OBJECTIVE To review the clinical features and management of patients with injuries related to the Chinese cobra (Naja atra). DESIGN Retrospective study. SETTING Two acute hospitals in Hong Kong. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES The nature of injuries, envenoming features, complications, response to antivenom therapy, and outcome. RESULTS Eighteen patients were recruited during the 5-year study per...

PURPOSE To identify novel endometrial cancer-specific methylation markers and to determine their association with clinicopathologic variables and survival outcomes. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN Differential methylation hybridization analysis (DMH) was done for 20 endometrioid endometrial cancers using normal endometrial DNA as a reference control. Combined bisulfite restriction analysis (COBRA) was us...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of electro-acupuncture (EA) and pregabalin on cognition impairment induced by chronic trigeminal neuralgia (TN) in rats. DESIGN Controlled animal study. SETTING Department of Anesthesiology, Pain Medicine and Critical Care Medicine, Aviation General Hospital of China Medical University. SUBJECTS Forty adult male Sprague ...

PURPOSE Aim of the COBRA (Consortium for Brachytherapy Data Analysis) project is to create a multicenter group (consortium) and a web-based system for standardized data collection. MATERIAL AND METHODS GEC-ESTRO (Groupe Européen de Curiethérapie - European Society for Radiotherapy & Oncology) Head and Neck (H&N) Working Group participated in the project and in the implementation of the consor...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE Snake-bites are the common cause of morbidity and mortality in tropical countries. In India, there are 216 species of snakes, of which only four are venomous snakes (cobra, krait, Russell's viper and saw scaled viper). This study was undertaken to find out the epidemiological profile of snake-bite incidences in the State of Andhra Pradesh, based on the data collected from...

Motivation: Automatically testing changes to code is an essential feature of continuous integration. For open-source code, without licensed dependencies, a variety of continuous integration services exist. The COnstraint-Based Reconstruction and Analysis (COBRA) Toolbox is a suite of open-source code for computational modelling with dependencies on licensed software. A novel automated framework...

Ice has long been used by humankind for practical purposes, and more recently for artistic purposes as well. Nowadays, the field of ice construction is becoming more commerically relevant, with increased interest in ice tourism and specifically ice hotels. As a result, there is a market for automating ice construction, and building detailed structures that would otherwise require a significant ...

Chinese Cobra (Naja naja atra) bite is one of the leading causes of snake-bite mortality in China. The traditional anti-cobra venom serum therapy was found to be expensive and with high frequency of side effects. Therefore attempts were made to generate a high titer immunoglobulin from egg yolk (IgY) of crude cobra-venom immunized Leghorn hens, and to standardize an effective method for produci...