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Tumour diameter as measured on longitudinal computed tomography (ct) images is commonly used in oncology clinical trials and clinical practice to assess therapy response . Over the past 3 decades, ct technology and computer hardware / software have improved significantly . With today's sub - millimetre isotropic spatia... |
For many years, the so - called central dogma of molecular biology has been dominant in cancer research, as well as in all other bio - medical fields . This dogma assumes that the information flow in a cell is uniquely directed from dna to rna to protein, and that proteins are ultimately responsible for cell phenotype ... |
Incidence of transverse vaginal septum varies from l: 21000 to 1:72000 and may be present in lower, middle, and upper thirds in 19%, 35%, and 46% of patients, respectively . Vertical fusion / canalization disorder of mullerian ducts and urogenital sinus result in partial / complete vaginal septum of various thickness (... |
An 11yearold 473 kg quarter horse mare was referred to new bolton center at the university of pennsylvania for evaluation of collapse . Collapse episodes ranged from leaning against the wall to complete recumbency and did not appear to be associated with any premonitory signs . Initial treatment by the referring veteri... |
Ta edison once said that,' to invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk .' Noncoding dna, representing 98.5% of the human genome, is known as' junk' dna and includes transposons and regulatory sequences . True to edison's observation, the patient investigation of such junk has led to the development of tra... |
Urinary tract infection (uti) is the most widespread infection in women worldwide after intestinal infection . Utis affect an estimated 1 out of 3 women before the age of 24 [2, 3]. Up to 40 to 50% of the female population will develop a symptomatic uti at some time during their lives [2, 3] or develop complicated utis... |
Autobiographical memory (am) defines the memory systems that encode, consolidate, and retrieve personal events and facts . Behavioral and brain imaging studies of am have become increasingly popular as an example of ecological experimental paradigms . Indeed, am allows the investigation of real - life memories, which a... |
The climate change of recent decades has led to heritable genetic changes in animal species as diverse as birds, squirrels and mosquitoes (bradshaw and holzapfel, 2006). Long - term changes in chromosomal inversion polymorphisms in drosophila species suggest that the genetic constitution of populations is responding to... |
At present, a majority of researchers seem to agree that crowding is related to the integration of feature signals over an inappropriately large area in the visual periphery (e.g., levi, hariharan, & klein, 2002; pelli, palomares, & majaj, 2004). However, the rules of this integration are far from being understood . Mo... |
Acute kidney injury (aki) affects a significant proportion of critically ill children . Using a revised aki definition, a recent study indicated that up to 10% of all children admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit (picu) suffer some degree of kidney injury . The kidney is central to numerous homeostatic mechani... |
Hypertension increases the attendant risks of heart disease stroke and is the major cause of morbidity and mortality due to cvds . More than a quarter of the world's adult population had hypertension in the year 2000 and is projected to increase by 29% in 2025 . A high prevalence of hypertension was shown in hypothyroi... |
Diffusion - weighted imaging (dwi) is an advanced, functional magnetic resonance (mr) technique that has revolutionized diagnostic imaging . Although the first diffusion - weighted mr sequences were described as early as 1965 by stejskal and tanner, the demanding hard- and software requirements delayed introduction int... |
Animals: the experiment was approved by the animal care and use committee at the hidaka training and research center of the jra . Forty - eight clinically healthy thoroughbred horses (24 males, 24 females; age, 2 years old) were used for the study . The animals had been purchased for sale in the following year s traine... |
The skeleton represents a common site of metastases for prostate and breast cancer with approximately 70% of the patients dying of these cancers showing evidence of metastatic bone disease at autopsy . In addition, carcinomas of thyroid, kidney and lung cancer metastasize to bone, albeit at lower frequency (30% to 40% ... |
Human glioblastoma (gbm) accounts for approximately 6070% of malignant gliomas, the most common and deadly brain tumors . Despite improvements in standard therapies including surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy, the poor prognosis of patients with gbm has not been obviously improved . Immunotherapy represents a promis... |
One of the critical factors in dental restorations is high quality finishing and polishing which improves its longevity and esthetic quality . Improper surface finishing of restorations can result in plaque accumulation, gingival inflammation, periodontal problems, demineralization of enamel, staining, caries, and poor... |
