Objective: To evaluate amniotic fluid glucose, matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)-9, interleukin (IL)-6, and IL-12 for diagnosing subclinical chorioamnionitis in women with preterm labor. Methods: Forty-four women in preterm labor at 22–35 weeks gestation with suspected subclinical chorioamnionitis underwent amniocentesis. Amniotic fluid analysis included Gram stain, culture, and determination of g...

BACKGROUND This is a review of current knowledge on the use of saliva, gingival cervical fluid and mucosal transudate in the detection of some oral and systemic diseases as well as drugs. Oral fluid is a diagnostic medium that can be easily collected and with minimal invasion but it has been neglected in the past. Today, saliva is being used more often to diagnose: HIV virus, oro-facial and sys...

Objective: To determine the effectiveness of prophylactic hypogastric artery ligation (HAL) on the bleeding control in surgeries of placental invasion anomalies. Study design: In this study, an evaluation was made of the effects on bleeding of prophylactic HAL applied before hysterectomy in cases of placental invasion anomalies. A total of 45 pregnant patients with placental invasion anomalies ...

Alkyl-lysophospholipids have been shown to possess antitumoral activity in animal and in human tumors. Among them, racemic 1-O-octadecyl-2-O-methylglycero-3-phosphocholine (ET-18-OCH3) had an antimetastatic effect in experimental tumors. We investigated the effect of ET-18-OCH3 on invasion of MO4 mouse fibrosarcoma cells and on cellular activities possibly related to invasion in vitro. Ten micr...

We investigate the multiscaling behaviour of usual and directed invasion percolation, with and without a power-law decay with the distance from an initial seed in the distribution of random numbers. We find universal multiscaling behaviour only in the presence of a power-law gradient in space. Invasion percolation [ 11 is a geometrical growth model that has been used to describe the penetration...

objective(s): juglone is isolated from many species of the juglandaceae family and used as an anti-viral, anti-bacterial, and anti-tumor therapeutic. here, we evaluated juglone-induced antitumor effect in ovarian cancer skov3 cells. materials and methods: mtt assay was performed to examine juglone anti-proliferative effect. cell cycle and apoptosis were studied using flow cytometry in juglone-tr...

background & objectives: tumor diathesis (td) is defined as granular proteinaceous precipitates on slide surface of cytologic smears. it is found in the background of smears of invasive carcinoma but not in all cases. the aim of present study was to determine the prevalence of td in cervicovaginal smears from patients with uterine cervix carcinoma. methods: cytological smears and histologi...

Dense monolayers of living cells display intriguing relaxation dynamics, reminiscent of soft and glassy materials close to the jamming transition, and migrate collectively when space is available, as in wound healing or in cancer invasion. Here we show that collective cell migration occurs in bursts that are similar to those recorded in the propagation of cracks, fluid fronts in porous media, a...