The Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG) 0813 protocol requires the use of dose calculation algorithms with tissue heterogeneity corrections to compute dose on stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) plans. A new photon dose calculation algorithm called Acuros XB (AXB) has recently been implemented in the Eclipse treatment planning system (TPS). The main...

In 1979, Warren was first to observe these bacteria in an inflamed gastric epithelium, and subsequently in peptic ulcer-associated gastritis. In 1981, Marshall starts his research and cultivates the bacteria, performs prospective studies, and administers therapy regimens using antibiotics and bismuth salts. The organism was designated Campylobacter-like after its similarity with said genus. In ...

Lactating sows are traditionally housed in farrowing crates in order to reduce piglet mortality. It is intuitive for most to believe that housing a 1.5 kg new born piglet and 200 kg sow in the same pen will present some problems related to body size inequities. There are those that argue that sows should not be confined to a stall at any stage of production and that the behavioural freedom to t...

For stereotactic ablative body radiotherapy (SABR) in lung cancer patients, Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG) protocols currently require radiation dose to be calculated using tissue heterogeneity corrections. Dosimetric criteria of RTOG 0813 were established based on the results obtained from non-Monte Carlo (MC) algorithms, such as superposition/convolutions. Clinically, MC-based algori...

22 VOL. 47 NO. 3 2013 ACTA MEDICA PHILIPPINA _______________ Corresponding author: Mark Anthony S. Sandoval, MD Section of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Medical Research Laboratory Philippine General Hospital Taft Avenue, Ermita, Manila 1000 Philippines Telephone: 0916-5921818 E-mail: [email protected] Effect of Malunggay (Moringa oleifera) Capsules on Lipid and Glucose Le...

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Plant Genome Engineering Research Unit, Agrogenomics Research Center, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, 2-1-2 Kannondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8602, Japan (M.E., M.M., S.T.); Graduate School of Nanobioscience, Yokohama City University, 22-2 Seto, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 236-0027, Japan (M.M., S.T.); and Kihara Institute for Biological Research, Yokohama City University, 64...

The aim of this study is to assess the suitability of 5 mm millennium multileaf collimator (MMLC) for volumetric-modulated arc therapy (VMAT)-based lung stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT). Thirty lung SBRT patient treatment plans along with their planning target volumes (ranging from 2.01 cc to 150.11 cc) were transferred to an inhomogeneous lung phantom and retrospectively planned using VMA...

ALICE SCHROEDER,1 UTA ECKHARDT,1 BRUNO STIEGER,1 RONALD TYNES,2 CLAUDIO D. SCHTEINGART,3,4 ALAN F. HOFMANN,3 PETER J. MEIER,1 AND BRUNO HAGENBUCH1 1Division of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, Department of Medicine, University Hospital, CH-8091 Zurich; 2Drug Metabolism and Pharmakokinetics, Novartis Pharma, CH-4002 Basel, Switzerland; 3Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine,...

FORSKOLIN-INDUCED CELL SHRINKAGE AND APICAL TRANSLOCATION OF FUNCTIONAL EGFP-HUMAN αENaC IN H441 LUNG EPITHELIAL CELL MONOLAYERS Alison M. Woollhead and Deborah L. Baines Division of Basic Medical Sciences; Ion Channels and Cell Signaling Centre, St. Georges’ University of London, Cranmer Terrace, Tooting, London SW17 0RE, UK. Running title: EGFP-hαENaC expressed in human lung epithelial cells ...