Methods Confluent NCI-H292 cells were pretreated for 30 min in the presence of MMT and treated with ATP (200μM) or PMA (10ng/ml) or EGF (25ng/ml) or TNF-alpha (0.2nM) for 24 hours, to assess the effect of MMT both on ATPor PMAor EGFor TNF-alpha-induced MUC5AC mucin production using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and on gene expression by the same inducers using reverse transcription-...

INTRODUCTION Osteoarthritis (OA) results in pain and disability; however, preclinical OA models often focus on joint-level changes. Gait analysis is one method used to evaluate both preclinical OA models and OA patients. The objective of this study is to describe spatiotemporal and ground reaction force changes in a rat medial meniscus transection (MMT) model of knee OA and to compare these gai...

A novel bio nanocomposite of Carboxymethyl Starch (CMS)-Chitosan (CS)-Montmorillonite (MMT) was developed for Curcumin delivery. To improve Curcumin entrapment into Cs-CMS-MMT, different ratios of Chitosan (Cs), Carboxymethyl Starch (CMS) and MMT were used. Particle size and Curcumin entrapment efficiency (EE) were highly affected by different formulation variables. Polysaccharide concentration...

Mmt is a formal framework that combines the flexibility of knowledge representation languages like OpenMath with the formal rigor of logical frameworks like LF. It systematically abstracts from theoretical and practical aspects of individual formal languages and tries to develop as many solutions as possible generically. In this work, we allow Mmt theories to declare user-defined literals, whic...

The need for safe, therapeutically effective, and patient-compliant drug delivery systems continuously leads researchers to design novel tools and strategies. Clay minerals play a very crucial role in modulating drug delivery. This work examines the advantageous effect of clay mineral as drug carrier for timolol maleate (TM), a nonselective beta-adrenergic blocking agent. The intercalation of T...

The Multimedia Thesaurus is a playful tool for exploring sound and its latent and potential correlations with space, light, colour, image and movement. Its design is aimed to stimulate critical discourse about sound and multimedia, and to facilitate discussion between potential collaborators who may not share the same terminology, background experience or conceptual framework for describing sou...

Introduction Juvenile dermatomyositis (JDM) is a multisystem vasculopathic disease characterized by muscle inflammation that causes symmetrical muscle weakness. Assessment of muscle strength is, therefore, a fundamental component of the clinical evaluation of children with JDM. This assessment is traditionally made using the 8-muscle Manual Muscle Testing (MMT) and the Childhood Myositis Assess...

In Hong Kong, methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) was launched in the 1970s, almost 30 years before the counterpart programme's inauguration in Mainland China. Both were established in response to perceived public crises-addiction-related crime and HIV outbreak, respectively-and both are now regular services under two systems in the same country. Effectiveness of MMT in achieving the stated g...

The severity of pulmonary aspiration depends mainly on the acidity of the aspirate. Mist. magnesium trisilicate (MMT) has been used for many years at the maternity unit in General Hospital, Kuala Lumpur, to neutralise the acidic gastric contents in all obstetric patients requiring caesarian section. This preliminary study shows that a single dose of 15 mls of MMT before general anaesthesia rais...