BACKGROUND The injection pain of microemulsion propofol is frequent and difficult to prevent. This study examined the prevention of pain during microemulsion propofol injection by pretreatment with different doses of remifentanil or saline, and premixing of lidocaine. METHODS One hundred sixty ASA physical status 1-2 adult patients scheduled for elective surgery were enrolled into one of four...

BACKGROUND Blood bank recommendations specify that Ringer's lactate solution (LR) should be avoided while transfusing blood. However, there are few studies either evaluating or quantifying increased coagulation during rapid infusion of LR and blood. DESIGN AND METHODS Whole blood (WB, n = 25) and packed red blood cells (PRBC, n = 26) were rapidly admixed with normal saline (NS), Lactate solut...

We present a model and propose an approach to compute an approximate solution of Fully Fuzzy Linear System (FFLS) of equations in which all the components of the coefficient matrix are either nonnegative or nonpositive. First, in discussing an FFLS with a nonnegative coefficient matrix, we consider an equivalent FFLS by using an appropriate permutation to simplify fuzzy multiplications. To solv...

The original LR(k) parser generation algorithm of Knuth in 1965 is very expensive in time and space. Different approaches have been proposed to achieve LR(k) with better practical performance. This work designed a new LR(k) algorithm called the edge-pushing algorithm, which is based on recursively applying the lane-tracing process. The algorithm has been implemented into the parser generator Hy...

Cancer has become a major problem worldwide due to its increasing incidence and mortality rates. Both the 37kDa/67kDa laminin receptor (LRP/LR) and telomerase are overexpressed in cancer cells. LRP/LR enhances the invasiveness of cancer cells thereby promoting metastasis, supporting angiogenesis and hampering apoptosis. An essential component of telomerase, hTERT is overexpressed in 85-90% of m...

This study explored the potential of computed tomography (CT) textural feature analysis for the stratification of single large hepatocellular carcinomas (HCCs) > 5 cm, and the subsequent determination of patient suitability for liver resection (LR) or transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (TACE). Wavelet decomposition was performed on portal-phase CT images with three bandwidth responses (fi...

Microcystin-leucine arginine (MC-LR) is a harmful cyanotoxin produced by cyanobacteria. MC-LR can exert endocrine-disrupting activities in many organisms. We have previously demonstrated that MC-LR exerts both acute and chronic reproductive toxicity in male mice, resulting in a decline in sperm quality and damage to testicular structure. Moreover, we also observed extensive alterations in a pan...

■ Evidence summary Since natural menopause is clinically defined as the final menstrual period, the best way to diagnose it is to retrospectively observe 12 consecutive months of amenorrhea. Several studies followed women longitudinally and found the characteristics that best predicted actual transition to menopause within 4 years were amenorrhea of between 3 and 12 months duration (sensitivity...

This study examined the role of acid sphingomyelinase (ASM) and its redox amplification in mediating the formation of lipid raft (LR) redox signaling platforms in coronary arterial endothelial cells (CAECs). Using small interference RNA (siRNA) of ASM, Fas ligand (FasL)-induced increase in ASM activity, production of ceramide, and LR clustering in CAECs were blocked, and clustered Fas was also ...