This study aimed to examine whether discoloration of carious dentin after silver-diammine-fluoride (SDF) application might be used as a mean detect demineralized-dentin. Fourty specimens were obtained from 20 human permanent teeth. Teeth sectioned through the center lesions create 2-halves in which each half was assigned treatment group. Specimens divided into two groups (n=20) (each one group)...

PURPOSE Major depressive disorder (MDD) is highly prevalent in patients with a chronic physical condition, and this comorbidity has a negative influence on quality of life, health care costs, self-care, morbidity, and mortality. Research has shown that collaborative care (CC) may be a cost-effective treatment. However, its cost-effectiveness in this patient group has not yet been established. T...

OBJECTIVE To compare outcomes with the use of thyroid ala cartilage (TAC) and costal cartilage (CC) grafts in pediatric primary anterior laryngotracheoplasty (LTP). DESIGN Retrospective comparison study. SETTING Tertiary, academic children's hospital. PATIENTS Of 45 laryngotracheal operations performed between June 2001 and October 2008 for laryngotracheal stenosis, 29 were primary anteri...

Our study investigated whether microRNA-122 (miR-122) played important roles in the proliferation, invasion and apoptosis of human cholangiocarcinoma (CC) cells. QBC939 and RBE cells lines were chosen and divided into five groups: miR-122 mimic group, anti-miR-122 group, negative control (NC) group, mock group and blank group. MiR-122 expression was measured by qRT-PCR. Roles of miR-122 in cell...

OBJECTIVE To compare the effect of letrozole with combined metformin and clomiphene citrate (CC) for ovulation induction in CC-resistant women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). DESIGN A randomized controlled trial. SETTING University teaching hospital and a private practice setting. PATIENT(S) Two hundred fifty anovulatory women (582 cycles) with CC-resistant PCOS. INTERVENTION(S) ...

We used data from a home visiting trial to examine low-income women's perceptions of services received from nurses (the community care [CC] group) and from a nurse-community health worker (CHW) team. More mothers in the nurse-CHW group than in the CC group reported receiving help in all of the categories assessed. For both groups, assistance with health education ranked highest among the types ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the relationship between the level of serum cystatin C (s-CC) and reverse-dipper blood pressure (BP) pattern. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Single centre. PARTICIPANTS A total of 718 hypertensive patients were eventually recruited from cardiac clinics between 2012 and 2014 in the Second Affiliated Hospital, Xi'an Jiaotong University. They were diagnosed as...

conclusions our findings indicate that patients with the homozygous cc genotype in the il28b gene had a significantly higher rate of response to treatment than those with the tt or ct genotypes. nor does the il28b rs12979860 polymorphism affect the viral load. results the genotype frequencies of rs12979860 polymorphism in group 1 were cc (28.9%), ct (37.8%) and tt (33.3%) and in group 2 were cc...

The objectives of this study were to investigate the cardio-protective, hepatoprotective and nephroprotective effects curcumin nanoparticle (NC) pretreatment compared conventional (CC) on acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in rats with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM). Fifty-six Wister Bratislava divided into eight groups. first four groups—C (control group), AMI (group AMI), T1DM T1DM), T1DM-AMI...

Background Corpus Callosum (CC) plays a significant role in hemispheric communication and in lateralized brain function and behaviors. Structural abnormalities in the corpus callosum of schizophrenic patients were reported. However, previous studies regarding the relationship between morphology of CC in patients with schizophrenia and healthy people are controversial. Objective To evaluate th...