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Multiple studies have demonstrated that neural plasticity can change the structure and function of the central nervous system after structural brain damage and rehabilitation (chen et al ., 2010; hosp and luft, 2011). An important mechanism is the adaptation of the anatomical and functional connectivities between brain... |
According to the two latest who assessments, cataract has consistently been the leading cause of world blindness, which was responsible for around 48% and 51% of blindness in 2002 and 2010, respectively . Biological ageing plays the most crucial role in the development of cataract [35]. China, the most populous country... |
Cell biology is an inherently multidisciplinary science, requiring approaches from genetics, chemistry, physics, applied mathematics, and engineering . While biochemical and genetic approaches have been successfully integrated into the field, other disciplines require more effort . Physical scientists that join the fie... |
Renal cell carcinoma (rcc) is a widespread oncourological disease with a tendency towards a slow increase of incidence . In the recent decade, there has been development of numerous effective drugs targeted at different molecules that play a dominant role in rcc carcinogenesis . Understanding of rcc carcinogenesis conf... |
Together with myringotomy or tympanocentesis, tympanostomy tube insertion (tti) has been one of the most commonly performed otologic surgical procedures in children . When a child is unable to stay calm during minor otologic surgery, most otologic surgeons typically choose general (intravenous or endotracheal) anesthes... |
Stress is defined as any condition that seriously disrupts physiological and psychological homeostasis ranging from anxiety to posttraumatic stress disorder, and affects cognitive functions both in animal models and in humans [24]. The hippocampus is of special significance in this respect because it has been shown to ... |
Tooth movement during orthodontic treatment is accomplished by the delivery of orthodontic forces through brackets . A frictional force (fr), defined as the resistant force against movement when two contacting objects are moving, the former is the minimum amount of force required for the initial movement of a static ob... |
Ferns have often been associated with contaminated soils, particularly with mining operations (samecka - cymerman et al . Nevertheless, these plants have received less attention than vascular plants in relation to metal tolerance and accumulation (kachenko et al . Some fern species are important bioindicators of metall... |
These radiopharmaceuticals are formulated from cyclotron - produced or generator - eluted radionuclides and should be subjected to quality control (qc) tests to assure their safety and efficacy before injecting to the patient . Fluorodeoxyglucose (f-18 fdg), a glucose analog, is the most popular pet radiopharmaceutical... |
Alpha-1 antitrypsin (a1at; also known as -1 proteinase inhibitor) is a serum glycoprotein which predominantly (80%) originates from hepatocytes.1 a1at inhibits a wide variety of proteases (eg, neutrophil elastase and proteinase-3) to contribute to a proteinase / antiproteinase balance.2 it is postulated that this acute... |
Nanohybrid resin composite, the newest resin composite restorative material, is becoming popular because it combines physical, mechanical, and esthetic properties . It incorporates a high volume fraction of filler particles with a wide particle size distribution (5 - 100 nm). The compressive and diametral strength, and... |
Colorectal cancer (crc) is one of the most common malignancies in industrialized countries and one of the most common causes of cancer - related death.1,2 in denmark, approximately 4200 new cases of crc are diagnosed each year,3 with a 5-year survival of only 43%49%.4,5 danish crc survival is lower than in our neighbor... |
Glomeruli are involved in 75 - 90% of cases, clinical correlate of which is nephrotic - range proteinuria and slow progression to chronic kidney disease . It is seldom appreciated that extracapillary glomerulonephritis may be superimposed on amyloidosis in such cases . A 50-year - old man presented with the complaint o... |
T1 is the longitudinal (or spin - lattice) relaxation time of a tissue . T1 mapping refers to parametric maps that are generated from a series of images acquired with different t1 weighting so that each pixel can be assigned a t1 value.7 t1 maps can be displayed using color or thresholded scales to enable quantitative ... |
Bladder cancer is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in the uk with ~10,000 new cases diagnosed and 5,000 deaths registered each year (1). The most common pathological subtype is transitional cell carcinoma (tccu) (90% of cases) (2) with ~50% of all cases being stage ii or beyond at the time of diagnosis (1... |
Acinetobacter baumannii is an aerobic, nonfermentative gram negative coccobacillus that can survive for prolonged periods in the environment and can cause nosocomial infections, (urinary tract and wound infections). Extensive use of antimicrobial agents in clinical cases has contributed to the appearance of resistant a... |
