The aim of this work was to ascertain, in nonmodulating essential hypertension, whether the abnormality in the renal blood supply is extended to the extremities and showed a similar response to ACE inhibition and whether these abnormalities could be identified in normotensive offspring of hypertensives, as non-modulation is a familial process with genetic underpinnings. We measured forearm vasc...

PURPOSE Multiple hippocampal transection (MHT) is a new surgical procedure which disrupts seizure propagation within the hippocampus without impairing verbal memory or the loss of stem cells. Since there are very few papers on this procedure, the authors are presenting their long term results to increase the database on this procedure. METHOD Long term outcome in 15 consecutive patients who h...

Introduction: Acinetobacter baumannii, a known causative agent of nosocomial infections, is one of the highly antibiotic-resistant gram-negative bacilli. Carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter isolates are increasingly reported worldwide. Carbapenems such as imipenem and meropenem are efficient antimicrobial agents commonly used for the treatment of infections caused by multi- resistant A. baumanni...

BACKGROUND We compared the performance of the modified Hodge test (MHT), Triton Hodge test (THT), Carba NP test (CNPt), simplified Carba NP test (CNPt-direct), blue-Carba NP test (BCT), and carbapenem inactivation method (CIM) for rapid and accurate carbapenemase detection. METHODS The methods were evaluated by using 256 gram-negative isolates, including 197 Enterobacteriaceae (79 Enterobacte...

BACKGROUND Breast, endometrial, and ovarian cancers share some hormonal and epidemiologic risk factors. While several models predict absolute risk of breast cancer, there are few models for ovarian cancer in the general population, and none for endometrial cancer. METHODS AND FINDINGS Using data on white, non-Hispanic women aged 50+ y from two large population-based cohorts (the Prostate, Lun...

BackgroundCancer stem cells (CSCs) are the most challenging issue in cancer treatment, because of their high resistance mechanisms, that can cause tumor recurrence after common treatments such as drug and radiation based therapies, insufficient efficiency CSCs removal tumors these treatments, it is essential to consider other methods, including non-ionizing likes light-based magnetic hypertherm...

A host of information is now available regarding the geological and thermal structure as well as deformation rate across the Himalaya of central Nepal. These data are reconciled in a two-dimensional mechanical model that incorporates the rheological layering of the crust which depends on the local temperature and surface processes. Over geological timescale (5 Ma) the ""'20 mm/yr estimated shor...

The proposed work describes the algorithms for Image Compression using Transform Coding Methods: Modified Hermite Transform (MHT), Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) and Wavelet Transform (WT).In MHT and DCT, the given image is divided into NxN subblocks and transformation is applied to each block .Then, a threshold value is selected such that to minimize the mean square value between Original ima...

OBJECTIVES Lung cancer rates increase among women in many regions of the world. To explore whether menopausal hormone therapy (MHT) plays a role. METHODS We conducted a systematic search of the literature and performed meta-analyses of cohort studies (C), case-control studies (CC), randomized controlled trials (RCTs), and cancer registry studies (CR) to analyse the impact of estrogen therapy ...