A Multidisciplinary Approach for a Patient With Synchronous Lip and Thyroid Cancer Involving Radiotherapy. [PDF]
ABSTRACT Background Synchronous cancers, defined as malignancies diagnosed concurrently or within 2 months of each other, are rare, with an incidence of 1%–6%. Environmental factors such as tobacco smoking play a significant role in their development. Patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) are at increased risk of second malignancies,
Nasiek A +6 more
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A plea to implement robustness into a breeding goal: poultry as an example [PDF]
The combination of breeding for increased production and the intensification of housing conditions have resulted in increased occurrence of behavioral, physiological, and immunological disorders.
Brom, F.W.A. +3 more
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Angiogenic and angiostatic factors in renal scleroderma-associated vasculopathy [PDF]
BACKGROUND: The angiogenesis in systemic sclerosis (SSc) is impaired. An imbalance of pro-angiogenic factors and angiogenesis inhibitors has been implicated in the progression of peripheral microvascular damage, defective vascular repair and fibrosis ...
Afeltra, Antonella M. Vittoria +7 more
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PRISE2: software for designing sequence-selective PCR primers and probes. [PDF]
BackgroundPRISE2 is a new software tool for designing sequence-selective PCR primers and probes. To achieve high level of selectivity, PRISE2 allows the user to specify a collection of target sequences that the primers are supposed to amplify, as well as
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Six-minute walk distance after coronary artery bypass grafting compared with medical therapy in ischaemic cardiomyopathy [PDF]
Background: In patients with ischaemic left ventricular dysfunction, coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG) may decrease mortality, but it is not known whether CABG improves functional capacity.
Al-Khalidi, Hussein R. +17 more
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Seeking for a fingerprint: analysis of point processes in actigraphy recording [PDF]
Motor activity of humans displays complex temporal fluctuations which can be characterized by scale-invariant statistics, thus documenting that structure and fluctuations of such kinetics remain similar over a broad range of time scales.
Beldzik, E. +11 more
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The triphenylmethane dye brilliant blue G is only moderately effective at inhibiting amyloid formation by human amylin or at disaggregating amylin amyloid fibrils, but interferes with amyloid assays; Implications for inhibitor design. [PDF]
The development of inhibitors of islet amyloid formation is important as pancreatic amyloid deposition contributes to type-2 diabetes and islet transplant failure.
Akter, Rehana +4 more
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Metabotropic glutamate 2/3 receptors and epigenetic modifications in psychotic disorders: a review [PDF]
Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder are chronic psychiatric disorders, both considered as "major psychosis"; they are thought to share some pathogenetic factors involving a dysfunctional gene x environment interaction.
Grayson, Danis R +4 more
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Ergonomics as instrument for prevention against work injury or occupational diseases [PDF]
Ergonomics as complex branch solves work of employee on concrete work place and follows up relationships between human, machine and work environment.
Bartlová, Ivana, Koutný, Petr
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Early and accurate identification of parkinsonian syndromes (PS) involving presynaptic degeneration from non-degenerative variants such as Scans Without Evidence of Dopaminergic Deficit (SWEDD) and tremor disorders, is important for effective patient ...
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