Medical and Biomedical Researches

Awareness of malalignment and malocclusion in children and their guardians.

June 28th, 2008
Awareness of malalignment and malocclusion in children and their guardians. We conducted a survey on the awareness of abnormalities of dentition and occlusion in 1,904 children (0-15 years old) and their guardians (parents, grandmothers, grandfathers and siblings) on their initial visit to the Department of Pediatric ...

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Development of Computer-based OSCE Re-examination System for Minimizing Inter-examiner Discrepancy.

June 28th, 2008
Development of Computer-based OSCE Re-examination System for Minimizing Inter-examiner Discrepancy. The validity of objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) in evaluating clinical skills has been confirmed in a number of studies. However, inter-examiner reliability has been noted as a concern by many educators. To minimize discrepancy between ...

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Calculation of Dose Contributions of Electron and Charged Heavy Particles inside Phantoms Irradiated

June 28th, 2008
Calculation of Dose Contributions of Electron and Charged Heavy Particles inside Phantoms Irradiated by Monoenergetic Neutron. The radiation-transport code PHITS with an event generator mode has been applied to analyze energy depositions of electrons and charged heavy particles in two spherical phantoms and a voxel-based mouse ...

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Addition of Alpha-Tocopherol to Culture Medium Improves the Quality and Cryosurvival of Nnuclear-Tra

June 28th, 2008
Addition of Alpha-Tocopherol to Culture Medium Improves the Quality and Cryosurvival of Nnuclear-Transferred Ovine Embryos. The aim of this study was to reconstruct and cryopreserve somatic cell nuclear transferred (SCNT) ovine embryos and evaluate the effect of alpha-tocopherol on blastocyst development and subsequent cryosurvival of the ...

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Medium without Ammonium Accumulation Supports the Developmental Competence of Human Embryos.

June 28th, 2008
Medium without Ammonium Accumulation Supports the Developmental Competence of Human Embryos. L-Glutamine has been shown to play an important role during in vitro culture of mammalian embryos. However, it is easily decomposed into ammonium, which is believed to have deleterious effects on preimplantation embryos. In this ...

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Roles of the First and Second Round of DNA Replication in the Regulation of Zygotic Gene Activation

June 28th, 2008
Roles of the First and Second Round of DNA Replication in the Regulation of Zygotic Gene Activation in Mice. In the mouse embryo, expression of zygotic genes starts in the S/G2 phase of the 1-cell stage and greatly increases during the 2-cell stage. Although the timing ...

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Molecular and cellular mechanisms for differentiation and regeneration of the uterine endometrium.

June 28th, 2008
Molecular and cellular mechanisms for differentiation and regeneration of the uterine endometrium. The human endometrium undergoes cyclical changes including proliferation, differentiation, tissue breakdown, and shedding (menstruation) throughout a woman\'s reproductive life. The postovulatory rise in ovarian progesterone induces profound remodeling and differentiation of the estradiol-primed endometrium. ...

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Occupational noise in rice mills.

June 28th, 2008
Occupational noise in rice mills. Background: A major occupational hazard for the workers in rice mills is the noise during the operation of various machines. A noise survey was conducted in the workrooms of eight renowned rice mills of the north-eastern region of India established during ...

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Monetary value of undisturbed sleep.

June 28th, 2008
Monetary value of undisturbed sleep. Study Objectives: To design a national antinoise policy, we need to know the monetary value that people attach to the reduction of sleep disturbance due to road traffic noise. Principles: Patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) controlled by nasal continuous ...

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Hospital contacts for noise-related hearing loss among Danish seafarers and fishermen: A population-

June 28th, 2008
Hospital contacts for noise-related hearing loss among Danish seafarers and fishermen: A population-based cohort study. Aims: Noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) is a leading occupational disease and some seafarers and fishermen may be at high risk. We present here standardized hospital contact ratios (SHCRs) for hearing loss ...

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Hunting for the Right Research Fellowship: The Dos and Don’ts.

June 28th, 2008
Hunting for the Right Research Fellowship: The Dos and Don\'ts. Every year, thousands and thousands of people from Asia, most of them PhDs, make the ultimate transition in their lives when they travel to the west to take up fellowship positions (in this case a research ...

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Dilemma of renal disease in elderly.

June 28th, 2008
Dilemma of renal disease in elderly. The aging process results in profound anatomic and functional changes in a number of human body systems. Changes in kidney function with normal aging are the most dramatic of any human organ or organ system. These include anatomical, physiological, hemodynamic ...

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Immuno-histological Changes in Lupus Nephritis in Female Patients: A Four-Year Study.

June 28th, 2008
Immuno-histological Changes in Lupus Nephritis in Female Patients: A Four-Year Study. The objective of this study was to classify renal biopsies of all female patients diagnosed to have systemic lupus erythematosus at the College of Medicine, King Abdul Aziz University Hospital, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia over a ...

