Morphologic determination of residual plasma cell myeloma is often difficult. This study was conducted to evaluate the diagnostic value of several ancillary methods. A total of 121 bone marrow specimens from patients with myeloma after bone marrow transplantation or chemotherapy were studied. Of those, 49 cases were studied by conventional cytogenetics (CC), 86 by flow cytometry (FC), 50 by imm...

The quality of an aggregate in a concrete mixture is one the factors that affect concrete. Geographically, Payakumbuh City and District 50 cities are passed by several rivers where river's products used local community as building material. This research uses quantitative approach, method experiment. results this study found average compressive strength normal fc was 19.3 Mpa at age 14 days usi...

BACKGROUND In Chinese traditional medicine, Agrimonia pilosa Ledeb (APL) exhibits great effect on treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), however its mechanism is still unknown. Considering that T2DM are correlated with postprandial hyperglycemia and oxidative stress, we investigated the α-glucosidase inhibitory activity and the antioxidant activity of flavonoid compound (FC) and triterpe...

Virological residual activity (VRA) denotes the degree of HIV RNA suppression achieved by antiretroviral therapy in the presence of resistant virus. This concept is particularly important in resource-limited settings, where rapid switching after detection of virological failure may not be feasible. Using data from the NORA trial, we estimated VRA for two regimens-zidovudine-lamivudine-abacavir ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE The platinum-based chemotherapy combined with 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) is most frequently used for nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC), but the efficacy has been maintained at 50%-60%. Docetaxel is an effective drug for head and neck tumors, its administration is simple, and the administration time is short. This study was to compare the short-term efficacy and toxicity between...

Thermoplastic composites can enable the development of new manufacturing techniques to make aviation industry more sustainable while at same time greatly benefit cost-efficient and high-volume production. One thermoplastic composite materials that this transition is AS4D/PEKK-FC. In work, interlaminar properties AS4D/PEKK-FC are characterized analyzed by means Mode I, II Mixed I/II 50:50 tests,...