Habitual physical activity reduces coronary heart disease events, but vigorous activity can also acutely and transiently increase the risk of sudden cardiac death and acute myocardial infarction in susceptible persons. This scientific statement discusses the potential cardiovascular complications of exercise, their pathological substrate, and their incidence and suggests strategies to reduce th...

Purpose: The aim of the present prospective study was to evaluate the concept of early loading of rough-surfaced implants in the completely edentulous maxilla and in the edentulous posterior mandible and maxilla. Materials and Methods: Fifty-four consecutive patients were treated. Twenty patients were completely edentulous in the maxilla (group A), 19 patients were edentulous in the posterior l...

Chien-Liang Lin Department of Construction Engineering, National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology Address: 2, Juoyue Rd., Nantz District, Kaohsiung 811, Taiwan. TEL:886-7-6011000-2129 FAX:886-7-6011237 E-mail: [email protected] Wei Lo Department of Construction Engineering, National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology Address: 2, Juoyue Rd., Nantz Distr...

1 Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, MingHsin University of Science & Technology, No. 1 Hsin-Hsing Road, Hsin-Fong, Hsin-Chu 304, Taiwan. Tel: 886-3-5593142 ext. 3295; Fax: 886-3-5573718; E-mail: [email protected] 2 Ph.D. student, Department of Civil Engineering, National Central University, Taoyuan, Chungli, 32054, Taiwan. Tel: 886-3-4269270; Fax: 886-3-4227183; Email: 923...

The experiments of Grunbaum (1) and of Metchnikoff and Besredka (2) have demonstrated tha t when Bacillus typhosus is introduced into anthropoid apes, certain evidences of human typhoid fever can be reproduced. Positive blood cultures, agglutination reactions, fever, lesions of Peyer 's patches and other features of the disease have been reproduced in this type of animal. The experiments carrie...

The success of consumer-to-business (C2B) group-buying websites (GBWs) relies heavily on consumers’ relationships with the GBWs, a topic not yet adequately investigated in the existing literature. In addition, there is a transition from the technical and/or transactional views in e-commerce studies to a relational view. However, such studies have focused on business-to-consumer contexts. By int...

BACKGROUND The molecular basis and characteristics of familial non-medullary thyroid cancer are poorly understood. In this study, we performed microRNA (miRNA) profiling of familial and sporadic papillary thyroid cancer tumor samples. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS Genome wide miRNA profiling of sporadic and familial papillary thyroid cancer was performed. Differentially expressed miRNAs were...

miR‑886‑3p has been discovered to be involved in the oncogenesis, progression and metastasis of several types of human cancer. The aim of the present study was to identify the biological function of miR‑886‑3p in clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) and to determine its possible molecular mechanisms. miR‑886‑3p was found to be significantly upregulated in ccRCC tissues (P<0.05), in accordanc...

Despite intensive investigation, the essential mechanisms of allograft rejection or tolerance have remained obscure. Although there is now no doubt that juvenile as well as adult individuals respond to foreign tissue grafts with production of serum antibodies against the alloantigens (isoantigens) of the donor, the possible roles of such antibodies in graft rejection continue to be controversia...