Abstract Background and Aims Diabetic Kidney Disease (DKD) is the most common cause of end-stage chronic kidney disease (CKD), conditioning these patients to a worse renal prognosis higher cardiovascular mortality and/or requirement for replacement therapy. The use novel information communication technologies (ICTs) focused on field health, may facilitates better quality life control in patient...

Patrick Boba, Dominik Bollmann, Daniel Schoepe, Nora Wester, Jan Wiesel and Kay Hamacher* 1 Computational Biology and Simulation, Department of Biology, Technical University Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany 2 Department of Computer Science, Technical University Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany 3 Department of Physics, Technical University Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany 4 Center for Advanced Security R...

Kheiria Hcini1, David J. Walker2, Elena González3, Nora Frayssinet4, Enrique Correal2 and Sadok Bouzid1 1Faculté des Sciences de Tunis, Département des Sciences Biologiques, Tunis, 2Instituto Murciano de Investigación y Desarrollo Agrario y Alimentario (IMIDA), C/Mayor, s/n 30150 La Alberca, Murcia, 3Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, UNPSJB – Comodoro Rivadavia, 4Facultad de Agronomía, ...

Antimicrobial photodynamic inactivation (APDI) combines a nontoxic photoactivatable dye or photosensitizer (PS) with harmless visible light to generate singlet oxygen and reactive oxygen species that kill microbial cells. Cationic phenothiazinium dyes, such as toluidine blue O (TBO), are the only PS used clinically for APDI, and we recently reported that this class of PS are substrates of multi...

Alternate mutations in the grlA and gyrA genes were observed through the first- to fourth-step mutants which were obtained from four Staphylococcus aureus strains by sequential selection with several fluoroquinolones. The increases in the MICs of gatifloxacin accompanying those mutational steps suggest that primary targets of gatifloxacin in the wild type and the first-, second-, and third-step...

Nora Brambilla, Dolors Eiras, Antonio Pineda, Joan Soto, and Antonio Vairo INFN and Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università di Milano, via Celoria 16, 20133 Milan, Italy Dept. d’Estructura i Constituents de la Matèria and IFAE, Universidad Barcelona Diagonal 647, E-08028 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain Theory Division, CERN, 1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland ~Received 5 August 2002; published 27 February ...

Nora Sandu1,2, Fatemeh Momen-Heravi3, Pooyan Sadr-Eshkevari4, Ali Arvantaj5 and Bernhard Schaller2 1Department of Neurosurgery, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, 2Department of Neurosurgery, University of Paris 7, Paris, 3Craniomaxillofacial Research Center, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences 4Dental Section, Farzan Clinical Research Institute, Tehran, 5Department of Neuro...