Abstract Aim To assess the extent to which operation note documentation had been completed accurately, in line with Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) standards, a local plastic surgery department. Methods Using an RCS good surgical practice guideline, notes from cases January 2021 were reviewed. A total 112 procedures that undertaken both theatres and plastics dressing clinic audited. The results...

The human sodium-dependent multivitamin transporter (hSMVT) mediates sodium-dependent uptake of biotin in renal and intestinal epithelia. To date, however, there is nothing known about the structure-function relationship or targeting sequences in the hSMVT polypeptide that control its polarized expression within epithelia. Here, we focused on the role of the COOH-terminal tail of hSMVT in the t...

Previous studies show that infants can compute either the total continuous extent (e.g. Clearfield, M.W., & Mix, K.S. (1999). Number versus contour length in infants' discrimination of small visual sets. Psychological Science, 10(5), 408-411; Feigenson, L., & Carey, S. (2003). Tracking individuals via object-files: evidence from infants' manual search. Developmental Science, 6, 568-584) or the ...

INTRODUCTION A new form of family practices was introduced in 2011 through a pilot project introducing nurse practitioners as members of team and determining a set of quality indicators. The aim of this article was to assess the quality of diabetes and hypertension management. METHODS We included all family medicine practices that were participating in the project in December 2015 (N=584). Th...

The genomic environments and the transcripts of the mitochondrial cox3 gene are investigated in three Arabidopsis thaliana ecotypes. While the proximate 50 sequences up to nucleotide position 584, the coding regions and the 30 flanking regions are identical in Columbia (Col), C24 and Landsberg erecta (Ler), genomic variation is detected in regions further upstream. In the mitochondrial DNA of C...

Aristolochic acid nephropathy (AAN) is a rapidly progressive acute or chronic tubulointerstitial nephritis (TIN). The present study attempted to explore the molecular mechanisms underlying the miRNA-directed development of AAN. Our differentially expressed analysis identified 11 DE-miRNAs and retrieved the target genes of these DE-miRNAs; then, network analysis and functional analysis further i...

OBJECTIVE This study was performed to evaluate the therapeutic effect of cisplatin-gemcitabine combination chemotherapy for advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). MATERIALS AND METHODS Dataset GSE39345 from patients who underwent cisplatin-gemcitabine combination chemotherapy and normal controls was downloaded from Gene Expression Omnibus. Differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were iden...