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Activation of the sympathetic nervous system exerts a number of physiological responses either directly through stimulation of postganglionic sympathetic nerves localised in target organs or indirectly through the activation of powerful humoral systems . While the importance of sympathetic tone is readily acknowledged ...
It is well known that free radicals, including reactive oxygen species (ros) such as superoxide (o2) or hydroxyl radical (ho), contribute to the development of several diseases by causing oxidative stress . Oxidative stress induced by ros occurs when the production of ros exceeds the capacity of the cell to detoxify th...
Percutaneous cardiopulmonary support (pcps) provides hemodynamic support via the femoral artery and vein, using a closed artificial heart - lung system which is usually composed of a centrifugal pump and a membranous artificial lung.1)2) in terms of cardiac failure, the most common indications for pcps are post - cardi...
Streptococcus minor was described in 2004 as a new species isolated from the tonsils of dogs, cats and cattle as well as from the intestinal tract of dogs . Although staphylococci and streptococci are commonly involved genera in bite - infected wounds, no cases of human infection by s. minor have been reported in the l...
Overabundant food intake with chronic positive energy balance leads to obesity and type 2 diabetes, whilst reduction in food intake, by increasing insulin sensitivity and improving glucose homeostasis, is currently recommended in the treatment of these metabolic disorders [14]. Such a caloric restriction may include a ...
Myiasis is a term derived from the greek word myia, meaning invasion of vital tissue of humans or other mammals by fly larvae. [15] the term myiasis hope in 1940, and since then, it has been used to designate infestation by the larvae. [68] myiasis was defined by zumpt as the infestation of live human and vertebrate an...
Less than one percent of women living with hiv have perinatally acquired hiv infection (phiv). According to recent centers for disease control and prevention (cdc) hiv surveillance data, approximately 2,388 phiv women are living in the united states . Due to lifelong hiv infection, many women with phiv have been expose...
Odontogenic cysts are classifed by the world health organization as infammatory and developmental according to their epithelial lining . Lateral periodontal cysts (lpc) have been regarded as an independent condition [1 - 4]. Lpcs are defined as nonkeratinized and noninflammatory developmental cysts located adjacent or ...
Acquired renal displacements, due to enlargement of adjacent viscera, are less frequent than congenital renal ectopia / malrotation, but have been described . Occasionally, these displacements are associated with kidney rotation, more commonly on the right side due to space constraints . Here, we report a case of trans...
The increased application of self - constructed labview - based chemical virtual instruments (vis) is due to their flexibility and ability to satisfy all the specific user requirements combined with the simplicity of the construction . Many configurations of labview - based vi have been reported until now corresponding...
Paraganglioma is a rare neuroendocrine neoplasm that may develop at various body sites like abdomen, thorax, head and neck . Majority of paragangliomas develop in abdomen while mediastinal paraganglioma is a rare mediastinal tumor.12 posterior mediastinum is the commonest site for mediastinal paraganglioma while anteri...
Diabetes mellitus (dm) is a serious public health concern that causes illness, disability, and death throughout the world . Clinical diabetes therapy requires precise monitoring and maintaining of blood glucose levels as close to normal as possible to reduce the risk of emergency complications such as the retinopathy, ...
Ticks are considered important carriers of pathogenic microorganisms in the northern hemisphere, and ixodes ricinus ticks are associated with a diverse microbiota . Borrelia spirochetes are one of the pathogens transmitted to humans by i. ricinus ticks, and borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato (s.l .) Represents a bacterial...
Several catastrophic epidemics resulting from the consumption of food contaminated by mehg have highlighted the potentially disastrous effects of mehg on living organisms . Mehg is a potent neurotoxicant which affects both the developing and mature cns [5, 6]. In infants, mehg causes widespread and diffuse damage, wher...
Complexity in chemistry; reaction networks, coupled equilibria, spatiotemporal compartmentalization, or feedback loops often result in emergent behavior characterized by responsiveness, adaptivity and nonlinearity; life being the prime example . Even though our creations cannot yet rival those of nature, the rise of in...
Semm first introduced the laparoscopic method for appendicectomy in the early 1980s . Since then laparoscopic appendicectomy (la) was made popular by various surgeons and preferred over the open method due to its inherent advantages . However, this technically demanding procedure requires increased surgical time and ge...