The disease is manifested by limitation to total failure of the movement of tmj usually resulting post trauma and post surgery in the majority of cases or due to local infection such as otitis media and mastoiditis or systemic infection such as tuberculosis, scarlet fever and gonorrhea, or systemic disease such as anky... |
Stress is a physical response that results from danger or other changes that cause a physical reaction . The hypothalamo - pituitary - adrenal axis is stimulated if the stress continues and cortisol is released from the adrenal cortex . Typical in clinical settings is that prolonged stress impairs immune function and i... |
The prevalence of chronic tinnitus increases with age, peaking at 14.3% in people 6069 years of age . The increase in prevalence of tinnitus with age is at least partly explained by the fact that hearing loss (hl) is an important risk factor for tinnitus; 12% of people experiencing tinnitus develop anxiety, sleep disor... |
On the basis of the antisecretory and antiproliferative effects of somatostatin [somatotroph release inhibitory factor (srif)] and its analogs on normal and neoplastic endocrine cells, these compounds have been widely used in the medical field . Many studies have demonstrated that they activate several intracellular pa... |
Single nucleotide polymorphisms (snps) are the most common form of genetic variation in the human genome, and are the marker of choice for disease association studies due to their prevalence and ease of genotyping . Large - scale snp genotyping arrays are improving the speed and volume of genomic research . Whilst thes... |
In 1998, the zwolle outpatient diabetes project integrating available care (zodiac) study was initiated in the netherlands . In the first year, 1,143 patients with type 2 diabetes were included in this prospective observational study . Briefly, the objective was to investigate the effects of a shared - care project for... |
We report a comatose patient with severe neurological deficits who was without spontaneous language or movement . He had a good response to recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (rtpa) thrombolysis even though there were no detectable lesions on diffusion - weighted imaging (dwi). Dwi is very sensitive for diagnosin... |
That intelligent people of good will can often disagree is one of life s sometimes more painful lessons . I need to fix it and its many imitators (their combined number of online views being more than a million) suggests that the privilege of learning this lesson is not denied to physicians . My own experience working ... |
Propofol is widely used in anesthesia at intensive care units and out - patients - unit procedures due to its short term sedation effects and safe pharmacodynamics . However, propofol infusion syndrome (pris) was suspected in pediatric patients in the 1990s1) and then bray et al.2) introduced the term first in 1998 . P... |
Cognitive impairment is a common problem in the elderly and an important predictor of dementia (dsm - iv). Epidemiological studies indicate that hyperinsulinemia and insulin - resistance, which characterize type 2 diabetes, may cause cognitive dysfunction [2, 3]. Insulin - resistance is also a feature of the metabolic ... |
First of all is the possible increase of efficacy of the therapeutic effect, especially when drugs in sequence differ in their mechanism of action, but give similar effects . Secondly, using drug regimens allows decreasing dosages of each component and thus their toxicity, which results in less severe adverse effects o... |
Tumor necrosis factor (tnf) is a proinflammatory cytokine that plays an important role in the pathogenesis of a variety of autoimmune diseases . The biologic effects of tnf- include the mediation of systemic inflammatory responses as well as the response to a variety of infections, particularly mycobacterium tuberculos... |
Metabolomics involves the systematic study of the small molecule metabolites generated through various cellular or physiological processes (1). As an omics discipline closely connected to proteomics, transcriptomics and genomics, metabolomics is considered one of the cornerstones to systems biology . However, relative ... |
The vast majority of gastrointestinal (gi) foreign bodies (fbs) discovered in adults are the result of intentional ingestion, most of which are found in patients with a preexisting psychiatric illness, with substance abuse disorders, or in people seeking secondary gain . No case of internal injuries following unintenti... |
Uterine fibroids (or myomas) are monoclonal tumors of the smooth muscle cells of the uterus . They are considered the most common benign tumors of the female genital tract, as they are clinically apparent in up to 25% of women irrespective of their age . Moreover, they occur in up to 30%40% of women over the age of 40.... |
Over the last few years, the development of fiber - reinforced composite (frc) has offered the dental profession the possibility of fabricating resin bonded adhesive, esthetic and metal - free tooth replacements even in the case of molar teeth . Frc - fixed partial denture (fpd) could be an alternative to metal - ceram... |
High blood pressure, or hypertension, affects almost 50 million people in the usa, and places them at higher risk for cardiovascular disease . However, this increased risk from high blood pressure is not limited to those with hypertension . Extensive data show that increased blood pressure is related to increased risk ... |
