Leaf spot is considered as a common disease of oil palm, caused primarily by Curvularia spp. fungi. This mainly affects the early stages palm and if not adequately controlled can cause plant death. Among methods available to control disease, breeding resistant varieties most economically effective promising strategy. A genome-wide association study for leaf resistance was conducted on 210 indiv...

this review provides the basic principle and rational for roc analysis of rating and continuous diagnostic test results versus a gold standard. derived indexes of accuracy, in particular area under the curve (auc) has a meaningful interpretation for disease classification from healthy subjects. the methods of estimate of auc and its testing in single diagnostic test and also comparative studies...

A noninvasive technique for measuring local cerebral blood flow (LCBF) by xenon enhanced x-ray transmission computed tomography (CT) has been developed and reported quite extensively in recent years. In this method, nonradioactive xenon gas is inhaled and the temporal changes in radiographic enhancement produced by the inhalation are measured by sequential computed tomography. Time dependent xe...

A number of patients with inflammatory arthritis due to inadequate clinical or laboratory data do not fulfill diagnostic criteria for a clinical disease categories. These patients with initial diagnosis of undifferentiated arthritis (UA) may remit or progress to a definite well- defined condition such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA) or remain as UA with persistence of inflammatory arthritis. The m...

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive neurological disorder characterized by the aggregation of two proteins, amyloid-b and hyper phosphorylated tau, and by neuronal and synaptic loss. The progress of gene-modified cells and stem cells is a particularly promising therapeutic method for AD. Gene-Modified Cell-Based Therapy for AD prior to transplantation can be beneficial for increasin...

The oxyhaemoglobin dissociation curve (ODC) was investigated in 15 patients with Eales's disease and 11 controls to test the hypothesis that Eales's disease is caused by retinal hypoxia secondary to impaired oxygen release from the blood. Patients with the peripheral form of Eales's disease did not have any significant difference in the P50 values when compared with the controls. However, the P...

Field experiment was conducted at Plant Pathology block of Grain Legumes Research Program, Khajura, Banke during 2018 to evaluate the different doses chemical and biological fungicides against Stemphylium blight disease Lentil. The experimental design laid in Randomized Complete Block field condition with three replications. Altogether 3 fungicides, 2 {Saff (Carbendazim 12%+ Mancozeb 63%); Farm...

conclusions the apri had the highest sensitivity and specificity (64% and 71%, respectively) for prediction of the presence of liver disease. we suggest that apri may be applicable for the detection of a severe liver disease. objectives in this study, we evaluated and compared several available indices of the severity of liver diseases in patients with hepatitis. patients and methods exclusion ...

Background: Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) involves chronic inflammation of the digestive tract. In the past decades, fecal calprotectin has been proposed as a useful biomarker for the differential diagnosis between IBD patients and healthy controls. We designed this study to evaluate the diagnostic ability of fecal calprotectin (FC) and conventional inflammatory markers in IBD patients. M...