The mouse fasl locus and known restriction sites were used to construct the targeting vector and diagnose homologous recombination in embryonic stem (es) cells and gene - targeted (fasl, fasl) mice . Targeting knock - in vectors were made with the loxp / pgkneo / loxp cassette cloned into the pac1 site . Targeting cons...
Williams campbell syndrome, also known as bronchomalacia, is a rare disorder characterized by a deficiency of cartilage in subsegmental bronchi, leading to distal airway collapse and bronchiectasis . There have been few reports about patients affected by saccular bronchiectasis, paracicatricial emphysema, and diminishe...
Alzheimer's disease (ad) is the most common form of dementia in adults . Pathologically, the hallmarks of ad are amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles, associated with widespread neuronal loss . Its fundamental causes and the pathological cascades leading to symptoms, however, remain poorly understood . Extensive...
Cystic lesions of the lungs encompass a wide spectrum of rare lung lesions comprising of congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation (ccam), congenital lobar emphysema (cle), bronchopulmonary sequestration, and bronchogenic cyst . Ccam with an incidence of 1 in 10,000 to 25,000 pregnancies is the most common lung cyst ....
Women have an 1111.8% chance of undergoing at least one surgical intervention for pop or incontinence by the age of 79 years, with a re - operation rate of 29.2% [4, 5]. Complication rates after surgery in different racial groups were reported to be 19.4% (white), 34.1% (black) and 27.4% (other). Although only a relati...
Ip et al studied 1,448 6-year - old children and found 12.6% asthenopia prevalence.20 asthenopia prevalence of 23.1% and 26.4% was found in two swedish studies, respectively.5,21 with regard to associated factors, two studies detected significant association among decreased visual acuity, myopia, and accommodative dysf...
The kidney is thought to play an important role in the inactivation of endogenous gastrin . This is based on the tacts that hypergastrinemia is frequently observed in patients with acute and chronic renal failure and in experimental animals with bilateral nephrectomy, and the fact that the enzyme which deamide the c - ...
Caries, fractures, attrition, and endodontic access cavities are the most common reasons of tooth structure loss rendering them susceptible to fracture . According to cavity preparation principles, it is recommended to remove all the undermined enamel to prevent functional fracture . When restoring teeth with large cav...
A patent foramen ovale (pfo) can act as a pathway for a thrombus from the peripheral veins, bypassing the lungs and entering the systemic circulation . Systemic, noncerebral, paradoxical embolisms occur less frequently, accounting for 5%10% of all paradoxical embolisms . Renal infarction secondary to paradoxical emboli...
The concept of total mesorectal excision (tme) has been the most important development in rectal cancer surgery during the last two decades . After the introduction of tme the rate of local recurrence could be dramatically reduced . Even without curative approach, local recurrence was reduced to 6 - 12% and 5-year surv...
A growing body of literature has provided robust evidence that formalin fixed, paraffin - embedded (ffpe) tissue can be successfully analyzed using mass spectrometry - based proteomic methods, enabling the use of these archival specimens for biomarker discovery through retrospective analysis . Although qualitative prot...
, calcium is a regulator of intracellular processes, activates proteases, and is essential for photosystem ii (psii) maturation and catalytic activity . In industrial processes, calcium oxide plays a role as a heterogeneous catalyst in transesterification reactions, offering the promise of environmentally sustainable e...
Cancer presently is the second most common cause of morbidity and mortality in the world after cardiovascular problems . Cancers are heterogeneous cellular entities whose growth is dependent on reciprocal interactions between genetically altered cells and the microenvironment in which they reside . The microenvironment...
Male c57bl6jolahsd mice were purchased from harlan netherlands (harlan, horst, the netherlands), and male il-6 ko mice and respective wild - type mice were purchased from charles river laboratories (wilmington, ma). All mice were housed in a pathogen - free environment on a 12-h light - dark cycle, with free access to ...
In this article, we draw on national social survey data to identify and report on the social determinants of wellbeing in the uk and we consider some of the challenges the findings present for social policy . In the first section, we review some of the latest developments in subjective wellbeing (swb) research, and we ...
Comorbidities are defined as diseases that are concomitant to the disease under study.1 when survival in medical and epidemiological research is studied, it is important to consider the effect of comorbidity, as it could be a potential confounder or an effect modifier for other prognostic factors.26 the charlson comorb...
The use of dietary supplements, including multivitamins has increased substantially in the past few decades . On an average 20 - 30% of the population in developed countries use such vitamin supplements . Industries involved in their manufacture are reported to be one of the world's fastest growing industries . Althoug...
