The placement of orthodontic bands on molar teeth is a routine procedure during orthodontic treatment .There is a possibility that bacteria may enter the blood stream during this process. The objective of this study was to determine the frequency of post procedural bacteremia in patients undergoing orthodontic banding. A Cross sectional survey was carried out at the Department of Orthodontics, ...

OBJECTIVE Abrupt increases in right ventricular afterload occur after cardiac transplantation and pulmonary artery banding, which can result in right ventricular hypertrophy and dilatation. Right ventricular dysfunction is also accompanied by beta-adrenergic receptor desensitization. We sought to determine whether selective right ventricular expression of a transgene encoding a beta-adrenergic ...

Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), a histologically well-defined subset of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, is clinically and genetically heterogenous. By G-banding, most cases showed complex hyperdiploid karyotypes and diverse cytogenetic abnormalities that included recurring and nonrecurring translocations, deletions, duplications, and marker chromosomes. While G-banding provided valuable leads to i...

Conventional banding techniques can characterize chromosomal aberrations associated with tumors and congenital diseases with considerable precision. However, chromosomal aberrations that have been overlooked or are difficult to analyze even by skilled cytogeneticists were also often noted. Following the introduction of multicolor karyotyping such as spectral karyotyping (SKY) and multiplex-fluo...

The phylogenetic relationships and karyotype differentiation of 14 sibling species of Chironomus plumosus group were studied using comparative analysis of polytene chromosome banding sequences. Revision of banding sequence pools has been made for all species. Main and alternative banding sequences of 6 chromosomal arms (A, B, C, D, E, and F) of each species were used for the analysis. In total ...

OBJECTIVES The theoretical differences in energy losses as well as coronary flow with different band sizes for branch pulmonary arteries (PA) in hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) remain unknown. Our objective was to develop a computational fluid dynamic model (CFD) to determine the energy losses and pulmonary-to-systemic flow rates. This study was done for three different PA band sizes. ...