abstract background and objective: celiac is an autoimmune disease that is characterized by an immune-system-related damage in the intestinal tissue after consumption of gluten. there is not any general agreement for gold standard. the purpose of this study was the evaluation of specificity and sensitivity of anti-endomysial (ema) and anti-tissue transglutaminase (ttg) serological test compared...

PCR techniques have significantly improved the detection and identification of bacterial pathogens. Even so, the lack of differentiation between DNA from viable and dead cells is one of the major challenges for diagnostic DNA-based methods. Certain nucleic acid-binding dyes can selectively enter dead bacteria and subsequently be covalently linked to DNA. Ethidium monoazide (EMA) is a DNA interc...

Electromagnetic articulograph (EMA) provides movement data of sensors attached to a few flesh points on different speech articulators including lips, jaw, and tongue while a subject speaks. In this work, we quantify the amount of information these flesh points provide about the vocal tract (VT) shape in the mid-sagittal plane. VT shape is described by the air-tissue boundaries, which are obtain...

BACKGROUND Community sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services are well placed to deliver abortion assessment services and early medical abortion (EMA), but comparative data on safety and acceptability from both settings are important for future service planning. METHODS Retrospective review of computerised records of 1342 women undergoing outpatient EMA (≤9 weeks) in a community SRH or h...

BACKGROUND The primary objective of the present study was to examine the drug approval process and the time to approval (tta) for cancer drugs by 3 major international regulatory bodies-Health Canada, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (fda), and the European Medicines Agency (ema)-and to explore differences in the drug approval processes that might contribute to any disparities. METHODS T...

Frog jumps exceed muscle power limits. To achieve this, a muscle may store elastic energy in tendon before it is released rapidly, producing 'power amplification' as tendon recoil assists the muscle to accelerate the load. Do the musculoskeletal modifications conferring power amplification help or hinder frog swimming? We used a Hill-type mathematical model of a muscle-tendon (MT) with contract...

Polymerization characteristics of 4 types of ethyl methacrylate (EMA)-based resin, composed of EMA and EMA/methyl methacrylate (MMA) copolymers and initiated by tributylborane (TBB), were studied from the aspects of long term changes of residual monomer (RM) and molecular weight (Mw). The resins were polymerized at room temperature for 30 min, stored at 37 degrees C for 24 hr, 1 and 4 weeks and...

AIMS Tissue transglutaminase (tTG) was recently identified as the major autoantigen in coeliac disease. The aim of this multicentre study was to evaluate the impact of a new immunoenzymatic assay for the detection of IgA anti-tGT antibodies. METHODS Seventy four Italian and French clinical laboratories participated in this study; anti-tTG IgA with an enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) ...