Approval from our institutional review board was obtained for this retrospective study . At our institution, the patients with a history of acl reconstruction surgery undergo mri when they have persistent, recurrent or new symptoms or they have re - injured their knee . After clinical examination and reviewing the mr i...
Head and neck cancer is the sixth most common cancer and is responsible for almost 200,000 deaths around the world each year [13]. In the united states, head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (hnscc) accounts for more deaths annually than cervical cancer, melanoma, or lymphoma . Although recent molecular studies have ad...
Breast cancer is the most common female malignancy and the second most common cause of death from cancer among white and black women . It is a worldwide main health problem linked with high levels of morbidity and mortality in developing countries due to delayed presentation . Breast cancer affects more than one millio...
The epstein - barr virus (ebv) is a member of the herpesviridae virus family . It is estimated that the incidence of ebv infection among adults is between 90% and 95% . However, it is evident that ebv may cause infectious mononucleosis (i m) in the lytic phase of ebv s life cycle . Past ebv infection is associated with...
The disease caused by autoantibodies with specificity for the nc1 domain of the 3-chain of type iv collagen, often referred to as anti - glomerular basement membrane disease (anti - gbm disease) or goodpasture's disease, is characterized by rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis (gn) often accompanied by lung haemorrha...
The porphyrias comprise a heterogeneous group of rare, mainly hereditary, diseases caused by partial deficiencies in one of the eight enzymes involved in the heme biosynthesis (puy et al . Symptoms of disease can present as acute attacks of abdominal pain and neuropsychiatric symptoms [delta aminolevulinic acid dehydra...
Twenty - three consecutive, previously untreated patients with acute unilateral on were recruited from the ophthalmology outpatient clinics of isfahan university of medical sciences, iran between october 2009 and february 2010 . These included four men and 19 women, with a mean (standard deviation [sd]) age of 27.2 (7....
The diagnosis is based on high blood tyrosine level and abnormal urinary excretion of succinylacetone (sa) (1). According to onset of symptoms ht1 is classified in acute (<2 months), subacute (2 to 6 months) and chronic (> 6 months) forms (2). Most common causes of death are liver failure and bleeding, hepatocellular c...
Prostate cancer is the most prevalent cancer and the third most common cause of mortality in men in western countries . Transrectal ultrasonography - guided prostate biopsy (trus - bx) is an essential procedure for diagnosing prostate cancer but may cause variable complications, including pain, hematuria, hemospermia, ...
Preservation of the remaining vital portion of curiously exposed pulpal tissue in primary teeth, where the demand is to keep a functioning tooth in site, was one of the most frequent problems in pediatric dentistry.1 to solve this problem pulpotomy therapy was introduced, developed and classified according to treatment...
Briefly, the study was conducted at four clinical centers . Centers in oakland and los angeles, california, recruited non - hispanic whites and african americans from kaiser permanente, a nonprofit hmo . Two other centers in san antonio, texas, and san luis valley, colorado, recruited non - hispanic whites and hispanic...
The diagnosis of diffuse interstitial lung disease is performed by a multidisciplinary team that involves pulmonologists, radiologists and pathologists . Close collaboration between these different areas of expertise is required to define which patients will need a biopsy and those in whom biopsy is not necessary . Sur...
Mangroves are coastal ecosystems that have been seriously threatened by anthropogenic activities . Worldwide, mangrove areas have been used for urban development, tourism, oil exploitation, agriculture, and shrimp farming . Between 1980 and 2005, about 3.6 million hectares of mangrove was lost . Competition for land is...
Basal metabolic rate (bmr) quantifies the minimum rate of energy expenditure necessary to maintain energy balance of resting, post - absorptive endotherms at thermoneutral conditions (schmidt - nielsen 1997). Although conceived with biomedical research in mind, bmr has quickly become the most widely used benchmark metr...
Behcet's disease is a systemic vasculitis characterized by recurrent oral and genital ulcers and ocular inflammation, and may involve the joint, skin, central nervous system and gastrointestinal tract . There is no specific test for behcet's disease, and the diagnosis is based upon clinical criteria . Although multiple...
Global incidence of diabetes mellitus (dm) estimates more than 171 million for 2000 and 366 million for 2030 . The mortality and morbidity of dm are determined by various complications, such as diabetic vasculopathy, retinopathy, nephropathy, and peripheral neuropathy . Recently, many studies have indicated that dm als...