The present discussion focuses on the review by oliveira and coworkers (presented in this issue), and on the use of hypertonic saline resuscitation in sepsis . Early fluid resuscitation of patients with systemic inflammatory response syndrome reduces the incidence of mortality due to septic shock and sepsis . These fav... |
We present an unusual case of a 24 year old male who was hospitalized to undergo a dental procedure and subsequently developed a cardiac arrest 2 days following the procedure . The patient presented with a swelling in the buccal cavity for which a biopsy was taken . Two days following the procedure, the patient suddenl... |
Hepatocellular carcinoma (hcc) is the fifth and seventh most commonly diagnosed cancer in males and females, respectively, and the third leading cause of cancer mortality worldwide . The incidence and mortality rates for hcc are similar because most hcc patients are diagnosed at an advanced stage, highlighting the impo... |
Iran can be divided into 11 regions with 28 provinces (supplementary file), based on ethnographic, demographic, epidemiologic, and socioeconomic factors (18). This study was cross - sectional and was conducted during the year 2001 in iran . It was a part of the micronutrient survey, which covered the whole country and ... |
Three weeks prior to this presentation, she was evaluated in the emergency room for similar complaint and was discharged after having normal blood and imaging tests including cardiac enzymes, electrocardiogram (ekg), and chest x - ray . Her chest pain was described as sharp, constant, 6/10 in intensity, located in the ... |
Rapid recruitment of innate immunity cells such as polymorphonuclear neutrophils (pmns) is a critical component of pathogen killing and removal during infection . As they differentiate, the cells begin to move toward the venous sinusoids prior to migration across the sinusoidal endothelium to reach the vascular lumen .... |
The association between chronic viral infection and human malignancy is well established: papillomaviruses are involved in the pathogenesis of human cervical cancer (dell and gaston 2001), epstein - barr virus has been linked to burkitt's lymphoma, nasopharyngeal carcinoma, post - transplant lymphoma, hodgkin's disease... |
1). Most chimpanzee ascs adopt a fibroblast - like phenotype in vitro (fig . 1), consistent with previous reports of human ascs (zuk et al . 2001) and with the human ascs profiled in this study (fig . When grown to confluence, the chimpanzee ascs migrate on top of one another and appear to exhibit lower levels of conta... |
Drug - eluting stents (des) have not only improved clinical outcomes compared with bare metal stents (bms), they have vastly enhanced our capability and confidence to tackle increasingly complex patients and lesions traditionally treated with coronary artery bypass graft surgery (cabg) [13]. This has in turn increased ... |
Renal trauma occurs in approximately 1 - 5% of all injuries . The kidney is considered to be the most commonly damaged organ of the urinary system with the male to female ratio being 3:1 [2, 3, 4]. Blunt kidney trauma (bkt) occurs more often than penetrating trauma, being 9 times more common . Generally, renal injuries... |
Chronic ischemic heart disease (cihd) is characterized as reduced blood supply to the heart muscle due to plaque building up along the inner walls of the arteries of the heart . Cihd is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in developed countries and in some of the emerging countries . Although the application of me... |
Reactive oxygen species (ros) are generated during normal cellular metabolism, as a result of the influence of various environmental factors, as well as during pathological processes . Ros are responsible for dna, lipid and protein damage and play an important role in the development and progression of many human disea... |
By the early 1990s, 75 years of research had failed to answer a most basic question about the 1918 pandemic: why was it so fatal? No virus from 1918 had been isolated, but all of its apparent descendants caused substantially milder human disease . Moreover, examination of mortality data from the 1920s suggests that wit... |
Galantamine is a long acting, selective and reversible acetylcholinesterase inhibitor that has been a licensed treatment for alzheimer s disease (ad) in the usa, across europe and into asia since 2000 . The main source of the pharmaceutical product galantamine (galan / t / amine) has been the alkaloid galanthamine (gal... |
In the light of developing the level of health care services in the world, taking care of elderly people in general has taken great deal of emphasis since the second half of 20th century . Due to surplus of oil revenues, gcc countries have witnessed during the last four decades a rapid economic, social and cultural tra... |
Anemia is a major comorbidity of chronic kidney disease (ckd) and in patients with end stage renal disease (esrd) on renal replacement therapy . Untreated dialysis patients were often symptomatic and dependent on blood transfusions with their innate morbidity until the advent of erythropoietin stimulating agents (esa),... |
