BACKGROUND Corneal biometric parameters can possibly be influenced by high myopia (HM). The influence of HM on corneal thickness (CT), epithelial thickness (ET) has not yet been clearly established. The aim of this study is to observe ET, CT and axial length (AL) differences between in normal and subjects with HMs and to investigate factors influencing the corneal biometric parameters and AL, s...

The Harvard Medical School-Cambridge Integrated Clerkship (HMS-CIC) is a redesign of the principal clinical year to foster students' learning from close and continuous contact with cohorts of patients in the disciplines of internal medicine, neurology, obstetrics-gynecology, pediatrics, and psychiatry. With year-long mentoring, students follow their patients through major venues of care. Surger...

STUDY QUESTION How does tetraploidy develop in hydatidiform moles (HMs), and what is the frequency of the different origins? SUMMARY ANSWER Most molar pregnancies with tetraploid cells appear to be produced by somatic endoreduplications, while a minority originate from a tetraploid zygote. The frequency of zygotic tetraploidy was estimated to be 0.7%. WHAT IS KNOWN ALREADY The parental orig...

Bornelöv, S. 2014. Rule-based Models of Transcriptional Regulation and Complex Diseases. Applications and Development. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Science and Technology 1167. 69 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-554-9005-8. As we gain increased understanding of genetic disorders and gene regulation more focus has turned to...

Often cognitive function is affected adversely during prolonged, high intensity exercise. We assessed whether hydrothermally modified corn starch (HMS) ingestion minimizes decline with soccer play. 11 men (177.7 ± 6.8 cm, 77.3 7.9 kg, 22 3 y, 12.8 4.9% body fat, [Formula: see text]O 2 max = 57.1 3.9 ml•kg BM −1 •min ; mean SD) completed 60 min simulated matches HMS (8% CHO; 0.7 g•kg •h 2.8 kcal...

The purpose of the study was to investigate the mineralogical and Heavy Metals (HMs) present in the granite mining soils in Chimakurthy, India. The mineral exploration of mining soils were identified by X-Ray Diffractometer (XRD) pattern analysis. However, the morphological features and quantitative HMs were detected by Scanning Electron Microscopy/Energy Dispersed Spectroscopy (SEM/...

Coal mining and related industry can increase heavy metals (HMs) concentrations in soil, atmosphere and wheat, thereby posing metal-associated human health risk via food ingestion.  In this study, 58 samples of soil, wheat, and dust were collected from Xuzhou coal mine eastern China, six kinds of HMs Pb, Cd, Cu, Zn, As and Cr were studied for their spatial distribution in wheat, enrichment in d...

Statistical analysis and geochemical approaches were exploited for the heavy metals (HMS) assessment in sediments from Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. Single source (crustal) was identified using principal component (PCA). Furthermore, enrichment factor (EF) denoted contaminated sites by HMS study area while EF value reveal minor or no anthropogenic most sites. The activities that suggested to be...

Nowadays people are becoming poisoned through the consumption of herbal remedies that comprise heavy metals (HMs) worldwide. It is possible for HMs to be present in pharmaceutical herb materials coming from anthropogenic activities like agriculture, industrial waste, and natural sources. In various ethnic groups, there evidence contaminants were purposefully added belief they had some sort ther...