BACKGROUND & AIMS Little is known about the effects of biologic agents used to treat Crohn's disease (CD) on its long-term complications, such as short bowel syndrome and intestinal failure (SBS-IF). We evaluated trends in small bowel resections and health care utilization among patients with CD with and without SBS-IF. METHODS We collected data on the National Inpatient Sample on 2,989,185 p...

The objective of the study was to compare the acid neutralizing ability and shear bond strength (SBS) of three different types of orthodontic adhesives containing bioactive glasses (BAGs). 45S5, 45S5F and S53P4 BAGs were prepared using the melting technique and ground to fine particles. Orthodontic adhesives containing three types of BAGs were prepared as follows: 52.5% 45S5 BAG + 17.5% glass (...

A modified method was developed for measuring the frequency of variant erythrocytes at the glycophorin A locus using a single beam cell sorter (SBS). Fluoresceinor phycoerythrin-labeled monoclonal antibod ies specific for the M or N glycophorin A alÃ-eleswere used for the SBS assay. To prevent contamination of nucleated cells in the sorting windows, the nucleated cells in the fixed erythrocyte ...

The objective of this study was to compare the cytotoxicity of four orthodontic bonding systems, Light Bond, Enlight, Concise, and Transbond, and to evaluate their shear bond strength (SBS). These orthodontic bonding materials were applied to metal brackets (Mini Diamond). Glass specimens were used as controls in all experiments. Only Concise was a chemically cured system, the other systems wer...

SBS (styrene-butadiene-styrene block copolymer) modified bitumen is one of most widely used polymer modified bitumens in China. It is also not satisfactory when subjected to extreme conditions. Multiple-walled carbon nanotubes, as a type of advanced nanomaterial, are investigated extensively because of their strong adsorption capacity. Little research has been done about MWCNTs/SBS modified bit...

Previous studies have shown that the size of the foil mesh and surface area of the bracket base correlated to bond strength to tooth enamel. The purpose of this study was to investigate the in vitro shear bond strength (SBS) of orthodontic brackets with 80 and 100 gauge mesh bases as well as mini and standard size bases. Eighty extracted human premolar teeth were randomly allocated into four gr...

This study compared the shear bond strength (SBS) to enamel of five self-etching primer/adhesive systems and one total-etch, one-bottle adhesive system. Sixty freshly extracted bovine incisors were mounted, polished to 600-grit and randomly assigned to six groups (n=10): Adper Prompt Self-Etch (AD), OptiBond Solo Plus Self-Etch (OP), AdheSE (AS), Tyrian (TY) and Clearfil SE Bond (SE) as self-et...

As an alternative to fluorescence-based DNA sequencing by synthesis (SBS), we report here an approach using an azido moiety (N3) that has an intense, narrow and unique Raman shift at 2125 cm-1, where virtually all biological molecules are transparent, as a label for SBS. We first demonstrated that the four 3'-O-azidomethyl nucleotide reversible terminators (3'-O-azidomethyl-dNTPs) displayed sur...

PURPOSE To evaluate features of optical coherence tomography (OCT) associated with Shaken Baby syndrome (SBS) in an attempt to gain new insight into the pathophysiology of this phenomenon. DESIGN Institutional prospective observational case series. METHODS We report three infants with SBS. Each patient underwent an ophthalmic examination including slit-lamp biomicroscopy, dilated indirect o...

Objective: To investigate the effects of different surface conditioning methods on shear bond strength (SBS) of metal brackets bonded to porcelain surfaces and the influence of silane coupling agent in altering the bond strength. Materials and methods: A total of 80 feldspathic porcelain specimens were used. They were divided into eight different groups based on different surface conditioning m...