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We investigated the estrogenic activity of various environmental pollutants (xenobiotics), in particular the xenoestrogen o,p-DDT, and compared their effects with those of endogenous estrogens, phytoestrogens, and mycoestrogens on estrogen receptor binding capacity, induction of estrogen end products, and activation of cell proliferation in estrogen-sensitive human breast cancer cells in monola...

BACKGROUND & AIMS Patients with inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs) (Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis) are at increased risk of colorectal cancer (CRC). Persistent inflammation is hypothesized to increase risk of CRC in patients with IBD; however, the few studies in this area have been restricted to cross-sectional assessments of histologic severity. No prior studies have examined association...

Hospital and community laboratories are requested to refer all Shigella isolates from cases of shigellosis to ESR for serotyping and biotyping as part of the laboratory-based surveillance of this disease. The antimicrobial susceptibility of viable, non-duplicate Shigella isolates referred to ESR in 2015 and 2016 was tested. This is the first antimicrobial susceptibility survey of Shigella that ...

BACKGROUND Prospective evaluation of the value of erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) and C-reactive protein (CRP) levels in monitoring disease activity and treatment response in patients with idiopathic retroperitoneal fibrosis (RPF). METHODS This study included 57 patients with idiopathic RPF receiving tamoxifen monotherapy with at least 8 months follow-up. Clinical, laboratory and radiolo...

A comprehensive theory of electron spin resonance (ESR) for a Luttinger liquid state of correlated metals is presented. The ESR measurables such as the signal intensity and the linewidth are calculated in the framework of Luttinger liquid theory with broken spin rotational symmetry as a function of magnetic field and temperature. We obtain a significant temperature dependent homogeneous line br...

background procalcitonin (pct) levels are increased in sepsis. in most previously conducted research, pct levels were found to increase during septic shock. objectives the purpose of this study was to compare pct levels with crp and esr levels in children with systemic inflammatory response syndrome (sirs), sepsis, and septic shock. methods this cross-sectional study was conducted between decem...

In this paper, I argue that the ultimate argument for Scientific Realism, also known as the No-Miracles Argument (NMA), ultimately fails as an abductive defence of Epistemic Scientific Realism (ESR), where (ESR) is the thesis that successful theories of mature sciences are approximately true. The NMA is supposed to be an Inference to the Best Explanation (IBE) that purports to explain the succe...

Electron spin resonance (ESR) analysis plus chemical determinations show that the predominant ESR signals seen in frozen solutions of human plasma are due to the copper protein ceruloplasmin. The elevation of ceruloplasmin con centration above normal values in pathological processes is positively correlated with the increased ESR signal height seen in patients with cancer, infections, and myoca...