This study quantified Escherichia coli (EC) and enterococci (ENT) in beach waters and dominant source materials, correlated these with ambient conditions, and determined selected EC genotypes and ENT phenotypes. Bathing-water ENT criteria were exceeded more frequently than EC criteria, providing conflicting interpretations of water quality. Dominant sources of EC and ENT were bird feces (10(8)/...

1Nishi Sonkhya, 2Payal Mittal, 3Pankaj Gupta, 4Divij Sonkhya 1Associate Professor, Department of ENT, SMS Medical College and Hospital, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India 2Resident (3rd Year), Department of ENT, SMS Medical College and Hospital, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India 3Associate Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, SMS Medical College and Hospital, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India 4Resident (1st Year), Depar...

Conformationally restricted analogs of baclofen (2), i.e., 5, 6, and their enantiomers ent-5, and ent-6, the conformations of which were restricted by introducing a cyclopropane ring, were designed as potential GABAB receptor ligands. Reaction of (R)-epichlorohydrin [(R)-7] and (4-chlorophenyl)acetonitrile in the presence of NaNH2 in benzene/tetrahydrofuran gave chiral cyclopropane derivatives ...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES Patients admitted to the Department of Otolaryngology (ENT) are increasing in age, comorbidity and complexity, leading to increased consultations/referrals to Internal Medicine (IM). An alternative to consultations/referrals is co-management. We studied the effect of co-management on length of stay (LoS) in hospital for patients admitted to ENT. METHODS This was a ...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of common ear, nose or throat (ENT) conditions presenting to emergency departments that could be managed by a primary healthcare system Method: Between January 2001 and January 2006 a total of 33 792 patients attended the ENT emergency department of one hospital. All cases were included in this retrospective study. The registry of EN...

Previous work shows that neurosteroid enantiomers activate specific molecular receptors that relay neuroprotection. However, the actions of the enantiomer of progesterone (ent-PROG) at the PROG receptor (PR) are unknown. PR binding and transcriptional assays were performed to determine the actions of ent-PROG at the classical PR. Additionally, the neuroprotective effects of ent-PROG in traumati...

The biosynthesis of the tetracyclic diterpene ent-kaurene is a critical step in the general (primary) metabolism of gibberellin hormones. ent-Kaurene is formed by a two-step cyclization of geranylgeranyl diphosphate via the intermediate ent-copalyl diphosphate. In a lower land plant, the moss Physcomitrella patens, a single bifunctional diterpene synthase (diTPS) catalyzes both steps. In contra...

INTRODUCTION Quality indicators in nutritional therapy (QINTs) allow for the practical assessment of quality in the management of enteral nutrition therapy (ENT) among hospitalized patients. OBJECTIVE To control ENT quality in cancer patients at nutritional risk. METHODS A prospective, observational study was performed with cancer patients over 19 years of age who had undergone exclusive EN...

We describe an approach (ENT(FNC)) for performing rigidity analyses of biomacromolecules on ensembles of network topologies (ENT) generated from a single input structure. The ENT is based on fuzzy noncovalent constraints, which considers thermal fluctuations of biomacromolecules without actually sampling conformations. Definitions for fuzzy noncovalent constraints were derived from persistency ...

1 Post-doctoral degree in Thoracic Surgery (Coordinator of Education and Research at the Getúlio Vargas University Hospital). 2 MSc in ENT (Head of the ENT Service at the Getúlio Vargas University Hospital). 3 MSc in ENT (Assistant Physician at the Getúlio Vargas University Hospital). 4 PhD in Heart Surgery (Head of the Thoracic Surgery Service at the Getúlio Vargas University Hospital). 5 ENT ...