UNLABELLED Radiographic arthrography and bone scintigraphy are common diagnostic procedures used for evaluating total hip prostheses. In this study, both techniques are combined, and nuclear contrast imaging (nuclear arthrography) is added. The efficacy of the procedures is evaluated. METHODS After intravenous injection of 99mTc-methylene diphosphonate (MDP), standard radiographic arthrograph...

The immunopathology of Chagas' disease was studied in the experimental model of chronic infection in C57BL/10JT or mice. Sublethal infection with Trypanosoma cruzi, Y strain, induced specific antibodies and a delayed hypersensitivity response to parasite antigens. Mice developed chronic chagasic myocarditis but not skeletal muscle myositis. Binding of T cells to infected heart tissue was invest...

The inhibitory effect of octreotide on the growth of liver tumour is probably mediated (at least in part) by stimulation of the hepatic reticuloendothelial system (RES) activity. This study therefore investigated the effect of octreotide on the hepatic and splenic RES (assessed by the uptake of technetium 99m labelled albumin colloid, 99mTc-AC) in normal and tumour bearing rats and in animals t...

This study reports the optoelectronic and thermoelectric properties of antimony trisulfide (Sb2S3) under a hydrostatic pressure up to 20.4 GPa. The were computed based on full-potential linearized augmented plane wave using generalized gradient approximation by Perdew, Burke, Ernzerhof as exchange-correlation potentials. It was shown that increasing from 0.00 GPa decreases calculated bandgap 1....

Background Primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) is an inherited disorder where dyskinetic cilia cause impaired mucociliary clearance (MC) of upper and lower airways. Airway movement can be indirectly tested in vivo after administration a radiolabeled tracer to the airways for assessment pulmonary MC or nose assessing Nasal (NMC). With this study we aimed investigate NMC as quantifiable outcome para...