1. Four groups of rat pups were reared: mother-reared (MR) control (well-fed) and undernourished (MRC and MRU respectively) and artificially reared (AR) control and undernourished (ARC and ARU respectively). Pups for artificial rearing were fitted with a gastric cannula on postnatal day 5 and were fed, by intermittent gastric infusion, expressed rats' milk (days 5-7), mixtures of rats' milk and...

BACKGROUND It is important to distinguish between responders to standard treatment and non-responders Hodgkin's disease (HD) patients. PATIENTS AND METHODS Between June 2003-September 2004, in our institute, 40 newly-diagnosed patients with advanced stage HD were consecutively treated with ABVD chemotherapy for six cycles. All these patients underwent staging/restaging: computed tomography (C...

INTRODUCTION Diabetes mellitus remains a significant universal health problem. Globally, the prevalence of diabetes mellitus is projected to grow from 135 million in 1995 to 300 million in 2025. Due to inadequate healthcare facilities and providers, poverty, and illiteracy coupled with increasing prevalence of diabetes mellitus, there is limited patient-physician contact time. As a result, pati...

A 20 year old, otherwise healthy, G2PO, 21 week pregnant female presented to the emergency department with a one day history of left flank pain, nausea, and vomiting. She denied a history of fevers, chills, or dysuria. Physical examination revealed left costovertebral angle tenderness. Laboratory evaluation was significant for leukocytosis (14,000), normal creatinine (0.6), and unremarkable uri...

BACKGROUND Obesity is a serious condition affecting more than 35% of adults in the United States. In obese individuals for whom other weight control methods have been ineffective, bariatric surgery is a safe and effective method of weight control. An estimated 150,000 to 160,000 bariatric surgeries are performed in the United States yearly. Iron deficiency anemia is common in patients after bar...

1 Department of Imaging (MRU), Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine (NHLI), Royal Brompton Hospital, London SW3 6NP, UK 2 Department of Radiology, Barts and The London NHS Trust, Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel, London E1 1BB, UK 3 Institute for Systems Dynamics, University of Stuttgart, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany 4 Instituto Universitario de Automática e Informática Industrial...

In optical networks with huge transmission capability, Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) has been actively studied in the research community. Traffic grooming technology based on divided bandwidth of a wavelength by WDM is very important for the network cost. This paper proposes a traffic grooming algorithm that employs the table for shortest Edge Disjoint Paths (EDPs) with clever selectio...

The anion-selectivity of the surface of a polymer ultrathin film incorporating an amphiphilic ruthenium(II) polypyridine complex with diperchlorate was examined using X-ray absorption spectroscopy with the total electron-yield method. The adsorbed species on the film surface were found to depend on the chemical composition in water where the film was prepared. By combining the X-ray absorption ...