Patients with diabetes or hypertension with microalbuminuria (MA)/ proteinuria are prone to CV risk and progressive renal damage. This risk increases progressively with increasing levels of proteinuria. MA generally increases the relative risk of CV mortality by 1.3 and macroproteinuria by 2.4. 10-20% of hypertensive, 30-40% of diabetics and 5-7% of healthy population has MA. The CV risk exists...

Background: Numerous studies have been conducted on humans, animals, and cell cultures exposed to Sulfur Mustard (SM). However, the precise mechanism and cause or long-term pattern of SM injuries are not well defined. There is no protocol available for treating people with severe eye, lung, and skin ailments. The current study aimed to develop an animal model of the acute and delayed complicati...

The concept's potential is certainly attractive. "Suppose you could link Environmental Protection Agency data about the chemicals found in some location to a database of chemical effects on various genes to PubMed articles on those genes and the diseases that affect them," says James Hendler, director of the University of Maryland's Joint Institute for Knowledge Discovery (http://zaphod.mindlab...

1. INTRODUCTION. Most Bantu languages have a set of highly productive verbal deriva-tional suffixes which alter the argument structure and semantics of basic verb roots. 1 One example of such a suffix is the Causative, which gives a verb stem causative semantics and allows it to take an extra causer argument. A prototypical instance of the use of the Causative, drawn from Chichewa (Baker 1988:1...