Invitations to speak at major meetings are prized by scientists because they provide visibility and the ability to present their work efficiently to an audience of peers . Speaking invitations are used by faculty promotion and tenure committees as evidence of external recognition and thus can be critical to academic an... |
The experimental setup was based on a broadband oscillator (venteon pulse one) delivering pulses of 5.5 fs duration, 800 nm central wavelength, and 250 pj pulse energy at a repetition rate of 80 mhz . Double - chirped mirrors and a pair of glass wedges were used for dispersion compensation to achieve the optimal pulse ... |
In february 2013, a 70-year - old man sought care at the university of amsterdam department of dermatology for a neuropathic ulcer on his left foot . It was determined that he had a neuropathic ulcer, a complication of nerve damage caused by leprosy, for which he was treated successfully . He was a native of suriname, ... |
Solid waste management encompasses a wide range of activities, including collecting garbage, collecting and sorting recyclable materials and collecting and processing of commercial and industrial waste . Risks occur at every step in the process, from the point of the collection at homes, during transportation and at th... |
Diagnostic tests assist the physician in assuring an appropriate treatment of the symptoms and as also the disease from which a patient is suffering . In vitro diagnostic tests are widely used in the practice of modern medicine . Nonsteroidal anti - inflammatory drugs (nsaids) are amongst the most frequently used drugs... |
Mesenchymal stem cells (mscs) have been receiving considerable attention in bone regeneration, both for tissue engineering or cellular therapy . These cells are capable of self - renewal or differentiation into multi - lineage cells, including osteoblasts and condroblasts, under the appropriate conditions . Mscs have b... |
Sinus node dysfunction with prolonged pauses is a rare finding in children unless they have had prior congenital heart surgery . Abrupt termination of a supraventricular tachycardia (svt) or pacing can be associated with sinus pauses due to overdrive suppression of the sinus node . However, such pauses are rarely seen ... |
The quantification of this public health problem and the benefits of its regulation, however, has been the subject of debates . Such impact assessments usually rely on extrapolations of data from various fields with partly unknown uncertainties, as it is rather rare to base the assessment on direct interventional obser... |
The statistical model proposed in for one probe set in multiple oligonucleotide arrays has the form it states that the perfect match (pm)/mismatch (mm) difference in array i, probe j of this probe set is the product of model - based expression index (mbei) in array i (i) and probe - sensitivity index of probe j (j) plu... |
We evaluated rates of sustained virologic response 12 weeks after the end of treatment (svr12), adverse events, and graded laboratory abnormalities in black versus nonblack subjects in the phase 3 ion program . The ion1, ion2, and ion3 clinical trials evaluated the safety and efficacy of 8, 12, and 24 weeks of the fixe... |
We conducted real - time pcr analyses targeting the msp2 gene on genomic (g) dna of 12,606 i. scapularis ticks collected across canada (technical appendix 1). 169 (1.3%) ticks were pcr - positive (table 1). There were significant differences (5 = 129.7, p<0.001) in the proportions of ticks infected with a. phagocytophi... |
End - stage liver cirrhosis (eslc) is a fatal clinical condition and frequently accompanied with mental alteration, ascites, jaundice, coagulopathy, and persistent deterioration of liver function . Once a complication of eslc develops, the 5-year survival rate decreased to low than 20%, and patients should be recommend... |
Ec - ic, extracranial - intracranial imax, internal maxillary artery mca, middle cerebral artery sc - ic, subcranial - intracranial sta, superficial temporal artery we recently treated 4 patients with sc - ic bypass who required cerebral bypasses to effectively treat various cerebrovascular pathologies . The decision t... |
This group is selective for cyclic guanosine monophosphate - specific phosphodiesterase (pde) type 5 present in corpora cavernosa . These agents differ in their degree of selectivity in inhibiting pde isoenzymes, in their pharmacokinetic profiles, in their drug - food interactions, and in their adverse effects ., these... |
It was reported that there were 8,284 new cases of lung cancer in korea diagnosed in 2001 (1), and the incidence and the number of lung cancer deaths continue to increase . Since the overall 5-yr survival for patient with lung cancer is <15% (2), the future line in both the prevention of new disease by reducing the pre... |
Tuberculosis (tb) is one of the top 10 causes of illness, death, and disability world - wide and is the leading cause of death from a curable infectious disease . It is estimated that approximately one - third of the world's population is infected with the mycobacterium tuberculosis (hereafter called latent tb), with 8... |
The prediction of in vivo toxicity based on in vitro measurements is a challenging task, which is in the center of active development of modern computational toxicology . The topcoder data science competition platform in collaboration with environment protection agency (epa) organized the toxcast challenge in 2014 . Le... |
