Nephropathy is a common diabetes complication. ERRFI1 gene which participates in various cellular pathways has been proposed as a candidate gene in diabetic nephropathy. This study aimed to investigate the role of +808T/G polymorphism (rs377349) in ERRFI1 gene in diabetic nephropathy. In this case-control study, patients including diabetes with nephropathy (DN=104), type 2 diabetes without neph...

Objectives: Dry Needling (DN) is a novel and effective intervention for patients with Myofascial Pain Syndrome (MPS). Some characteristics, such as needle penetration depth, needle insertion into the target muscle, and trigger points must be identified in this intervention. The Ultrasound (US)-guided DN is a technique that involves needle insertion at the site of injury and the simulation of ti...

By using relations derived from renormalization group equations (RGEs), we find that strong indirect constraints can be placed on the top squark mixing phase in At from the electric dipole moment of the neutron (dn). Since mt is large, any GUT-scale phase in At feeds into other weak scale phases through RGEs, which in turn contribute to dn. Thus CP -violating effects due to a weak-scale At are ...

Diabetic nephropathy (DN) is a well-known complication of diabetes and leading cause of chronic renal failure and end-stage renal disease (ESRD). Currently, angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors (ACE-I) and angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) are the standard of care for this disease although trials targeting the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system demonstrate that they delay the progressi...

Problem 1.(The Mapping Cone is a Homotopy Limit and a Homotopy Colimit) Let A be an Abelian category. Let A● and B● be objects in Ch●(A). Let f ● ∶ A● → B● be a morphism in Ch●(A). For every object T ● of Ch●(A), a left homotopy annihilator to T ● is a pair (Q●, σ●) of a morphism Q● ∶ B● → T ● in Ch●(A) and a nullhomotopy (σn ∶ An → T n−1)n∈Z of Q● ○ f ●, i.e., for every n ∈ Z, Q ○ f = dn−1 T ○...

demiologic analysis and genotypic characterization of a nosocomial outbreak of vancomycin-resistant Enterococci. J Clin Microbiol 1993; 31:1280–5. 8. Carmeli Y, Eliopoulos GM, Samore MH. Antecedent treatment with different antibiotic agents as a risk factor for vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus. Emerg Infect Dis 2002; 8:802–7. 9. Donskey CJ, Chowdhry TK, Hecker MT, et al. Effect of antibiotic t...

Immunosenescence contributes to the decreased ability of the elderly to control infectious diseases, which is also reflected in their generally poor response to new antigens and vaccination. It is known that the T cell branch of the immune system is impaired in the elderly mainly due to expansion of memory/effector cells that renders the immune system less able to respond to new antigens. B lym...

N europathy is a frequent complication of diabetes and is a major cause of morbidity and mortality, potentially affecting distal sensory, motor, and autonomic nerves. Sequelae of diabetic neuropathy (DN) include foot ulceration, which can lead to the devastating consequence of lower limb amputation. Accurate and timely detection, characterization, and quantification of DN are critical in order ...