Differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) is usually indolent with good prognosis and long-term survival. However, DTC distant metastasis is often a grave event and accounts for most of its disease-specific mortality. The major sites of distant metastases are the lung and bone. Metastases to the brain, breast, liver, kidney, muscle, and skin are rare or relatively rare. Nevertheless, recognizing rare...

BACKGROUND Associations between Arg399Gln, Arg194Trp and Arg280His polymorphisms of the XRCC1 gene and risk of differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC) have been widely studied but the findings are contradictory. METHODS We performed a meta-analysis in the present study using STATA 11.0 software to clarify any associations. Electronic literature databases and reference lists of relevant article...

Nineteen young human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients were randomized to receive 400 mg of oral diethyldithiocarbamate (DTC) per m2 or placebo weekly for 12 weeks. Changes in blood CD4+ lymphocytes were not significantly different between groups. However, neutrophil, monocyte, and platelet counts consistently decreased during DTC treatment, suggesting DTC-mediated myelosuppression.

BACKGROUND Recent years have seen increased concern about direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing (i.e., the sale and use of genetic tests without involving a health care provider). Numerous professional organizations have developed policies in this area. However, little systematic evidence exists to inform public policy about these tests. METHODS We conducted a systematic search to identify...

This paper presents a direct torque control (DTC) of induction motor drive (IMD) using Different levels of Cascade Multilevel DVR. The DTC is one of the most excellent strategies of flux ripples control and torque of IMD. The main drawback of the DTC of IMD using conventional PI controller based SR is high torque, stator flux ripples and speed of IMD is decreasing under transient and steady sta...

Background: Differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC) is the most prevalent thyroid neoplasm which includes papillary and follicular cell carcinoma. Exposure to ionizing radiation is a predisposing factor for developing DTC. Non Homologous End Joining (NHEJ) DNA repair pathway is important one among DNA repair pathways which rejoins ends of broken DNA strands. XRCC4 gene is one of the most importa...

Patient's age at the time of diagnosis is an important prognostic factor for differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) as reflected in various staging and risk stratification systems. However, discrepancies exist among the different staging systems on an optimal cut-off age for predicting the clinical outcome of patients with DTC. To determine the age at diagnosis most predictive of clinical outcomes...

Due to advantages such as fast dynamic response, simple and robust control structure, direct torque control (DTC) is commonly used method in high performance control method for induction motors. Despite mentioned advantages, there are some chronically disadvantages with this method like high torque and current ripples, variable switching behaviour and control problems at low speed rates. On the...

In this study, direct torque control (DTC) of induction motor is evaluated based on space vector modulation (SVM).DTC is a method to control machine with utilizing torque and flux of motor controlled.Direct Torque Control (DTC) is known to produce fast response and robust control in ac adjustable speed drives. However, in the steady-state operation, notable torque, flux and current pulsations o...

Although the prognosis of differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) is relatively good, 30-40% of patients with distant metastases develop resistance to radioactive iodine therapy due to tumor dedifferentiation. For DTC patients harboring BRAFV600E mutation, Vemurafenib, a BRAF kinase inhibitor, has dramatically changed the therapeutic landscape, but side effects and drug resistance often lead to ter...