The Mazzotti reaction is a frequent complication in patients with onchocerciasis being treated with diethylcarbamazine (DEC); and more severe manifestations of this reaction may be unacceptable in many patients. It has recently been demonstrated that prednisone modifies the severity of this reaction and reduces the microfilaricidal activity of DEC. A clinical trial was performed at the National...

BACKGROUND Diarrhea is the second most common cause of death among children less than 5 years of age worldwide. The etiological agents of diarrhea in the southeast coastal area of China were studied from July 2009 to December 2014. METHODS A total of the 2318 patients were enrolled in this study and examined for the presence of viruses, bacteria, and parasites. Multiplex real-time PCR was use...

Female-sterile mutations at the dec-1 (defective chorion-1) locus of Drosophila severely disrupt the organization of the eggshell late in oogenesis. Previous characterization of dec-1 mutations has correlated the defects with failure to accumulate an early eggshell protein that undergoes proteolytic cleavage during choriogenesis. To enable further study of the regulation and processing of dec-1...

The concentrations and distributions of some typical chlorinated flame retardants (Dechlorane or Mirex, Dechlorane 602 (Dec 602), Dechlorane 603 (Dec 603), Dechlorane 604 (Dec 604) and Dechlorane Plus (DP)) and brominated FRs (polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), pentabromoethylbenzene (PBEB) and 1,2-bis(2,4,6-tribromophenoxy)ethane (BTBPE)) were analyzed in surficial sediment collected from...

INTRODUCTION Diarrhoeagenic Escherichia coli (DEC) are major causes of diarrhoea in Nigeria. This study was conducted to determine the prevalence of diarrhoea caused by DEC within the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Nigeria. METHODS A total of 730 rectal swabs obtained from 201 children with diarrhoea and 529 healthy controls aged 0-24 months were cultured for the isolation of Escherichia c...

The antifilaricidal drugs ivermectin (IVM), diethylcarbamazine (DEC), and albendazole (ALB), used alone or in combinations against infective third-stage larvae (L3) of nocturnally subperiodic (NSP) Brugia malayi (Narathiwat strain), were tested in vitro for sensitivity, for 7 days. IVM alone reduced larval motility at concentrations of 10(-7), 10(-6), and 10(-5) M on day 3. DEC alone also had t...

Docetaxel is one of the greatest chemotherapeutic agent used in the treatment of solid tumours. However, resistance to docetaxel is a major clinical issue, which obstacle to achieve long time survival for patients with advanced disease. The inherent presence or emergence of drug-resistant tumour clones confines its efficiency in the treatment of cancers. The understanding that epigenetic change...

A cluster-orbital shell model is applied to study the mechanism of a-cluster formation in 2°Ne. For this purpose a realistic effective interaction between the valence nucleons is carefully determined and tested through the low-lying levels of the sd shell nuclei. A calculation including all the configurations up to 4nw excitation is done for the 0+ levels of 2°Ne. Three 0+ states that correspon...

Article ID: WMC002685 Article Type: Review articles Submitted on:18-Dec-2011, 03:35:10 AM GMT Published on: 19-Dec-2011, 03:46:39 PM GMT Article URL: http://www.webmedcentral.com/article_view/2685 Subject Categories:DENTISTRY