T - tube choledochotomy for common bile duct (cbd) exploration was first described more than 100 years ago and has since been used by surgeons around the world for the management of biliary lithiasis . When laparoscopic cholecystectomy became the gold standard of treatment for calculous cholecystitis, laparoscopic tech... |
Cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (cscc) is one of the most common skin cancers in the world, accounting for approximately 20% of all cutaneous malignancies . The cancer often occurs on the highly visible areas of the skin, such as the head, neck, and face . Cscc in most patients can be completely eradicated with surge... |
Immune complex - induced type 3 allergy is thought to be involved in the development of cutaneous small vessel vasculitis, and focal infection is assumed to be a cause . We present a case of cutaneous small vessel vasculitis accompanied by pustulosis palmaris et plantaris and suspected involvement of odontogenic infect... |
This progressive graft arteriosclerosis is characterized by diffuse concentric intimal thickening, migration and proliferation of vascular smooth muscle cells (vsmc) from their normal position in the tunica media to the intimal region (2). Similar to native arteriosclerosis, endothelial dysfunction can accelerate allog... |
Ubiquitous cardiac monitoring can be defined as mobile computing, medical sensor, and communications technologies for monitoring cardiac patients . This represents the evolution of e - health systems from traditional desktop telemedicine platforms to wireless and mobile configurations . Current and emerging development... |
The association of dementia with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (als) is attracting increasing attention, especially after the identification of tdp-43 [1, 2], which may provide a molecular link between dementia and motor involvement . However, clinical features of dementia in als patients are too heterogeneous to be di... |
In behaving animals, midbrain dopaminergic neurons fire bursts of action potentials in response to salient stimuli (redgrave et al ., 1990; horvitz et al ., 1997; schultz, 1998), when a greater than expected reward is received (schultz et al ., 1997), or during sequence learning (jin and costa, 2010). The mechanisms by... |
Periodontitis is an inflammatory condition initiated by chronic microbial load affecting the tooth - supporting tissues . Despite studies focusing on microbial biofilm as the causative factor for periodontitis, there is a shift toward osteoimmunology which explains the interaction between host immune responses and cyto... |
There are very few articles dealing with the treatment of recurrent xanthomatosis of tendoachilles . Here a 37 year old male patient presented with multiple lesions in the body with bilateral swelling in the tendoachilles . The swelling was excised before three years elsewhere and there was recurrence of the lesion aft... |
Present healthcare systems are identified as fragmented organisations that have many shortcomings in the ability to respond to the growing demands of the community . New advances in medical knowledge promise a longer and healthier life for chronic and handicapped patients . At the same time, however, they introduce mor... |
Classical hairy cell leukemia is a rare, chronic mature b - cell lymphoproliferative disorder that exhibits specific morphologic, immunohistochemical and immunophenotypic features expressing cd20, cd22, cd25, cd11c, cd103, cd123 and annexin a1 . In 2011, tiacci et al . Proposed a genetic lesion that accounted for all s... |
High survival rates, ranging from 95% to 98% over a period of 10 years has been reported and have encouraged clinician to consider this type of oral rehabilitation . However, survival rates does not take into account the presence of biological complications, and, despite the remarkably high survival rate of dental impl... |
Nucleases play critical roles in dna transactions including dna replication, repair and recombination events (14). Detailed analysis of the enzymatic properties of a newly discovered nuclease activity is required in order to help identify cellular function . Nuclease digestion patterns are generally studied using radio... |
Diabetic retinopathy is a common microvascular complication of diabetes and remains one of the leading causes of blindness throughout the world . It is estimated that 4.1 million americans have diabetic retinopathy, which causes 12,000 to 24,000 new cases of blindness every year . National health interview survey and u... |
Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder in the category of pervasive developmental disorders, and is characterized by severe and sustained impairment in social interaction, deviance in communication, and patterns of behavior and interest that are restricted or stereotyped . The prevalence is approximately 1.6% in the g... |
Pathologic variables related to tumor response to preoperative chemoradiotherapy remain the most important prognostic indicators for oncologic outcomes in patients with locally advanced rectal cancer . Identification of additional prognostic factors continues to be an essential aim because patients at the same patholog... |
