BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Variable alterations to the structure of the corpus callosum have been described in adults with NPC, a neurometabolic disorder known to result in both white and gray matter pathology. This study sought to examine the structure of the callosum in a group of adult patients with NPC and compared callosal structure with a group of matched controls, and to relate callosal stru...

Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is a commonly occurring tumor in southern China and Southeast Asia. The current study focused on developing an extensive analysis method for the peripheral and integral proteins of NPC cell line HNE1. The peripheral membrane proteins were extracted by biotinylated enrichment, 0.1 M Na2CO3, and H2O. Integral or total plasma membrane fractions were prepared using 30...

Background: Epstein-barr virus nuclear antigen 1 (EBNA1) plays a crucial role in Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC), the most common cancer of head and neck cancer in Asian countries with high incidents. Sequence variations are of high frequency within the functionally important domains of EBNA-1, which have been classified into five subtypes: Phenotype (P)-ala, P-thr, V-val, V-leu and V-pro and ar...

Due to unreliability of power supply from national grid, high cost diesel and maintenance generators being an alternate for there is need adopt a renewable energy source efficient reliable supply. Savings associated with conversion stand-alone generator powered system PV/Diesel hybrid storage in batteries Bayero University Kano Library using HOMER software was presented this study. The economic...

OBJECTIVE To compare the real-time diagnostic accuracy of conventional white-light imaging (WLI) endoscopy with that of narrow-band imaging (NBI) endoscopy in patients at high risk for nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). DESIGN Prospective study. SETTING A university tertiary care center. PATIENTS From July 28 through October 27, 2009, a total of 211 consecutive patients at high risk for NPC ...

Purpose: There are a few researches regarding the effects of Islamic fasting on visual system. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of Ramadan fasting on the amplitude of accommodation (AA), near point of convergence (NPC), positive and negative fusional vergences (PFV and NFV, respectively) in visually healthy fasters. Methods: AA, NPC, PFV and NFV at far (6m) and near (40cm) w...

The mechanism of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) remains unclear. The present study investigated the abnormal expression of long non-coding (lnc)RNAs in NPC tissues and one NPC cell line to identify the involvement of lncRNAs in the tumorigenesis of NPC. Using a quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR), the expression of lncRNA C22orf32-1 in NPC tissues and an NPC c...

BACKGROUND Increased cancer-related inflammation has been associated with unfavorable clinical outcomes. The combination of platelet count and neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (COP-NLR) has related outcomes in several cancers, except for nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). This study evaluated the prognostic value of COP-NLR in predicting outcome in NPC patients treated with intensity-modulated radiothe...