Visceral leishmaniasis remains a serious public health problem in developing countries. Cytokines have a crucial role in the pathogenesis of this disease. We evaluated plasma levels of IL-10, IL-12 and IFN- in 32 patients with active visceral lieshmaniasis, in 29 siblings of the patients and in 23 normal individuals in an endemic area to look for correlations between the clinical outcome of inf...

INTRODUCTION Homeopathy uses information gathered from healthy volunteers taking homeopathic substances (pathogenetic trials) for clinical treatment. It is controversial whether such studies produce symptoms different from those produced by placebo. OBJECTIVE To test whether homeopathic preparations produce different symptoms than placebo in healthy volunteers. METHODS Three armed, double-b...

Computerized dynamic posturography is commonly used to assess balance in service members, but normative values for the military population have not been established. What are Motor Control Test (MCT), Sensory Organization (SOT) and enhanced SOT (eSOT) within at which point do they differ? Cross-sectional study. 237 active duty members (78 % male) completed MCT, eSOT with sway manipulated a gain...

A stratification of a set, e.g. an analytic variety, is, roughly, a partition of it into manifolds so that these manifolds fit together “regularly”. Stratification theory was originated by Thom and Whitney for algebraic and analytic sets. It was one of the key ingredients in Mather’s proof of the topological stability theorem [Ma] (see [GM] and [PW] for the history and further applications of s...

BACKGROUND Research suggests that participants do not always adequately understand studies. While some consent interventions increase understanding, methodologic challenges have been raised in studying consent outside of actual trial settings. This study examined the feasibility of testing two consent interventions in actual studies and measured effectiveness of interventions in improving under...

background: the metabolic syndrome and periodontitis coincide with systemic inflammation and glucose tolerance disorder, which indicate the common pathophysiologic pathway of these diseases. the main goal of this study was to determine the effects of the metabolic syndrome on the periodontal indices of hemodialysis (hd) patient. materials and methods: in this descriptive‑analytical study, 75 pe...

OBJECTIVE To compare dental and skeletal anchorages in mandibular canine retraction by means of a stress distribution analysis. METHODS A photoelastic model was produced from second molar to canine, without the first premolar, and mandibular canine retraction was simulated by a rubber band tied to two types of anchorage: dental anchorage, in the first molar attached to adjacent teeth, and ske...