BACKGROUND Etonogestrel (ENG) implant is an effective method of contraception. The implant is designed to provide contraceptive efficacy for 3 years with a relatively quick return of fertility upon its removal. Menstrual irregularities are not uncommon on long-acting progestins and can often be the factor for discontinuation or removal. A retrospective chart analysis was done on 58 patients who...

Background Endoglin (ENG, CD105), an auxiliary receptor for several TGF-β superfamily ligands, is constitutively expressed in tumor microvessels. The prognostic value of ENG-assessed microvessel density (MVD) has not been systemically analyzed. This meta-analysis reviews and evaluates the association between ENG expression and prognosis in cancer patients. Materials and Methods Thirty publish...

Oxidative stress causes endothelial dysfunction and is implicated in the pathogenesis of cardiovascular diseases. Our studies suggested that reactive oxygen species (ROS) play a crucial role in hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) disease, a vascular dysplasia affecting 1 in 5,000-8,000 people. Mutations in endoglin (ENG) and activin receptor-like kinase 1 (ACVRL1) genes are responsible ...

In this article, parameters and states of a laboratory-scale nylon 612 reactor model (Schaffer et al. Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2003, 42, 2946-2959; Zheng et al. Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2005, 44, 2675-2686; and Campbell, D. A. Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2007) are estimated using a novel approximate maximum likelihood estimation (...

Endoglin (ENG, also known as CD105) is a transforming growth factor β (TGFβ) associated receptor and is required for both vasculogenesis and angiogenesis. Angiogenesis is important in the development of cerebral vasculature and in the pathogenesis of cerebral vascular diseases. ENG is an essential component of the endothelial nitric oxide synthase activation complex. Animal studies showed that ...

The human vestibular system comprises five motion detectors, being the three semicircular canals for rotation detection and two otolith organs for linear acceleration detection. Whereas Unilateral Centrifugation (UC) [1] is used for over a decade to evaluate the utricle, the ocular vestibular evoked myogenic potential (oVEMP) test is a very recent test, claiming to be also a utricular test. The...

Dizzy patients undergoing electronystagmography (ENG) often express stressful life situations, anxiety, and other adverse psychological states . Many past studies have dealt with the interrelations among actual vertigo (or less specific dizziness) and various psychological factors. The present study compares results of a psychological screening questionnaire, the State-Trait Anxiety Index, betw...

OVERVIEW: Among the international efforts to curb global warming, practical application of CO2 removal technology and improvement of powergeneration efficiency — for reducing CO2 emission from thermal power plants (which will probably remain the prime source of power in future) — will, at the very least, become urgent issues over the next several decades. Accordingly, the Hitachi Group is aimin...

Visual evoked response (VER), auditory brainstem evoked response (ABER), somatosensory evoked response (SSER), blink reflex and electronystagmographic (ENG) investigative methods were applied to a group of 89 patients with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and Optic Neuritis (ON). The MS patients were classified as definite (n = 31), probable (n = 31) and possible (n = 27). The aim of this study was to d...