INTRODUCTION Intra-abdominal adhesions (IA) may occur after abdominal surgery and also may lead to complications such as infertility, intestinal obstruction and chronic pain. The aim of this study was to compare the effects of Mitomycin-C (MM-C) and sodium hyaluronate/carboxymethylcellulose [NH/CMC] on abdominal adhesions in a cecal abrasion model and to investigate the toxicity of MM-C on comp...

Traffic flows on networks have been the subject of intensive study [1]. We study this problem in the context of a two dimensional lattice of nodes and hubs. When many messages flow on the lattice, hubs which lie on many message paths tend to get congested. We rank the hubs by their coefficient of betweenness centrality (CBC) [2] which is defined as the number of messages Nk running through a gi...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE This study was conducted to investigate whether changes in the complete blood count (CBC)/differential count (DC) and C-reactive protein (CRP) were correlated to Kawasaki disease (KD) with coronary artery lesions (CALs). METHODS A retrospective analysis was performed of all children with KD at Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Kaohsiung from 2001 to 2006. KD patients were...

Le Xeroderma pigmentosum (XP) est une génodermatose rare, fréquente au Maghreb vu le taux élevé de mariage consanguin. Ses manifestations cutanées sont dominées par la fréquence de cancers cutanés. La dermoscopie est une méthode non invasive, qui facilite l'orientation diagnostique et la surveillance de ces malades permettant ainsi de réduire le recours à une chirurgie délabrente en cas de diag...

DOI: 10.5581/1516-8484.20130007 The complete blood count (CBC), also known as hemogram or blood panel, one of the components of the routine physical examination, aims to provide a lot of information to the physician regarding the state of a person’s general health. The CBC is frequently used as an essential screening test for a wide range of conditions and disorders, including anemia, infection...

BACKGROUND Changes in the prevalence of pneumococcal occult bacteremia (PnOB) because of pneumococcal conjugated vaccine (PCV-7) may have altered the predictive value of the complete blood count (CBC) for selected patients at risk of having occult bacteremia (OB). OBJECTIVE To analyze the rate of OB in infants with high fever without source related to pneumococcal vaccination status and to st...

No previous study has investigated the full range of complete blood count (CBC) parameters in small-for-gestational-age (SGA) newborns. The main aim of this study was to compare CBC and peripheral smear parameters in term, healthy SGA neonates and appropriate-for-gestational-age (AGA) neonates, and to establish CBC reference values for full-term SGA newborns. One hundred thirty-two healthy, ter...

The nuclear cap-binding protein complex (CBC) participates in 5' splice site selection of introns that are proximal to the mRNA cap. However, it is not known whether CBC has a role in alternative splicing. Using an RT-PCR alternative splicing panel, we analysed 435 alternative splicing events in Arabidopsis thaliana genes, encoding mainly transcription factors, splicing factors and stress-relat...