BACKGROUND Burning Mouth Syndrome (BMS) is a chronic disease characterized by absence of any lesions and burning of the oral mucosa associated to a sensation of dry mouth and/or taste alterations. The purpose of our study is to estimate signs and symptoms of Temporomandibular Disorders (TMD) in patients with BMS and to investigate for the existence of an association between BMS and TMD. MATER...

Dynamic Epistemic Logic (DEL) is the study of formal logics that reason about knowledge change. In DEL research, events that cause changes in knowledge are called updates. One class of updates—the BMS updates due to Baltag, Moss, and Solecki—has received much attention in the DEL literature because of the joint expressive power of the various BMS Logics based on these updates. There is, however...

Dynamic Epistemic Logic (DEL) is the study of formal logics that reason about knowledge change. In DEL research, events that cause changes in knowledge are called updates. One class of updates—the BMS updates due to Baltag, Moss, and Solecki—has received much attention in the DEL literature because of the joint expressive power of the various BMS Logics based on these updates. There is, however...

The C57BLKS/J db/db mouse develops hyperglycemia and has delayed gastric emptying that is improved with tegaserod, a partial 5-HT4 agonist. Our aims here were to determine regional gastric contractility alterations in C57BLKS/J db/db mice and to determine the effects of serotonin and tegaserod. The contractile effects of bethanechol, serotonin, and tegaserod in fundic, antral, and pyloric circu...

The etiology of BMS remains unknown. Role of various cytokines has been implicated in the development of BMS. The aim of this study was to evaluate levels of salivary IL-2 and IL-6 in patients with BMS, compared with age-matched healthy volunteers (control group). Whole saliva from 30 patients with BMS, age range 55-65, was tested for the presence of IL-6 and IL-2 by enzyme immunoassay. Control...

Brain metastases (BMs) are diagnosed in 10%-40% of all patients with cancer, and the incidence continues to increase along with the number of long-term survivors. When BMs occur, they are often associated with a myriad of symptoms, including neurologic dysfunction and functional decline; both are difficult to manage and can be distressing for patients and their caregivers. Although clinically s...

Gemcitabine has limited clinical benefits in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC). Insulin-like growth factor (IGF) signaling proteins are frequently overexpressed in PDAC. The therapeutic potential of BMS-754807, a small-molecule inhibitor of IGF-type 1 receptor (IGF-1R) and insulin receptor (IR), and gemcitabine was evaluated in experimental PDAC. Cell proliferation and protein expression ...

In this work two issues concerning the use of the Automatic-Gain-Control (AGC) gain level for detecting and estimating the Jammer-to-Noise (J/N) ratio of Radio-Frequency Interference (RFI) are investigated. In the presence of RFI the AGC will reduce the gain level to keep the rms noise level at the input to the Analogue-to-Digital Converter (ADC) at a set level. As this level has to be estimate...

erratum: the meissner effect in a strongly underdoped cuprate above its critical temperature This Article contains two typographical errors in the first and second paragraphs of the section entitled 'Diamagnetic response': '〈B x 〉ω L /γ µ ' should be '〈B x 〉 = ω L /γ µ ' and '〈 j ab 〉 = 〈(1/µ 0) dB x /dz〉/≠0' should be '〈 j ab 〉 = 〈(1/µ 0) dB x /dz〉≠0' .