BACKGROUND Asymptomatic bacteriuria (ABU) should only be treated in cases of pregnancy or in-patients undergoing urologic procedures; however, unnecessary treatment of ABU is common in clinical practice. OBJECTIVE To identify risk factors for unnecessary treatment and to assess the impact of an educational intervention focused on these risk factors on treatment of ABU. DESIGN Quasi-experime...

Objectives: The purpose of this study is to investigate the knowledge and attitude of women living in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) about hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and their associated health benefits and risks. Methods: A cross-sectional study was performed among 220 women aged 20-70 years old in the UAE mainly in Abu Dhabi and Sharjah. The survey included 21 items; socio-demographic ...

The NMR characteristics of [14-38]Abu, a synthetic variant of BPTI that is partially folded in aqueous buffer near neutral pH, support a model of early folding events which begin with stabilization of the nativelike, slow exchange core [Barbar, E., Hare, M., Daragan, V., Barany, G., and Woodward, C. (1998) Biochemistry 37, 7822-7833 (1)]. In partially folded [14-38]Abu, urea denaturation profil...

During asymptomatic bacteriuria (ABU), bacteria colonize the urinary tract for extended periods of time without causing symptoms of urinary tract infection. Previous studies indicate that many Escherichia coli (E. coli) strains that cause ABU have evolved from uropathogenic E. coli (UPEC) by reductive evolution and loss of the ability to express functional virulence factors. For instance, the p...

During the last two decades, numerous observed data obtained by various physical techniques, also supported molecular modeling approaches, have highlighted structuring features of tripeptides, as well their aggregation properties. Herein, we focus on structural dynamics four trimers, i.e., Gly-Gly-Gly, Gly-Ala-Gly, Ala-Ala-Ala and Ala-Phe-Ala, in an aqueous environment. Density functional theor...

background: cryopreservation of pre-antral follicles is a hopeful technique to preserve female fertility. the aim of the present study was to evaluate reactive oxygen species (ros) and total antioxidant capacity (tac) levels of mouse vitrified pre-antral follicles in the presence of alpha lipoic acid (ala). methods: isolated pre-antral follicles (140–150 µm in diameter) were divided into vitrif...

Introduction: This study evaluated the effects of pretreatments with melatonin (MT), and Alpha Lipoic acid (ALA) on lopinavir/ritonavir (LPV/r) -induced serum levels of creatinine (Cr), urea (U), uric acid (Ua) and kidney levels of malondialdehyde (MDA), superoxide dismutase (SOD), glutathione (GSH) and catalase (CAT) in male albino rats. Effects of treatments with MT and ALA were also evaluate...

Fung 11, Abu-Elmagd K, Todo S, Shapiro R, Tzakis A, Jordan M, Armitage J, Jain A, Martin M, Bronster 0, Stieber A, Kormos R, Selby R, Gordon R, Starzl TE. FK506 in clinical organ transplantation. John J. Fung, Kareem Abu-Elmagd, Saloro Todo, Ronald Shapiro, Andreas Tzakis, Mark Jordan, John Armitage, Ashok Jain, Maureen Martin, Oscar Bronster, Andrei Stieber, Robert Kormos, Robert Selby, Robert...