The glenohumeral joint (in short referred to as the shoulder joint) is a ball - and - socket joint between the head of the humerus (the ball) and the glenoid fossa of the scapula (the socket). The joint surface area of the humeral head is approximately fourfold greater than that of the glenoid cavity; this is often com... |
Birth defects are an important public health issue because they are the leading cause of infant mortality in the united states of america (usa) causing one in every five infant deaths . In usa, worldwide, birth defects are the fourth leading cause of neonatal deaths . An estimated 7.9 million children (6% of births) ar... |
Low back pain is a threat to public health and individuals economic security1, 2 . According to comprehensive reviews and epidemiological reports3, 4, the prevalence of low back pain ranges from 12% to 33%, the one - year prevalence ranges from 22% to 65%, and the lifetime prevalence ranges from 11% to 84% . Even in af... |
For this study, patients with a clinical diagnosis of sfts were those who had fever, thrombocytopenia, or leukopenia without another known acute infectious disease; patients with laboratory - confirmed sfts had sftsv antibodies or rna detected by elisa or reverse transcription pcr (rt - pcr). Acute - phase (within 2 we... |
The tachycardia represents a regular narrow qrs tachycardia with long rp interval (fig . The likely differentials for the long rp tachycardia are atypical av nodal re - entrant tachycardia (avnrt), orthodromic av re - entrant tachycardia (avrt) with slowly conducting accessory pathway and atrial tachycardia (at). The i... |
Strategies for recruitment and the inclusion / exclusion criteria of this study were similar to those for an earlier study involving repeated measures of cognitive performance on normal volunteers . Briefly, inclusion criteria for subjects included: age 55 years or older, medically stable (no hospitalizations or signif... |
The sex life of individuals has changed over time due to events, and pregnancy and childbirth and the postpartum period are the events that influence the sexual behaviors and interactions . Postpartum period changes the women's sexual relationships in such a way that sometimes these changes are followed by significant ... |
Patients with glaucoma frequently suffer from some degree of ocular surface dysfunction secondary to the long - term instillation of topical antihypertensive eye drops . Dry eye syndrome is a multifactorial disease associated with inadequate tear film volume, tear film instability, and ocular surface damage.14 it is ac... |
Erectile dysfunction (ed) is a multifactorial disorder that is defined as the inability to attain and maintain a penile erection sufficient for sexual intercourse . A recent analysis of published work, reported by the international consultation committee for sexual medicine on definitions / epidemiology / risk factors ... |
Hepatitis e virus (hev), a fecoorally transmitted virus, the most common cause of enterically transmitted acute hepatitis in the developing countries, has emerged as an important issue in the developed countries over the past decade . However, the cases differ from those in developing countries in being possibly caused... |
Subaortic membrane is a fibrous membrane below the aortic valve that may involve the ventricular septum, the anterior leaflet of the mitral valve, and the aortic valve itself . Sinus of valsalva is a localized bulging in the aortic root opposite to the cusps of the aortic valve . Aneurysm of the sinus is a rare conditi... |
Denture stomatitis also known as denture sore mouth and prosthetic stomatitis implies inflammation of oral mucosa especially palatal and gingival mucosa which is in direct contact with the denture base . The frequency of its development is 25 to 67% [14], mostly in women, and prevalence increases with age . Clinically ... |
The introduction and use of acrylic resin as a denture base material since 1937 has revolutionized the dentistry in a big way . The resin has fine esthetic properties, is excellent in color and is chemically stable . It can be used with a simple technique for the construction of dentures, but the properties of acrylic ... |
Sinus histiocytosis with massive lymphadenopathy (shml) also known as rosai - dorfman disease, is first reported in 1969 (1). Shml is usually seen in the first and second decade of life, with no specific gender, ethnic or socioeconomic predilection . Painless lymphadenopathy is the most frequent presenting symptoms and... |
Antisense - mediated exon skipping has a lot of therapeutic potential for duchenne muscular dystrophy (dmd), a severe, progressive neuromuscular disorder that affects one in 3,500 newborn boys . This disease is caused by mutations, mostly deletions of one or more exons, in the dystrophin - encoding dmd gene that disrup... |
(chinese woad) is a biennial herbaceous plant species planted widely in china with a few hundred years of medicinal use . To date, the sun - dried roots of i. indigotica (radix isatidis, ban - lan - gen) and their extracts are popularly used alone or in combination with other herbs to treat a wide variety of infectious... |
