Background Giant cell arteritis GCA is the most frequent vasculitis over age of 50. Nowadays, it known that there are several subtypes depending on vessels involved: cranial, extracranial and mixed. However, clinical manifestations differentiate these three have not been extensively examined until now. In future, likely differential characteristics in expression disease will be relevant prognos...

Evidence from clinical reports has indicated that acupuncture has a promising effect on mild cognitive impairment (MCI). However, it is still unknown that by what way acupuncture can modulate brain networks involving the MCI. In the current study, multivariate Granger causality analysis (mGCA) was adopted to compare the interregional effective connectivity of brain networks by varying needling ...

The current study examined the biochemical composition of four seaweeds (Ulva fasciata, Ulva compressa, Corallina officinalis, and elongate) which were collected from Eastern Harbor located at Alexandria Mediterranean coast, Egypt. Total chlorophyll content was maximum in compressa (2.7 mg g–1 FW) minimum value observed elongate (0.90 FW). In comparison, carotenoids registered officinalis (1.04...

Seven stress susceptible (SS) and six stress resistant (SR) pigs were identified by response to halothane anesthesia. Mitochondria and heavy sarcoplasmic reticulum fragments were isolated from biopsies of the semimembranosus muscle. The muscle pH was significantly lower (P<.01) in the SS pigs compared to the SR pigs at biopsy. The mitochondrial respiratory traits, state 3 and state 4 respiratio...

The aim of this in vitro study was to evaluate the erosive capacity of fermented milk beverages, as well as some of their properties that affect the demineralization of dental enamel (pH, buffering capacity, fluoride, calcium and phosphorus contents). Three different batches of 6 commercial brands of fermented milk beverages were analyzed. pH evaluation was accomplished using a potentiometer. T...

The aim of this work is to investigate the differences of effective connectivity of the default mode network (DMN) in Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients and normal controls (NC). The technique of independent component analysis (ICA) was applied to identify DMN components and multivariate Granger causality analysis (mGCA) was used to explore an effective connectivity pattern. We found that: (i) c...

Barth syndrome (BTHS) is an X-linked recessive disorder that is typically characterized by cardiomyopathy (CMP), skeletal myopathy, growth retardation, neutropenia, and increased urinary levels of 3-methylglutaconic acid (3-MGCA). There may be a wide variability of phenotypes amongst BTHS patients with some exhibiting some or all of these findings. BTHS was first described as a disease of the m...

parkinson’s disease (pd) is a progressive neurological disorder characterized by tremor, rigidity, and slowness of movements. specific changes associated with various pathological attacks in parkinson’s disease can be indicated in causality interactions of the brain network from resting state fmri data. in this paper, we aimed to reveal the network architecture of the directed influence brain n...