PURPOSE To investigate the correlation of outer retinal layers (ORL) thickness and visual acuity (VA) in patients with diabetic macular edema (DME). METHODS Consecutive DME patients seen at the Retina Clinic of The University of Hong Kong were recruited for OCT assessment. The ORL thickness was defined as the distance between external limiting membrane (ELM) and retinal pigment epithelium (RP...

Introduction. P. aeruginosa is the primary cause for pulmonary destruction and premature death in cystic fibrosis (CF). Therefore, prevention of airway colonization with the pathogen, ubiquitously present in water, is essential. Infection of CF patients with P. aeruginosa after dentist treatment was proven and dental unit waterlines were identified as source, suggesting prophylactic measures. F...

Nociceptin (orphanin FQ) is a 17-residue neuropeptide hormone with roles in both nociception and analgesia. It is an opioid-like peptide that binds to and activates the G-protein-coupled receptor opioid receptor-like-1 (ORL-1, NOP, orphanin FQ receptor, kappa-type 3 opioid receptor) on central and peripheral nervous tissue, without activating classic delta-, kappa-, or mu-opioid receptors or be...

Analysing the face recognition rate of various current face recognition algorithms is absolutely critical in developing new robust algorithms. In his paper we propose performance analysis of Principal Component Analysis (PCA), Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) and Locality Preserving Projections (LPP) for face recognition. This analysis was carried out on various current PCA, LDA and LPP based...

AIM To analyze the profile of the surgical procedures related to otorhinolaryngology in Brazil in the year 2003. STUDY DESIGN This was an observational, descriptive, cross-sectional study. METHODS We analyzed 80,030 surgical procedures performed in 27 Brazilian States during the period from January to December 2003. The data were obtained from the Hospital Information System of the Ministry...

C57BL/6J-T-associated sex reversal (B6-TAS) in XY mice results in ovarian development and involves (1) hemizygosity for Tas, a gene located in the region of Chromosome 17 deleted in T(hp) and T(Orl), (2) homozygosity for one or more B6-derived autosomal genes, and (3) the presence of the AKR Y chromosome. Here we report results from experiments designed to investigate the Y chromosome component...

Objective: This study represents head and neck cancer patient’s care at Departement of Otorhinolaryngology-Head Neck Surgery (ORL-HNS) in Hasan Sadikin General Hospital during COVID-19 pandemic.
 Methods: The is done using a retrospective descriptive method based on medical record data patients with Oncology ORL-HNS, Hospital, Bandung from March to July 2020. Samples were selected total sa...