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Osteoarthritis (oa) affects over 27 million adults in the united states today, and the prevalence is expected to increase to 67 million by 2030 . The pathogenesis of osteoarthritis is likely multifactorial involving mechanical, biological, biochemical, and genetic factors [14]. These factors can all contribute to progr...
Coronary cameral fistula (ccf) is the unusual anomalous communications between an epicardial coronary artery and a cardiac chamber . Coronary artery - left ventricular fistula is an extremely rare condition with a reported incidence of 1.2% of all coronary artery fistulas (caf).1)2) there have been some case reports of...
Allgrove (aaa) syndrome is an autosomal recessive disorder characterised by achalasia cardia, alacrimia and adrenocorticotropic hormone (acth) resistant adrenal insufficiency, which generally presents in the first decade of life . In addition to the above cardinal manifestations, it may be associated with autonomic neu...
Emphysematous cystitis (ec) is a rare infection of the urinary tract that results in gas production in the bladder . It is more common in diabetic and female patients, and can be associated with more serious complications, including pyelonephritis . We describe a case of recurrent bacterial cystitis caused by escherich...
Pancreas - wide mafa deletion mutant mice were generated using the cre - loxp mediated recombination system . A conditional mafa allele was generated using a targeting vector consisting of two loxp sites inserted into the 5 (psti site [699 bp] and 3 (kpni site [1,658 bp]) end of the mafa exon (supplementary fig . 1a in...
Nontraumatic clavicular lesions, on the other hand, are rare and are difficult to diagnosis . It can also occur as a complication of head and neck surgery and subclavian catheter placement . We describe this case in a 61-year - old male who presented with a discharging sinus since 2 years at his left shoulder tip with ...
In spite of initial success of eradication treatment for helicobacter pylori in peptic ulcer diseases using combination of a proton pump inhibitor and antibiotics, emergence of antibiotics resistance in recent years, leads to frequent treatment failure in at least 10 - 20% of the patients . Nonantibiotic therapies, inc...
Localized lymphoid hyperplasia is also called " pseudolymphoma ", and this has been found in various organs, including the skin, orbit, thyroid, breast, lung, gastrointestinal tract, liver and pancreas (1 - 6). It is characterized by the presence of hyperplastic lymphoid follicles with populations of polymorphic and po...
Morbid obesity is a serious social problem that decreases the quality of life while increasing the mortality and morbidity rates compared to healthy individuals . In south korea, as the number of severely obese patients has been increasing each year, the number of subjects undergoing bariatric surgery is also increasin...
None of the authors have competing financial interests, but rjr and mcs have collaborated extensively with scientists from pacific biosciences leading to several publications cited in the text.
Loss of fracture resistance of the tooth structure following root canal treatment and mod cavity preparation is one of the most complicated dental problems . When tooth fracture occurs below cej, it may need more complex treatments for restoration or even lead to tooth loss in future . When tooth is weakened and cusps ...
Vitamin b1, or thiamine, is an important dietary factor for the human metabolism . The phosphorylated form, thiamine pyrophosphate (tpp), serves as cofactor for several vital metabolic processes, most importantly the conversion of pyruvate to acetyl coenzyme a and the conversion of a - ketoglutarate to succinyl coenzym...
Gentiana decumbens l.f ., is one of about 360 gentiana species, well known for their pharmacological properties and decorative flowers . It is a diploid (2n = 2x = 26) perennial herb growing on grassland slopes and dry steppes of kazakhstan, mongolia, russia, and china (ho and pringle 1995). According to the classifica...
Endobronchial ultrasound (ebus) is a well - established technique for visualizing structures around the major airways . Enlarged mediastinal nodes and masses can be seen and sampled with the help of an ultrasound probe at the tip of the bronchoscope . While looking for these lesions the major vessels in the chest namel...
The bladder was removed from adult guinea pigs of either sex weighing 250 to 600 gm . The animals had been sacrificed by cervical dislocation or injection with pentobarbitone in accordance with schedule 1 united kingdom home office regulations . Cells were plated to the bottom of a recording bath and constantly perfuse...
The water industry faces a huge challenge in supplying a sustainable and safe supply of drinking water to a growing world population . Increasing demand has promoted the reuse of various water sources, including wastewater . However, increasing urbanization and changes in agricultural practices are linked to anthropoge...
