BACKGROUND/AIM Hand movement observation activates mirror neurons, located in brain areas that are vulnerable to Alzheimer's disease. We examined the effects of hand movement observation on cognition in older persons with dementia. METHODS Nursing home residents with dementia (n = 44) watched either videos showing hand movements or videos showing a documentary for 30 min, 5 days a week, for 6...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to compare the results of commercial chairside microbial tests (CT) and conventional selective media (GS, gold standards) for mutans streptococci (MS) and lactobacilli (LB) using oral specimens from young children with and without visible dental caries. METHODS Using cotton swabs to collect oral microbial specimens from children 10 to 36 months old, micro...

Localized cystic disease of the kidney is a benign nonsurgical entity and presents with multiple cystic lesions in just one portion of the kidney or involves the entire one kidney. We report a case of localized cystic disease of the kidney in a 16 year-old-male. This patient underwent an ultrasound examination and incidentally found to have multiple cysts in the right kidney whereas the left ki...

Most studies of the relation between kidney function and physical function have been conducted in persons with advanced kidney disease and have used creatinine-based measures of kidney function. Cystatin C concentration is a measure of kidney function that is independent of muscle mass, unlike creatinine. Using baseline data on 3,043 elderly adults from the Health, Aging, and Body Composition S...

background: in recent years, the success in management of thalassemic patients, has allowed for some previously unrecognized complications including renal abnormalities to emerge. this prospective study aimed to investigate kidney iron overload by means of mri t2* and also renal function based on laboratory tests for early markers of glomerular and tubular dysfunction among adult iranian transf...

A solitary erythematous nodule on the arm A 31year old Kuwaiti female patient presented with a solitary skin lesion on the left arm since 1 year. The lesion started as a small red lesion that slowly progressed into a large nodule with erythematous halo. The lesion was painless and no other symptom was reported. There was no previous history of similar lesion and there was no history of any syst...

background when using brain dead donors for organ donation, assessment of kidney function before the procedure is essential. objectives it would be ideal to find an early marker of viability of donor kidneys that is more accurate than creatinine. patients and methods the present study was conducted from march of 2011 to march of 2012, included 52 deceased donors. serum and urinary neutrophil ge...

1. By means of vascular suture it is possible to remove the dog's kidney from the body and later to restore it to its former position. 2. Such a kidney is removed from the control of the nervous system, at least for a time. 3. Examination of the function of a kidney so treated shows an initial period of overaction, as compared with that of the normal kidney. 4. This is followed by balanced acti...