The recent novel coronavirus (COVID-19, as the World Health Organization has called it) proven to be a source of risk for global public health. virus, which causes an acute respiratory disease in persons, spreads rapidly and is now threatening more than 150 countries around world. One essential procedures that patients with COVID-19 need accurate rapid screening process. In this research, utili...

The epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is one of the crucial procedures for cancer invasion and distal metastasis. Despite undergoing intensive studies, the mechanisms underlying EMT remain to be completely elucidated. Here, we identified that apoptosis-stimulating protein of p53-2 (ASPP2) is a novel target of MiR-205 in various cancers. Interestingly, the binding site of MiR-205 at the 3'...

To assess the prevalence of malaria among illegal gold miners in the French Guiana rainforest, we screened 205 miners during May-June 2014. Malaria prevalence was 48.3%; 48.5% of cases were asymptomatic. Patients reported self-medication with artemisinin-based combination therapy. Risk for emergence and spread of artemisinin resistance among gold miners in the rainforest is high.

BACKGROUND The essence of training traditional birth attendants (TBAs) is to attend to women in uncomplicated labor and to refer them immediately to hospitals when complications develop. AIM The aim was to audit childbirth emergency referrals by trained TBAs to a specialist hospital in Enugu, Nigeria. SUBJECTS AND METHODS A retrospective study of 205 childbirth emergencies referred to Semin...

Background: The status of measles elimination is best summarized by evaluation of the effective reproduction number R; maintaining R < 1 is necessary and sufficient to achieve elimination. In the present article, we estimated reproduction number  for the measles data reported for the Fars province of Iran in 2001–03. Methods: We estimated by using sizes and durations of chains of measles transm...

The physiological and anatomical properties of an unpaired intersegmental interneuron designated cell 205 are described. Cell 205 is unusual among leech neurons in that it combines a variety of functional properties in a single cell. Constant current depolarization of cell 205 initiates and maintains swimming behavior in semi-intact leeches or the swim motor pattern in brainless, isolated nerve...

BACKGROUND To my knowledge, no large series of multiple cranial neuropathies is available. OBJECTIVES To examine the seats and causes of multiple cranial neuropathies in a large group of inpatients. DESIGN Personal case series. SETTING Wards of a large municipal hospital and affiliated rehabilitation hospital. PATIENTS A consecutive series of 979 unselected inpatients with simultaneous ...

We previously reported that microRNA-205 (miR-205) is downregulated by overexpression of the receptor tyrosine kinase ErbB2 and that ectopic transfection of miR-205 precursor decreases ErbB2 tumorigenicity in soft agar. In this study, we further analyzed the regulatory mechanisms linking ErbB2 overexpression and miR-205 downregulation. In ErbB2-overexpressing breast epithelial cells, miR-205 ex...

BACKGROUND This study investigates the clinical use of neuroleptics within a general hospital in acutely ill medical or surgical patients and its relation with dementia three months after admission compared with control subjects. METHODS Cases were defined as every adult patient to whom a neuroleptic medication was prescribed during their hospitalization in our Hospital from February 1st, to ...