Prevalência de doenças sexualmente transmissíveis em mulheres atletas na cidade de São Paulo, Brasil [PDF]
Objective: To determine the prevalence of sexually transmitted diseases in female athletes. Method: An observational, cross-sectional study was conducted including 50 female athletes with mean age of 20±3 years.
Araujo, Maíta Poli de +7 more
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Cytomegalovirus infection and gastric emptying [PDF]
Gastrointestinal infection due to cytomegalovirus occurs frequently in liver transplant recipients. Upper gastrointestinal cytomegalovirus infection is associated with subjective complaints of nausea, a sense of abdominal fullness, and occasionally ...
Chien, MC +4 more
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The Significance of CXCL1 and CXCR1 as Potential Biomarkers of Colorectal Cancer
The CXCL1/CXCR2 and CXCL8-CXCR1/CXCR2 axes are under intensive investigation as they appear to regulate the progression and invasion of colorectal cancer (CRC). Growing evidence demonstrates the elevated expression of these proteins in CRC.
Marta Łukaszewicz-Zając +7 more
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Morphobiochemical parallels in evaluating the condition of the spinal soft tissue vascular flow in patients with neurofibromatosis type I [PDF]
Purpose To compare and analyze structural changes in the vascular bed of the spine skin, paravertebral muscles in the zone of surgical intervention (at the apex of the spine deformity), as well as serum concentrations of vascular endothelial growth ...
Elena N. Shchurova +5 more
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Immunocytochemical Phenotyping of Disseminated Tumor Cells in Bone Marrow by uPA Receptor and CK18: Investigation of Sensitivity and Specificity of an Immunogold/Alkaline Phosphatase Double Staining Protocol [PDF]
Phenotyping of cytokeratin (CK) 18-positive cells in bone marrow is gaining increasing importance for future prognostic screening of carcinoma patients. Urokinase-type plasminogen activator receptor (uPA-R) is one example of a potential aggressive marker
Allgayer, Heike +5 more
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The study covered 30 apparently healthy individuals and 38 patients with systemic scleroderma. The patients gave their consent to participate in the study in accordance with the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki in the current (2013 ...
O. I. Emelyanova +3 more
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Résultats de trois méthodes pour la détection de la mutation précore G1896A du virus de l’hépatite B chez les donneurs de sang français : PCR temps réel, séquençage et test Inno-LIPA [PDF]
AIM: To screen hepatitis B virus (HBV) genotypes and associated basal core promoter (BCP; T1762A/A1764) and precore (PC; A1896) mutations among the 100 HBV surface antigen (HBsAg) positive voluntary blood donors in France.
A. Ducancelle +7 more
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Impact of routine cryptococcal antigen screening and targeted pre-emptive fluconazole therapy in antiretroviral naive HIV-infected adults with less than 100 CD4 cells/μL: a systematic review and meta-analysis. [PDF]
Cryptococcal antigen (CrAg) screening and targeted pre-emptive fluconazole in antiretroviral naive HIV-infected adults with less than 100 CD4 cells/μL seems promising to reduce the burden of cryptococcal meningitis (CM).
Bigna, JJ +9 more
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Comparative evaluation of the total hepatitis C virus core antigen, branched-DNA, and amplicor monitor assays in determining viremia for patients with chronic hepatitis C during interferon plus ribavirin combination therapy. [PDF]
An assay prototype designed to detect and quantify total hepatitis C virus [HCV] core antigen (HCV core Ag) protein in serum and plasma in the presence or absence of anti-HCV antibodies has been recently developed by Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics.
P. Veillon +5 more
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Continuous quantification of HER2 expression by microfluidic precision immunofluorescence estimates HER2 gene amplification in breast cancer. [PDF]
Chromogenic immunohistochemistry (IHC) is omnipresent in cancer diagnosis, but has also been criticized for its technical limit in quantifying the level of protein expression on tissue sections, thus potentially masking clinically relevant data. Shifting
Bisig, B. +6 more
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