The purpose of this study was to explore how wearing, or not wearing, protective gloves affects the efficiency of orthodontists in performing certain orthodontic procedures. Thirty-six volunteers were randomly selected from members of the Taiwan Association of Orthodontists. A visual analogue scale (VAS) was used to determine the degree of convenience subjects felt in performing 11 specified or...

Laparoscopic tubal ligation is an effective means of permanent sterilization. The recently released CREST study underscores the need for proper patient selection and counseling.

BACKGROUND HIV-associated nephropathy is accompanied by significant tubular alterations in the form of tubular cell proliferation, apoptosis, and microcystic dilatation. In the present study we evaluated the role of CD4 receptors in HIV-1-induced tubular cell injury. METHODS To confirm the presence of CD4 receptors in tubular cells, immunocytochemical, Western and Northern blot studies were c...

Abstract CD69 depletion from the lymphoid compartment promotes a Th17/Treg imbalance and exacerbates development of atherosclerosis. As atherosclerosis is trigger myocardial infarction, we have analyzed role in Treg cells after a) permanent occlusion left-anterior-descending coronary artery (LAD-ligation) mice, b) angiography two cohorts acute infarction (MI) patients. Our data show that expres...

This paper illustrates the need for human biologists to take into account the far-reaching influences of biomedicine in the study of reproductive aging. Data were drawn from western Massachusetts and Puebla, Mexico, to illustrate the effects of hysterectomy rates, tubal ligations and hormone replacement therapy (HRT) on studies of age and symptom experience at menopause. First, in examining age...

BACKGROUND Vocal local (VL) is a non-pharmacological pain management technique for gynecological procedures. In Africa, it is usually used in combination with pharmacological analgesics. However, analgesics are associated with side-effects, and can be costly and subject to frequent stock-outs, particularly in remote rural settings. We compared the effectiveness of VL + local anesthesia + analge...

INTRODUCTION The objectives of this study were to determine whether there is a difference in the magnitude of forces and moments produced by elastic ligation when compared to passive ligation, and whether these forces and moments propagate differently along the arch for the two ligation types. A lingual incisor malalignment was used in this study. METHODS The Orthodontic Simulator (OSIM) was ...

Objective(s): The current study was designed to investigate the therapeutic and protective effects of montelukast (ML) against doxorubicin (DOX)-induced acute kidney damage in rats.Materials and Methods: Thirty-five Wistar albino female rats were randomly divided into 5 groups as follows: Group I: Control; Group II: Control+ML; Group III: DOX; Group IV: DOX+ML; Group V: ML+DOX. At the end of th...

the basic strategy of reduce the ductility demand and related concentrated tensions at moment resistance connections is reduce the section of the beam at connected region to column. by this method plastic hinge done at the reduced cross section and this local reduction decreases the demand of the components of connection. on this basis, in present study a new beam-to-column moment connection wi...

This paper is to discuss the clinical efficacy for small dose of propofol and sufentanil intravenous anesthesia in endoscopic variceal ligation. 62 patients ligation treated our hospital from April 2013 October 2014 are selected be randomly divided into control group observation group. The contrastive analysis anesthetic effect was made after giving sufentanil+propofol Incidence rates hyoxemia ...