PURPOSE It is well known that implanting a bioactive scaffold into a cartilage defect site can enhance cartilage repair after bone marrow stimulation (BMS). However, most of the current scaffolds are derived from xenogenous tissue and/or artificial polymers. The implantation of these scaffolds adds risks of pathogen transmission, undesirable inflammation, and other immunological reactions, as w...

We report a case of refractory burning mouth syndrome (BMS) ameliorated with low dose of aripiprazole. The patient was a 66-year-old female who had suffered from chronic burning pain in her tongue for 13 months. No abnormality associated with the burning sensation was detected in the laboratory tests and the oral findings. Considering the clinical feature and the history together, we diagnosed ...

OBJECTIVE A case control study to identify risk factors for burning mouth syndrome (BMS). MATERIAL AND METHODS Quantitative analysis was carried out on the total salivary flow at rest and stimulated; subjective xerostomia, ingestion of medicines and the psychological states of anxiety and depression in 40 patients with BMS and 40 controls. RESULTS The ANOVA analysis showed significant diffe...

BMS-247550 is a methyl, semi-synthetic analog of the natural product epothilone B. Provided to the National Cancer Institute (NCI) by Bristol-Myers Squibb, BMS-247550 was chosen for clinical development because it demonstrated antitumor activity in paclitaxel (Taxol)-sensitive, paclitaxel-insensitive, and paclitaxel-resistant human tumor models. The first NCI-sponsored clinical trial of BMS-247...

The existing Battery Management System (BMS) techniques are examined in this paper and a new design methodology for a reliable BMS is proposed. The main advantage of the proposed BMS compared to the existing systems is that it provides a fault-tolerant capability and battery protection.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE It is exceedingly difficult to differentiate benign multiple sclerosis (BMS) from relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) based on clinical characteristics, neuroimaging, and cerebrospinal fluid tests. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) allows quantification of retinal structures, such as the retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thickness, at the optic disc and the gang...

Background—Positron-emission tomography (PET) tracers for myocardial perfusion are commonly labeled with short-lived isotopes that limit their widespread clinical use. F-BMS-747158-02 (F-BMS) is a novel pyridaben derivative that was evaluated for assessment of myocardial perfusion by comparison with N-ammonia (NH3) and with radioactive microspheres in a pig model. Methods and Results—Fourteen p...

OBJECTIVES We aimed to explore the relationship of neointimal thickness (NT) to shear stress (SS) after implantation of sirolimus-eluting stents (SES) and paclitaxel-eluting stents (PES) compared with bare-metal stents (BMS). We then tested the hypothesis that drug elution attenuates the SS effect. BACKGROUND Neointimal thickness after BMS implantation has been associated with SS; pertinent d...

OBJECTIVES This study sought to compare the risk of stent thrombosis among patients treated with bare-metal stents (BMS), first-generation drug-eluting stents (G1-DES), and second-generation drug-eluting stents (G2-DES) for a period of 3 years. BACKGROUND In patients undergoing coronary stenting, there is a scarcity of long-term follow-up data on cohorts large enough to compare rates of stent...

In common with other medical microbiology laboratories in the UK, the biomedical scientist staff (BMS) at Cambridge have faced an increasing burden of specialist registrar (SpR) training from our own, and other specialties, in the face of falling BMS numbers as a result of efficiency savings and an increasing diagnostic workload. This has led to periods of several months in each year in which S...