We herein present the cases of two patients with multiple ischemic events, presumably due to varying degrees of middle cerebral artery (MCA) stenosis. The first patient was treated medically, and the symptoms and degree of MCA stenosis varied over several months. The second patient received emergent bypass surgery and experienced no further events, although the MCA stenosis progressed over four...

Suitable medium for production of milk clotting enzyme (MCE) by Bacillus subtilis (natto) Takahashi in submerged liquid-state fermentation was screened, the nutrient factors affecting MCE production was optimized by response surface methodology. The MCE production by B. subtilis (natto) Takahashi was increased significantly by 428% in the optimal medium developed. The MCE was filtered and conce...

Broth culture of Trichomonas vaginalis is considered the "gold standard" for the diagnosis of trichomoniasis. Two studies were carried out to evaluate modified Columbia agar (MCA) for the isolation of T. vaginalis from clinical samples. Study I compared isolation on MCA to that on liquid medium with 889 vaginal samples. Out of 63 samples positive for T. vaginalis (7.1% of total), MCA identified...

Moyamoya vasculopathy (MMV) leads to chronic hypoperfusion predominantly in the middle cerebral artery (MCA) and anterior cerebral artery (ACA) territories. Most revascularization techniques focus on revascularization of the MCA territory. Augmentation of blood flow in the frontal area is important for neurocognition and lower extremity function. In this article we describe a new combined (dire...

Using a transcranial Doppler blood flowmeter, the blood flow velocity (BFV) ratio of the middle cerebral artery (MCA) to the basilar artery (BA) was investigated in 12 patients with severe motor and intellectual disability syndrome. The BFV of the MCA was also investigated in 58 handicapped children, classified according to the severity of their motor and intellectual disability. The ratio of t...

This paper introduces and outlines a methodology that may be unfamiliar to some qualitative researchers: Membership Categorisation Analysis (MCA). The first section of the paper explains the basic principles of MCA and why it is a valid method for exploring the power of categorisations in texts and talk. Additionally, it explains why MCA differs from other forms of qualitative data analysis. Th...

conclusions our findings indicate that fullerenol nanoparticles decrease the brain infarction through enhancement of the sod activity during cerebral ischemia-reperfusion injury. results occlusion of mca induced considerable infarction and lesion in ischemic hemispheres of control ischemic rats (527 ± 59 mm3) in accompany with a decrease in the glutathione content (45%), and sod activity (29%) ...

background: in patients with acute stroke and middle cerebral artery (mca) stenosis, microembolic signals (mes) can predict further cerebral ischemia. therefore, this study was designed to evaluate the prevalence of mes by transcranial doppler (tcd) in patients with mca stenosis under treatment of aspirin or clopidogrel. methods: a randomized clinical trial was performed on 40 patients with acu...