The correlation between maternal serum antibodies in beef calves at 2 days old and protection against diarrhea induced by natural bovine rotavirus (BRV) infection was examined. Virus neutralizing (VN) antibody titers against BRV in sera from calves that developed diarrhea by BRV infection within 14 days of age (BRV-diarrheal calves) were significantly lower than those from calves that had no di...

Cholera and enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) are among the most common causes of acute infantile gastroenteritis globally. We previously developed a rice-based vaccine that expressed cholera toxin B subunit (MucoRice-CTB) and had the advantages of being cold chain-free and providing protection against cholera toxin (CT)-induced diarrhea. To advance the development of MucoRice-CTB for hum...

purpose: the aim of this study was to test the in vitro sensitivity of lymphocytes of patients with head and neck cancer against gamma irradiation and also to find out if the frequencies of chromosomal aberrations correlate with side effects of radiotherapy. patients and methods : peripheral blood of 101 patients with head and neck cancer was collected before the onset of radiotherapy, cultured...

OBJECTIVES To provide a general overview of chemotherapy-induced diarrhea (CID) that will highlight the pathophysiology, incidence, and impact of this problem, as well as describe the oncology nurse's role in the management of CID. DATA SOURCES Primary and tertiary literature, the authors' clinical experience. CONCLUSION CID is a frequent complication of many types of chemotherapy that can ...

INTRODUCTION Constipation and diarrhea as a side effect of medications is a frequent occurrence. Constipation is the most common gastrointestinal complaint that leads to physician visits, diagnostic tests and medications for treatment (1,2). Medication induced diarrhea accounts for about 7% of all adverse drug effects and there are more than 700 drugs that have been implicated in causing diarrh...

Introduction Approximately half of cancer patients will receive radiotherapy with either curative or palliative intent (1). Despite recent advances in radiotherapy treatment planning, normal tissue toxicity still limits the radiation dose that can be safely delivered (1). For example, when radiotherapy treatment is used to treat bladder or prostate cancer, it is often difficult to spare areas o...

Background: Currently, radiotherapy represents the most widely employed therapeutic option in patients with uveal melanoma. Although effects of proton beam on melanoma end ocular tissues have been histologically documented, their appearance at MR imaging is still poorly understood. The purpose our study was to elucidate magnetic resonance (MR) semiotics radiotherapy-induced changes neoplastic a...

Background: Radiotherapy is one of the main therapeutic strategies used in cervical cancer. The first radiotherapy services Cameroon have existed since 1987 and still treat by conventional radiation techniques. With evolution techniques, acute, subacute, late complications are minimized. Our study aimed to describe profile side effects patients with uterine cervix cancer treated radiotherapy, o...

background: this two-arm, randomized clinical study aimed to compare efficacy between topical alpha ointment and topical hydrocortisone cream (1%) in the healing of radiation-induced dermatitis in breast cancer patients. methods: the inclusion criteria comprised newly pathologically proven, locally advanced breast cancer (treated with modified radical mastectomy followed by sequential adjuvant ...