BACKGROUND Antibacterial activity of honey is mainly dependent on a combination of its peroxide activity and non-peroxide components. This study aims to investigate antibacterial activity of five varieties of Malaysian honey (three monofloral; acacia, gelam and pineapple, and two polyfloral; kelulut and tualang) against Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus cereus, Escherichia coli, and Pseudomonas a...

Mr S. is a 62-year-old restaurant owner who has had recurrent stable angina that has not improved despite maximal medical therapy and an earlier coronary bypass. On angiography, Mr S. has diffusely diseased coronary vessels and is no longer considered a candidate for further direct revascularization. An alternative treatment strategy for revascularizing ischemic tissue is therefore required. On...

This paper presents an approach for the automated extraction of process patterns from Event-driven Process Chain (EPC) models in engineering domains. The manually extraction of process patterns (semantically described reference building blocks) is a labor-intensive, tedious and cumbersome task. The introduced approach comprises the three stages knowledge acquisition, process pattern extraction ...

Reduced levels of endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) have been associated with increased cardiovascular (CV) risk, but limited data are available on EPC levels in the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected population. EPCs (CD45(dim)/CD34(+)/kinase domain receptor(+)) from 36 HIV-uninfected and 30 antiretroviral therapy-naive HIV-infected men without known CV risk factors were enumerated ...

This study aimed to evaluate the effects of dietary egg yolk phosphatidylcholine (EPC) and soybean (SPC) on obesity mice fed a high-fat diet (HFD). After 60 days intervention, were evaluated by biochemical indices serum lipidomic analysis. EPC SPC markedly reduced total cholesterol, triacylglycerol (TAG) low-density lipoprotein while increased high-density cholesterol. was more effective in red...

We report a patient with epilepsia partialis continua (EPC) associated with non ketotic hyperosmolar hyperglycemia. EPC is an uncommon presentation of nonketotic hyperglycemia. This case was reported in the Medical Intensive Care Unit in Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar.

We report a record high superconducting transition temperature ($T_{\rm c}$) up to 23.6 K under pressure in the elemental metal Ti, one of top ten most abundant elements Earth's crust. The $T_{\rm c}$ increases monotonically from 2.3 at 40.3 GPa 144.9 GPa, which surpasses all known records metals reported so far. With further compression, robust ~23 is observed between and 183 $\delta$-Ti phase...

When neovascularization is triggered in ischemic tissues, angiogenesis but also (postnatal) vasculogenesis is induced, the latter requiring the mobilization of endothelial progenitor cells (EPC) from the bone marrow. Caveolin, the structural protein of caveolae, was recently reported to directly influence the angiogenic process through the regulation of the vascular endothelial growth factor (V...

The effect of L-ascorbic acid 2-[3,4-dihydro-2,5,7,8-tetramethyl-2-(4,8,12-trimethyltridecyl)-2H -1-benzopyran-6-yl-hydrogen phosphate] potassium salt (EPC-K1) on hydroxyl radical (*OH) elimination was studied using electron spin resonance (ESR) and spectrophotometric experiments. The addition of EPC-K, and *OH scavengers eliminated the *OH generated from Cu2+/H2O2, Fe2+/H2O2 and H2O2/UV-irradi...

INTRODUCTION Mature circulating endothelial cells (CEC) and circulating endothelial progenitor cells (EPC) have been described in several conditions associated with endothelial injury. Their role in deep vein thrombosis (DVT) has not been previously evaluated. PATIENTS AND METHODS In this pilot study we evaluated the time course of CEC and EPC release after vena cava experimental DVT in mice,...