Eight preparations of soluble amyloid and degraded amyloid (DAM) were compared immunologically. Unlike amyloid fibrils, six of eight preparations of DAM proved to be relatively strong immunogens. Antisera to DAM reacted weakly or not at all with normal human serum or extracts of normal tissues, but were specifically reactive with amyloid fibrils or DAM. Comparative studies of DAM'S from eight d...

OBJECTIVE The effectiveness and improvement in quality of life (QOL) of a long-acting formulation of octreotide (LAR) administration for cancer patients, with chronic loperamide-refractory diarrhea not attributed to medical therapy, were investigated. PATIENTS AND METHODS Twenty-nine patients with chronic loperamide-refractory diarrhea were enrolled to receive octreotide LAR at a starting dos...

INTRODUCTION This study aimed to investigate local control and survival rates following abdominoperineal resection (APR) compared with low anterior resection (LAR) in lower and middle rectal cancer. METHODS In this retrospective study, 153 patients with newly histologically proven rectal adenocarcinoma located at low and middle third that were treated between 2004 and 2010 at a tertiary hospi...

This paper discusses the application of LAR (Linear Algebraic Representation) scheme to the architectural design process. LAR is a novel representation scheme for geometric design of curves, surfaces and solids, using simple, general and well founded concepts from algebraic topology [Dicarlo et al. 2014]. LAR supports all topological incidence structures, including enumerative (images), decompo...

BACKGROUND Laparoscopic low anterior resection (Lap LAR) and total mesorectal excision (TME) is the standard minimally invasive surgery (MIS) for mid and low rectal tumours. However, the pelvic resection in particular for bulky tumour in the narrow male pelvis has always been a challenge for surgeons. Transanal endoscopic microsurgery (TEM) is a well-established technique and synchronous abdomi...

Noninvasive genotyping was employed to see if the five allopatric subspecies of Hylobates lar gibbons could be recognized as genetically differentiated evolutionarily significant units. Phylogenetic and haplotype network analyses were used to study variation of mtDNA control region sequences among 46 allegedly unrelated H. lar gibbons in North American zoos. Although the origins of these gibbon...

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