Background: Tremendous difficulties are imposed on families with preterm and premature babies, both at birth and during their lifetime. The present study aimed at evaluating the potential economic impact of preterm and premature birth in Iran. Methods: In this descriptive cross-sectional study (2014-2015), we studied preterm and premature newborns, who have been subjected to hospitalization in ...

BACKGROUND To evaluate if white matter lesions (WML) on MRI can be a potential marker for onabotulinum toxin A (Botox®) treatment success in migraine, given the limited response rate and high costs per treatment. METHODS Retrospective data base and MRI analysis of 529 migraineurs who received Botox® between 2002 and 2009. Responders were defined as patients who underwent three or more treatme...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the chemopreventive potential of aspirin against head and neck cancer. DESIGN Hospital-based case-control study. SETTING National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center. Patients Individuals who received medical services at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY, between 1982 and 1998 and who completed a comprehensive epidemiologic questionnair...

This essay looks at the historical significance of six APS Classic Papers that are freely available on line: Malnic G, Klose RM, Giebisch G. Micropuncture study of renal potassium excretion in the rat. Am J Physiol 206: 674–686, 1964 (http://ajplegacy.physiology. org/cgi/reprint/206/4/674). Malnic G, Klose RM, Giebisch G. Micropuncture study of distal tubular potassium and sodium transport in r...

Little is known about the epidemiology of contact dermatitis (CD) in the Chinese clothing industry. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence and some risk factors of contact dermatitis among clothing manufacturing employees in Beijing.This cross-sectional study was conducted by interview using self-administered questionnaires and skin examination between May and August in 2016. Five-hundr...

This paper describes the outcome of the e-T Cluster (IST-2000-26084) project, in particular the activities concerned with the development of common standards for the representation of human bodies for the purpose of facilitating easy development of human body modelling applications and the interoperability between them. XML is proposed to form the infrastructure of a generic, inclusive, high le...

BACKGROUND/AIMS The presence of para-aortic lymph node metastasis in biliary cancer negatively impacts prognosis. The present study aims to immunohistochemically identify and evaluate the clinical significance of para-aortic lymph node micrometastases in 66 patients who had undergone curative resection of biliary cancer. METHODS We used an antibody against cytokeratins 7 and 8 (CAM5.2) to imm...

Firefly luciferase (Luc) is widely used as a reporter enzyme in cell-based assays for gene expression. A novel aromatic carboxylic acid, F-53, reported here for the first time, substantially inhibited the enzymatic activity of Luc in a Luc reporter screening. Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF-MS) and tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) analyses...

We establish a new estimate for the topological degree of continuous maps from the sphere SN into itself, which answers a question raised in Bourgain, Brezis, and Mironescu [Commun. Pure Appl. Math. 58 (2005) 529–551] and extends some of the results proved there, as well as in recent work by these authors (Lifting, degree, and distributional Jacobian revisited, http://ann.jussieu.fr/publication...

The Grothendieck compactness principle states that every norm compact subset of a Banach space is contained in the closed convex hull of a norm null sequence. In [1], an analogue of the Grothendieck compactness principle for the weak topology was used to characterize Banach spaces with the Schur property. Using a different analogue of the Grothendieck compactness principle for the weak topology...