Vitiligo is defined as a specific, common, often heritable, and acquired dermatological disorder characterized by well - circumscribed, milky - white cutaneous macules and patches devoid of identifiable melanocytes . It usually begins in childhood or adolescence, with peak onset at 10 to 30 years, but it may occur at a...
Alzheimer s disease (ad) is characterized by the presence in the brain of hallmark lesions such as a plaques, abnormal these lesions follow a specific pattern of regional and cellular vulnerability, with characteristic distribution patterns of a deposits and subtype - specific neuronal susceptibility to nft pathology a...
It has been considered a successful procedure to correct varus malalignment by shifting the weight - bearing axis to the unaffected lateral knee compartment . Brouwer et al.2), in their cochrane review, analyzed 13 high quality studies to demonstrate the efficacy of hto . They suggested that knee osteotomy was an effec...
For intraabdominal dissection of tissue, the harmonic scalpel (ethicon endo surgery, cincinnati, oh, usa) has been increasingly used worldwide during laparoscopic procedures over the past several years as an alternative to electrical energy sources, such as monopolar or bipolar dissection; or other vessel coagulation t...
Public health relies on comprehensive analyses of quality data to improve the health outcomes of people within a particular socio - political geographical boundary[13]. This assumes that public health officials can achieve their goals simply by selecting, implementing, and evaluating cost - effective intervention for p...
A 47-year - old woman was admitted to our hospital with a huge inhomogenous abdominal mass found by computed tomography (figure 1a b). She had presented with discomfort and swelling in the left upper abdomen for 2 years . The huge encapsulated tumor that originated in the left retroperitoneum was completely removed en ...
Muscle invasive cancer bladder is ideally treated with radical cystectomy followed by a suitable urinary diversion . In women, radical cystectomy entails en block excision of the bladder, urethra, distal ureteral segments, draining lymph nodes and most of the internal genital organs, including the uterus, ovaries and a...
Bone training also known as progressive bone loading was first advocated by nentwig and misch based primarily on emperical grounds . Conventional bone loading in full occlusion with porcelain restorations, especially in poor quality bone has been reported to cause crestal bone loss and at times failure of the implant ....
Obstructive sleep apnea (osa) and obesity hypoventilation syndrome (ohs) are severe sleep - related breathing disorders that in total affect> 5% of the adult population . These disorders are associated with significant morbidities, mortality, and consequently significant societal burden.14 the danish national database ...
In recent years the incidence of potentially preventable medical errors has increased in line with the rising complexity of medical care (1). These errors result in an increased burden in terms of patient morbidity and mortality and on healthcare finances . It has been well recognised that a high standard of communicat...
Community- and organization - based research studies, which are conducted by directly involving local participants or indigenous researchers mainly for transforming social inequalities, have been described as action research (ar), participatory research (pr), participatory action research (par), or community based part...
While many countries such as the republic of korea have established their own nutritional standards, collectively termed nutrient reference values (nrvs), they vary due to the science which was reviewed in establishing them, the purposes for which they are developed, and issues related to nutrition and food policy in t...
Hepatitis a virus (hav) is continues to be a serious health problem worldwide with an estimated 1.5 million cases annually . Hav is a self - limited disease in adults that causes significant morbidity, with long absence from work for several weeks . Fulminant hepatitis leads to possible hospitalization and occasionally...
Cerebral palsy (cp) is one of the most common causes of disability in children (1). This disease includes a group of motor development and postural disorders that are created due to non - progressive brain damage during embryonic development in the first four weeks after birth or neonatal period, and results in a serie...
Hepatitis has been described as a medical illness defined by the inflammation of the liver and manifested by the appearance of inflammatory cells in the liver tissues (1, 2). Generally speaking, the clinical symptoms of hepatitis include poor appetite, nausea or vomiting, diarrhea, jaundice and malaise (3, 4). It has b...
Every pregnancy faces risks and every minute of every day, somewhere in the world, a woman dies as a result of complications arising during pregnancy and childbirth . The majority of these deaths are avoidable by accessing quality maternal health service [1, 2]. Globally, in year 2010, an estimated 287 000 maternal dea...
Acute pancreatitis is an inflammatory process that develops from damage to pancreatic acinar cells, which is caused by inappropriate activation of digestive enzymes within the cells . The mechanisms by which diverse etiological factors initiate an attack are unclear . The wide range of clinical presentations is based o...
Men with the lowest weight at birth had the highest death rates from ischemic heart disease . The risk of dying from myocardial infarction at 60 years was doubled in men with birth weight of 2500 g or less compared with birth weight of 4300 g or higher . The nurses health study provided strong evidence of an associatio...
