Receptor disorders may produce specific clinical manifestations resembling hypo-or hyper-function of related endocrine gland. Receptor disorders can be divided into five categories: 1)Altered receptor concentration exists in insulin resistance seen in obsity, familial hypercholes­terolemia and in testicular feminization. 2) Altered receptor affinity can be seen in fasted obese patients, acromeg...

Although non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) has the potential for cure with surgical resection, unfortunately less than 15% of all patients and less than 25% of those who present with intrathoracic localized disease are candidates for curative surgical resection. Elderly patients, even if they have resectable disease, often have medical contraindications to surgery, such as cardiovascular disea...

The aim of radiation oncologist is to implement an uncomplicated loco regional control of cancer by radiation therapy. The bioeffect of a physical dose depends on the nature of the tissue, fractionation scheme, dose rate and treatment time. The transformation of absorbed dose into a bioeffect dose is controlled by treatment variables and the radiobiological characteristics of the relevant tissu...

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PurposeValue-based care is increasingly informing treatment decisions in radiation oncology. Although reimbursement differences have been examined for accelerated whole breast irradiation (AWBI) and conventional (CWBI), the cost of delivery poorly understood. This article describes our experience evaluating costs altered fractionation early-stage cancer using a time-driven activity-based costin...

Ten behavioral mutations, originally isolated in the countercurrent fractionation device, were tested in phototaxis and geotaxis mazes. While none of the mutations caused an altered ERG, they all caused photomaze behavior to differ from that seen in Canton-S controls. Eight of the mutants showed altered geotactic behavior. There was no correlation between the kind of change in phototactic behav...

Ternary deep eutectic solvents (DESs) are gaining increased attention to serve as a cheap green alternative medium for the processing of lignocellulosic biomass. For example, mixtures choline chloride (ChCl), ethylene glycol (EG), and oxalic acid (OA) were recently explored fractionation biomass into its main components. Interestingly, during this processing, recovered lignin was structurally m...