The interest in whey - protein supplement (wps) increased with consumer's sensibility concerning health benefits, since the immunomodulatory role of wps has already been amply demonstrated [1, 2]. The whey protein (wp) constitutes 20% of the total protein content of bovine milk and includes alpha - lactalbumin (-la), b... |
+ 1 prfa prf event that results in a shift of the ribosome forward one nucleotide into next adjacent reading - frame on the mrna3-oxo - c6-hsln-(3-oxohexanoyl)-l - homoserine lactone;antiactivationa form of transcriptional repression that is dependent on protein - level inhibition of a transcriptional activatorc protei... |
A 30-year - old male presented to chonnam national university hospital complaining of pitting edema of both lower extremities . Laboratory studies were as follows: blood urea nitrogen, 24.7 mg / dl; serum creatinine, 1.4 mg / dl; and c - reactive protein, 3.5 mg / dl . One week later, the follow - up serum creatinine l... |
Lifestyle and health - related behaviors are strongly associated with morbidity and mortality in many chronic diseases worldwide . Major factors include diet, physical activity, smoking, body mass index (bmi), and alcohol consumption [35]. For example, university students experience significant changes in their diet du... |
The case under discussion highlights the importance of vascular access monitoring and surveillance to prevent failure . Blood loss through avf can be from aneurysms, stenosis and subsequent rupture, infection, trauma, suicide and, use of anticoagulants and antiplatelet drugs . Common causes of blood loss through the av... |
Both kinetochore microtubules (mts [kmts]) and nonkmts in mitotic and meiotic bipolar spindles of higher eukaryotes exhibit poleward translocation or flux (rogers et al ., 2005). Most kmts normally extend the full length of the kinetochore fiber from their plus end attachment sites at kinetochores to minus end anchorag... |
A 2-year - old boy presented to us with a reddish fleshy mass protruding from the inner side of the left eye for 8 months . He underwent an incisional biopsy at a local dispensary 2 months ago, following which there was an increase in the size of mass, spontaneous bleeding episodes, and epiphora . He was a diagnosed pa... |
Femoral artery pseudoaneurysm following by cardiac catheterization is a serious groin complication requiring careful assessment and prompt intervention . Risk of femoral artery pseudoaneurysm is estimated at 0.6 to 17 following diagnostic and interventional procedures . The clinical usage of bedside ultrasonography as ... |
Hashimoto's thyroiditis (chronic autoimmune thyroiditis) is the most common cause of hypothyroidism in the united states . With a 510 times preference over men, ht is an autoimmune disorder and is characterized by the presence of antithyroperoxidase (anti - tpo) antibodies . A mixed population of lymphocytes, sometimes... |
The broad range of medical images and image processing technologies, representing the integration of computer technology in presurgical planning and surgical procedures are often applied in urology . Such systems can be seen as a combination of several procedures and tools developed in order to overcome the drawbacks o... |
Glioblastoma (gb) is the most common and aggressive primary malignant tumor of the brain in adults in the usa . More than 10,000 new cases of gb are diagnosed each year, and 50,000 patients have gb . From 1995 to 2007, overall survival in the usa was 35% for 1 year and <5% for 5 years . Treatment of gb imposes an econo... |
The hepatitis c virus (hcv) is a small, single - stranded, enveloped rna virus of the flaviviridae family, and can induce hepatitis c and hepatocellular carcinoma (hcc) and lymphomas in humans (1). Globally, around 130150 million people have chronic hepatitis c infection (2). As in the general population, the prevalenc... |
Galvanic vestibular stimulation (gvs) can be applied to induce the feeling of directional virtual head motion by stimulating the vestibular organs electrically1 . The mechanisms underlying this response are not yet understood, although the response is commonly attributed to altered otolith output, and based on animal s... |
In this study, somatic cell cloned embryos were successfully produced on the basis of a previous report . Briefly, femoral fibroblasts of an 11-year - old holstein dairy cow from koiwai farm were used as donor cells for somatic cell cloned embryos . Two cloned holstein cows, cody 1 and cody 2, were derived from femoral... |
Instrumented - indentation testing (also known as nanoindentation) has been used to investigate the mechanical properties of biological tissues such as bone [13], dentin and enamel . In the literature, there is no single protocol to measure the material properties of mineralized tissues by instrumented indentation [6, ... |
The extent to which hcv infection is associated with sexual exposure has been debated extensively . The 2008 egyptian demographic and health survey estimated that 15% of people aged 1559 years in egypt have anti - hcv antibodies and 10% have chronic hcv infection . However, this high figure is related to past transmiss... |
