statement of problem: patients affected with “early onset periodontitis” (eop), are not similar regarding their neutrophil deficiency and researches have yielded contradictory results in this field. purpose: the purpose of this study was to evaluate different aspects of neutrophils’ activities in peripheral blood of such patients, especially those affected with prepubertal periodontitis and juv...

allergic airway inflammation is characterized by elaboration of cytokines and chemokines leading to recruitment of inflammatory leukocytes, predominantly eosinophils, to the airways. granulocyte macrophage colony stimulating factor (gm-csf) is generated in the lungs of human subjects with asthma in response to allergen challenge and is necessary for the development of allergen-induced bronchial...

conclusions the leptin can also be used for the treatment of severe and intractable l. monocytogenes and e. coli infection. results our data demonstrates that leptin is able to induce cd11b expression on neutrophils but this induction is significantly less than l. monocytogenes. indeed, cells treated with leptin had lower amounts of apoptosis compared with untreated cells. the highest amount of...

Mucorales are fast-growing thermostat fungi that ubiquitous in environment. Most common form is rhino-orbito-cerebral mucormycosis. It the third most cause of invasive fungal infections following asperigillosis and candidiasis. Their incidence has increased recent times, especially 2 wave COVID-19 India. caused by non-segmented negative sense RNA virus, which causes profound lymphopenia. Glucoc...

Case report We report the case of a 31 years old female, who was hospitalized in April 2011 in “Victor Babeş” Hospital of Craiova for fever, wet cough, weight loss, symptoms that had been evolving for 2 months. The clinical exam shows: febrile patient, BMI = 20.3 kg/sqm, pallor, generalized lymphadenopathy, oral candidiasis, crackles bilaterally, tachypnea, chest wall retraction, patient’s O2 s...

Background. Screw-retained restorations are favored in some clinical situations such as limited inter-occlusal spaces. This study was designed to compare stresses developed in the peri-implant bone in two different types of screw-retained restorations (segmented vs. non-segmented abutment) using a finite element model. Methods. An implant, 4.1 mm in diameter and 10 mm in length, was placed in t...

We introduce the notion of weighted watermarking for proof-of-ownership watermark protection of multimedia works that are the product of more than one author and where each author is considered to be of different importance relative to the other authors. We specifically examine weighted segmented watermarking for still images and generalise previous work on performance measurement of watermark ...