of elderly people are often highly absorbed and oral mucosa covers the ridge occasionally showing thin and poor resiliencei}. Patients suffering from these problems complain of pain during mastication. Therefore, soft lining materials are expected to relieve these problemsL2), and studies have been conducted testing their efficiencies3'`J, Many soft lining materials have been marketed during th...

Background: Neem leaves (Azadirachta indica L.) have been used for many therapeutic purposes and medicinal applications. The extract of this plant has been used in both male and female genders as a traditional agent to prevent early pregnancy. In this study, the effect of this extract was investigated histologically and morphometrically on the germinal epithelia of the seminiferous tubules, epi...

Lung disease is the major cause of death in individuals suffering from cystic fibrosis (CF), with abnormal lung-lining fluids occurring already in early infancy. However the precise aetiology of CF lung disease is still poorly understood. We investigated the structural components of the airway surface-lining layer in targeted Cftr/Cftr mutant mice and non-CF controls. Five lungs per animal grou...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The recent development of flexible hollow waveguides for MID-IR lasers may be utilized transendoscopically to ablate selectively neoplastic, superficial tissues within body cavities. Study goals are to investigate theoretically and experimentally heat distribution and thermal response of cavity lining, during CO2 laser minimally invasive surgery (MIS), and to thermally...