Along with the substantial growth of the elderly population thanks to the improved life expectancy, there is an in increase in the number of elderly patients receiving hip hemiarthroplasty due to femoral neck fractures . Bone cement is widely used to fix the artificial prostheses in the hip joint of the elderly patient...
When an infected or traumatized immature tooth has vital pulps, the general consensus for clinical treatment is to preserve normal pulp tissue by using traditional apexogenesis or recent alternative revascularization to allow complete formation of the root . The success rate for the apexogenesis was reported as high as...
Inguinal hernias are common, resulting in> 20 million inguinal hernia operations performed annually worldwide . The recurrence rate for inguinal hernias declined after the introduction of mesh techniques, but an optimal surgical technique to also decrease chronic pain is warranted . Surgeons mostly use permanent meshes...
The occurrence of isolated gain of a chromosome is reported in 6 - 7% of human malignancies; the most common of which in myeloid neoplasms are chromosomes 8, 9, 13, and 21 . Trisomy 14 (+ 14) as the sole cytogenetic abnormality is rather uncommon and has been reported in the setting of myeloid neoplasms [29]. Among the...
Branch (brvo) and central (crvo) retinal vein occlusions (rvos) are the second most common retinal vascular disorders, occurring in 0.6%1.1% and 0.1%0.4% of patients in australian and american populations, respectively.1,2 decreased blood flow through the retinal vasculature results in tissue ischemia, upregulates vasc...
Systemic sclerosis or scleroderma is an autoimmune disease whose main clinical symptom is thickening and hardening of the skin . It may involve several vital organs (for example, the lung, heart, kidney, esophagus and intestine) and lead to progressive irreversible fibrosis in connective tissue [1, 2, 3, 4]. The histol...
We report a case of a man with behet's disease (bd) with unusual manifestations and rare complications, discovered by an intracardiac thrombus associated with a pulmonary embolism . A 31-year - old man who had previously received a diagnosis of bd was admitted to our hospital with a 3 weeks history of dyspnea, cough, o...
Penile cancer is an uncommon malignancy in europe and north america with a reported incidence of 0.1 to 0.9 per 100 000 men [1, 2]. However, in developing countries the incidence is higher and reaches 50 per 100 000 men in north - eastern brazilian states . This various worldwide distribution depends on age, circumcisi...
Hydrotropic solubilization, the technique whereby the addition of one solute significantly promotes the solubility of another, has been widely applied to this end [35]. Yet, the nature and mechanisms of hydrotropic solubilization remain elusive and a topic of debate, especially with regard to the structural diversity o...
The oral / enteral route of supplementation is preferable to the parenteral route in most burn patients as it maintains the trophism of the gastrointestinal tract . It promotes the release of intestinal hormones and growth factors, directly nourishes the gastrointestinal tract, and may help reverse the defective gut ba...
A 53-year - old man presented with a sudden onset of severe diffuse headache followed by dizziness . The patient had no remarkable medical history, except for hypertension, and had not suffered from any recent head trauma . On clinical examination, there was no focal neurological deficit . A noncontrast ct scan of the ...
Among patients discharged after an acute coronary event (acs), rates of depression are as high as 20% and 45%.1,2 however, rates of depressive symptoms among patients recently discharged after cardiac procedures such as coronary angiography have not been well studied . Patients with depression are at increased risk for...
Post - weaning individual housing induces significant alterations in social behaviors of laboratory rats compared with socially housed (i.e., group - housed) rats [1, 3, 5,6,7, 15, 20, 21]. Our previous study showed that adult male rats that were housed individually after weaning emitted fewer ultrasonic vocalizations ...
Bone marrow (bm) fibrosis develops in association with various conditions in addition to hematologic - neoplasms such as primary myelofibrosis (pmf), including autoimmune disease, vitamin d deficiency, and human immunodeficiency virus infection (1). Marrow fibrosis is thought to result from the activity of cytokines pr...
A 67-year - old male presented with a four - week history of blurred vision in the left eye . The patient initially presented to his primary - care physician who attributed the visual decline to a cataract . Past medical history was significant for adequately controlled hypertension . On referral to ophthalmology, the ...
The nhis is a cross - sectional household interview survey that has been conducted annually since 1957 across the u.s . The survey is implemented by the national center for health statistics (nchs) and uses a multistage area probability design among the noninstitutionalized u.s . The sample included 27,712 adults (18 y...
