OBJECTIVE Real-world data regarding patient factors associated with the occurrence of spinal cord compression (SCC) or pathological fracture (PF), or need for bone surgery (BS), or use of radiation therapy (RAD) (i.e. skeletal complications and radiation therapy; SCRT) are limited for women with metastatic breast cancer (BCa). Given the substantial clinical and economic burden of these events i...

We have assessed the effect of lidocaine (lignocaine) on histamine-induced bronchoconstriction by direct visualization with a superfine fibreoptic bronchoscope. Seven mongrel dogs were anaesthetized with pentobarbital (pentobarbitone) 30 mg kg-1 followed by 2 mg kg-1 h-1 and pancuronium 200 micrograms kg-1 h-1. The trachea was intubated with a tracheal tube containing a second lumen for inserti...

Context: The staging of bladder cancer (BCa) is crucial for optimal management of the disease. The staging process is known to be challenging and fraughtwith errors. Objective: Our aim was to present current BCa grading and staging systems and to review the crucial steps of the staging process. Sources of errors and pitfalls in the staging process are also discussed. Evidence acquisition: A com...

The antimicrobial susceptibility profiles of 76 Streptococcus agalactiae (Group B Streptococci [GBS]) isolates from vaginal specimens of pregnant women near term were correlated to their genotypes generated by Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA analysis and their virulence factors encoding genes cylE, lmb, scpB, rib, and bca by PCR. Based on the distribution of the susceptibility patterns, six pr...

We studied the effects of Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. strigae (Fos), a soil-borne biocontrol agent (BCA) against Striga hermonthica, on total fungal and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal (AMF) taxa in rhizospheres of maize in both clayey and sandy soil. Effects of Fos-BCA 'Foxy-2' were evaluated against (1) S. hermonthica presence, and (2) organic fertilization with Tithonia diversifolia residues at 1...

We evaluated four spectrophotometric methods for suitability in determining total protein in human milk samples. Results were compared with those by an established method for the determination of total nitrogen (micro-Kjeldahl). Values for total protein by all four methods significantly correlated with micro-Kjeldahl. For the biuret assay, Lowry-Peterson assay, Bio-Rad Coomassie Blue assay, and...

Internal cation mobility ratios in molten (Ca, Ba)Cl2 have been measured by the Klemm method for xBa (mole fraction of barium chloride) = 0.25 0.51 at 973 K and xBa = 0 0.61 at 1073 K. From these and available data on the densities and conductivities the internal cation mobilities b have been calculated, assuming additivity of the molar volume. Although bCa in pure CaCl2 is greater than bBa in ...

Basal cell adenoma (BCA) is a specific entity that lacks the myxochondroid stromal component of pleomorphic adenoma. Membranous basal cell adenoma is a rare variant of BCA, which is characteristic by abundant eosinophilicextracellular hyaline material deposited either inside or at the periphery of the epithelial islands. Herin we describe the first case of membranous BCA arising in the upper ey...

Bridge condition assessment (BCA) plays an important role in modern bridge management. Existing methods are time-consuming, labor-intensive and error-prone. The use of machine learning for BCA can effectively solve the above problems. However, large amount label noise dataset severely affected performance model. In this paper, we present effective ranking approach (LR-BCA). Our proposed LR-BCA ...

This study compares the rate of denaturation with sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) of the individual rungs of protein charge ladders generated by acylation of the lysine epsilon-NH3+ groups of bovine carbonic anhydrase II (BCA). Each acylation decreases the number of positively charged groups, increases the net negative charge, and increases the hydrophobic surface area of BCA. This study reports t...