Background & Objective: This study aimed to investigate the effect of decellularized allogeneic bone graft enriched by periosteal stem cells (PSCs) and growth factors on the bone repair process in a rabbit model, which could be used in many orthopedic procedures. Methods: In this experimental study, a critical size defect (CSD) (10 mm) was created in the ...

purpose: to report a case of proteus syndrome with new ophthalmic findings not reported elsewhere. patient and findings: the patient is an 18-year-old girl with red lesions on hand and foot from birth and disproportionate growth of right upper and lower limbs from the first year of life. on examination, the patient has enlargement of the right upper and lower limb, macrodactyly, vascular malfor...

An optimal control problem of an economic system with two criteria is considered in the paper. The Solow model of economic growth is used. Rate of consumption is a control variable, quality vector criterion is a discounted utility in the long-term and near-term. Pontryagin’s maximum principle is applied to the single criteria problem with weighted sum of two functionals. The existence of the so...

Neutral stochastic functional differential equations NSFDEs have recently been studied intensively. The well-known conditions imposed for the existence and uniqueness and exponential stability of the global solution are the local Lipschitz condition and the linear growth condition. Therefore, the existing results cannot be applied to many important nonlinear NSFDEs. The main aim of this paper i...

A randomized controlled trial was performed to study 300 pregnant women with an indication for termination of pregnancy. Inclusion criteria were gestational age of 28 weeks or greater, Bishop score of 5 or less, singleton pregnancy, cephalic presentation, and intact membranes. Exclusion criteria were previous cesarean delivery or any surgical operation on the uterus, vaginal bleeding, known all...

Background: Optimal clinical management of ovarian cancer patients requires prompt and accurate determination of whether primary or recurrent disease is responding to chemotherapy. If CA125 is to fill this need, we must understand the design and outcomes of clinical trials that have established a correlation between CA125 levels and growth or shrinkage of tumor burden. It is particularly import...

BACKGROUND The growth pattern of malignant pleural mesothelioma makes the use of RECIST (response evaluation criteria in solid tumours) response criteria difficult. We have developed and validated Modified RECIST criteria adapted to the growth pattern of malignant pleural mesothelioma. PATIENTS AND METHODS We evaluated 73 patients from two clinical trials of cisplatin/gemcitabine chemotherapy...