STUDY DESIGN  Retrospective cohort study. OBJECTIVE  To determine if there is a difference in outcome and complications in surgically managed patients with thoracic-disc herniations (TDH) undergoing a modified transfacet pedicle-sparing decompression and fusion (posteriorly) compared to those undergoing anterior transthoracic discectomies (anteriorly). METHODS  Thirty-five consecutive opera...

0019-1035/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier Inc. A doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2012.02.008 ⇑ Corresponding author. E-mail address: [email protected] (G. Schubert). 1 Present address: Institute for Defense Analyses, Al A whole-moon numerical model of Europa is developed to simulate its thermal history. The thermal evolution covers three phases: (i) an initial, roughly 0.5 Gyr-long period of radiogenic h...

Active surveillance of Vibrio parahaemolyticus infection among hospitalized patients in Calcutta, India, was initiated in January 1994. The incidence of cases of V. parahaemolyticus infection suddenly increased in February 1996 and has remained high since then. One hundred thirty-four strains of V. parahaemolyticus isolated from January 1994 to August 1996 were examined for serovar, the presenc...

Microbial growth variability plays an important role on food safety risk assessment. In this study, the growth kinetic characteristics corresponding to maximum specific growth rate (μmax) of 50 V. parahaemolyticus isolates from different sources and genotypes were evaluated at different temperatures (10, 20, 30, and 37°C) and salinity (0.5, 3, 5, 7, and 9%) using the automated turbidimetric sys...

Stem cells are at the forefront of current regenerative and biomedical research. Thus, there exists an imperative and urgent need to understand the mechanisms that drive stem cell function in order to exploit their use as a therapeutic tool. Amino acids are potent inducers of signaling cascades that drive stem cell proliferation and differentiation. With a focus on mouse embryonic stem (mES) ce...

Aware of the nature deficits in current account, fiscal and financial account balances countries sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) region, this inquiry assessed relationship between these implication such for African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). To do this, study adopted panel data analysis techniques using pooled mean group-autoregressive distributed lag (PMG-ARDL) specifications to test tripl...

Ten out of fifty fresh and refrigerated samples of shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) collected from retailers in Natal (Rio Grande do Norte, Northeastern Brazil) tested positive for Vibrio parahaemolyticus. The Kanagawa test and multiplex PCR assays were used to detect TDH and TRH hemolysins and the tdh, trh and tlh genes, respectively. All strains were Kanagawa-negative and tlh-positive. Antibioti...

Giriş ve Amaç: Akut pankreatit (AP) cerrahi kliniklerinin en çok uğraştığı hastalıklardandır. Mortalite oranları tüm olgularda yaklaşık %1 düzeyinde iken, bu rakam pankreatik nekroz olgularında %15’ler düzeyine çıkabilir. Bu nedenle nekrotizanpankreatittepatogenezinin aydınlatılması önemlidir. AP de tiyoldisülfit dengesinin (TDH) bozulduğu gösterilmiştir. Ancak nekrotizan pankreatite durum hala...

The seasonal abundance of Vibrio parahaemolyticus in oysters from two estuaries along the southwest coast of India was studied by colony hybridization using nonradioactive labeled oligonucleotide probes. The density of total V. parahaemolyticus bacteria was determined using a probe binding to the tlh (thermolabile hemolysin) gene, and the density of pathogenic V. parahaemolyticus bacteria was d...