The aim of the study was to determine the frequency of functional and organic dyspepsia and possible predictors for organic dyspepsia in coronary artery disease (CAD) patients. The 150 patients (109 men; mean age 62.61 +/- 10.23 yr) undergoing coronary artery by-pass grafting because of stable pectoral angina due to significant CAD were enrolled in the study. Dyspepsia was determined by the exi...

Martin, M.D., F.R.S. Pp. xvi., 505. Edinburgh: Young J. Pentland. 1895. So many years have elapsed since an authoritative treatise on diseases of the stomach has appeared from British sources,, and so much advance has been made in recent years in our knowledge of the pathology of disorders of the stomach, that this book will be perused with great interest. The gain in knowledge of gastric affec...

Our goal in this review is three-fold. First, we provide an overview of a number of quantum-chemical methods that can abstract charge-transfer (CT) information on the excited-state species of organic conjugated materials, which can then be exploited for the understanding and design of organic photodiodes and solar cells at the molecular level. We stress that the Composite-Molecule (CM) model is...

Nanotechnology offers immense opportunities for regulating and improving biological functions of proteins in vitro. Recent years have witnessed growing efforts to develop protein-incorporated hybrid nanostructured materials with potential applications in functional materials, enzymatic catalysis, drug delivery, and analytical sciences. In this review, recent advances in functional protein-organ...

By means of a mixed-ligand strategy, a novel bi-functional metal-organic framework, [H2N(CH3)2]·Zn(NDC)(atz)·H2O (NDC = 2,6-naphthalenedicarboxylic acid, Hatz = 1H-tetrazol-5-amine), was synthesized, which displays a three-dimensional two-fold interpenetrated framework. Owing to the introduction of two different functional organic ligands, this complex exhibits bi-functional properties, i.e., s...

In its most general sense, amnesia is defined as failure of the memory. In clinical usage, the term is used in a more circumspect sense: amnesia is defined as an inability to recollect information in a verbal fashion, although the ability to speak is retained. Such conditions as alexias (memory loss for reading) or apraxias (memory loss for certain motor activities) are not formally considered ...

Introduction: Since their formation, many meteorites have experienced significant degrees of alteration, by heat, impact, and fluid-mediated processes on their parent bodies [1]. Carbonaceous chondrites contain significant amounts of organic materials; a small proportion is present as volatile or soluble compounds, but the majority comprises insoluble, macromolecular material (IOM) [2]. Using t...

Functional visual loss is a common problem encountered in practice. It must be recognized that this problem occurs in patients who have organic illness. Manual perimetry is the most effective method for evaluating functional visual loss, and the presence of a central scotoma in a functional visual field strongly suggests that organic pathology is present. Neuropsychological and psychiatric inte...