The epidemic of type 2 diabetes in the United States prompted us to explore the association between diabetes and tuberculosis (TB) on the South Texas-Mexico border, in a large population of mostly non-hospitalized TB patients. We examined 6 years of retrospective data from all TB patients (n=5049) in South Texas and northeastern Mexico and found diabetes self-reported by 27.8% of Texan and 17.8...

The capability for physical injury or heat stress to elicit the production of reactive oxygen species was examined in four species of gorgonian corals. The sea plumes Pseudopterogorgia elisabethae, Pseudopterogorgia americana, the sea rod Eunicea fusca and the azooxanthellate red branching gorgonian Lophogorgia chilensis were physically injured using sonic sound cavitations and heat shocked by ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the radiological presentation of pulmonary tuberculosis in adults and to compare it with that of other national and international studies. METHOD This prospective study was done on 150 newly diagnosed smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis patients. Two chest physicians reviewed the chest radiographs. Those x-rays were selected in which there were no difference of opinio...

A diffuse, chronic, superficial neocortical degeneration that resulted in atrophy was detected in five 1 to 2-year-old-dogs. Presenting neurologic signs included ataxia, dysphagia, blindness, and mentation changes. Magnetic resonance imaging on brains from 2 dogs demonstrated severe bilateral cerebrocortical atrophy and enlarged lateral and third ventricles. Grossly, multifocal, bilaterally sym...

Adult, male, Long-Evans hooded rats were subjected to a spinal cord transection in the mid-thoracic region. Following surgery, animals were divided into groups for treatments with ACTH, Piromen, isobutyl-2-cyanoacrylate and Cytoxan. Animals were sacrificed at varying intervals from 7-180 days. Horizontal sections of the lesion site were stained with the Bodian silver and Gomori trichrome techni...

We report the case of a previously healthy, immunocompetent 23-year-old male who presented to the Emergency Department with general malaise, difficulty in breathing, fever, and chest pain. He reported a two-week history of progressively worsening sore throat that he presumed to be a viral infection and thus initially neglected. However, when his condition deteriorated, he was admitted to hospit...

Objective: Pulmonary TB is a worldwide infection and medical, social problem causing increase mortality and morbidity especially in our country. The aim of study was to explore the relation b/w degree of smear +ive with radiological extent of lesions on x-ray and HRCT. Material and Methods: Chest radiographs of 2500 patients were received, with sputum +ve .Post t/m residual changes were classif...

transient ischemic left ventricular dilation (tid) is a marker of severe and extensive coronary artery disease as well as an increased risk of adverse outcomes. the patients with more severe and extensive ischemia, multivessel-type of perfusion abnormality as well as patients with left anterior descending artery (lad) territory perfusion abnormality have more probability of having tid. evaluati...

one of the most efficient mechanisms by which plants protect themselves from invading virusesis the specific rna-dependent silencing pathway termed post-transcriptional gene silencing(ptgs). in this mechanism, resistance to a virus is engineered through the expression of asegment of the virus genomein transgenic plants. potato virusy (pvy) is one of the mostdamaging viruses of potato, infecting...

joule-thomson cooling systems are used in refrigeration processes such as cryogenic gas liquefaction. although extensive studies have been carried out by researchers, most of them include cryogenic heat exchangers and their associated fields. in the current study, an attempt was made to indicate the effect of using inappropriate operational conditions in a cryogenic joule-thomson cooling system...