background  recent investigations show that both proliferation and secretion of macromolecules by cells can be regulated by low level laser therapy (lllt). the aim of this study was to determine whether lllt could induce a bio-stimulatory effects on human gingival fibroblasts (hgf3-pi 53). therefore, the effect of laser irradiation on human gingival cell proliferation and collagen type i gene e...

the complexity of multiple sclerosis (ms) and the incompetence of a large number of promise treatments in ms urge us to plan new and more effective therapeutic approaches that aim to suppress ongoing autoimmune responses and induction of local endogenous regeneration. emerging data propose that hematopoietic, mesenchymal and neural stem cells have the potential to restore self-tolerance, to pro...

background dox is a powerful chemotherapeutic agent used in the treatment of solid tumors and malignant hematological diseases. however, its cardiac toxicity limits the clinical usefulness of this drug. previous reports have shown corticosteroids induce a cytoprotective effect on cardiomyocytes. mouse transgenic embryonic stem cell-derived pure cardiomyocytes may be considered as a model for as...

background the ability to follow the distribution and migration of biologically active cells in human is essential for the development of cell-based therapies and diagnostics. nuclear medicine imaging is widely applied in clinic as an attractive technique for in vivo wbc and stem cell tracking. the aim of this study was to evaluate prosthesis infection of a 51 years old man with previous histor...

background the aim of this clinical trial was the assessment of safety and efficacy of submocosal and periurethral injections of peripheral blood derived autologous stem cells along with platelets, and focused on outcome for six months. methods an open, prospective study was conducted on 10 patients presenting with stress urinary incontinence. at the baseline (pre-operative), 1, 3 and 6 months ...

The Gold Medal Profile for Sport Psychology (GMP-SP) is a comprehensive, evidence-informed framework integrating mental performance competencies underpinning the athletic performances of Canadian athletes capable stepping onto Para/Olympic Podium. GMP-SP was established to guide Mental Performance Consultants (MPCs) and National Organizations (NSOs) in their design, delivery, tracking, evaluati...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS The aim was to derive health state utility scores in ulcerative colitis (UC) by establishing the relationship between the physician-rated ulcerative colitis disease activity index (UCDAI) and a patient reported EQ-5D by statistically mapping the two instruments. METHODS In a randomised controlled trial comparing oral plus enema mesalazine treatment with oral mesalazine tre...

TraumatomutillaAndré, 1901 is a genus of Mutillidae Latreille, 1802 with 14 species-groups, which the T. gemella group one most poorly known. The hitherto unknown males Traumatomutilla diophthalma (Klug, 1821), chuzaCasal, 1969, and gemellaAndré, 1906 are described illustrated. females andrei (Cresson, 1902), angustata (André, 1906), diopthalma 1906) redescribed. A new species, peismatara Barth...

We present a new method for segmenting, and a new user interface for indexing and visualizing, the semantic content of extended instructional videos. Given a series of key frames from the video, we generate a condensed view of the data by clustering frames according to media type and visual similarities. Using various visual filters, key frames are first assigned a media type (board, class, com...