Forty-eight individually fed crossbred steers (British and British x Continental; BW=296+/-16.7 kg) were used to evaluate effects of different growing diets on changes in accretion of intramuscular (IMF) and subcutaneous (SCF) adipose tissues, insulin sensitivity, and carcass traits. Dietary treatments were AL-LC (a low-corn diet fed to allow cattle ad libitum access to feed), AL-HC (a high-cor...

Objective To investigate the prognostic value of pretreatment squamous cell carcinoma antigen (SCC Ag) levels for treatment failure prediction in patients with cervical cancer. Methods A quantity 985 satisfying eligibility criteria were included, a median follow-up duration 63.7 months. The optimal cutoff SCC Ag was verified by receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve. Five-year disease-fr...

Abstract We investigated a wealth of X-ray and gamma-ray spectral energy distribution (SED) multiband light-curve (LC) data the binary HESS J0632+057 using phenomenological intrabinary shock (IBS) model. Our baseline model assumes that IBS is formed by colliding winds from putative pulsar its Be companion particles accelerated in emit broadband radiation via synchrotron (SY) inverse Compton ups...

Objective Chemotherapy may damage ovaries. L-carnitine (LC) as a type of flavonoid antioxidants and bone marrow stromal cells (BMSCs) as a type of mesenchymal stem cells may recover damaged ovaries. It seems that LC has favorable effects on differentiation, increasing lifespan and decreasing apoptosis in BMSCs. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of co-administration of BMSCs a...

Background Recent randomized controlled trials (RCTs) support using physiotherapeutic scoliosis-specific exercises (PSSE) for adolescents with idiopathic scoliosis (AIS). All RCTs reported statistically significant results favouring PSSE but none reported on clinical significance. The number needed to treat (NNT) helps determine if RCT results are clinically meaningful. The NNT is the number of...

In the resonance theory, the radial dilatation is emphasized, and the blood pressure wave is transmitted in the form of “moving windkessel”. Based on this conjecture, we developed a semi-empirical procedure to describe the pressure distribution in a complex simulated model composed of a main tube and attached organs. Now we try to apply this fitting method to hemodynamics in vivo, and we tested...

We present SN 2020jfo, a Type IIP supernova in the nearby galaxy M61. Optical light curves from Zwicky Transient Facility, complemented with data Swift and near-IR photometry are presented. The 350-day duration bolometric curve exhibits relatively short (~ 65 days) plateau. This implies moderate ejecta mass 5 Msun). A series of spectroscopy is presented, including spectropolarimetric observatio...

results mean operative time was shortest in group a (57.1 minutes) and longest in group b [63.4 (p = 0.131)]. mean hospital stay was shortest in group a (2.1 days) and longest in group c (5.7 days) (p = 0.003). hospital expenses were minimal in group a (p = 0.001). male sex, serum bilirubin level, white blood cell (wbc) count, duration of ercp/es procedure, contracted gall bladder and large cal...