Introduction and Aim: Carbapenem Resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) have emerged at an alarming rate. Multi locus sequence typing (MLST) is important parameter for identifying drug resistant organisms. The present study was carried out elucidating the mechanisms of CRE MLSTs associated with CRE. Materials Methods: (n=14) were obtained from various clinical samples subjected to Rapidec Carba NP ...

BACKGROUND The hepatic iron concentration (HIC) is widely used in clinical practice and in research; however, data on the variability of HIC among biopsy sites are limited. One aim of the present study was to determine the variability of HIC within both healthy and cirrhotic livers. METHODS Using colorimetric methods, we determined HIC in multiple large (microtome) and small (biopsy-sized) pa...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES There is a paucity of data regarding the differences in the biomarker profiles of patients with obesity, metabolic syndrome, and diabetes mellitus as compared to a healthy, normal weight population. We aimed to study the biomarker profile of the metabolic risk continuum defined by the transition from normal weight to obesity, metabolic syndrome, and diabetes mellitus...

The aim of the present study was to determine whether dietary peptide concentration had an effect on endogenous ileal amino acid flow in the growing pig. Eight 33 kg live weight entire male pigs had post-valve T-caecum (PVTC) cannulas surgically implanted for the collection of ileal digesta. The pigs were fed twice daily at 100 g/kg metabolic body weight per d and were given diets containing en...

Factor V (FV), a central regulatory protein in hemostasis, is distributed into distinct plasma and platelet compartments. Although platelet FV is highly concentrated within the platelet -granule, previous analysis of human bone marrow and liver transplant recipients has demonstrated that platelet FV in these individuals originates entirely from the uptake of plasma FV. In order to examine furth...

A new frog of the Pristimantis myersi Group is described from a bamboo patch within the Reserva Ecológica Verdecocha (0°5'46.9"S, 78°36'15.3"W; 2851 m), located at northwestern flank of the Volcán Pichincha, in the vicinities of Quito, Ecuador. The new species is known from eight adult males, whereas the females remain unknown; it can be readily distinguished from all species of the P. myersi G...

Starting with the representation of the Wilson average in the Euclidean 4D compact QED as a partition function of the Universal Confining String Theory (UCST), we derive for it the corresponding loop equation, alternative to the familiar one. In the functional momentum representation the obtained equation decouples into two independent ones, which describe the dynamics of the transverse and lon...

Statins are a class of medications that reduce cholesterol by inhibiting 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-coenzyme A reductase, which were thought to have a positive impact on dementia. We carried out the present meta-analysis to investigate whether statins might be associated with a reduction on risk of dementia. We carried out a meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies to examine the risk of dem...

cardiology (ESC). Eur Heart J 2011;32:2851–6. 75. Agabiti Rosei E, de Simone G, Mureddu GF, Trimarco B, Verdecchia P, Volpe M. for the Joint Committee of the Italian Society of Hypertension (SIIA), Italian Society of Cardiology (SIC), Associazione Nazionale Medici Cardiologi Ospedalieri (ANMCO). Arterial hypertension and cardiac damage: diagnostic and therapeutic guidelines. High Blood Press Ca...