Infection is a common complication in open fractures that compromises the healing of bone and can result in loss of limb or life. Currently, the clinical standard of care for treating contaminated open fractures comprises a staged approach, wherein the wound is first treated with non-biodegradable antibiotic-laden poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) beads to control the infection followed by bone ...

BACKGROUND Intrauterine Insemination (IUI) remains the first thought of infertility treatment. OBJECTIVE To compare the stimulation effects and Pregnancy rate (PR) outcomes of two ovulation induction (OI) medications, human-derived menopausal gonadotrophins (hMGH), Merional (MER), and recombinant follicular stimulating hormone (rFSH), Puregon (PUR), in a cohort of Saudi infertile patients, fo...

We used California's Pesticide Use Report (PUR) and land-use survey data to conduct a simulation study evaluating the potential consequences of misclassifying residential exposure from proximity to agricultural pesticide application in health effect studies. We developed a geographic model linking the PUR with crop location data from land-use surveys to assess the impact of exposure misclassifi...

Lipopurothionins are complexes of basic polypeptides and polar lipids found in petroleum ether extracts of wheat endosperm. Location of the structural genes for the protein moiety and of genes probably controlling the lipid moiety has been achieved by analysis of compensated nulli-tetrasomic and ditelosomic lines of Triticum aestivum L. cv. Chinese Spring, as well as of other genetic stocks. Th...

Oxygen availability in different media during heat treatment (8 h at 80 C) and the related vitamin C loss was assessed. Dissolved oxygen in water containing 3 mmol kg 1 of ascorbic acid decreased initially and seemed to be replaced by oxygen from the headspace in the course of time, as oxygen values increased again. In apple pur ee and carrot pur ee in contrast, oxygen was depleted within 60 mi...

Bioremediation is an important approach to waste reduction that relies on biological processes to break down a variety of pollutants. This is made possible by the vast metabolic diversity of the microbial world. To explore this diversity for the breakdown of plastic, we screened several dozen endophytic fungi for their ability to degrade the synthetic polymer polyester polyurethane (PUR). Sever...