It is an important differential diagnosis of parkinson's disease (pd). Magnetic resonance imaging (mri) in psp patients may reveal significant midbrain atrophy with sparing of pons known as hummingbird sign . A 72 year - old lady with gradually progressive history of slowness, frequent falls, rigidity and forgetfulness... |
Episyrphus balteatus degeer (diptera: syrphidae) is the most frequently encountered syrphid species at aphid - infested sites in temperate regions (schneider 1969), and one of the most efficient aphid - specific predators (entwistle and dixon 1989; tenhumberg and poehling 1991). Because syrphid larvae have limited disp... |
Is achieved in only 30%40% of patients.2 based on evidence for the improvement of glucose metabolism and cardiorenal protection, the jsh 2009 recommends angiotensin ii receptor blockers (arbs) as first - line antihypertensive drugs for hypertensive patients with type 2 diabetes.1 however, hypertensive type 2 diabetics ... |
In september 2005, a 53-year - old woman complaining of odynuria over a week was admitted to the department of urinary surgery at the affiliated zhongshan hospital of dalian university . The pain began as an odd sensation described as a pricking pain in the lower abdomen without radiating pain . There was no history of... |
Despite predictions that cosmetic procedures would face a decline due to an inclement economy and increased taxes, it appears that cosmetic procedures are at an all - time high with over 13 million procedures performed in 2011 (5% increase from 2010). Interestingly, minimally invasive procedures including injectable ne... |
Vectors human liver wild type cam was subcloned between restriction sites ndei for the 5 and psti for the 3 end in the escherichia coli expression vector paed4 . Cam and the t34c / t110c double mutant cam were generated as previously described (17). Cam12 (d22a / d58a cam) and cam34 (d95a / d131a cam) cdna - s, kindly ... |
A 31-year - old male patient visited the outpatient clinic suffering from mild pain at his left elbow and he had had this pain for the previous 3 weeks . His medical history was unremarkable and he had not participated in any regular sports activities that may have caused repetitive trivial trauma on his left elbow joi... |
Systemic lupus erythematosus (sle) is an autoimmune inflammatory disorder characterized by a wide variety of associations and an unpredictable course . The association of sle and myeloproliferative and lymphoproliferative malignancies is widely reported in the adult literature. [14] most of the data show that the malig... |
Every year 4 million newborn deaths occur in the world, out of which one - fourth are contributed by india . The millennium development goals call for reduction of mortality by two - third by 2015, in comparison to the figure in 1990 . However, last few years have witnessed a tardy decline of neonatal mortality rate (n... |
Obesity is an important factor underlying chronic diseases, and health workers need to act to deal with it . Governments have enacted policies to increase physical activity (pa) in schools as a way to fight childhood obesity . The worldwide prevalence of obesity has approximated that 1.12 billion adults will be obese g... |
During january 2007december 2008, health institutions in valle del cauca sent m. tuberculosis isolates to the centro internacional de entrenamiento e investigaciones mdicas in cali, colombia, for drug susceptibility testing . A total of 324 m. tuberculosis isolates from individual patients (new and previously treated) ... |
Malaria is a disease caused by protozoan parasites of the genus plasmodium (p), (p. falciparum, p. vivax, p. malariae, p. ovale, and p. knowlesi) and is transmitted in endemic areas by female anopheles mosquitoes.1,2 the disease is still a major cause of morbidity and mortality in many tropical developing countries.2 i... |
Airborne - contact dermatitis (abcd) denotes an unique type of contact dermatitis originating from dust, sprays, pollens or volatile chemicals by airborne fumes or particles without directly handling this allergen . This form of dermatitis commonly involves face, neck, v - area of chest and eyelids . Exposed as well as... |
Ionic surfactant molecules display strong association with oppositely charged polyions in water due to electrostatic interactions and give rise to the formation of polyion surfactant ion complex salts . The strong association between the oppositely charged species may lead to an associative phase separation, resulting ... |
Dimples on cheeks enhance facial beauty and expression . They occur in both sexes with no particular preponderance, may express unilaterally or bilaterally and are genetically inherited as a dominant trait . Anatomically, dimples are thought to be caused by a double or bifid zygomaticus major muscle, whose fascial stra... |
Age - related weakening of muscle strength leads to deterioration in physical functions, and such weakening appears more severely in the lower limbs1, 2 . Age - related weakening of muscle strength is the main cause of decreased quality of life of the elderly; therefore, the prevention of muscle strength decrease is a ... |
The two non - overlapping open reading frames comprising the l1 bicistron are separated by a 63 bp inter - orf sequence . In contrast to viruses that translate their genes as a polyprotein or via translational frame shift, orf1p and orf2p are believed to be translated sequentially through an unconventional mechanism . ... |
