Corneal ulcer, which is brought on by a breach in the epithelial barrier, dangerous infection of avascular corneal stroma. New treatment strategies are needed, suppressing aggressive nature disease and including combination different drugs. In this study, vancomycin (VAN) fluconazole (FLU) dual-drug loaded dual-layered polyvinyl alcohol gelatin (PVA/GEL) nanofibrous patches produced electrospin...

Ab stract In 1996 data from labo ra to ries, gen eral prac ti tio ners and a na tional em ployer were com bined to de tect trends in in flu enza ac tiv ity in Aus tra lia. An epi demic of in flu enza A (H3N2) was re corded. Lit tle in flu enza B ac tiv ity was noted through out the win ter months, how ever the number of labo ra tory re ports of in flu enza B rose in the last quar ter of the yea...

The effect of flunarizine (FLU) and sodium valproate (SV) alone and in combination were examined for their effects on seizure thresholds elicited by cortical stimulation in conscious rats. Two different pharmacodynamic parameters could be distinguished viz, the threshold for localised seizures (TLS) defined as the current (mu A) required to elicit forelimb clonus and the threshold for generalis...

BACKGROUND The influence of different non-myeloablative conditioning regimens on clinical outcome remains undefined. MATERIAL AND METHODS We retrospectively analyzed the hematopoietic reconstitution, graft-versus-host disease (GVHD), and quality of life (QOL) in 56 patients with hematologic malignancies who underwent non-myeloablative stem cell transplantation (NST) with a conditioning regime...

Bird flu or avian flu, caused by H5N1 virus, is a new emerging infectious disease. There has been worldwide situation regarding avian influenza infections in poultry from 1997 (1). Kida noted that this H5N1 virus jumped the species barrier and caused severe disease with high mortality in humans in Vietnam and Thailand (2). Most infected cases usually developed progressive pneumonia with acute r...

Information on respiratory viruses in subtropical region is limited.Incidence, mortality, and seasonality of influenza (Flu) A/B, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), adenovirus (ADV), and parainfluenza viruses (PIV) 1/2/3 in hospitalized patients were assessed over a 15-year period (1998-2012) in Hong Kong.Male predominance and laterally transversed J-shaped distribution in age-specific incidenc...

22 RNAi is a critical component of many cellular anti-viral responses in plants, 23 invertebrates, and mammals. However, its in vivo role in host protection from the 24 negative sense RNA virus Influenza Type A is unclear. Here we have examined the role 25 of RNAi in host defense to flu by analyzing Argonaute 1 and 3 double knock out mice, 26 deficient in components of the RNA induced silencing...

Four precise, accurate, selective, and sensitive UV-spectrophotometric methods were developed and validated for the simultaneous determination of a binary mixture of Oxytetracycline HCl (OXY) and Flunixin Meglumine (FLU). The first method, dual wavelength (DW), depends on measuring the difference in absorbance (ΔA 273.4-327 nm) for the determination of OXY where FLU is zero while FLU is determi...

We describe a data-driven unsupervised machine learning approach to extract geo-temporal co-occurrence patterns of asthma and the flu from large-scale electronic healthcare reimbursement claims (eHRC) datasets. Specifically, we examine the eHRC data from 2009 to 2010 pandemic H1N1 influenza season and analyze whether different geographic regions within the United States (US) showed an increase ...

Acute psychological stress is positively associated with a cold/flu. The present randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled study examined the effect of three potentially probiotic bacteria on the proportion of healthy days over a 6-week period in academically stressed undergraduate students (n 581) who received Lactobacillus helveticus R0052, Bifidobacterium longum ssp. infantis R0033, Bifid...