Reliable early assessment of breast cancer response to neoadjuvant therapy (NAT) would provide considerable benefit to patient care and ongoing research efforts, and demand for accurate and noninvasive early-response biomarkers is likely to increase. Response assessment techniques derived from quantitative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) hold great potential for integration into treatment algo...

Magnetic materials offer attractive applications in biomedicine with a variety of from sensors to diagnosis and treatment. Special attention deserves the nanofeature elements as nanostructured surfaces or nanoparticles that have been proposed alternatives for drug delivery vectors, bactericide treatments, lab-on-a-chip sensors, hyperthermiabased cancer therapy, magnetic bio-separation emerging ...

In recent years magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) are widely used in different scientific field. In magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), MNPs increase the contrast and quality of the images. In addition, magnetic nanoparticles, as separator, can break up some pathogenesis from human body. On the other hand, under DC magnetic field, MNPs can carry and release drug into the target tissue. In this approa...

Neonatal hemochromatosis (NH) is an acute liver disease associated with both hepatic and extrahepatic iron deposition and is a leading cause of neonatal liver transplantation. The concept that NH is an alloimmune disease has led to the emergence of a new treatment approach utilizing exchange transfusion and intravenous immunoglobulin therapy. We present a two-day old neonate with progressive li...

OBJECTIVE To report the effects of 2 regimens of hormone replacement therapy during the postmenopausal period on the profile of the major lipoprotein subfractions (HDL, LDL, and VLDL). METHODS We carried out a cohort study in 38 postmenopausal patients who were starting their hormone replacement therapy due to gynecological indications, for a period of 12 weeks. Analysis of lipoprotein subcla...

In this study, the authors reported a case of woman with severe compulsion who became pregnant during the Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation. We carried out Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation and behavior therapy simultaneously after repeated medications' refraction. The patient received 20 sessions 1 Hz Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in right dorsolateral pref...

OBJECTIVE To describe the clinical, electrographic, and radiographic features of status epilepticus amauroticus, or homonymous hemianopsia associated with partial status epilepticus, in 3 patients w:h subsequent resolution of radiographic abnormalities and visual deficits. DESIGN Case series. SETTING Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center in Downey, California, and the Los Angeles...

Issues associated with the exposure of patients to strong, static magnetic fields during magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are reviewed and discussed. The history of human exposure to magnetic fields is reviewed, and the contradictory nature of the literature regarding effects on human health is described. In the absence of ferromagnetic foreign bodies, there is no replicated scientific study sh...

As a fast developing alternative of traditional therapeutics, photodynamic therapy (PDT) is an effective, noninvasive, nontoxic therapeutics for cancer, senile macular degeneration, and so on. But the efficacy of PDT was compromised by insufficient selectivity and low solubility. In this study, novel multifunctional silica-based magnetic nanoparticles (SMNPs) were strategically designed and pre...