BACKGROUND In severe illness, plasma selenium levels are decreased; a decreased activity of the selenoenzyme 5'-deiodinase has been hypothesized to contribute to low tri-iodothyronine (T3) levels in non-thyroidal illness (NTI) syndrome in these patients. OBJECTIVE To analyse the influence of selenium substitution on thyroid hormone metabolism in patients with severe sepsis. DESIGN A prospec...

OBJECTIVE The benefit of the use of some intraoral devices in arthrogenous temporomandibular disorders (TMD) patients is still unknown. This study assessed the effectiveness of the partial use of intraoral devices and counseling in the management of patients with disc displacement with reduction (DDWR) and arthralgia. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 60 DDWR and arthralgia patients were rando...

Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) is the type species of the Cucumovirus genus in the Family Bromoviridae. The virus is distributed worldwide, has a very broad host range infecting over 1000 species in more than 85 plant families, and is transmitted by more than 80 aphid species in 30 genera in a non-persistent manner. The viral genome is positive-sense, single-stranded RNA divided among three segmen...

background: toxoplasma gondii is an obligate intracellular parasite and its sexual and asexual cycles, respectively take place in the intestinal epithelial cell of definitive host and tissue of intermediate hosts. congenital toxoplasmosis is more impor tant when the mother acquired the infection during pregnancy period for the first time. serological tests are the only meth ods for diagnosis of...

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is among the most fatal forms of solid tumor in men and women. While the majority of diagnosed CRC cases are sporadic, 15‑25% of patients have a family history of adenomatous polyposis and CRC; however, the associated gene mutations remain largely unidentified. The aim of the present study was to investigate the genomes of a four‑generational Chinese Han family with fami...

background and aims: since the produced recombinant proteins by molecular genetics techniques commonly have some limitations in the application, chimeric protein are introduced. chimeric proteins have found widespread application for the study of protein folding, structure stability, function and immunogenisity. methods: according to the known immunomodulatory effect and structure of hsp70 mole...

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