Triamcinolone acetonide (TAC), a synthetic glucocorticoid, induces cleft palate resulting from poor development of palatal shelves in mice. However, TAC has no effect on medial edge epithelial cells (MEE cells) in secondary palatal shelves. In the present study, we examined the relationship between the pathogenesis of cleft palate and the effects on MEE cells and palatal mesenchymal cells in ra...

OBJECTIVE Elevated myocardial energy expenditure (MEE) is related with reduced left ventricular ejection fraction, and has also been documented as an independent predictor of cardiovascular mortality. However, the serum small-molecule metabolite profiles and pathophysiological mechanisms of elevated MEE in heart failure (HF) are still lacking. Herein, we used 1H-NMR-based metabolomics analysis ...

Multilocus sequence typing (MLST) and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) with SmaI were used to subtype 55 isolates of Campylobacter jejuni from a diverse range of human and animal sources previously characterized by multilocus enzyme electrophoresis (MEE). MEE and MLST targeted 11 and 7 loci, respectively, and all loci were unique to each method. MEE, MLST, and PFGE identified 40, 37, and...

Objective: Much interest centers on whether middle ear effusion (MEE) early in life has lasting developmental consequences. It was hypothesized that episodic loss of hearing acuity associated with MEE results in a deficit in attention, a core factor in the development of child behavior problems, and that impaired attention is related to behavior problems during the early years of childhood. Met...

Ultrasound detection of middle ear effusion (MEE) is an emerging technique in otolaryngology. This study proposed using ultrasound characterization of the mastoid to noninvasively measure MEE-induced mastoid effusion (ME) as a new strategy for determining the presence of MEE. In total, 53 patients were enrolled (Group I: normal, n = 20; Group II: proven MEE through both otoscopy and tympanometr...

OBJECTIVES To determine predictors of the development of asymptomatic middle ear effusion (MEE) in children with acute otitis media (AOM) and to assess the effect of antibiotic therapy in preventing the development of MEE in these children. DATA SOURCES A systematic literature search was performed using PubMed, EMBASE, the Cochrane databases, and the proceedings of international otitis media ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the genetic component of time with middle ear effusion (MEE) and episodes of MEE and acute otitis media. DESIGN Prospective twin/triplet cohort. SETTING Research center at a tertiary pediatric hospital. PARTICIPANTS A total of 168 healthy same-sex twin and 7 same-sex triplet sets were recruited by age 2 months. INTERVENTIONS Longitudinal assessment of middle ear s...

The minimum error entropy (MEE) criterion has been receiving increasing attention due to its promising perspectives for applications in signal processing and machine learning. In the context of Bayesian estimation, the MEE criterion is concerned with the estimation of a certain random variable based on another random variable, so that the error’s entropy is minimized. Several theoretical result...

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether the bacterial RNA detected by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and reverse transcription (RT)-PCR methods in middle ear effusion (MEE) for pediatric chronic otitis media with effusion (OME) originated from live bacteria. Degradation of RNA was observed by spectroscopic analysis; we also investigated the effect of MEE on the digestive activity ...

The present work mainly studies the free vibration of circular magneto-electro-elastic (MEE) nano-plates based on the Kirchhoff’s plate theory within the framework of nonlocal elasticity theory to account for the small scale effect. The MEE nano-plate studied here is considered to be fully clamped and subjected to the external magnetic and electric potentials. Using nonlocal constitutive relati...