BACKGROUND Onchocerciasis, an infection caused by the filarial nematode Onchocerca volvulus, is a major public health concern. Given the debilitating symptoms associated with onchocerciasis and concerns about recrudescence in areas of previous onchocerciasis control, more efficient tools are needed for diagnosis and monitoring of control measures. We investigated whether luciferase immunoprecip...

this article looks into the relationship between perceptions of organizational virtuousness (ov), affective well–being (awb), and affective commitment (ac), in insurance companies operating in tehran. using cochran formula, number of samples required to collect research data was estimated to be 196. to access this amount of sample, 20 insurance companies in tehran were selected using random clu...

STUDY DESIGN Retrospective study. OBJECTIVE To determine the optimal osteotomized vertebra (OV) and lowest instrumented vertebra (LIV) in ankylosing spondylitis (AS) kyphosis. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA Although most of AS kyphosis cases are treated by pedicle subtraction osteotomy (PSO), few studies have focused on the selection of the LIV relative to distal OV. METHODS We reviewed all A...

The peak age at onset of Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS) is between 3 and 5years. Patients with LGS frequently experience multiple types of treatment-refractory seizures and require lifelong therapy with several antiepileptic drugs. Here, post hoc analyses of clinical trials (phase III trial OV-1012 and open-label extension trial OV-1004) provide short- and long-term efficacy and safety data of a...

Ovarian cancer (OV) is the most common and lethal gynecological tumor with a poor prognosis for women; however, the regulatory roles of the long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) in ovarian malignant progression are insufficiently understood. Here, we investigated the expression patterns of lncRNAs and mRNAs in the high-throughput molecular profiles of 399 OV patients and constructed a functional lncRN...

Metal tellurides attract recent attention because of their promising applications as effective catalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER). However, inappropriate adsorption energy between OER intermediates and telluride leads to an unsatisfactory electrocatalytic intrinsic activity. Herein, we adopt a unique in-situ cathodic electrochemical activation process facilitate surface self-reco...

Through a two-step solvothermal method, different molar ratios of BiPO4 were grown in situ on the surface oxygen-vacancy-rich BiOBr (Ov-BiOBr), successfully constructing BiPO4/Ov-BiOBr heterojunction composite material. By novel type I high-low junction between semiconductor and Ov-BiOBr, stronger oxidative holes or reductive electrons retained, thereby improving redox performance photocatalyst...

OBJECTIVE To demonstrate whether leptin modulates reproduction by a direct effect within the ovary. DESIGN Animal model. SETTING National Key Laboratory of Infertility. ANIMAL(S) Adult female db/db mice. INTERVENTION(S) Adult littermate wild-type (WT) and diabetic (db) leptin receptor (LR) mutant female mice were matched for the allograft of the ovary to construct new genotypic models, ...