Hypocretin and Its Emerging Rol ...
The neuropeptides hypocretin-1 and -2 (orexin A and B) are critical in the regulation of arousal and maintenance of wakefulness. Understanding the r ...
The Central Nervous System and ...
Bowel and bladder issues have been noted to be coexistent in children, and treatment of bladder symptoms without concomitant targeting of bowel issu ...
The Timing of Bowel Preparation ...
Aims We aimed to compare the quality of bowel preparation and cecal intubation rates between morning and afternoon colonoscopies and to evaluate the ...
The Use of Simulation in Traini ...
A challenge facing the field of speech-language pathology is how to equip students at the university level with the transnasal endoscopy skills need ...
The outcomes for nasal contact ...
The nasal contact point may act as a trigger point or peripheral enhancer in patients with chronic daily headaches. A total of 42 patients had unsat ...
Management of total laryngectom ...
Throat cancer has always struck people’s imagination. This type of cancer affects some of the patient’s most essential physiological functions: spea ...
Tuberculosis of clavicle in chi ...
Tubercular osteomyelitis is an important diVerential diagnosis of non-traumatic lesions of clavicle in children, particularly in developing countrie ...
Prenatal presentation of transi ...
Introduction Nephrogenic diabetes insipidus (DI) in the foetus has been described as a rare presentation of severe polyhydramnios. Discussion We re ...
Deepithelialized reverse pedicl ...
Reverse pedicled forearm flap is a reliable and easy option for hand and wrist reconstruction. Between 2000 and 2009, eight patients underwent elect ...
Apparent diffusion coefficient ...
Objective To determine whether change in the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) before and after neoadjuvant chemoradiation therapy (CRT) for loca ...
Anatomy of the psoas muscle and ...
Lateral transpsoas interbody fusion (LTIF) is a minimally invasive technique that permits interbody fusion utilizing cages placed via a direct later ...
Intraoperative direct hemoperfu ...
Purpose. Endotoxin adsorption treatment (direct hemoperfusion using a polymyxin-B immobilized fi ber column, or PMX-DHP) is now considered a useful ...
Effects of osmolarity on human ...
Background The purpose of this study is to report the effect of different media osmolarity on a cell line monolayer of normal human conjunctival epi ...
Agonist-like autoantibodies aga ...
The calcium channel may be an important target in the autoimmune pathogenesis of dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM). The presence and function of serum a ...
Changes in articular cartilage ...
Purpose To evaluate the long-term effects of implantation of a biodegradable polymer meniscus implant on articular cartilage degeneration and compar ...
Shear strength of the bond to p ...
The aim of this study was to assess in vitro the influence of Er:YAG laser irradiation distance on the shear strength of the bond between an adhesiv ...
Primary malignant fibrous histi ...
Malignant fibrous histiocytoma (MFH) is the most common soft tissue sarcoma that mainly occurs in the lower and upper extremities, trunk and retrope ...
Leukoencephalopathy in pneumoco ...
We present a case of pneumococcal meningitis complicated by leukoencephalopathy. Possible pathogenic mechanisms, a diagnostic pitfall, and optimal t ...
Primary angioplasty for a subty ...
Introduction The purpose of this study was to assess the long-term efficacy of middle cerebral artery revascularisation by primary balloon angioplas ...
Small Bowel Obstruction After A ...
Reported incidence of small bowel obstruction (SBO) after laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass varies between 1.5% and 3.5%. It has been suggested ...
Effects of the vertical project ...
Objectives To investigate the effects of vertical projection angle alterations in intraoral radiography on the detection of furcation defects in the ...
Long-term prospective study of ...
Summary This paper presents a prospective study on factors that could influence fracture risk after percutaneous vertebroplasty (PVP) in 115 osteopo ...
The Experience of Parents and C ...
There is little information to assist in understanding the experience endured by parents and children where children have been supported with a vent ...
Protective effects of Huang Qi ...
Huang Qi Huai (HQH) granules, a mixture of Chinese herbs, contains trametes robiniophila murr, wolfberry fruit, and Polygonatum. We investigated the ...
Difficulties in diagnosing urin ...
Urinary tract infections (UTIs) in children appear to be simple and straightforward matters, but there is as yet no consensus on UTIs in this patien ...