The present study explored the modulatory potential of hydrochlorothiazide and triamterene on resistant hypertension patients. The mechanistic information for resistant hypertension was explored by studying the pressure-natriuresis curves between the salt sensitive population and non-salt sensitive population. A cohort of 23 patients with non-hypertension (NH) (13 males and 10 females; aged fro...

The purpose of this study was to determine the in vitro bond strengths of composite rebonded to stainless steel crown metal (SS) using five different bonding agents after composite to SS bond failure had been produced. The adhesive systems were applied to the failed bonds following the manufacturers' instructions and, as a control, composite was bonded to SS without using a bonding agent. Each ...

Mouse models have been widely used to elucidate the pathogenic mechanisms of human diseases. The advantages of using these models include the ability to study different stages of the disease with particular respect to specific target organs, to focus on the role of specific pathogenic factors and to investigate the effect of possible therapeutic interventions. Sjögren's syndrome (SS) is a syste...

Background. The medical literature on synovial sarcoma (SS) of the head and neck region is limited. Thus, we determined whether clinical characteristics and treatment were associated with recurrence and survival rates in patients with SS of the head and neck. Methods. We retrospectively identified patients with a pathologic diagnosis of SS of the head and neck at our institution (a large tertia...

A subgroup H of a group G is called ss-quasinormal in G if there is a subgroup B of G such that G = HB and H permutes with every Sylow subgroup of B; H is called weakly s-permutable in G if there is a subnormal subgroup T of G such that G = HT and H ∩ T ≤ HsG, where HsG is the subgroup of H generated by all those subgroups of H which are s-permutable in G. We fix in every non-cyclic Sylow subgr...

Objectives Dental instruments may serve as a route of infection transmission. The necessity of dismantling of Friction-Style (FS) and SpringStyle (SS) mechanical torque limiting devices (MTLDs) prior to disinfection and sterilization is a matter of debate, aside fromthe fact that it is difcult and time-consuming. This study sought to assess the effect of dismantling of components on quality of ...

Of 114 asthmatic children, 21% had abnormally steep phase III slopes from a modified single-breath oxygen (SBO2) procedure. We hypothesized that the steep slopes reflect inequality of time constants caused by obstruction of peripheral airways and tested this by using a bronchodilator to reduce overall time constants in subgroups of 10 children with steep slopes (SS) and 20 children with normal ...

Results Among patients in the first, second, and third SS tertiles, the 1-year rates of mortality were 1.5%, 1.6%, and 4.0%, respectively (p 0.0005); the cardiac mortality rates were 0.2%, 0.9%, and 2.7%, respectively (p 0.0001); the myocardial infarction (MI) rates were 6.3%, 8.3%, and 12.9%, respectively (p 0.0001); and the target vessel revascularization (TVR) rates were 7.4%, 7.0%, and 9.8%...

In the past two decades, two landmark randomized controlled trials (RCT) have been completed among individuals with sickle cell disease (SCD), the Multi-center Study of Hydroxyurea (MSH) trial and the Stroke Prevention (STOP) trial. The MSH trial tested the hypothesis that hydroxyurea will reduce the frequency of painful episodes for adults with hemoglobin SS who had a history of 3 or more pain...