Various aspects of anaerobic digestion (AD) technology have been the focus of research in recent years. Shortening the digestion time with enhanced process efficiency is one of the integral concerns in AD technology. This study was conducted to investigate the feasibility of a two-phase anaerobic treatment system for unscreened dairy manure. Hydraulic retention time (HRT) and organic loading ra...

BACKGROUND Several studies have identified certain caregiver factors that can produce variability in their assessments of the capacities of patients with Alzheimer disease (AD). OBJECTIVES To identify the caregiver variables associated with variability in their ratings of patients' capacities. METHODS Consecutive sample of 221 outpatients with AD and their family caregivers. The capacities ...

The earliest existing text on TCMs, the book Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing (“Ben” means root and “Cao” means shoot), was written sometime during the Qin and Han Dynasties (221 BC – 220 AD). This book was based on the work of medical experts who gathered a plethora of information before the Qin Dynasty. The book covered 365 types of medicine, some of which are still used in contemporary medicine. The S...

BACKGROUND MicroRNAs are short regulatory RNAs that negatively modulate protein expression at a post-transcriptional and/or translational level and are deeply involved in the pathogenesis of several types of cancers. Specifically, microRNA-221 (miR-221) is overexpressed in many human cancers, wherein accumulating evidence indicates that it functions as an oncogene. However, the function of miR-...

The World Health Organization has identified hypercholesterolemia to be one of the major symptoms encompassing the metabolic syndrome. Moreover, epidemiologic evidence indicates that lowbirth-weight offspring are at greater risk of developing the metabolic syndrome. Previous work in our laboratory demonstrated that maternal protein restriction (MPR) results in impaired fetal growth and hypercho...

Introduction This study aimed to evaluate the TRE-induced changes in serum expression levels of miRNAs associated with lipids metabolism and autophagy process MI patients assess potential protective effects TRE these patients. Material methods post hoc investigation was performed on samples obtained from a pilot randomized, double blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial that recruited 14 men (...

UNLABELLED The overexpression of microRNA-221 (miR-221) is reported in several human cancers including hepatocellular carcinoma, and its targeting by tailored treatments has been proposed. The evidence supporting the role of miR-221 in cancer is growing and has been mainly focused on the discovery of miR-221 targets as well as on its possible therapeutic exploitations. However, the mechanism su...

Elhai et al.’s [1] study evaluates the frequency of radiological cervical spine involvement in young adults with polyarticular JIA (pJIA) compared with RA patients. The authors show that about two-thirds of patients in both groups had radiographic abnormalities in the cervical spine, including anterior atlantoaxial subluxation, erosion of the odontoid process, C1 C2 arthritis and apophyseal joi...