Cohort Profile: The Kiang West Longitudinal Population Study (KWLPS)—a platform for integrated research and health care provision in rural Gambia Branwen J Hennig, Stefan A Unger, Bai Lamin Dondeh, Jahid Hassan, Sophie Hawkesworth, Landing Jarjou, Kerry S Jones, Sophie E Moore, Helen M Nabwera, Mohammed Ngum, Ann Prentice, Bakary Sonko, Andrew M Prentice* and Anthony J Fulford MRC International...

Magnetic resonance cholangiography (MRC) is a non-invasive imaging modality that has become widely available. In the short time since its introduction, MRC has been shown to possess excellent accuracy for the diagnosis of various biliary pathologies, including choledocholithiasis. Investigations of the clinical applications of MRC are ongoing. This review summarizes the diagnostic capabilities ...

AIM The present study evaluated the effectiveness of an intervention combining motivational enhancement and treatment readiness groups, with and without monetary incentives for attendance and treatment enrollment, on enhancing rates of substance abuse treatment entry among new registrants at the Baltimore Needle Exchange Program (BNEP). DESIGN Opioid-dependent study participants (n = 281) ref...

In this paper, we derive analytical expressions for the symbol error probability (SEP) for a hybrid selection/maximalratio combining (H-S/MRC) diversity system in multipath-fading wireless environments. With H-S/MRC, out of diversity branches are selected and combined using maximal-ratio combining (MRC). We consider coherent detection of -ary phase-shift keying (MPSK) and quadrature amplitude m...

— Clustering is a process of partitioning data objects into groups based on the similarity measures. Most of the existing methods perform clustering within a single table, but most of the real-world databases, however, store information in multiple tables. We propose a new method which is called Multi Relational Clustering (MRC) for clustering a relational database. The MRC approach uses existi...

This is a retrospective study. The purpose of this study was to assess the diagnostic accuracy and utility of posttransplant magnetic resonance cholangiography (MRC) in detecting biliary complications and planning the treatment. From July 2006 to April 2010, 51 (19%) of these 268 adult living-donor liver transplantation (LDLT) recipients were referred to MRC due to biliary dilatation and abnorm...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the relations between Medical Research Council (MRC) dyspnea grade and peripheral muscle force, activities of daily living (ADL) performance, health status, lung function, and exercise capacity in subjects with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). DESIGN Prospective cross-sectional observational study. SETTING University hospital. PARTICIPANTS Subjects with IPF (N...

Background: Our previous study showed that cancer-associated fibroblast MRC-5 promoted hepatocellular carcinoma progression by enhancing migration and invasion capability. However, few studies have explored the role of MRC-5 in pancreatic cancer (PC). In this study, we examined the exact role and associated mechanisms of MRC-5. Methods: The conditioned media for MRC-5 was used to culture PC cel...

Sirtuin1 (SIRT1) is an enzyme that deacetylates histones and several nonhistone proteins including p53 during stress and plays an important role in the survival of tumor cells. Hereby, this study describes the potency of salermide as a SIRT1 inhibitor to induce apoptosis in the MCF-7 and MRC-5 cell lines. MCF7 and MRC-5 cell lines were cultured in RPMI-1640 and treated with or without salermide...