The tryptophan (trp) degradation pathways can be divided into four pathways as follows: serotonin, kynurenine, glutarate, and niacin pathways (fig . Many biologically important compounds such as serotonin, melatonin, kynurenine, kynurenic acid (ka), quinolinic acid (qa), and niacin are synthesized from trp . Of these p... |
Glucotoxicity is one of the major factors involved in progressive deterioration of beta - cell function and mass in type 2 diabetes mellitus (t2 dm). Beta - cell function can be improved and leaded to temporary remission in newly diagnosed t2 dm treated with short - term intensive insulin therapy [1, 2]. About 68% of p... |
Brain death (bd) in the popular belief is that someone's brain stops functioning, even though their heart may be kept beating using a machine . Thus, the concept of bd is closely linked to the birth of modern intensive care medicine . After brain function had ceased, the somatic function being sustained by mechanical v... |
Cementoblastoma is a relatively uncommon benign odontogenic neoplasm of the jaws and was first described by dewey in 1927 . The benign cementoblastoma is recognized in the world health organization's (who's) classification (1971) of periapical odontogenic tumors as one of the four types of cementum - producing disorder... |
Radiofrequency ablation of the accessory pathway (ap) is the usual treatment of symptomatic ventricular pre - excitation syndrome (wolff parkinson white syndrome) and of asymptomatic pre - excitation syndrome with signs of malignancy at electrophysiological study, . Therefore electrophysiological study (eps) is recomme... |
Primary dysmenorrhoea, in absence of a diagnosable pelvic disease and secondary dysmenorrhoea, results from pathologic pelvic problems like endometriosis and inflammatory diseases . Pain starts either before or concurrently with onset of menstruation and lasts for 12 - 72 hours . Although primary dysmenorrhoea is not l... |
Eyelid tumors are uncommon and represent 5 - 10% of all skin cancers . Basal cell carcinoma (bcc) is the most common histological type representing 90% of all cases followed by squamous cell carcinoma (scc), and less frequently by sebaceous cell carcinoma (sbcc), merkel cell tumor and melanoma . The most common localiz... |
Trans 5-o - caffeoylquinic acid (1), quercetin-3-o - rutinoside (2), luteolin-5-o - rutinoside (3) and luteolin-7-o - rutinoside (4) were separated from the plant material, its purity was checked by hplc and structure elucidated by ms spectral data . Water was purified by a milli - q system from millipore (milford, usa... |
Clinical use of aminoglycoside antibiotics is complicated by ototoxicity, a condition characterized by damage to cochlear hair cells, cochlear spiral ganglion cells, and the auditory center . Understanding the molecular events behind the ototoxicity of aminoglycoside antibiotics and developing novel, non - toxic treatm... |
The study was conducted at the mata seca state park (mssp), located in the middle so francisco valley in the manga municipality, northern minas gerais state, brazil (144836145659 s and 435512440412 w; fig . The mssp was created in 2000 and has a total area of 15,466.44 ha consisting predominantly of deciduous forest (m... |
A dysfunction of the dopaminergic reward, or motivation, system has been postulated in patients with schizophrenia . Evidence of a dopamine hypothesis in schizophrenia has been primarily provided by studies of the effects of antipsychotics . Furthermore, positron emission tomography (pet) and single - photon emission c... |
Since its initial development approximately two decades ago, optical coherence tomography (oct) has become an indispensable tool in ophthalmic imaging . Although it was initially designed to image the posterior segment and retina [2, 3], oct's capability to generate cross - sectional images of internal biological struc... |
Osteosarcoma (os), characterized by the production of osteoid material by malignant osteoblastic cells, is a primary malignant bone tumor deriving from primitive bone - forming mesenchymal cells . Overall, the treatment strategies are preoperative chemotherapy and surgical resection followed by postoperative chemothera... |
There are standards for content used in the creation of these checklists as well as formatting . More recent studies have shown that specific formatting changes to the college of american pathologists (cap) cancer protocols significantly improve the completeness of the report, the clerical error rate (as measured by am... |
Salivary gland disease which include xerostomia, cysts and sjogren's syndrome - like condition with persistent glandular enlargement and secretory hypofunction have been reported in hiv - infected individuals. [13] hiv - salivary gland disease (sgd) includes lymphoepithelial lesions and cysts involving the salivary gla... |
While india has achieved the goal of elimination of leprosy as a public health problem, defined as <1 case per 10,000 population, at the national level in december 2005, leprosy still persists in certain high endemic districts . A total of 125,785 new cases were detected during the year 201415, which gives annual new c... |