From november 26 to december 28, 2010, 6 cases of subtype h5n1 infection were identified in carcasses, feces, and cloacal swab specimens of migratory birds collected throughout south korea . Subtype h5n1 viruses were found in various bird species (mallard, baikal teal, mandarin duck, whooper swan, and eurasian eagle ow...
Traffic injuries are a leading cause of death and disability in many countries, and they are major public health problems (14). It is anticipated that the traffic accident rate could increase by 50% by the end of 2020 if appropriate actions are not taken to reduce global deaths due to traffic accidents (1). Some epidem...
Human metcam (humetcam), a cam in the immunoglobulin - like gene superfamily, is an integral membrane glycoprotein . Alternative names for metcam are muc18, cd146, mcam, melcam, a32, and s - endo 1 . To avoid confusion with mucins and to reflect its biological functions, we have renamed muc18 as metcam (metastasis cam)...
Cutaneous leishmaniasis (cl) which is associated with considerable morbidity is still a major health problem in the world especially in developing countries . Over the years evidence - based studies are few and it is difficult to determine what the best treatments are.1 for many decades, pentavalent antimonials have re...
Aerobic fitness is essential for soccer athletes to perform at an optimal level (15, 17). In addition to aerobic fitness, repeated sprint performance is also a critical component of game performance in soccer . The ability to reproduce sprints without significant reductions in sprint speed is known as repeated sprint a...
For many years, the diagnosis of lung metastasis was considered the end stage of the disease course in patients with malignant neoplasms . Initially, the treatment proposed consisted of chemotherapy and hormone therapy, and unsatisfactory responses were seen in more than 70% of cases in 1882, weinlechner incidentally p...
Despite of an insignificant track record of quasi market models in sweden, new models of this kind have recently been introduced in health care; commonly referred to as choice of care. This time citizens act as purchasers; choosing the primary care centre or family physician they want to be treated by, which, in turn, ...
Increasingly, it is hypothesized that schizophrenia reflects subtle connectivity dysfunction (pettersson - yeo et al ., 2011). Converging neurophysiological and neuroimaging data have documented widely distributed abnormalities in brain activity and functional connectivity (buckholtz and meyer - lindenberg, 2012; frist...
Esophageal cancer is one of the least common and most deadly gastrointestinal tract neoplasms . In 2010 in poland, the standardized incidence ratio for esophageal cancer was 3.3/100,000 for men and 0.6/100,000 for women . Patient survival is short, and the incidence / mortality ratio for both sexes was 0.8 in 2010 . Fo...
Obesity - related comorbidities seem to be more closely related to body fat distribution (e.g., upper versus lower, visceral versus subcutaneous, and truncal versus peripheral) rather than the total amount per se . Abdominal obesity is a relevant predictor of a higher metabolic risk, assuming that insulin resistance (i...
Rheumatoid arthritis (ra) is a chronic systemic autoimmune disease that about 0.5%-1% of world population are affected by its complaints . The ra affects blood vessels, heart, lungs, muscles, and joints, resulting in bone deformity and osteoporosis . Several studies have reported that oxidative stress and production of...
It is an aggressive neoplasm that arises from the remnants of the dental lamina and dental organ (odontogenic epithelium) and patients usually present late in life after the tumor has achieved considerable size, to cause facial disfigurement . 70% of ameloblastomas develop in the molar - ramus region of the mandible an...
Guillain - barr syndrome (gbs) is an acute immune - mediated polyneuropathy, typically presenting with rapid ascending paralysis caused by an antecedent infection . Sarcoidosis is a multi - system noncaseating granulomatous disorder of unknown etiology presenting with bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy, pulmonary reticulo...
Human endometrium undergoes regular cycles of growth and breakdown and has long been recognized as one of a few tissues where significant angiogenesis occurs on a physiological basis (1). These vascular changes are thought to be mediated by the vascular endothelial growth factor (vegf) and its specific receptors (2, 3)...
Dermatophytes comprise a highly specialized group of pathogenic fungi that infect keratinized tissues (skin, hair, and nails) of humans and animals, resulting in dermatophytoses, also referred to as tinea infections . Taxonomically, dermatophytes are classified into three genera: epidermophyton, microsporum, and tricho...