Key says that the wounds in this war are being treated better because we are substituting sulfa drugs for dakin s solution . Dr . Key has shown that patients have recovered after sulfa drugs by some such equation as this: an infected wound plus drainage plus sulfa drugs plus something else and you get a recovery . Key ...
Intrauterine insemination (iui) is the first therapeutic step in assisted reproductive techniques, and is especially appropriate for cases with mild male factor infertility, anovulation, endometriosis with at least one patent tube, and unexplained infertility (1). Among the assisted reproductive techniques, iui is cons...
Diabetic retinopathy remains the major threat to sight in the working age population in the developed world . Furthermore, it is increasing as a major cause of blindness in other parts of the world especially in developing countries . Diabetic macular edema (dme) is a manifestation of diabetic retinopathy that produces...
It is important to have complete information about the anatomy of the anterior segment of the mandible before performing any surgical procedure at this site . Despite the general belief that the interforaminal area of the mandible should be considered safe for placing implants and other surgeries, detailed anatomy of t...
The concept of probiotics was introduced in early 20 century by elie metschnikoff1, it however, gained momentum in recent past with considerable growth in functional food market . India is fast emerging as a potential market for probiotics in food with the major players / suppliers being nestle, mother dairy, danisco, ...
An 83-year - old woman presented with a complaint of epiphora from her left eye . The patient returned three months after surgery, complaining of a mass at her previous skin incision site . According to the patient's history, the mass had noticeably increased in size over the previous two months . Upon examination, a d...
Squamous cell carcinoma is the most common type of oral cancer that more frequently involves the posterior, lateral and ventral surfaces of the tongue . Angiogenesis, the formation of new capillary vessels from pre - existing ones, is essential for the progression of most solid tumors . Tumor progression has also been ...
Male wistar rats (250275 g; harlan, indianapolis, in) were individually housed and provided with ad libitum access to water and a high - fat diet (hfd) (60 kcal% from fat, d12492; research diets, new brunswick, nj) for 8 weeks before study . Lean la / n rats (vassar college, poughkeepsie, ny) were maintained on standar...
The yoga my heart study was a single center study that brought to light the therapeutic impact a noninvasive, medication - free intervention has on a costly disease . Atrial fibrillation (af) is a common cardiac arrhythmia that affects two to three million people worldwide . It is associated with significant morbidity ...
Several root canal filling materials are used for root canal obturation but gutta percha along with a sealer is still the most commonly used material for root filling . Bacteria remaining within the root canal system are an important factor responsible for treatment failure [2, 3]. It is important to remove as much sea...
. Only multiple isolated case reports and single institution series have been published since first described by moore in 1857 . However, anorectal malignant melanoma, accounting for 0.4%-1.6% of all melanoma, is the third most common malignant melanoma behind skin and retina melanoma . Common initial symptoms of anore...
In the holy month of ramadan muslims avoid eating, drinking and smoking from dawn (sahar) to sunset (iftar). Thus, lifestyle and eating habits of fasting individuals change during this month . In the holy month of ramadan, most physiological changes seen during ramadan fasting are possibly related to the altered food p...
Electrical failure during cardiopulmonary bypass (cpb) is an undesired situation with possible catastrophic consequences in the operating room . Its incidence is estimated to be 1 per 1000 cases, fortunately with low morbidity and mortality . During 2000 routine cpb cases in our institution within the period of 4 years...
Over the first decade of the 21st century, ethiopia reported little change in maternal health, with a maternal mortality ratio between 673 and 676 per 100,000 live births1,2 and a stillbirth rate between 4.2% and 7.9%.3 given that maternal and fetal outcomes have been shown to improve when there is a skilled birth atte...
A descriptive population - based cross - sectional study . Consecutively admitted substance abusers for detoxification treatment that had abused substances intravenously in the past 30 days before admission were asked to participate in the study . Participants were recruited from all 3 detoxification centers in iceland...
The treatment of vitiligo is not well codified and often results are stressful and unsatisfying . A wide range of therapeutic options have been proposed including topical corticosteroids, ultraviolet radiations, either psoralens with ultraviolet a (puva) or narrowband - ultraviolet b (nb - uvb), lasers, surgical treatm...
This study was supported by national institutes of health grants u54 hl108460, p30ca0123100 - 29s5, and u54ca132379 to the university of california, san diego . Dr . Nodora is supported by an american cancer society mentored research scholar grant . The study funders had no role in the design of the study; the collecti...
