Results In this cohort study, 748 of the children with complete data were analyzed. 217 (29%) of children had positive parental allergic history, 191 (25.5%) of children had TSE history, and 186 (24.9%) of children had been diagnosed as asthma by a physician in the first 6 years of life. In a regression analysis, physician diagnosed asthma ever in the first 6 years of life were significantly as...

Backgroud: blurring artifact is an issue in axial cervical MRI using T2 Turbo Spin Echo (TSE) weighted Cartesian. T2W TSE BLADE potential to substitute its shortcomings. This study aims analyze the image quality and artifacts between Cartesian on examination determine better sequence producing quality.Methods: this a quantitative research with descriptive approach. 7 volunteers were scanned for...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the potential use of a novel 3D turbo spin-echo (TSE) T2-weighted (T2w) technique for assessing the vessel wall in the superficial femoral artery at 3.0 T. BACKGROUND Magnetic resonance imaging can be used for the noninvasive assessment of atherosclerotic plaque burden in the peripheral circulation. Although black-blood 2D TSE techniques have been used for femoral arter...

BACKGROUND Cigarette smoking is associated with an increased risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Smokers exhibit low circulating levels of total adiponectin (ADPN) and high-molecular-weight (HMW) ADPN multimers. Blood concentrations of HMW ADPN multimers closely correlate with insulin sensitivity for handling glucose. How tobacco smoke exposure lowers blood levels of ADPN, however, has not...

Rodent scrapie models have been exploited to define the molecular basis for the progression of neuropathological changes in TSE diseases. We aim to assess whether CNS gene expression changes consistently observed in mouse models are of generic relevance, for example to natural TSE diseases, or are TSE strain, host species or brain region specific. Six genes, representing distinct physiological ...

PURPOSE We aimed to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of turbo spin-echo diffusion-weighted imaging (TSE-DWI) at 3 T, for cholesteatoma (CS) diagnosis, using qualitative and quantitative methods with numerical assessment of signal intensity (SI), signal intensity ratios (SIR), and apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) values. METHODS In this retrospective study, two blinded observers independen...

Background: Testicular cancer (TC) is the most common in males between age of 15 and 34 years with an incidence rates for new cases rising on average 0.8% each year over last 10 years. self-examination (TSE) recommended preventive approach to reduce testicular Cancer mortality morbidity.
 Objectives: This study examines knowledge, attitude practice TSE among male undergraduate students.&#x...

Late onset ataxia reported in three independently derived PrP null lines of mice has been attributed to the overexpression of the doppel protein in the CNS of these mice rather than to the loss of PrP. The central role of PrP in the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), the proximity of the gene which encodes doppel (Prnd) to the PrP gene (Prnp) and the structural similarity shared ...

PURPOSE Clinical MRI patients typically experience elevated acoustic noise levels of 80-110 dB(A). In this study, standard clinical turbo spin echo (TSE) and gradient echo (GRE) sequences were optimized for reduced acoustic noise at preserved diagnostic image quality. METHODS The physical sources of acoustic noise generation in an MRI gradient coil were analyzed. A sequence conversion algorit...

AIM OF THE STUDY Tecoma stans (L.) Juss. ex Kunth (Bignoniaceae) and Teucrium cubense Jacq (Lamiaceae) are plants extensively used for the empirical treatment of diabetes mellitus, but their antidiabetic mechanisms remain to be clarified. In this study, the effect of aqueous extracts of Tecoma stans (TSE) and Teucrium cubense (TCE) on the glucose uptake in adipose cells was evaluated. MATERIA...