BACKGROUND Intravenous patient-controlled analgesia (IVPCA) is a common method of relieving pain which is a risk factor of postoperative delirium (POD). However, research concerning POD in IVPCA patients is limited. OBJECTIVE We aimed to determine the incidence, risk factors, and phenomenological characteristics of POD in patients receiving IVPCA. METHODS A prospective, cohort study was con...

Objective To investigate the effects of prostate cancer (PCa) surgery on the stress system and to identify potential independent factors associating with stress recovery. Methods The design of the study was prospective and PCa surgery included robot assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) or retropubic radical prostatectomy (RRP). Between February 2013 to December 2014, 315 consecutive patients...

In this study, five cultivars (Ceres, Zorro, Falcon, Express, and Samourai) of winter rapeseed were classified by using the common vector approach (CVA). For this purpose, seven yield characters (plant height, number of branches per plant, number of pods per plant, number of pods on main stem, number of seeds per pod, pod length and thousand seed weight) of each cultivar were used. The seven an...

The aim of this study was to estimate the genetic divergence between African cowpea lines from the Cowpea Germplasm Bank of Embrapa Meio-Norte, Brazil. The morphoagronomic diversity of 57 cowpea lines was assessed using multivariate analysis. The germplasm was evaluated in August 2009 using a randomized block design with three replications based on the following traits: number of pods per pedun...

The present study reported for the first time covalent immobilization of protocatechuate 3,4-dioxygenase (3,4-POD) onto functionalized multi-walled carbon nanotubes (F-MWCNT) for degrading the toxic 3,4-dihydroxybenzoic acid (3,4-DHBA) pollutant in water. The F-MWCNTs had a maximum 3,4-POD loading of 1060 μg/mg. Immobilized 3,4 POD had 44% of relative structural changes to its free configuratio...

Phenacetin O-deethylation (POD) exhibits biphasic kinetics in human liver microsomes. Although cytochrome P-450 (CYP) 1A2 is responsible for the high-affinity component of POD, the enzyme(s) that catalyzes the low-affinity reaction is still unknown. We examined the roles of human CYPs in POD by using human liver microsomes and recombinant CYPs from baculovirus-infected insect cells. Of the reco...

This study aimed to investigate the associations of the serial changes of serum levels of various growth factors with liver regeneration after hepatectomy in healthy liver donors. Sixteen healthy liver donors who underwent conventional liver resection were included. Serum levels of various growth factors before hepatectomy and on postoperative day (POD) 1, 3, 5 and 7 were measured. Liver volume...

Herein a new approach to enhance the accuracy of a novel Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD) model applied to moderate Reynolds number flows (of the type typically encountered in ocean models) is presented. This approach develops the POD model of Fang et al. [Fang, F., Pain, C.C., Navon, I.M., Piggott, M.D., Gorman, G.J., Allison, P., Goddard, A.J.H., 2008. Reduced-order modelling of an adapt...

Recently we described a novel cell penetrating peptide, peptide for ocular delivery (POD) that could deliver small molecules including fluorescent dyes into retinal cells. The objective of the current study was to examine whether biologically relevant macromolecules such as proteins, genetically fused with POD could also be delivered into retinal tissues in vivo. We generated a POD-GFP fusion p...