Idiopathic ulcerative laryngitis (IUL) is characterized by bilateral midmembranous vocal fold ulceration, which follows upper respiratory infection with cough. In contrast, granuloma of the membranous vocal fold can occur rarely following microlaryngoscopy, presumably secondary to surgical violation of deep tissue planes. We report a novel case of noniatrogenic membranous vocal fold granulation...

We present an incomplete UL IUL decomposition of matrixAwhich is extracted as a by-product of BFAPINV backward factored approximate inverse process. We term this IUL factorization as IULBF. We have used ILUFF 3 and IULBF as left preconditioner for linear systems. Different versions of ILUFF and IULBF preconditioners are computed by using different dropping techniques. In this paper, we compare ...

Sonja PERREN, University of Zürich, Switzerland Lucie CORCORAN, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Helen COWIE, University of Surrey, UK Francine DEHUE, Open University of Netherlands D'Jamila GARCIA, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Social – IUL, Portugal Conor MC GUCKIN, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Anna SEVCIKOVA, Faculty of Social Studies, ...

The main role of cumulus cells (CC) is to provide nutritious materials for developing oocytes. Follicular fluid (FF) contains the enzyme acid phosphatase, which plays a role in ovulation and fertilization of oocyte. The objective of this prospective study was to evaluate the levels of acid phosphatase in FF and the rate of apoptosis in CC of fertilized and unfertilized oocytes in intracytoplasm...

introduction: the aim of this study was to evaluate the correlation between serum levels of ovarian and gonadotropin hormones, age and number of follicles with follicular alkaline and acid phosphatase activity in infertile women under controlled ovarian hyperstimulation. methods: after collection of follicular fluid and calculation of the number of follicles, the specific activity of alkaline (...

Background: Heavy metals such as cadmium (Cd2+) are natural components of the Earth's crust which can not be degraded or destroyed. Industrial, mining and agricultural activities, particularly the excessive use of phosphate fertilizers, have led to high levels of cadmium contamination at many locations worldwide. Some toxic effects of cadmium are due to its inhibition of various enzyme sys...

the main role of cumulus cells (cc) is to provide nutritious materials for developing oocytes. follicular fluid (ff) contains the enzyme acid phosphatase, which plays a role in ovulation and fertilization of oocyte. the objective of this prospective study was to evaluate the levels of acid phosphatase in ff and the rate of apoptosis in cc of fertilized and unfertilized oocytes in intracytoplasm...

background: cryptorchidism is a common malformation in neonates; surgery or medical treatments are applied during childhood. untreated cryptorchid testes are in the risk of intratubular germ cell neoplasia (igcn) and consequently invasive testicular tumors which could be shown by immunohistochemistry staining for placental like acid phosphatase (plap) marker. objective: we designed this study t...