The first paper discussing the concept of night guard bleaching was published in 1986 by haywood and heymann, after which the night guard bleaching has been gaining popularity . Carbamide peroxide in the concentration ranging from 10% to 22% is the most common for athome treatment / night guard vital bleaching / matrix...
The metastasis are bilateral in approximately 80% of the cases and in approximately two - thirds of all cases, autopsy and surgical combined . The median interval between the diagnosis of breast cancer and the ovarian metastasis is 11.5 months and is related to the stage of the breast cancer . The median survival after...
The prevalence of depression in people with diabetes, like in other chronic diseases, is higher than in people without this disease, affecting approximately one in every 6 people with type 2 diabetes . Depression was found to decrease the quality of life [57], to increase mortality rates and health care related costs i...
Stiff - person syndrome (sps) is a rare neurologic disorder first reported by moersch and woltman in 1956 characterized by progressive fluctuating muscular rigidity, stiffness and spasms . Its prevalence is estimated to be around 1 - 2 cases per million and incidence is estimated to be around 1 case per million per yea...
Leptospirosis continues to be a significant threat to food producing animals; in 2010 of the 8,681 suspected serum samples examined in the uk by the animal health and veterinary laboratories agencies (ahvla) 2,946 were identified as being seropositive for leptospira . Approximately 59% (1736) of these seropositive samp...
Hispanics are the fastest growing minority group in the united states and in the state of north carolina [13]. As the hispanic population has grown in north carolina, so have the hiv cases among them . Eight percent of newly diagnosed hiv cases in north carolina in 2008 were among hispanics . Hiv prevalence among hispa...
Helminth infections invariably invoke th2-like immune responses in mammalian hosts, characterised by production of ige, igg1, mucosal mast cells, and eosinophils . In addition, we have recently shown that the peptide bradykinin is significantly increased in abomasal mucus during helminth challenge in immune sheep . Bra...
Specimens of b. variegata (n = 12) were obtained from a commercial source as captive - bred metamorphs and were raised to maturity in our vivarium for a period of 18 months . Secretions were washed from toads with distilled deionized water, snap frozen in liquid nitrogen, and lyophilized . A 5-mg sample of lyophilized ...
In recent years, oral health in developed countries has improved, with the majority of people keeping more sound teeth for longer duration [17]. In particular, considerable interest has been directed at detecting caries at early stages, with the development of the international caries detection and assessment system (i...
Ziehl neelsen (zn) method for acid - fast bacilli (afb) plays a key role in the diagnosis and also for the monitoring of treatment in tuberculosis . Mycobacterial culture is the reference method for detection of tubercle bacilli, but it is time consuming and requires specialized safety procedures in laboratories . Sero...
Primary adrenal insufficiency has a prevalence of 90140 per million, and the estimated prevalence of secondary and tertiary (central) adrenal insufficiency is 150280 per million.1 any process that involves the hypothalamus and interferes with corticotrophin - releasing hormone (crh) secretion, such as hypothalamic tumo...
Increased susceptibility to infectious diseases is a hallmark of advancing age and is associated with reduced functions of a variety of immune cells [16]. Among these cells are macrophages, which play critical roles in the first line of host defense against pathogenic microorganisms [16]. Macrophages use toll - like re...
Gingival recession is the displacement of the gingival margin apical to the cemento - enamel junction with oral exposure of the root surface . Gingival recession may occur on one or all surfaces of a tooth and may affect a localized area or have a more generalized distribution within a dentition . Although many conditi...
It may be required to ensure patency of the airway in the lateral position in certain circumstances . Some patients who require airway support need to be tracheally intubated with an endotracheal tube to maintain airway patency as soon as possible . Several studies have shown successful ventilation in lateral position ...
In terms of understanding the pathogenesis of pulmonary emphysema, the use of papain to experimentally induce the disease represented an initial breakthrough (gross et al 1964). Originally intended as a possible treatment for interstitial pulmonary fibrosis, intratracheal instillment of papain this finding had added si...
Stanowi niezaleny czynnik ryzyka zgonu, zwaszcza gdy wymaga zastosowania leczenia nerkozastpczego (renal replacement therapy rrt). Niewiele jest prac podejmujcych problem czasu wczenia oraz wyboru metody leczenia nerkozastpczego, zwaszcza u pacjentw hospitalizowanych na polskich oddziaach intensywnej terapii . W zwizku...
