Objective: This is a prospective evaluation of chest wall integrity and pulmonary function in patients with operative stabilisation for ̄ail chest injuries. Methods: From 1990 to 1999, 66 patients (56 men, 10 women; mean age 52.6 years) with antero-lateral ̄ail chest ($4 ribs fractured at $2 sites) underwent surgical stabilisation using reconstruction plates. Clinical assessment and pulmonary f...

The proportion of ail cancers represented by urinary bladder cancer varies greatly wi thin Africa and the Middle East, and the ratio of male to female frequency of occurrence is nearly as variable (Parkin, 1986). ln Egyt, the proportion of bladder cancers among aIl cancers in men is twce that in Zambia, four times that in Zimbabwe and 10 times that in Algeria. Very few formai assessments of the...

Murine collagen induced arthritis (CIA) is a widely used model of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Identification of CIA susceptibility genes will aid in the understanding of RA pathogenesis and development of therapeutic targets. This study aims to identify and refine quantitative trait loci (QTL) controlling CIA. Major CIA clinical traits were evaluated in both (DBA/1xFVB/N) F(2) and advanced inter...

rpoS, a gene that encodes an alternative sigma factor (also known as katF), is critical for the ability of Yersinia enterocolitica grown at 37 degrees C, but not at 26 degrees C, to survive diverse environmental insults such as high temperature, hydrogen peroxide, osmolarity, and low pH. However, a Y. enterocolitica rpoS mutant was not affected in expression of inv or ail, invasion of tissue cu...

x.doi.org/10.1016/j.redox.2016.06.001 17/& 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. of original article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.redox.2016.02.008 esponding author. ail address: [email protected] (J. Pedraza-Chaverri). e contribution of this author is as follows: She had the original idea that led to oxidative stress injury via Nrf2 protein accumulation. AndéricaRomer...

• EC\c~ year approximately 20 million unsafe abortions occur, primarily in developing countries, and they account for 20% . of ail j:>regmincy-related deaths and disabilities. • AwClman's likelihood of having an indlJCed abortion is almost the same whether she lives in a developed country or a de~eldpin9 country. The main difference is safety: abortion is primarily safe in the former and'mostly...