BACKGROUND Many randomized clinical trials in trauma have failed to demonstrate a significant improvement in survival rate. Using a trauma patient database, we simulated what could happen in a trial designed to improve survival rate in this setting. METHODS The predicted probability of survival was assessed using the TRISS methodology in 350 severely injured trauma patients. Using this probab...

Tissue from primary tumors was analyzed for 118 patients with urothelial cancer who subsequently received cisplatin-based chemotherapy. Immunohistochemical staining was performed for nuclear p53 reactivity; for two proposed mediators of drug resistance, metallothionein (MT) and P-glycoprotein; and for the cell proliferation marker MIB-1. For each marker, immunoreactivity was expressed as a perc...

in order to evaluate the effect of freezing stress on safflower (carthamus tinctorius l.) genotypes, an experiment was conducted in faculty of agriculture, ferdowsi university of mashhad, iran. treatments included 6 genotypes (k.w.3, k.w.6, k.w.16, zarghan 279, line 295 and il-111) and freezing temperatures (0, -4, -8, -12, -16 and -20 ˚c). the trial was arranged as factorial based on completel...

this study was performed to compare the biomar nutritional diet, shrimp, bloodworms on growth parameters, survival and blood parameter of juvenile aquarium joel (hemichromis bimaculatus). the experiment treatments consisted of blood worms, dried shrimp and control treatment that were biomar food. daily feeding was performed 4 times in a day to satiation and breeding fish took place over 8 weeks...

objectives: it was aimed to investigate the effects of different doses of follicle stimulating hormone (fsh) and activin a on the growth and maturation of preantral mouse follicles during the in vitro culture. methods: preantral follicles (90-100 µm in diameter) were harvested from 6-8 week-old syrian mice and cultured in tcm199 culture medium for 6 days to see the effect of fsh and activin a. ...

ed from identified articles to determine ocular viability in each of the above three categories and for factors that improve ocular viability. For evidence of visual function, only articles in which the eye was completely enucleated and reimplanted were included. Articles in which the optic nerve was transected but the eye was not enucleated were excluded. We relied on each identified article’s...