BACKGROUND Haiti has the highest number of people living with HIV infection in the Caribbean/Latin America region. Medical male circumcision (MMC) has been recommended to help prevent the spread of HIV. We sought to assess knowledge, attitudes, practices and beliefs about MMC among a sample of health care providers in Haiti. METHODS A convenience sample of 153 health care providers at the GHE...

Successful deployment of high-voltage direct current (HVdc) grids necessitates effective dc fault handling strategies, which can minimize the severe consequences caused by faults on ac and sides HVdc grids. Therefore, this article investigates enhanced performance customized hybrid modular multilevel converter (CH-MMC), in a limited number full-bridge submodules (FB-SMs) are added into arms con...

Microenvironment plays an important role for stem cell proliferation and differentiation. Macromolecular crowding (MMC) was recently shown to assist stem cells in forming their own matrix microenvironment in vitro. The ability of MMC to support adipose stem cell (ASC) proliferation, metabolism, and multilineage differentiation was studied under different conditions: fetal bovine serum- (FBS-) and ...

DNA polymerase l (Pol l) is the sole member of family X DNA polymerase in plants and plays a crucial role in nuclear DNA damage repair. Here, we report the transcriptional up-regulation of Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) AtPoll in response to abiotic and genotoxic stress, including salinity and the DNA cross-linking agent mitomycin C (MMC). The increased sensitivity of atpoll knockout mutant...

Mitomycin C (MMC) is regarded as the prototype bioreductive alkylating agent in clinical use. To elucidate the biochemical basis of MMC resistance, we isolated a drug resistant derivative (designated CHOMMC) of a Chinese hamster ovary cell line (CHO-K1) by exposure to progressively higher concentrations of MMC. CHO-MMC cells exhib ited a 17-fold increase in resistance to MMC and were 33-fold cr...

purpose : to compare the effectiveness and safety of trabeculectomy with mitomycin c (mmc) versus trabeculectomy with oculusgen methods : in this prospective study 14 eyes of 7 patients with a diagnosis of primary open angle glaucoma (poag) that required trabeculectomy for both eyes were enrolled. for each patient we randomly performed trabeculectomy with mmc for one eye and trabeculectomy with...

Mephedrone (4-methylmethcathinone, MMC) is a popular recreational drug, yet its potential harms are yet to be fully established. The current study examined the impact of single or repeated MMC exposure on various neurochemical and behavioral measures in rats. In Experiment 1 male adolescent Wistar rats received single or repeated (once a day for 10 days) injections of MMC (30 mg/kg) or the comp...

Multiple myeloma is characterized by the clonal expansion of malignant plasma cells (multiple myeloma cells [MMCs]), in the bone marrow. Osteolytic bone lesions are detected in 80% of patients because of increased osteoclastic bone resorption and reduced osteoblastic bone formation. MMCs are found closely associated with sites of increased bone resorption. Osteoclasts strongly support MMC survi...

The migrating motor complex (MMC) occurs in most mammals and birds and is organized during the fetal life. In some species, like ruminants and other herbivores, it is not abolished by feeding but its character and controlling mechanisms do not vary considerably from other animal species. However, the mechanisms controlling the MMC are complex and incompletely recognized. The central nervous sys...

BACKGROUND Male medical circumcision (MMC) has been shown to reduce the risk of HIV transmission in circumcised men by up to 60%. Following recommendations from the World Health Organization, South Africa adopted MMC as a preventative strategy against HIV in 2010 and set up circumcision camps across the country. Concerns have been raised about condom avoidance following MMC because of a mistake...