OBJECTIVE Few data exist regarding adjuvant hysterectomy (AH) in locally advanced cervical cancer (LACC) patients treated with chemoradiotherapy. We investigated the effect of AH on prognosis in LACC patients, through meta-analysis. METHODS EMBASE and MEDLINE databases and the Cochrane Library were searched for published studies comparing LACC patients who received AH after chemoradiotherapy ...

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Emerging evidence suggests that assisted hatching (AH) techniques may improve clinical pregnancy rates, particularly in poor prognosis patients; however, there still remains considerable uncertainty. We conducted a meta-analysis to verify the effect of AH on pregnancy outcomes. We searched for related studies published in PubMed, Web of Science, and Cochrane library databases from start dates t...

This article transposes questions about socially engaged sound practices into a more-than-human register, turning an ear to the sounds of interspecies encounters. It takes its impetus from workshop aimed at forming ‘cross-species choir’ by artist Catherine Clover, in which participants tried sing like, with and birds London woodland. I describe how Clover’s speculative choir was informed theore...

In black cherry (Prunus serotina Ehrh.) macerates, the cyanogenic diglucoside (R)-amygdalin undergoes stepwise degradation to HCN catalyzed by amygdalin hydrolase (AH), prunasin hydrolase, and (R)-(+)-mandelonitrile lyase (MDL). A near full-length AH cDNA clone (pAH1), whose insert encodes the isozyme AH I, has been isolated and sequenced. AH I exhibits several features characteristic of beta-g...

BACKGROUND Platelet-activating factor (PAF) is one of the most potent biological mediators of tissue injury. PAF acetylhydrolase (PAF-AH) is a recently isolated naturally occurring enzyme that hydrolyzes PAF and renders it inactive. We hypothesize that inhibition of PAF with PAF-AH will reduce myocardial ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) injury in vivo. METHODS AND RESULTS The coronary ligation mode...

The kinetics of the reactions of antihemagglutinin (AH) and antineuraminidase (AN) antibodies with homologous influenza virus were examined by use of a photometric hemagglutination inhibition test (antibody concentration unit [ACU] test). The following results were obtained. (i) The isotherms describing the reaction of AN antibodies with homologous virus were found to have much steeper slopes t...

Platelet-activating factor-acetylhydrolase (PAF-AH) is a lipoprotein-associated phospholipase A2 capable of hydrolyzing platelet-activating factor (PAF) and oxidatively modified phospholipids. We studied the plasma- and lipoprotein-associated PAF-AH activity in patients with primary hypercholesterolemia. Thirty-eight unrelated patients with heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HeteroFH),...