PN (parenteral nutrition) should be standardised to ensure quality and to reduce complications, and it should be carried out in consultation with a specialised nutrition support team whenever possible. Interdisciplinary nutrition support teams should be established in all hospitals because effectiveness and efficiency in the implementation of PN are increased. The tasks of the team include impr...

Polynucleotides (PN) have long been known as an effective supportive therapy for wound healing. The present study investigated whether a hydrogel formulation containing PN and hyaluronic acid (PN + HA) could promote healing in vitro model of gingival fibroblasts. promoted cell growth viability assessed by different assays, HA, though not significantly further increasing compared to PN, supporte...

A series of novel light-harvesting compounds (namely PO-PN, PO-PO-PN and PO-PO-PO-PN) were synthesized with a linear-shaped phenoxy group-substituted perylenetetracarboxylic diimide (PO) oligomer as donor and a pyrrolidinyl group-substituted perylenetetracarboxylic diimide (PN) as acceptor. The photophysical properties of these linear-shaped compounds are investigated by steady state electronic...

The nutrition support clinician must understand and evaluate all aspects of parenteral nutrition (PN) to maximize benefits while avoiding unfavorable consequences for the patients in the intensive care unit. The various aspects in caring for the PN patient include appropriate patient selection, intravenous access choice and maintenance, and individualized PN prescription to meet each patient's ...

OBJECTIVE To assess the case-finding effectiveness of partner notification(PN) and cluster investigation for sexually transmitted disease (STD)/human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). STUDY Literature review and quantitative summary. RESULTS Since 1975, the median case-finding yield for syphilis, gonorrhea, and chlamydia PN reported in the literature is about 1 new case found for every 4 or 5 c...

We classify, up to homeomorphism, all closed manifolds having the homotopy type of a connected sum of two copies of real projective n-space. 1. Statement of results Let P = Pn(R) be real projective n-space. López de Medrano [LdM71] and C.T.C. Wall [Wal68, Wal99] classified, up to PL homeomorphism, all closed PL manifolds homotopy equivalent to P when n > 4. This was extended to the topological ...

PN is a secreted cell adhesion protein critical for carcinogenesis. Elevated serum levels of PN have been implicated as playing an important role in different types of cancer, and a few reports suggest a potential role as a prognostic marker. We evaluated the prognostic significance of preoperative serum PN concentration in patients with BCa receiving curative surgery. Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbe...

In cerebellar long-term depression (LTD), conjunctive stimulation of parallel and climbing fiber inputs to a Purkinje neuron (PN) results in a selective depression of parallel fiber-PN synaptic strength. A similar phenomenon may be induced in the cultured PN when glutamate pulses and PN depolarization, which mimic the effects of parallel and climbing fibers, respectively, are coapplied. Here, w...

OBJECTIVE To compare peri- and postoperative variables, surgical complications, oncological outcomes and renal outcomes of off-clamp partial nephrectomy (PN) and on-clamp PN. METHODS A systematic search of the electronic databases, including MEDLINE, Embase and Cochrane Library, was performed. The pooled estimates of tumour size, operative time, estimated blood loss, length of stay, overall c...