OBJECTIVE To investigate the epidemiological and clinical characteristics of a relatively large cohort of patients with oral lichen planus (OLP) from eastern China. STUDY DESIGN A total of 518 patients with histologically confirmed OLP in a long-term follow-up period (6 months-21.5 years) were retrospectively reviewed in our clinic. RESULTS Of the 518 patients, 353 females and 165 males wer...

The ionic conduction properties of the technologically important two-dimensional (2D) layered battery material Na2Mn3O7, with exceptional small-voltage hysteresis between charge and discharge curves, have been investigated as a function temperature frequency by an impedance spectroscopy. detailed analyses data in form dc-conductivity, ac-conductivity, electrical modulus, dielectric constant com...

A recombinant replication-defective adenovirus expressing the major epitopes of porcine circovirus-2 (PCV-2) capsid protein (rAd/Cap/518) was previously constructed and shown to induce mucosal immunity in mice following intranasal delivery. In the present study, immune responses induced by intranasal immunization with a combination of rAd/Cap/518 and cytosine-phosphate-guanosine oligodeoxynucle...

The Mössbauer effect was first described by Rudolf Mössbauer in 1957. The effect describes how nuclei can emit or absorb gamma-rays without recoiling under certain circumstances. When a free nuclei emits or absorbs gamma-rays, it recoils as a result of energy and momentum conservation. As a result, if a free nucleus undergoes a transition from an excited state to its ground state by emitting ga...

The epidemiology of animal rabies in the region of Araçatuba, in the northwest of São Paulo State, from 1993 to 2007, is described according to the results from diagnoses made at laboratories in the region, using the fluorescent antibody and mouse inoculation tests. Out of 10,579 samples analyzed, 4.9% were positive (518/10,579). Dogs accounted for 67% of the cases (346/518) and these occurred ...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to improve the concordance of community-acquired pneumonia management in Australian emergency departments with national guidelines through a quality improvement initiative promoting concordant antibiotic use and use of a pneumonia severity assessment tool, the pneumonia severity index (PSI). DESIGN and INTERVENTIONS Drug use evaluation, a quality im...

Abstract Background: Autoimune dementias are underrecognized clinical entities, frequently misdiagnosed as neurodegenerative or prion disorders. However, the prognosis is vastly different since immunotherapy can treat these conditions and restore functionality. Research objective: To reflect on autoimmune dementias, briefly presenting syndromes, how to diagnose them some cues be attentive of. M...

To evaluate the clinical feasibility of the antibody titer against a chimeric polypeptide (named Core 518), in which a domain of Core and NS3 of hepatitis C virus (HCV) was fused, ELISA was performed in a total of 76 serum samples. Each serum was serially diluted using two-fold dilution method with distilled water into 10 concentrations. They were all positive for second generation anti-HCV ass...