The objective of this paper was to assess the effects of school-based fluoride mouthrinsing (S-FMR: weekly using 0.2% NaF solution) in two groups of school children with different periods of exposure to S-FMR in elementary school. Subjects were the S-FMR group consisted of 599 children, participated for six years. The control group consisted of 282 children, participated for less than one year ...

The hypothesis that cold air temperatures (Ta) constrain the metabolic diversity of high-latitude endotherms is based on the observation among birds and mammals that mean field metabolic rate (FMR) increases, whereas the variability of FMR decreases, from the warm tropics to the cold poles. However, there is a paucity of FMR measurements from above 608 latitude and below 0 8C. We measured the d...

Functional mitral regurgitation (FMR) occurs despite a structurally normal mitral valve (MV) as a consequence of global or regional left ventricular (LV) dysfunction. It is a common complication and predicts poor outcome in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy. The pathophysiology of FMR is closely related to several factors such as systolic MV tenting as a result of LV geometric changes, a red...

BACKGROUND Functional mitral regurgitation (FMR) occurs commonly in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM). This study was conducted to explore the role of left ventricular (LV) dyssynchrony in developing FMR in patients with DCM in comparison with geometric parameters of the mitral apparatus. METHODS Twenty patients without FMR and 33 patients with FMR [effective regurgitant orifice area...

AIMS We surveyed the state of implementation of the school-based fluoride mouth-rinsing programme (S-FMR) in schools in Japan from March 2010. METHODS Questionnaires on the implementation status of S-FMR in each type of school (including preschool and kindergarten) were sent by post to the oral health administration departments of all 47 prefectures and 89 cities (18 ordinance-designated citi...

Syngeneic X-irradiated Friend, Moloney, and Rauscher (FAIR) lymphomas readily induce transplantation resistance in C57BL/6 mice. Similar resistance is more difficult to induce in BALB/c mice. To determine whether this difference in response is due to a lesser immunogenicity of FMR cells of BALB/c ori gin, C57BL/6 mice were pretreated with viable or X-irradiated BALB/c FMR cells, or with X-irrad...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND Assessment of knowledge among resident trainees and nurses is very important since majority of patients admitted in hospital have underlying diabetes which could lead to adverse clinical outcomes if not managed efficiently. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to evaluate and compare the knowledge related to the management of diabetes among registered nurses (RN) an...

BACKGROUND Dental caries inequalities still severely burden individuals' and society's health, even in countries where fluoride toothpastes are widely used and the incidence of dental caries has been decreasing. School-based fluoride mouth-rinse (S-FMR) programs, a population strategy for dental caries prevention, might decrease dental caries inequalities. This study investigated the associatio...

According to Vonsovskii, ferromagnetic resonance FMR was unknowingly discovered by Arkad’yev in 1911. The standard citation for the experimental discovery of FMR is to Griffiths for his observation of the rather broad absorption profile and an “anomalous” electron paramagnetic resonance EPR field for in-plane magnetized electroplated ferromagnetic films. One year later, Kittel explained the ano...

Secondary or functional mitral regurgitation (FMR) represents an increasing feature of mitral valve disease characterized by abnormal function of anatomically normal leaflets in the context of the impaired function of remodelled left ventricles. The anatomic and pathophysiological basis of FMR are briefly analyzed; in addition, the role of exercise echocardiography for the assessment of FMR is ...