introduction lung herniation following blunt chest trauma is extremely rare and only a few hundred cases of this pathology have been reported in the english language medical literature. this type of lung hernia is divided into intercostal, parasternal, or supraclavicular subtypes based on the exact location of the chest wall defect. traumatic intercostal lung hernia is even more uncommon. delay...

background vascular injury represents less than 1% of all injuries, but deserves special attention because of its severe complications. amputation or retention of a painful functionless limb is the most untoward result of severe vascular injury or inadequate treatmet. thus, vascular injury needs a judicious and multidimensional approach. objectives this retrospective study was done to asess the...

this paper is concerned with the problem of synchronization for complex dynamic networks with state and coupling time-delays. therefore, larger class and more complicated complex dynamic networks can be considered for the synchronization problem. based on the lyapunov-krasovskii functional, a delay-independent criterion is obtained and formulated in the form of linear matrix inequalities (lmis)...

background: various compounds of plant origin have been widely investigated since ancient times for their possible immunomodulatory properties as well as for the treatment of a wide range of diseases. objective: to study the immunomodulatory functions of the aqueous extract of the seeds of abrus precatorius commonly known as indian liquorice (fabaceae), a medicinal plant native to central india...

background chitosan is a naturally occurring biopolymer which has been widely used in a variety of biomedical applications including local antibiotic delivery due to its excellent mechanical properties, biodegradability and biocompatibility. beads are spherical, porous carriers which are prepared from various materials including chitosan. objectives the current study aimed to fabricate a new co...

Neuropeptide Y (NPY) inhibits seizures in experimental models and reduces excitability in human epileptic tissue. We studied the effect of long-lasting NPY overexpression in the rat hippocampus with local application of recombinant adeno-associated viral (AAV) vectors on acute kainate seizures and kindling epileptogenesis. Transgene expression was significantly increased by 7 d, reached maximal...

The data presented in this article are related to the research article entitled "The effects of deoxyelephantopin on the cardiac delayed rectifier potassium channel current (IKr) and human ether-a-go-go-related gene (hERG) expression" (Y.F. Teah, M.A. Abduraman, A. Amanah, M.I. Adenan, S.F. Sulaiman, M.L. Tan) [1], which the possible hERG blocking properties of deoxyelephantopin were investigat...

delayed neuronal death after seizure attack may be mediated by the induction of apoptosis-pathway. caspase-3, a mammalian cysteine protease, promotes apoptosis after some neurological disorders. neuron regeneration peptides (nrps) are small synthetic peptides that stimulate neural proliferation, migration, and differentiation with no apparent toxicity and high target specificity in cns. in the ...