The aim of this study was to evaluate morphology and assess of the protective and respiratory function of larynx after cricohyopexis (CHP) and cricohyoepiglottopexis (CHEP). The examined group consisted of 58 patients (49 males and 9 female) operated between 1984-2002. An average age 54 (min. 36, max. 67). 32 patients underwent CHP and 26 had CHEP. CHP was performed in following modes: a) 1 ary...

The work presented in this paper relates to a small scale district heating network heated by a gas fired CHP. In most common situations, such a CHP is heat driven operated, meaning that the CHP will switch on whenever heat is needed, while not taking into account the demand of electricity at that time. In this paper however, an active control strategy is developed, aiming to maximize the profit...

CHP-NY-ESO-1 is a novel therapeutic cancer vaccine consisting of a recombinant protein of cancer antigen NY-ESO-1 and a polysaccharide-based delivery system, cholesteryl pullulan. A pilot clinical study of CHP-NY-ESO-1 in cancer patients was previously conducted, and the adverse events related to this drug were observed to be limited to skin reactions at injection sites. To further establish th...

BACKGROUND Aggressive periodontitis (AgP) is one of the most severe forms of periodontal diseases. In Morocco, Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans has been strongly associated with AgP, however limited knowledge is available about the implication of other periodontal pathogens in this entity. Therefore, the main aim of this study was to evaluate the composition of the subgingival microbiota i...

In the present study, muscle tissues were obtained separately from individuals from Atlantic hairtail population (AHP), Gunsan hairtail population (GHP) and Chinese hairtail population (CHP), respectively. The seven decamer primers were used to generate the shared loci, specific, unique shared loci to each population and shared loci by the three hairtail populations. Here, averagely, a decamer ...

Dengue virus is a positive-strand RNA virus and a member of the genus Flavivirus, which includes West Nile, yellow fever, and tick-borne encephalitis viruses. Flavivirus genomes are translated as a single polyprotein that is subsequently cleaved into 10 proteins, the first of which is the viral capsid (C) protein. Dengue virus type 2 (DENV2) and other mosquito-borne flaviviruses initiate transl...

Coumarins induce apoptosis by activating mitochondrial pathway and caspase-3-dependent apoptotic pathway. In the present study, we first time investigated the effect of 3-cinnamoyl-4-hydroxy-6-methyl-2H-pyran-2-one (CHP) on induction of apoptosis in human ovarian carcinoma cells. The data from MTT assay revealed a significant inhibitory effect on cell viability at 30 (87%) and 50 μM (74%) conce...

Combined Heat and Power (CHP) involves on-site or near-site generation of electricity by using gas-fired equipment along with utilization of waste thermal energy available from the power generation process and have the potential to achieve an overall system efficiency of 80% because of the utilization of thermal energy, that would otherwise be wasted, and the reduction of transmission, distribu...