BACKGROUND There has been a rapid decline in the number of young heterosexuals diagnosed with genital warts at outpatient sexual health services since the national human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination program started in Australia in 2007. We assessed the impact of the vaccination program on the number of in-patient treatments for genital warts. METHODS Data on in-patient treatments of genit...

Abstract Background Cartilage regeneration is a key step in functional reconstruction for temporomandibular joint osteoarthritis (TMJ-OA) but difficult issue to address. Strontium ranelate (SrR) an antiosteoporosis drug that has been proven affect OA recent years, its effect on chondrogenesis and the underlying mechanism are still unclear. Methods Bone mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs) from Spragu...

In this paper, we have reported that split ring resonators (SRRs) structures can be used for bioassay applications in order to further improve the assay time and sensitivity. The proof-of-principle demonstration of the ultrafast bioassays was accomplished by using a model biotin-avidin bioassay. While the identical room temperature bioassay (without microwave heating) took 70 min to complete, t...

On the basis of the density functional theory, we give a clear definition of the free energy landscape. To show the usefulness of the definition, we construct the free energy landscape for rearrangement of atoms in an FCC crystal of hard spheres. In this description, the cooperatively rearranging region (CRR) is clealy related to the hard spheres involved in the saddle between two adjacent basi...

We investigated the distribution and metabolism of SRR a -tocopherol ( SRR a -Toc), synthetic a -Toc compared with RRR a -Toc, in rats after a single oral administration of 2 mg (20 m Ci) SRR and RRR a -[5-methyl14 C]Toc. In the liver, there was no difference in the recovery of radioactivity until 12 h after administration, and it reached a maximum of 4.4% of the dose after 12 h, but in other t...

Metamaterials provide a good platform for biochemical sensing due to its strong field localization at nanoscale. In this work, we show that electric and magnetic resonant modes in split-ring-resonator (SRR) can be efficiently excited under unpolarized light illumination when the SRRs are arranged in fourfold rotationally symmetric lattice configuration. The fabrication and characterization of d...