PURPOSE To investigate the effects and mechanism of pollen typhae on spinal cord injury (SCI) in rats. METHODS The SCI model was built and animals were randomly divided into three groups according to different concentrations of pollen typhae. Protein, mRNA, and fluorescence expression levels of light-chain-3 (LC-3) and Beclin-1 were determined by western blotting (WB), real-time PCR and immun...

DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) is an industry standard for medical imaging. We present an OWL ontology for DICOM metadata and dicom2rdf-a tool to extract RDF metadata out of DICOM files (Media type application/dicom, filename extension .dcm). We discuss benefits, use cases, limitations and possible enhancements. 1 The DICOM standard DICOM objects consist of sets of attri...

Background: Cadmium chloride is an environmental toxic that affects the male reproductive system. This study was directed 1) to evaluate whether long-term oral exposures to low doses of Cd in rats causes morphological changes, 2) the immunohistochemical TJ and AJ protein expression; and 3) to evidence that zinc exposure can modify Cd effects. Methods: Testis of normal rats and rats that have re...

Internet of Drones (IoD) is an efficient technique that can be integrated with vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs) to provide terrestrial communications by acting as aerial relay when infrastructure unreliable or unavailable. To fully exploit the drones’ flexibility and superiority, we propose a novel dynamic IoD collaborative communication approach for urban VANETs. Unlike most existing approac...

This study aimed to investigate the expressional profile of interleukin-6 (IL-6) in articular cartilage bone of osteoarthritis (OA) patients and its correlation with OA. A total of 30 articular cartilage bone samples from knee OA patients, which were collected by knee arthroscopy or articular surgery, comprised the study group, and 30 samples of normal articular cartilage tissue comprised the c...

Mitotic count, PhH3, and MIB-1 are used as measures of the proportion of proliferating malignant cells in surgical pathology. They highlight different stages of the cell cycle, but little is known about how this affects their counts. This study assesses the strength of their correlations and attempts to determine the relationship between them. Proliferation counts for forty-nine consecutive cas...

Colorectal cancer represents a severe public health issue. Recent studies have shown the essential role played by nerves and their neurotransmitters in tumor initiation and progression. The aim of this study is to asses the expression of beta 2-adrenergic receptors (β2A) for adrenaline and noradrenaline, and the expression of M3 muscarinic receptors (M3R) for acetylcholine (neurotransmitters pr...

PURPOSE To evaluate the association between fixation preference (FP) and amblyopia in strabismic patients. METHODS This study includes 50 patients with horizontal, vertical or mixed strabismus of at least 10 prism diopters. Best-corrected monocular visual acuity (VA) was measured using Snellen E-chart and the presence of amblyopia was determined accordingly; FP was evaluated and graded from 0...

[1] In recent years, the Indian Ocean (IO) has been discovered to have a much larger impact on climate variability than previously thought. This paper reviews climate phenomena and processes in which the IO is, or appears to be, actively involved. We begin with an update of the IO mean circulation and monsoon system. It is followed by reviews of ocean/atmosphere phenomenon at intraseasonal, int...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to compare the accommodative performance of the amblyopic eye of children with unilateral amblyopia to that of their nonamblyopic eye, and also to that of children without amblyopia, during both monocular and binocular viewing. METHODS Modified Nott retinoscopy was used to measure accommodative performance of 38 subjects with unilateral amblyopia and 25 s...