Trace metal ions have important roles in our life because of involving a wide spectrum of activities . Iron, manganese, and zinc are essential trace elements, having several roles in many body functions . Sample preparation is a key procedure in modern chemical analysis because it is one of the most time consuming and ...
Worldwide, an increasing number of people carry cell phones and utilize the vibration mode to ensure silence in quiet areas . Extensive use of this mode may be associated with the perception that the phone is vibrating when it is not, ie, the phantom vibration syndrome (pvs). A 2010 study by rothberg et al1 found that ...
Contrast - induced nephropathy (cin) is the third leading cause of acute kidney injury (aki) in hospitalized patients . It is associated with significant morbidity and mortality . As a result of extensive use of contrast agents, the burden of this complication is increasing . The incidence of cin is reported to be 0.62...
In the us, 30,000 people are diagnosed with type 1 diabetes (t1d) each year, and the incidence in children is steadily increasing.1,2 t1d results from profound insulin deficiency secondary to autoimmune destruction of insulin - producing pancreatic -cells and insulin replacement can return these patients to a euglycemi...
Nail changes associated with chemotherapy in general, and particularly with taxane and epidermal growth factor receptor inhibitor - based regimens, are common presentations in our clinical population . Currently, there are no consensuses about therapies supported by clinical trials nor are there any us food and drug ad...
Benedict was a double - blind, randomized, placebo - controlled study aimed to assess whether ace inhibitors and nondihydropyridine calcium - channel blockers, alone or in combination, prevent microalbuminuria in subjects with type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and normal urinary albumin excretion at baseline (13). Patient...
A synovial cyst is defined as a ganglion or soft tissue tumor of a joint, which arises from the deep serous bursa and leads to leakage of synovial fluid from the joint to the surrounding tissues . It is usually seen at the dorsum of wrist and the popliteal fossa.1 the proximal tibiofibular joint (ptfj) is a rare locati...
It is estimated that the prevalence of urinary incontinence (ui) is 10% to 25% in the female population between the ages of 15 and 64 years . Of women older than 60 years, 37% experience some form of ui . Urinary incontinence has been classified as stress ui when patients complain of involuntary leakage upon effort or ...
The study was approved by the vanderbilt institutional review board, and written informed consent was obtained from all participants . From march 2005 through november 2009, we recruited patients aged between 18 and 60 years from the vanderbilt center for surgical weight loss (nashville, tn) after approval for rygb . S...
The articular cartilage is a unique connective tissue that furnishes the diarthrodial joints with an exceptional resiliency and almost frictionless movement owing to its distinctive structural, biochemical and metabolic characteristics1 . Cartilage is a highly differentiated tissue with no direct blood, lymph or nerve ...
These restorations should protect pulp and periodontal tissues, provide occlusal function and stability, and esthetics . In addition, interim restorations may be used for providing diagnostic information, changing the vertical dimension, correcting the occlusal plane, and altering the gingival contours especially for i...
It is estimated that, by 2050, 2.5 billion persons or two - thirds of the global population will be urbanites . Most of the increase is projected to occur in low- and middle - income populations [1, 2]. As of 2014, 80% of the population of latin america and the caribbean (lac) was already residing in urban centers . Me...
Cdse qds were synthesized by fast injection of selenium dissolved in trioctylphosphine (top) solution into a four - necked flask containing cadmium oxide (cdo) in trioctylphosphine oxide (topo) and n - octadecylphosphonic acid (odpa) at 350 c under argon atmosphere . Cdse / cds qds and nrs were synthesized following pr...
Quantitative and semi - quantitative methods have confirmed the presence of aluminum in human brain tissue . Recent research has highlighted some of the difficulties in obtaining reliable and reproducible quantitative data for brain aluminum content and specifically in relation to its heterogeneous distribution or tend...
Zirconia ceramic is an alternative to metal restorations in prosthetic treatments and is used for the fabrication of all - ceramic restorations due to its favorable optical and biomechanical properties and biocompatibility . Pure zirconia is an unstable compound of zirconia dioxide; therefore, yttria stabilized tetrago...
A total of 938 women enrolled in an early cervical cancer detection program were subjected to cervicovaginal cytology . Two cervical smears were simultaneously prepared from each enrollee, one of which was processed as a cp smear and the other used for an lbp . The samples for the lbp were obtained with a specially des...