Pulmonary arterial hypertension (pah) is a progressive, debilitating disease characterized by elevated arterial blood pressure in the pulmonary circulation that left untreated, results in right ventricular failure and death . Its prevalence has been estimated to be between 15 and 50 cases per million and even with mode...
Hepatitis c virus (hcv) infection is a major cause of chronic hepatitis, liver cirrhosis, and hepatocellular carcinoma . Hcv is primarily transmitted by blood - borne routes, including shared needles and transfused blood products . The who estimates that a minimum of 23% of the world s population is chronically infecte...
Precise, flexible, and specialized regulation of membrane trafficking is key to tissue patterning and differentiation during the development of multicellular organisms . It underlies the development of cell and tissue polarity (apodaca et al ., 2012; farr et al ., 2009; winter et al ., 2012) and allows cells to special...
The picornavirus 5 untranslated region (5 utr) has proven the most suitable genomic target for molecular detection (8,9). At the time of this study, only 5 aiv complete genomes were available in genbank, complicating selection of reliable oligonucleotides for universal detection . A nested rt - pcr encompassing the aiv...
Some 1,303,100 americans are in 18,900 nursing homes nationwide . Over 86 percent of these residents are elderly (nchs, 1977). Although this figure represents only 5 percent of the total population age 65 and over, some 20 percent of the aged will enter a nursing home before dying (lavor, 1979). In 1977, nursing home e...
The first us case associated with the epidemic in hispaniola was laboratory confirmed on november 15, 2010, in a us resident who had traveled to haiti and returned to florida . The first case in a patient with history of travel to dominican republic was laboratory confirmed on january 29, 2011 . As of april 4, 2011, a ...
Morgagni foramen is a para - retrosternal defect resulting from an incomplete fusion of the septum transversum and sternum with the anterior ribs . Surgical treatment consists of direct closure of the diaphragmatic defect, suturing by transabdominal or transthoracic access . We report a patient with hernia of morgagni ...
Concern over the rising cost of health care services in the united states has encouraged an extensive examination of every sector of the nation's health care system . Expenditures on drugs and drug sundries reached $22.4 billion in 1982 (gibson et al ., 1983). Although this is a sizeable amount, it is nonetheless small...
A 65-year - old male patient who presented with right arm weakness revealed an acute focal cortical ischemic change in the borderzone type on the diffusion - weighted image (not shown). Driver (medtronic ireland, minneapolis, mn) with 2.25 mm diameter and 8 mm length were deployed to 2.35 mm diameter at 12 atmosphere o...
A thorough knowledge of the external and internal anatomy of teeth is a very important factor in root canal treatment . In many cases, dentists have to deal with various morphological variations . If the dentist fails to detect the morphological variations, it would be a major cause of failure . When a preoperative rad...
Severe acute respiratory syndrome: temporal stability and geographic variation in case - fatality rates and doubling times
Respiratory distress in a neonate is more commonly caused by pulmonary, cardiac, or neurological etiologies . The obstructive lesions of the upper airway are rare, unsuspected, and potentially treatable causes of neonatal respiratory distress . An oropharyngeal mass presenting as a cause of neonatal respiratory distres...
Life in a slum environment can have detrimental effects on residents health status, including manifesting as diminished nutritional status . Sedentary lifestyles are common in urban centers, and unfortunately, this trend does not exclude slum dwellers.1 although undernutrition had been the main focus of interventions i...
Bernstein (1967) identified the degrees of freedom problem the notion that the large number of independently controllable movement system df poses a computational burden to the cns (turvey et al . Bernstein's solution (see also gelfand and tsetlin, 1966; turvey et al ., 1978; tuller et al ., 1982) was that rather than ...
Nephritis is one of the most severe complications of systematic lupus erythematosus (sle).1 up to 60% of adults and 80% of children with sle develop lupus nephritis (ln).2 the clinical presentation of kidney involvement is highly variable, ranging from mild asymptomatic proteinuria to rapidly progressive glomerulonephr...
The following online material is available for this article: expression abundance of 69 dna repair genes during rat liver regeneration . Comparison of relative mrna levels in regenerating liver detected by real - time rt - pcr and affy - metrix rat genome 230 2.0 microarray.
The typical patient presenting with myxedema coma is a woman in her 70s and the cardinal manifestation is deterioration of mental status . Physical findings often include hypothermia without shivering, bradycardia, hypoventilation, macroglossia, hoarseness, dry skin, and delayed tendon reflexes; if hypothyroidism is lo...
