introduction: ulcerative colitis (uc) is a chronic inflammatory disorder of the colon of unknown cause that is associated with important nutrition deficiencies such as protein-energy malnutrition, vitamin and mineral deficiencies. because no study has been carried out to date in iran, the aim of this pilot study was the assessment of dietary intake of these patients. methods: in this pilot stud...

BACKGROUND Although undernutrition and communicable diseases dominate the current disease burden in resource-poor countries, the prevalence of diet related chronic diseases is increasing. This paper explores current trends of under- and overweight in Bangladeshi women. METHOD Nationally representative data on reproductive age women from rural Bangladesh (n = 242,433) and selected urban poor a...

One of the intervention programs to improve nutrition pregnant women is supplementary feeding (PMT). The nutritional problem that often found in community lack intake macronutrients and micronutrients. method used this study was a sequential mixed with explanatory design. results were percentage consumption MT biscuits by 5 KEK who consumed ≥ 80%. perception about severity chronic energy defici...

BACKGROUND Programmed cell death or apoptosis is a key feature of normal development, tissue homeostasis and disease progression in metazoans. Genetic studies in the nematode C. elegans have identified three key genes involved in apoptosis, ced-3, ced-4 and ced-9. Expression of ced-3 and ced-4 is required for the induction of cell death, whereas expression of ced-9 is necessary to inhibit cell ...

PURPOSE To examine and evaluate ocular biomechanical metrics and additionally derived corneal and orbital components using a noncontact Scheimpflug-based tonometer (CorVis ST) in a population of healthy eyes. METHODS A total of 152 eyes of 152 participants were examined by slit-lamp biomicroscopy, corneal tomography, and the CorVis ST (CST). This determined the distribution of outputs from th...

OBJECT Bevacizumab (Avastin), an antibody to vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), alone or in combination with irinotecan (Camptosar [CPT-11]), is a promising treatment for recurrent glioblastoma. However, the intravenous (IV) administration of bevacizumab produces a number of systemic side effects, and the increase in survival it provides for patients with recurrent glioblastoma is still...

A mathematical model of long-term immune defense against infection was used to estimate the energy involved in the principal processes of immune resistance during periods of health and infection. From these values, an optimal level of energy was determined for immune response depending on infection burden. The present findings suggest that weak but prevalent pathogens lead to latent or chronic ...

introduction camurati-engelmann disease (ced) is a rare autosomal dominant disease with various phenotypic expressions. the symptoms usually develop during childhood. the hallmark of the disease is bilateral symmetric diaphyseal hyperostosis of the long bones with progressive involvement of the metaphysis. the epiphysis is strictly spared. the common clinical symptoms are pain of the extremitie...

We have identified and characterized a novel C. elegans gene, ced-12, that functions in the conserved GTPase signaling pathway mediated by CED-2/Crkll, CED-5/DOCK180, and CED-10/Rac to control cell migration and phagocytosis of apoptotic cells. We provide evidence that ced-12 likely acts upstream of ced-10 during cell migration and phagocytosis and that CED-12 physically interacts with CED-5 an...