Eighteen patients with liver metastasis or locoregional recurrence of colon carcinoma received locoregional treatment by continuous 5-day infusions of 5-FU. 5-FU blood levels were measured by HPLC every day of the cycle at 8 am and 5 pm for a total of 87 cycles. Twelve patients were given the drug by an intra-arterial hepatic (i.a.h.) route, 3 by the portal vein (i.p.v.) and 3 by an intra-arter...

To evaluate the prevalence of less severe hypercortisolism (LSH) in fractured patients, and its association with hypertension, hyperglicemia, dyslipidemia, obesity. From July 2015 to October 2018 we enrolled all patients admitted our outpatient center for metabolic bone diseases, after exclusion secondary osteoporosis apart from diabetes taking drugs known affect metabolism. In collected data r...

abstract turf grass as a main grown cover plant has a unique place in green space planning. in order to study the effect of hydrogel and paclobutrazol on water requirement of turfgrasse (lolium perenne l. barbal) a factorial experiment based on a brcd with 3 replication was conducted in the summer of 2010 in mashhad. the factors under study were 4 levels of hydrogel (0, 3, 6, 9 gr/kg soil), 3 l...

Among the more than 20 million Americans who have diabetes, approximately 30% of the cases are undiagnosed (1). An additional 42 million people in the United States have pre-diabetes (impaired glucose tolerance [IGT], impaired fasting glucose, or both), a condition that often leads to diabetes if it is not treated (1). The dramatic 41% increase in prevalence of diabetes during the 1990s was cha...

Microblog normalisation methods often utilise complex models and struggle to differentiate between correctly-spelled unknown words and lexical variants of known words. In this paper, we propose a method for constructing a dictionary of lexical variants of known words that facilitates lexical normalisation via simple string substitution (e.g. tomorrow for tmrw). We use context information to gen...

High-pressure endoleaks (types I or III) after fenestrated-branched endovascular aneurysm repair (F-BEVAR) pose an ongoing risk of rupture. Early identification such may facilitate appropriate reintervention and mitigate that risk. The purpose this study was to determine if persistent thrombocytopenia F-BEVAR correlates with the presence a high-pressure endoleak in early postoperative period. S...

Maize dwarf mosaic and sugarcane mosaic, the diseases incited by Maize dwarf mosaic virus (MDMV) and Sugarcane mosaic virus (SCMV), are among the most important maize viral diseases worldwide (28). The two viruses are related members of the genus Potyvirus that are nonpersistently transmitted by aphids (16) and can be mechanically transmitted experimentally. They are differentiated from one ano...

Essential fatty acid deficiency has been widely studied but the extent to which its effects are attributable specifically to deficiency of linoleate as opposed to deficiency of all unsaturated fatty acids is unknown. Our objective was to evaluate the effect of pure linoleate deficiency on growth as well as changes in the metabolism and oxidation of n-6 polyunsaturates. The diets contained 20 en...

. introduction global warming and its result, climate change is an important subject investigated especially in the recent decades by researchers throughout the world. in these studies, at first, climatic parameters changes are investigated. considering many uncertainties in the parameters estimation, it is better to choose a method in order to study and analyze the uncertainty band due to diff...