Abstract Background: Gastric electrical stimulation (GES) is an efficacious surgical intervention for medically refractory nausea and gastroparesis, though contraindicated poor candidates with magnetic resonance imaging. Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) on individuals GES implant not well studied. Given that strongly associated anxiety depression, ECT should be avoided as absolute contraindicati...

Dissolution testing is useful for controlling the quality of an oral generic equivalent (GE) drug and rejecting a bioinequivalent GE. However, several sources of variability in dissolution tests can affect evaluations of drug quality. Recently, we reported that shifting the paddle shaft off-center significantly changed the dissolution rate of sodium diclofenac tablets, with the result that some...

For a class of discrete-time bidirectional associative memory neural networks (DTBAMNNs) with multiple time-varying delays, the issue state estimation is studied. By propose mathematical induction method, we first investigate novel delay-dependent and -independent global exponential stability (GES) criteria error system. The obtained GES are described by linear scalar inequalities. Then, observ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate how microRNA-190 (miR-190) regulates FOXP2 genes in gastric cancer (GC) cell line SGC7901. METHODS We identified that miR-190 could target FOXP2 genes by using dual luciferase enzyme assay. Precursor fragment transfection of miR-190 was performed with GC cell line SGC7901 and human gastric mucosal cell line GES-1. miR-190 expression was detected by reverse transcripti...

This paper presents a hypothesis together with evidence related to the use of global knowledge as a holistic expert system. By global expert system (GES) we mean all knowledge sources, bases, repositories, and processing units, regardless of whether they are human, artificial, animal, or hybrid, such that the relation “able to transfer knowledge on immediate demand” forms a connected graph over...

Despite recommendations that complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) familiarization should be offered to UK medical students, in Wales little such teaching was offered. We decided to assess medical students' knowledge of CAMs, perceived training needs in CAMs, their view of its role in the National Health Service (NHS) and current teaching given. Analysis of data from a questionnaire give...

BACKGROUND Gastroparesis is a heterogeneous disorder most often idiopathic, diabetic, or postsurgical in nature. The demographic and clinical predictors of gastroparesis in Israeli patients are poorly defined. METHODS During the study period we identified all adult patients who were referred to gastric emptying scintigraphy (GES) for the evaluation of dyspeptic symptoms. Of those, 193 patient...