Objectives To identify how frequently patient-reported outcomes (PROs) are used as primary and/or secondary in randomised controlled trials (RCTs) and to summarise what statistical methods for the analysis of PROs. Design Comprehensive review. Setting RCTs funded published by United Kingdom’s (UK) National Institute Health Research (NIHR) Technology Assessment (HTA) Programme. Data sources elig...

We recently found that certain canine live attenuated vaccines produced using `non-feline' cell lines were contaminated with an infectious feline endogenous retrovirus, termed RD-114 virus. We suspected that RD-114 virus may have contaminated the seed stock of canine parvovirus (CPV) during the production of the contaminated vaccines. In this study, we collected stock viruses of CPVs propagated...

Problem statement: The study of Malaysian Arabic phoneme is rarely found which make the references work difficult. Specific guideline on Malaysian subject is not found even though a lot of acoustic and phonetics research has been done on other languages such as English, French and Chinese. Approach: This study discussed about the correct and simplest way of Arabic phonemes pronunciation in Mala...

C-reactive protein (CRP) is an acute phase reactant the concentration of which increases significantly following tissue injury or inflammation. It is present in the albumin fraction of the serum of patients and is antigenic upon injection into rabbits. We report here the development of a local latex reagent coated with rabbit anti-CRP. For this purpose CRP was isolated from pooled sera of patie...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study is to detect the Parkinson's disease gene family mRNA relative expression in the non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) tumor tissue and analyze the association between tumor characteristics and the Parkinson's disease gene family. METHODS Tumor tissue and tumor-adjacent tissue of 114 NSCLC patients were collected and SYBR quantitative analysis was used to det...

V. Kavitha,M. Mallika Arjunan ∗ C. Ravichandran 1 Department of Mathematics, Karunya University, Karunya Nagar,Coimbatore-641 114, Tamil Nadu, India Department of Mathematics, Karunya University, Karunya Nagar,Coimbatore641 114, Tamil Nadu, India Department of Mathematics, Karunya University, Karunya Nagar,Coimbatore641 114, Tamil Nadu, India (Received 27 Sepember 2011 , accepted 17 April 2012)