required for transformation of b lymphocyte to mpc [68]. Il-6 blocks the differentiation of the treg cells [9, 10] whic... |
Hepatocellular adenoma (hca) is benign monoclonal tumors occurring essentially in young women taking oral contraceptives (ocs). Eighty - five percent of cases occur in young women; hca is rare in children, men, and the elderly [15]. The incidence of hca is about 3 - 4 per 100,000 populations in europe and north america... |
We collected data on confirmed human q fever cases in taiwan that occurred during 20042012 from the notifiable infectious diseases statistics system established by the centers for disease control and prevention of taiwan (taiwan cdc), which is an open and public website (http://nidss.cdc.gov.tw/ch/singledisease.aspx?dc... |
The experiments were performed on a 700 mhz bruker avance iii system equipped with a tci cryo - probe . The spin - noise - detected two - dimensional hmqc (snhmqc) spectrum shown was recorded on 99% c - enriched glucose in h2o (0.648 mol l) in a 5 mm nmr tube using the scheme of figure 1, with the following parameters:... |
Mathematical modeling is a powerful tool to describe complex biological processes, formalize interactions between components, analyze temporal dynamics, and predict the effects of perturbations (kitano, 2002). Modeling has been used to describe liver functions and dynamics in mammals under normal and pathological condi... |
The use of icodextrin (ico) has been characterized as one of the major achievements in peritoneal dialysis (pd). Ico - based peritoneal dialysis solutions have been used successfully by pd practitioners for two decades . Ico is an isoosmolar alternative osmotic agent that induces ultrafiltration (uf) in peritoneal dial... |
Parkinson's disease (pd) is a progressive and incurable neurodegenerative disorder affecting 1% of people over 65 years and recognized clinically by its motor symptoms, such as bradykinesia, rest tremor, rigidity, and postural instability [13]. In recent years, nonmotor symptoms in pd patients, including neuropsychiatr... |
Premalignant lesions are characterized by abnormal cellular or epithelial architecture in the areas surrounding the junction between the squamous and columnar epithelium (transformation zone) of the uterine cervix . Papanicolaou (pap) smear cytology has remained an important tool in the screening for cervical cancer . ... |
Small cell carcinoma (scc) is defined as a neuroendocrine tumor originating from multipotential stem cells with the capability of divergent differentiation . It has rarely been found at extrapulmonary sites such as the trachea, larynx, thymus, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, colon, prostate, gallbladder, skin, bre... |
It includes fat, fibrous tissues, voluntary and involuntary muscles, blood vessels and also peripheral nerves . Different kinds of tumors, both benign as well as malignant, can arise from these tissues and are named according to their apparent resemblance to mature tissues . Soft tissue tumors can involve any part of t... |
Leiomyosarcoma is a malignant soft tissue tumor that can arise from any tissue containing smooth muscle . However, leiomyosarcoma arising in paratesticular tissue is extremely rare and approximately only 10% of all paratesticular sarcomas are leiomyosarcomas . The primary treatment for this tumor is radical orchiectomy... |
Dyslipidemia is an important etiological factor in the development of cardiovascular disease (cvd), which is the leading cause of deaths for adults . Dyslipidemia is mainly characterized by elevated levels of triglycerides (tgs), increased low - density lipoprotein cholesterol (ldl - c), and reduced high - density lipo... |
Dentigerous cysts are a common type of odontogenic cyst in the jaw that arise from degenerative changes in the enamel epithelium and are accompanied by an accumulation of fluid between the crown of the tooth and the lining epithelium1 . They present as a single lesion, but bilateral or multiple lesions are usually foun... |
A 55-year - old woman presented with diplopia that had developed 12 days prior . The diplopia was preceded five days earlier by malaise and two days earlier by tingling sensation and pain in the right shoulder . Three days after the occurrence of paresthesia, the patient developed multiple painful vesicular eruptions o... |
Anisakiasis, a well - known disease occurring in humans, is caused by ingestion of anisakid larvae in dishes with raw marine fish and squids . Post - consumption, the third stage larvae can penetrate the stomach and intestinal walls, leading to such symptoms as stomach pain, fever, diarrhea, vomiting, or even, in cases... |