Acinar cell carcinoma, also known as acinic cell carcinoma, is a malignant epithelial neoplasm composed of cells with morphological resemblance to acinar cells and with evidence of exocrine enzyme production by the neoplastic cells . These carcinomas of the pancreas are rarely diagnosed pre - operatively, and surgical ...
The basal forebrain cholinergic neurons (bfcn) provide the major cholinergic innervation to the hippocampus and neocortex, playing a role in cognition and attention behaviors through the release of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine . Bfcn are located in the medial septum, diagonal band of broca, nucleus basalis of mey...
Renal autotransplantation is a method of removing kidney from its place of origin, repairing it and transplanting it in another location of the body (most commonly, the iliac fossa) of the same patient . This procedure was first performed by hardy in 1963 . Since hardy's landmark surgery for management of a high ureter...
Although current cross - sectional data suggest that most americans, including children and adolescents, consume a significant portion of their daily energy as snacks, snacking remains a poorly understood behavior . There is little information on how and why individuals and families select snacks, and no consistent def...
Colonic diverticulosis is a very frequent disease in the west . In 40- to 50-year - old persons, its incidence increases with age, reaching over 50% in persons> 70 . In most cases (80%), the disease is asymptomatic (diverticulosis) and has a mild functional clinical scenario of dyscinesia . A few patients, about 10% to...
Cardiac myxoma represents approximately 50% of all benign cardiac tumors in adults, with left atrial myxomas constituting 75% of all myxomas . Usually, myxoma is a solitary mass . Multicentric cardiac myxomas are very rare and usually, biatrial . The incidence is <2.5% of all cardiac myxomas . Familial multicentric car...
The uremic syndrome is attributable to the progressive retention of a large number of compounds called uremic retention solutes or uremic toxins . They include not only small plasma solutes, but also protein - bound solutes and middle molecules (mm)(molecular weight between 500 and 60,000 da). The conventional low flux...
During badminton games, it is necessary for players to use high - level stroke skills in various situations1 . Players need to be able to select and execute a large number of stroke, in different situations, after selecting highly strategic shots to disrupt their opponent s readiness, rather than simply returning the s...
The hantavirus cross - sectional survey was carried out april through may 2006 in the municipality of uberlndia, minas gerais, at an average altitude of 863 m (1855s,4816w) (figure). A randomized and stratified (sex and age) sample was collected from the entire rural area and from the south sector of the municipality s...
Most coronary artery origin abnormalities are incidentally determined during coronary angiography . In the adult population, its prevalence is reported to be approximately 0.3 to 1.3% in the largest registry.1) these abnormalities are usually asymptomatic and have no clinical significance . However, some cases of coron...
The line listing of ha patients included persons with laboratory evidence of recent hav infection (anti - hav immunoglobulin m [igm]) who stayed at hotel x after june 1, 2004 . Also listed were hotel guests with ha disease (jaundice, elevated liver enzyme levels), without laboratory confirmation, who had traveled with ...
A 61-year - old man complaining of syncope and chest pain came to our hospital . Ten days prior to hospitalization, he had had a fever, chills, and body ache . He had taken some medication from a local clinic for these symptoms, which were supposedly caused by a simple upper respiratory infection . Despite the medicati...
The ectodermal dysplasia represents a group of inherited conditions in which two or more ectodermally derived anatomic structures fail to develop . Ectodermal dysplasias represent a large and complex group of diseases comprising of more than 170 clinical conditions . Depending upon the presence or absence of sweat glan...
Mutations were introduced into has by megaprimer mutagenesis (sarkar and sommer 1990; thomas and roth, 1994). The pcr product was digested with xbai and bamhi and used to replace an xbai to bamhi fragment in an expression vector pcb6-ha - y543 xba that encoded the 133 carboxyl - terminal amino acids of japan ha . Each ...
Dens invaginatus (di) is referred to as a developmental anomaly that results from an infolding within the crown prior to calcification . According to the 0.04 to 10% frequency of dens invagination in the currently available literature, several hypotheses have been proposed concerning the etiology of invaginated teeth, ...
A 60-year - old man was referred to our outpatient clinic because of persistent air leakage lasting 17 days from his chest tube, which had been inserted for empyema at another hospital . He had a past history of diabetes mellitus and tuberculous pleuritis treated with antituberculous medicine 30 years ago . He had not ...