Vancomycin is a bactericidal glycopeptide antibiotic widely used in children for treating methicillin - resistant staphylococcus aureus (mrsa) infections . In fact, vancomycin trough serum concentrations between 10 and 15 g / ml have been recommended for serious infections caused by mrsa (including endocarditis, osteom... |
With the patient under spinal anesthesia, we placed the patient in hyperextension in order to support a restoration operation . When a high level anesthesia was needed, advice and suggestions were provided by the anesthetist . The patient's abdomen was allowed to hang freely with a pad supporting the pelvis and sternum... |
Trees in forests, woodlands and primary production are threatened by a growing number of pests and diseases . Here we present genome sequences of two isolates from each of six species of phytophthora chosen for their relevance and impact on new zealand plantation and native forests (table 1). The isolates were selected... |
Colorectal cancer (crc) is the second most common form of cancer in women and the third most common cancer in men . In 2008, the estimated worldwide incidence of crc exceeded 1.2 million, with a mortality rate of over 600,000 . Also in germany, crc is one of the most common malignancies; more than 70,000 new cases and ... |
The parasites of the genus eimeria can be found in almost all vertebrates and some species are of high economical relevance as they can cause coccidiosis in livestock . Eimeria parasites are known to have a stringent stage progression in their life cycles in the host animals . They develop mainly in the intestinal trac... |
It is commonly characterised by retinal and central nervous system (cns) hemangioblastomas, clear cell renal cell carcinoma (rcc), pheochromocytoma, pancreatic islet tumors and endolymphatic sac tumors (1). Diagnosis is generally clinical, although specific gene mutation can be demonstrated (2). Ga - labelled [1, 4, 7,... |
What takes place during a girl's teenage years shapes future life circumstances . For many girls in the developing world, the mere commencement of puberty marks a time of increased vulnerability to early marriage and entry into sexual life . Thus, marriage is central to any discussion in the area of the sexual and repr... |
A two - year - old boy presented with a right upper eyelid laceration, two hours after a fall from a table . The child was playing with color pencils with his brother during which he sustained the injury . Ophthalmic examination revealed a laceration measuring 1.5 cm x 0.5 cm involving the central part of the right eye... |
Last year americans spent more than $4 billion on various brands of energy drinks (12). Recent studies have shown that these drinks are the most popular supplement in young adults . Thirty percent of american male and female adolescents and young adults consume energy drinks on a regular basis (6, 8). The primary reaso... |
Spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage (ich) is the second most common cause of stroke, occurring globally at a rate of 24.6 per 100000 person - years and causing severe disability and high mortality . In spite of recent clinical trials aimed at improving the outcome of ich patients, the median case fatality has not decr... |
People in the united states are living longer, and the oldest elderly are the most rapidly growing group . Dependence on others increases with age due to the rise in chronic debilitating conditions . As the population of elders grows, costs associated with care escalate . Family members become involved in the care of e... |
Cochlear dead regions (drs) are defined as areas of inner hair cells and/or related neurons, which may not function normally in hearing loss at a given frequency . Basilar membrane vibration may not be detected by auditory neurons within frequencies including drs, and off - place listening can occur around the dr; ther... |
Alveolar bone graft is essential in severe atrophic ridge for dental implant but is difficult in many cases due to soft tissue deficiency following alveolar bone atrophy, necessitating soft tissue graft prior to hard tissue bone surgery . Note, however, that this is a very challenging, technique - sensitive procedure .... |
Successful root canal treatment depends, amongst other factors, on the removal of microorganisms by biomechanical instrumentation of the root canal system, including the infected dentin and organic tissue, by shaping and dissolution . Thus, the cleaning ability of a root canal instrument is of primordial importance for... |
Accurate diagnosis of the disease, particularly cancer, is vital for the successful application of any specific therapy . Even though classification related to cancer diagnosis has been improved over the last decade significantly, still there is a need for its proper diagnosis with less subjective methods . Recent deve... |
First, to examine whether dogs and cats were infected with jev, we analyzed serum samples from 100 dogs and 292 cats in yamaguchi prefecture, which is in the western part of honshu, japan . Dog samples were collected during 20062007, and cat samples were collected during 19971999 and 20042005 . An 80% plaque - reductio... |
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