Nanostructures made of organic semiconductors are attracting a burgeoning interest due to their potential application in micro- and nanoscale photonic and electronic devices such as field effect transistors, light - emitting diodes, and photo- or chemical sensors . Several studies have shown that organic semiconductor ... |
Patients with mixed type evans syndrome are very rarely seen and it is difficult to manage them . Although mixed type evans syndrome may initially respond well to steroids, it usually runs a chronic course with intermittent exacerbations (1, 2). Rituximab, a chimaeric monoclonal antibody against cd20 that depletes b ce... |
After informed consent, participants who met the inclusion criteria were enrolled in the study . Each participant underwent complete ophthalmic examination including review of medical history, best corrected visual acuity, slit lamp biomicroscopy, intraocular pressure (iop) measurement using goldmann applanation tonome... |
Subject areabiologymore specific subject areastructural biologytype of data3d x - ray imageshow data was acquired3d micro - computed - tomography (skyscan 1172, bruker, kontich, belgium)data formatreconstructedexperimental factorsmice bones were dissected, the soft tissue partially removed and stored in an ethanol envi... |
Many epidemiologic studies have shown that serum cholesterol levels are strongly related to cardiovascular risk ., consequently lowering cholesterol levels is a fundamental prognostic goal in the primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular events . The 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl - coenzime a reductase inhibitors... |
While various international studies report high numbers for the prevalence of suicidal thought, suicide attempts and psychological problems among medical students,,,,,, the topic has received little attention in germany so far . This review aims to present the frequency and epidemiology of suicidality among medical stu... |
Csf (cerebrospinal fluid), which circulates within the ventricles of the brain and subarachnoid space, reflects the physiological and pathological conditions of the central nervous system . In fact, csf proteins are used as biomarkers to diagnose neurological diseases such as idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (i... |
Crusted scabies was described by boeck and danielssen among lepers in norway in 1848, and named as scabies norvegi boeki by von hebra in 1862 . Crusted scabies is characterized by hyperkeratosis and crusting of the skin due to the profuse proliferation of mites resulting from an altered host response to the infestation... |
Incomplete seating of crowns after cementation is a well - known phenomenon and the ensuing complications have been described9 . An ill - fitting margin may contribute to increase plaque retention and compromise gingival health by causing alterations in gingival microbiota11, also leading to cement washout and loss of ... |
We reviewed the clinical records of 326 patients with the diagnosis of diabetes (age range at diagnosis 118 years), each consecutively referred to the pediatric diabetes clinic at san raffaele hospital during the years 20032006 . Among these 326, we identified 24 patients who were negative for all the common type 1 dia... |
Animals - male balb / c mice, aged four - five weeks, were obtained from the animal facility of the oswaldo cruz foundation (fiocruz) (rio de janeiro, brazil). Chemicals and antibodies - rpmi-1640 culture medium, bovine serum albumin, penicillin, streptomycin, 2-mercaptoethanol, l - glutamine, trypsin, o - phenylenedia... |
After exclusion of non - white uk cases and samples of poor quality, vq58 comprised 1,432 crc cases (896 males, mean age of diagnosis 62.4 years; sd 10.7) from the victor and quasar2 trials . There were 2,697 population control genotypes (1,391 males,) from the wellcome trust case - control consortium 2 (wtccc2) 1958 b... |
Composting is the simplest traditional animal manure management technology that depends on the degradation of organic matter by the microbial community within manure itself (bernal et al ., 2009). Easily degradable organic matter would be utilized as the energy source, and co2, nh3 and moisture would be emitted and wou... |
A 63-year - old man with a 20-year history of diabetes mellitus was referred for surgical treatment of rhegmatogenous retinal detachments in both eyes . His chief complaint was the deterioration of visual acuity in both eyes that had begun four days prior to his presentation . His visual acuity allowed only the visuali... |
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