a Department of Economics, Lingnan University, Dorothy YL Wong Building, 8 Castle Peak Road, Tuen Mun, Hong Kong SAR b Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No Jia11, Datun Road, Anwai, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, China c Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford Universit...

1 Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Communication, Brno University of Technology, Kolejni 2906/4, CZ-616 00 Brno, Czech Republic 2 Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Faculty of Agronomy, Mendel University in Brno, Zemedelska 1, CZ-613 00 Brno, Czech Republic 3 International Clinical Research Center – Center of Biomedical Engineering, St. Anne's U...

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Circulating concentrations of interleukin-2 (IL-2) and a soluble or shed form of the IL-2 receptor (sIL-2R) were determined by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA) in 61 patients with chronic active Crohn's disease (CD) initially and during a three month placebo controlled trial of cyclosporin 5-7.5 mg/kg/day. The baseline median (25-75% range) plasma IL-2 concentration was 0.6 ng/ml (0.3...

We aim to investigate the clinical characteristics and prognostic factors of Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC) patients treated by transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) in Chinese cohort. A total of 2,493 HCC patients treated by TACE were included in this retrospective study. Patients were divided into the younger group (n=1,877) or the elderly group (n=616) based upon their ages (cut-off value o...

INTRODUCTION There is growing evidence of an aetiological relationship between vascular risk factors and the development of dementia in later life. Dementia in the under-65s has historically been considered to be more driven by genetic factors, but previous epidemiological studies in the young have been relatively small. This study aims to determine the prevalence of vascular comorbidity in peo...

Objective: We formulated a simulator system for catheter intervention training by developing a sliding table and an electrically controlled camera-holding C-arm and combining them with the silicone vessel model EndoVascular Evaluator (EVE). We performed simulation of mechanical thrombectomy using this system and evaluated its usability for simulation training. Methods: After three experts in ne...

Elettaria cardamomum (L.) Maton, known as 'queen of spices, is a perennial herbaceous monocot of the family Zingiberaceae, native to southern India. Cardamom is an economically valuable spice crop and used widely in culinary and medicinal purposes. In the present study, using Ion Proton RNA sequencing technology, we performed transcriptome sequencing and de novo transcriptome assembly of a wild...

BACKGROUND Flexible bronchoscopy is a procedure commonly performed for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. The aim of this study was to assess the diagnostic yield and the safety of routine bronchoscopy techniques including transbronchial needle aspiration and transbronchial biopsy at a university hospital in Switzerland. METHODS 616 consecutive bronchoscopies performed at the Pulmonary Medi...

Background and Objectives:Phased-array intracardiac echocardiography (ICE) is a novel method for monitoring intracardiac procedures. We report our initial experience with ICE for guiding transcatheter device closure of atrial septal defects (ASD). Subjects and Methods:From April 2004 to March 2005, ICE was performed in 27 consecutive patients during percutaneous device closure of ASDs. The proc...