The reluctance in utilizing the advantages of Self Compacting Concrete (SCC) in Bahrain stems from two contributing factors: Lack of research or published data pertaining to locally produced SCC, and a feeling of doubt and uncertainty in the minds of practicing engineers about reliability and suitability of SCC in hardened stage. The primary aim of this study is to explore the influence of visc...

Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) is the most prevalent malignant neoplasm of the oral cavity. The conventional tumour and several histologic subtypes of SCC present morphologic features and specific behaviour when they occur in the oral mucosa. For example, basaloid SCC is an aggressive tumour and verrucous carcinoma has the lowest invasive and metastatic potential; however, the clinical and biolo...

Design: Gene expression in SCC vs normal skin was studied. Laser capture microdissection was used to determine differential expression of CD200 in normal skin vs actinic keratosis vs SCC in situ vs invasive SCC. Immunofluorescence microscopy was used to define expression of CD200R on macrophages, myeloid dendritic cells, natural killer cells, and T cells in SCC vs normal skin. The effects of SC...

BACKGROUND In this study, we investigated the relationship between changes in antibiotic resistance and distribution of staphylococcal cassette chromosome (SCC) types amongst methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) isolates expressing the most frequently encountered profiles of antibiotic resistance over an 11 year period in the University Hospital of Rennes, France. METHODS Antibi...

PURPOSE Actinic keratosis (AK) is an incipient form of cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (SCC). We determined if the pattern of expression of keratin-14 (K14) is a factor for tumor progression in AK and SCC. MATERIALS AND METHODS Eighteen sections from the tissues of 16 patients were stained with anti-K14 antibody and p16(INK4a). Among the 16 patients, 4 were diagnosed with both SCC and AK at...

Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the skin is a malignancy arising from epithelial keratinocytes. Experimental and epidemiologic evidence raise the possibility that human polyomaviruses (PyV) may be associated with the occurrence of SCC. To investigate whether the risk for SCC was associated with PyV infection, seropositivity to 10 PyV types was assessed following diagnosis in a population-based...

Immune suppressed organ transplant recipients suffer increased morbidity and mortality from primary cutaneous SCC. We studied tumor microenvironment in transplant-associated SCC (TSCC), immune-competent SCC and normal skin by IHC, IF and RT-PCR on surgical discard. We determined T cell polarization in TSCC and SCC by intracellular cytokine staining of T cell crawl outs from human skin explants....