BACKGROUND The predictors of recurrent colorectal adenoma have not been fully examined. This study aimed to evaluate the predictors of recurrent colorectal adenoma after initial screening colonoscopy with adenoma polypectomy. METHODS A retrospective cohort study was conducted at the Taipei Veterans General Hospital from 2003 to 2011. After screening, 356 patients who had undergone two consecu...

IntroductionPleomorphic adenoma (PA) is the most common benign tumor of major salivary glands. It may also arise from minor glands upper aerodigestive tract. PA auditory canal a rarity. The earlier hypothesis that originates ectopic gland tissue has not yet been proven. Currently it assumed external myoepithelia local ceruminal accordingly classified by WHO as adenoma. tendency to recurrence an...

BACKGROUND Vitamin D deficiency has become prevalent worldwide in recent years. However, less evidence was available for lactating women. OBJECTIVE The purpose of the study was to understand vitamin D status and prevalence of deficiency in lactating women and associated risk factors for vitamin D deficiency from eight provinces and municipalities in China. METHODS Lactating women within 1-1...

To determine whether altered noradrenergic activation of the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis contributes to the attenuated neuroendocrine response to stress observed during lactation, the effect of intracerebroventricular injection of the alpha1-agonist methoxamine (100 microg) was compared between virgin and lactating rats. Virgin rats showed significant increases in plasma corticoste...

Little is known about how lactating women accommodate for their increased glucose demands during fasting to avoid maternal hypoglycemia. The objective of this study was to determine whether lactating women conserve plasma glucose by reducing maternal glucose utilization by increasing utilization of FFA and ketone bodies and/or increasing gluconeogenesis and mammary gland hexoneogenesis. Six hea...

Background: Nowadays, drug and observation are advised to patients with lymphocytic hypophysitis and in some cases with nonfunctioning pituitary macoadenoma, instead of surgery. Case presentation: In this article, we report a woman with nonfunctional pituitary macroadenoma and panhypopitutarism and negative criteria for lymphocytic hypophysitis associated with increased liver enzymes. After thr...

The presence and localization of the plasmin system components urokinase (UPA), tissue type plasminogen activator (TPA), plasminogen (PG), a neoantigen expressed by the plasmin-alpha 2-antiplasmin complex, and plasmin inhibitors alpha 2-antiplasmin (AP) and alpha 2-macroglobulin (MG) have been tested by immunofluorescence on sections of 11 benign and 40 malignant lesions of the breast in an att...

Insulin responsiveness to glucose and tissue responsiveness to insulin, using the hyperglycemic clamp and the hyperinsulinemic euglycemic clamp techniques, were measured in lactating, late pregnant, and nonpregnant, nonlactating (NPNL) beef cows. The glucose infusion rate (GIR) in the hyperglycemic clamp technique was higher (P less than .05). in lactating cows than in NPNL cows. The plateau in...

performance, digestibility of nutrients, microbial nitrogen flow (mnf) and nitrogen efficiency (ne) inearly lactating holstein cows were investigated by diet supplementation with sodium caseinate (cn).multiparous lactating holstein cows (n = 15) with an average body weight of 638 kg and 21 days in milkwere assigned to a completely randomized design (five cows per treatment) and fed a basal diet...

Acute stress in the course of wildlife management has been intensively investigated. Chronic stress, on the contrary, has not been researched at all, probably due to the difficulty in measuring it as a result of the overriding effect of the physiological response to the restraining of wild animals. It was therefore decided to evaluate the use of immunocytochemistry, combined with computer image...