SWOG S0215: a phase II study of ...
SWOG trial S0102 showed significant activity of the combination of docetaxel and vinorelbine in HER2- negative metastatic breast cancer (MBC). For H ...
CIRSE Vascular Closure Device R ...
Purpose Vascular closure devices are routinely used after many vascular interventional radiology procedures. However, there have been no major multi ...
Hydrocephalus and aquaporins: l ...
Purpose Hydrocephalus is a common disorder of defective cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) turnover. The identification of the aquaporin water channels (AQPs ...
Proteomic profiling of lipid ra ...
Tumor biomarkers assist in the early detection of cancer, act as therapeutic targets for intervention, and function as diagnostic indicators for the ...
All-trans Retinoic Acid Induced ...
Glioblastoma is a highly invasive and proliferative brain tumor in humans[ 1]. It is highly resistant to current therapies, causing signifi cant mor ...
Early outgrowth EPCs generation ...
Background Buerger’s disease often shows poor collateral artery generation (i.e. neovascularization) in the ischemic limbs. However, the etiology ha ...
Fifteen-year trends of long-ter ...
The aim of this study is to assess the trends in work disability and sick leave in ankylosing spondylitis (AS). In 1993 and 2007, patients diagnosed ...
Clinical relevance of angiopoie ...
The angiogenic-related factors, angiopoietin-1 and angiopoietin-2 and their receptor Tie-2, have wide-ranging effects on tumor behavior that include ...
Detection of XRCC1 gene polymor ...
XRCC1 is a polymorphic gene belonging to one of the major deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) repair pathways. XRCC1 is involved in base excision repair (BE ...
Assessment of Coronary Flow Dur ...
The aim of this review is to focus on the additional diagnostic and prognostic value of Doppler echocardiographicderived coronary flow reserve over ...
Ribavirin: How Does it Work and ...
Ribavirin is a synthetic guanosine analogue, which acts against hepatitis C virus (HCV) through several mechanisms that include 1) immune modulation ...
Diagnostic Thresholds in Osteop ...
Clinical trials are used to determine the efficacy and safety of a medication prior to approval for commercial use and to influence the prescribing ...
Monophosphoryl Lipid A-Induced ...
Background Protective effects of ischemic preconditioning in rat small intestine have been shown to be related to the release of calcitonin gene-rel ...
Endoscopic Submucosal Dissectio ...
Background Tumors involving the pyloric channel have been considered as difficult lesions for successful endoscopic resection. We studied the feasib ...
Differential Expression of a Se ...
Fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNA) is currently the best initial diagnostic test for evaluation of a thyroid nodule. FNA cytology cannot discrimina ...
Expression of MMP-1 in invasive ...
The objective of this study is to examine the expression of matrix metalloproteinase 1 (MMP-1) in invasive well-differentiated thyroid carcinoma (WD ...
Repetitive magnetic stimulation ...
Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) is a non-invasive neurostimulatory technique widely used in research, diagnostics, and neuro-psy ...
Pectoralis major muscle rupture ...
Background Recent papers present pectoralis major muscle rupture as a rare injury with about 200 reported cases in the literature. In the last years ...
The podocyte as a target: cyclo ...
Children with steroid-resistant nephrotic syndrome secondary to WT1-associated glomerulopathies (WT1-GP) were considered unresponsive to cyclosporin ...
Intramedullary femoral nailing ...
Purpose In a level 1 university trauma center, an explorative randomized controlled study was performed to compare soft tissue damage and functional ...
Indeterminate adnexal masses at ...
Objective To determine the impact of MRI including DWI on therapeutic decision-making and costs in the work-up of patients with a indeterminate adne ...
Neointimal hyperplasia in a por ...
Background: Neointima formation is a crucial problem in the early phase after coronary artery bypass grafting which may result in vein graft stenosi ...
Pulmonary mucosa-associated lym ...
We report an extremely rare case of pulmonary mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) lymphoma with a pulmonary arteriovenous fi stula (PAVF). A 6 ...
Modified needle route for poten ...
To evaluate the anatomical aspects and relations of a modified tissue passage with the tension-free vaginal tape obturator (TVT-O) needle, designed ...
Pharmacologic modulation of par ...
In the congestive heart failure state, autonomic dysregulation involves an increase in sympathetic tone and decrease in parasympathetic tone and is ...