MicroRNA Involvement in Immune ...
Heart failure is one of the common end stages of cardiovascular diseases, the leading cause of death in developed countries. Molecular mechanisms un ...
RNA interference and its therap ...
RNA interference is a technique that has become popular in the past few years. This is a biological method to detect the activity of a specific gene ...
The medical career choice motiv ...
Some decades ago being a medical doctor was characterized unambiguously as a profession that offers help and serves the patients’ needs during medica ...
Pediatric stroke: clinical char ...
described but may help inform care coordination and treatment for pediatric stroke. The Kids Inpatient Database was queried to describe demographics ...
Neurofibromatosis-2 and spinal ...
Object The incidence of ependymoma in patients with neurofibromatosis-2 (NF-2) is low and information regarding treatment and prognosis is lacking. ...
Tailored resections for intract ...
Objective A single-center experience with pediatric patients who underwent surgery for intractable rolandic epilepsy was reviewed with the aim of id ...
Radiation-induced tumors in chi ...
Background Radiation-induced tumors (RIT) are increasingly recognized as delayed complications of brain irradiation during childhood. However, the t ...
Ectopic recurrence of a craniop ...
This 15-year-old girl was operated due to an ectopic recurrence of a craniopharyngioma along the previous surgical route. She presented with a sella ...
Glioblastoma multiforme with ve ...
Glioblastoma occurs rarely in pediatric patients (0.6–7.9% of all glioblastomas). Symptom duration is about 3–5 months prior to diagnosis with a dis ...
The histone deacetylase inhibit ...
Purpose Histone deacetylase inhibitors (HDACis) are a promising class of anticancer agents for the treatment of brain tumors. HDACis can increase th ...
Are linear measurements and com ...
Purpose This study aimed to evaluate linear measurements and computerized volumetric ratios on axial magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans against ...
MRI findings in children with t ...
Background Radiological studies on HIV infection in tuberculous meningitis (TBM) in children are limited to small, retrospective studies using CT fe ...
Establishment of airway eosinop ...
Eosinophilic bronchitis (EB) is a useful tool for studying airway hyperresponsiveness (AHR), but an exact EB animal model is lacking. Our objective ...
Orbital pseudotumor in a child: ...
Orbital pseudotumor is a benign, idiopathic, non-infectious and non-neoplastic clinical syndrome characterized by the presence of an inflammatory ma ...
SOX2 gene expression in normal ...
The SOX gene family encodes a large group of transcription factors that are strongly involved in the normal human development and malignancies. Huma ...
Membranoproliferative pattern o ...
Background Arg95Stop mutation of exon 4 in complement component 9 (C9) gene is common in individuals in Japan with C9 deficiency (C9D); however, und ...
Rituximab in the treatment of a ...
A 31-year-old woman with nephronophthisis received a cadaveric kidney transplant, and was immunosuppressed with cyclosporine, azathioprine and stero ...
Natural history of renal cell c ...
A 53-year-old woman presented to our hospital with a non-metastatic 4 cm renal mass in the right kidney. The patient rejected treatment, but consent ...
Clinical impact of albuminuria ...
Patients suffering from diabetic nephropathy, resulting in end-stage renal failure, are increasing in number. The pathophysiology of diabetic nephro ...
Mechanism by which chronic kidn ...
In Japan, the number of chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients is thought to be 13,300,000, next in size after those with hypertension and diabetes. ...
Fatty Acid Synthase Inhibitors ...
Fa???? y acid synthase (FAS) a???? racts more and more attention recently as a potential target for metabolic syndrome, such as cancer, obesity, dia ...
Cellular Anchorage Sensing and ...
Normal epithelial cells that lose the integrindependent anchorage to their extracellular matrix trigger anoikis, while metastatic tumor cells bypass ...
PCR detection of Streptococcus ...
Streptococcus mutans and Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans are oral pathogens associated with dental caries and periodontitis, respectively. The ...
Push-out strength of fiber post ...
The purpose of this study was to analyze the push-out strength of two fiber post systems/resin cements (RelyX Unicem/RelyX Fiber Post (RLX) and Vari ...
Effect of curing mode on the mi ...
Light supplying to luting resin cements is impeded in several clinical situations, causing us to question whether materials can properly be cured to ...