Coronary artery disease (cad) is one of the leading causes of death in all countries . It also significantly affects rates of disability (1). In the past few decades, advances in diagnostic as well as therapeutic methods nevertheless, half of the deaths in industrial countries and 25% of the deaths in developing countr... |
Nerve cell survival depends on the balance between the formation and degradation of cellular proteins and damaged organelles . The ubiquitin - proteasome system and autophagy pathway are the two major mechanisms for maintaining this balance . The ubiquitin - proteasome system is an important route for the degradation o... |
It is frequently used in immunocompromised patients with human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) or a history of organ or stem cell transplantation . Anterior uveitis and hypopyon are well - recognized and frequently reported complications of rifabutin treatment; however, posterior involvement is relatively rare [1, 2]. Her... |
Congenital muscular dystrophy type 1a (mdc1a) was first described in 1994 as a variant form of classic congenital muscular dystrophy (cmd)1). Mdc1a is an autosomal recessive disorder, and patients show absent merosin (laminin 2) on skeletal muscle biopsy . A mutation in the laminin 2 (lama2) gene, located on 6q22 - 23,... |
However none of them are considered of excellent performance to accurately determine what is ingested for all age groups . Even in studies based on a " gold standard " method as food weighing, there can be deviations in the estimation of some items . The r24h is among the most widely used instruments for assessing the ... |
Access to medical care is sometimes very difficult to be reached from people living in rural and underserved areas . The implementation of systems support different telehealth technologies as well as on evidence - based medicine . A fundamental change in the management and delivery of healthcare, by leveraging teleheal... |
In 1971, fontan and baudet first described a palliative surgery for patients with tricuspid atresia . It revolutionised the management of patients with complex congenital heart disease characterized by a single functional ventricle . We describe the anaesthetic management of a 12 year - old girl who had fontan physiolo... |
Obesity is one of the most serious and urgent public health problems in western societies because of its metabolic and cardiovascular complications that negatively impact on life expectancy . Equally alarming is the increase of morbid obesity (bmi 40 kg / m) that quadrupled over the last decade, whereas extreme obesity... |
Similar results were obtained by ryan et al11 who diagnosed delirium in 17.6%19.6% (depending on the method used) of general hospital adult inpatients, with prevalence as high as 34.8% in patients older than 80 years . Multicomponent nonpharmacological interventions may reduce delirium incidents among elderly inpatient... |
The prevalence of gallstones in the united states is approximately 6% in men and 9% in women . Older age, female sex, and obesity are a few risk factors for gallstones . Usually gallstones do not cause any symptoms throughout the lives of most of the people harbouring them . These stones are called incidental gallstone... |
Silver island films were prepared by vacuum deposition of 7 nm silver onto glass coverslips . Directly before use, films were annealed for 1 min at 300 c under argon . The sers substrates were immediately immersed in fresh 2 mm ethanolic thiol solutions for 1518 h. to alter the pntp (fluka, technical grade) surface con... |
Adults use handbags or shoulder bags, which places a load on one hand or one shoulder, respectively1 . Overly heavy bags, inadequate carrying methods, and bag locations distribute the weight inappropriately, which can cause abnormal posture and consequent muscle pain and spinal disorders3 . However, as people are accus... |
Non - communicable diseases (ncds) have undoubtedly become a major challenge in the pacific islands, which account for around 70% of all deaths in the region, including a high percentage of premature deaths (before the age of 60). The republic of palau bears a high burden of ncds, as well as other pacific island countr... |
Cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes and obesity are common diseases with major impact on morbidity and mortality in adulthood [14]. Multiple epidemiological studies, of which many have been published in the european journal of epidemiology, identified various risk factors in childhood and adulthood for these diseas... |
Blood samples were obtained from 66 of the 67 factory workers, including the administrative employees . Serologic testing was carried out at 2 time points (december 2006 and december 2007) by using a commercial elisa (serion, wrzburg, germany) based on plates coated with purified anthrax protective antigen (pa) (techni... |
Several pathogenetic mechanisms have been proposed in the past, but the entity still remains unclear . First described its histopathological findings in 1999, where the transepidermal elimination of urate - like crystals was observed . The term necrotizing infundibular crystalline folliculitis was first used in 2001 by... |
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