The aim of the present study was to establish the origin and chemical phenotyping of neurons involved in skin innervation of the porcine hind leg. The dorsal root ganglia (DRGs) of the lumbar (L4-L6) and sacral (S1-S3) spinal nerves were visualized using the fluorescent tracer Fast Blue (FB). The morphometric analysis of FB-positive (FB+)neurons showed that in the L4, L5, S1 and S2 DRGs, the sm...

Based on proteomic analyses we investigated the differences of released molecules in the conditioned media (CM) from the spinal cord central lesion and adjacent rostral and caudal segments at 3, 7, and 10 days after spinal cord injury (SCI), in order to specify the molecular environment within greater extent of tissue damage. Proteins found in CM were analyzed by shot-gun MS using nanoLC couple...

BACKGROUND To determine the contribution of laboratory costs to the overall costs of managing hospital patients with different diseases, we studied the costs of laboratory testing overall and in relation to the other costs incurred during hospitalization. METHODS We used a database developed by the University HealthSystems Consortium containing >1 million patients in 60 University Hospitals w...

UNLABELLED Pig has been used recently as an animal model for studying diseases of human urinary tract, however, the sensory innervations of urinary bladder in this species has not been yet described. OBJECTIVE The present study was aimed at neurochemical characterization of sensory neurons of dorsal root ganglia (DRGs) supplying porcine urinary bladder. METHODS Retrograde tracer Fast Blue (...

BACKGROUND There have been no large-scale analyses of resource utilization comparing the overall costs to treat pediatric patients vs adult patients. Likewise, there have been no studies evaluating the costs of the various components of hospitalization (e.g., accommodation, laboratory, radiology, and drugs) among adult and pediatric populations. METHODS To study the effect of age on the costs...

Background In 2013, Qatar introduced a national health insurance scheme, called “Seha.” Stage 1 of the scheme covered women aged 12 years and older for health care and maternity services. Stage 2 was launched in 2014, and covered all Qatari nationals for a much broader set of services. In the future, Stages 3 and 4 will extend coverage to all non-Qatari residents within the country as well as v...

AIMS Some previous studies have shown that Māori utilise cardiology inpatient services at a much lower rate than would be expected by their health status and mortality. Using more recent data, this study seeks to determine whether this is still the case by examining Māori rates of utilisation of cardiology inpatient services. METHODS Practice enrolment data for 354,383 patients, including age...

a group $g$ is called metahamiltonian if all its non-abelian subgroups are normal‎. ‎the aim of this paper is to provide an updated survey of research concerning certain classes of generalized metahamiltonian groups‎, ‎in various contexts‎, ‎and to prove some new results‎. ‎some open problems are listed‎.