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Early Non-Immunological Post Transplant complications: A Single Center Experience.

June 28th, 2008
Early Non-Immunological Post Transplant complications: A Single Center Experience. To assess non-immunological complications affecting renal transplant patients in the first six months after transplantation in Al-Karama hospital, Baghdad, Iraq, we studied 68 patients (49 males, 19 females) attending the clinic during the year 2006. Forty six ...

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Primary HIV Infection Presenting as Non-traumatic Rhabdomyolysis with Acute Renal Failure.

June 28th, 2008
Primary HIV Infection Presenting as Non-traumatic Rhabdomyolysis with Acute Renal Failure. Renal disease is a relatively common complication in patients infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). A collapsing form of focal glomerulosclerosis has been considered as the primary form of HIV nephropathy. HIV infection is ...

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Partial Recovery of Delayed Graft Function due to Cholesterol Emboli after Renal Transplantation.

June 28th, 2008
Partial Recovery of Delayed Graft Function due to Cholesterol Emboli after Renal Transplantation. A 65-year-old man who received a deceased renal allograft in September 2001. The donor of the allograft was a 54-year-old hypertensive man who expired from intracerebral hemorrhage. Atheroma with hard plaques was present ...

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Combined aneurysms of the main renal and celiac arteries: an unusual association.

June 28th, 2008
Combined aneurysms of the main renal and celiac arteries: an unusual association. Celiac artery aneurysm (CAA) is a rare condition, which occasionally occurs in association with such visceral aneurysms as splenic, common hepatic, left hepatic, supe-rior mesenteric and renal arteries. We describe our observation of a ...

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Denovo post renal transplantation inflammatory bowel disease.

June 28th, 2008
Denovo post renal transplantation inflammatory bowel disease. Post-renal transplant de-novo inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) may develop despite the presence of mycophenolate mofetil (MMF), a drug used for treatment of IBD, in the immunosuppressive regimen. A 39-year-old man received live unrelated renal transplant, and was started postoperatively ...

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Hyperuricosuria, an often overlooked cause of recurrent oliguria in children.

June 28th, 2008
Hyperuricosuria, an often overlooked cause of recurrent oliguria in children. The association of oliguria with hyperuricosuria is often overlooked. Herein, we report an infant who since the age of five months had recurrent oliguria secondary to hyperuricosuria documented several times in the hospital. The decreased urine ...

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Diffuse Cavernous Hemangioma of the Penis, Scrotum, Perineum, and Rectum - A rare tumor.

June 28th, 2008
Diffuse Cavernous Hemangioma of the Penis, Scrotum, Perineum, and Rectum - A rare tumor. Hemangiomas are benign lesions that occur in any part of the body. Genital hemangioma involving the entire penis and scrotum are extremely rare. More rarely they can extend in to the pelvis ...

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Effects of diabetes mellitus, age, and duration of dialysis on parathormone in chronic hemodialysis

June 28th, 2008
Effects of diabetes mellitus, age, and duration of dialysis on parathormone in chronic hemodialysis patients. Secondary hyperparathyroidism (SHPTH) can develop early in the course of chronic renal failure and becomes more prominent as kidney function declines. We studied the effect of diabetes, age, and dialysis on ...

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Correlation of CD4 Counts with Renal Disease in HIV Positive Patients.

June 28th, 2008
Correlation of CD4 Counts with Renal Disease in HIV Positive Patients. To correlate CD 4 counts with albuminuria and glomerular lesions in patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), we studied 104 HIV positive patients (68 males, 36 females) of whom 100 patients were infected by ...

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Tunneled catheter-antibiotic lock therapy for prevention of dialysis catheter-related infections: a

June 28th, 2008
Tunneled catheter-antibiotic lock therapy for prevention of dialysis catheter-related infections: a single center experience. Tunneled cuffed central vein catheters (TCC) are widely used for delivering hemodialysis (HD). Infection is the principal cause of morbidity and mortality associated with central vein catheters in patients on HD. The ...

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Impact of renal failure on survival of african patients with cirrhosis.

June 28th, 2008
Impact of renal failure on survival of african patients with cirrhosis. To assess the effect of renal failure on the survival of black African patients with cirrhosis, we studied 132 (82 males, 50 females) cirrhotic black African patients with mean age of 47.5 +/-14.4 years and ...

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Male fertility after spermatocele formation from tunica vaginalis in patients with bilateral vas age

June 28th, 2008
Male fertility after spermatocele formation from tunica vaginalis in patients with bilateral vas agenesis. To form spermatocele from vaginal layers as a sperm reservoir and intra-uterine insemination (IUI) in infertile men with bilateral vas agenesis (BVA), we studied 19 patients with azoospermia due to BVA referred ...

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