Postoperative Renal Outcomes of Patients Receiving Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy versus Pyelolithotomy: A Population-Based Cohort Study.

abstract：:Introduction and Objectives. Neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) has been suggested to be a simple marker of the systemic inflammatory response in critical care patients. We previously assessed the utility of NLR as a biomarker to predict tumor recurrence and cancer death in bladder cancer patients who underwent radi...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Ohtake S,Kawahara T,Kasahara R,Ito H,Osaka K,Hattori Y,Teranishi JI,Makiyama K,Mizuno N,Umemoto S,Miyoshi Y,Nakaigawa N,Miyamoto H,Yao M,Uemura H

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to compare within-subject blood pressure (BP) variabilities from different measurement techniques. Cuff pressures from three repeated BP measurements were obtained from 30 normotensive and 30 hypertensive subjects. Automatic BPs were determined from the pulses with normalised peak amplitude larger tha...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Yang F,Chen F,Zhu M,Chen A,Zheng D

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Solid lipid nanoparticle is an efficient lipid based drug delivery system which can enhance the bioavailability of poorly water soluble drugs. Efavirenz is a highly lipophilic drug from nonnucleoside inhibitor category for treatment of HIV. Present work illustrates development of an SLN formulation for Efavirenz with ...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Gaur PK,Mishra S,Bajpai M,Mishra A

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Compressive sensing (CS) offers compression of data below the Nyquist rate, making it an attractive solution in the field of medical imaging, and has been extensively used for ultrasound (US) compression and sparse recovery. In practice, CS offers a reduction in data sensing, transmission, and storage. Compressive sen...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Yousufi M,Amir M,Javed U,Tayyib M,Abdullah S,Ullah H,Qureshi IM,Alimgeer KS,Akram MW,Khan KB

更新日期：2019-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cumulative evidence has indicated that there is an important role for adult hippocampal neurogenesis in cognitive function. With the increasing prevalence of cognitive decline associated with neurodegenerative diseases among the ageing population, physical exercise, a potent enhancer of adult hippocampal neurogenesis,...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Yau SY,Gil-Mohapel J,Christie BR,So KF

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study evaluated the frequencies of allergic symptoms and rate of upper respiratory infections during the past year in the general population, kitchen workers (KW) and health care workers (HCW). METHODS:The European Community Respiratory Health Survey (ECRHS) was used to inquire retrospectively about ast...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Bilge U,Unluoglu I,Son N,Keskin A,Korkut Y,Unalacak M

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA methylation primarily occurs on CpG dinucleotides and plays an important role in transcriptional regulations during tissue development and cell differentiation. Over 25% of CpG dinucleotides in the human genome reside within Alu elements, the most abundant human repeats. The methylation of Alu elements is an impor...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Luo Y,Lu X,Xie H

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have extensively analyzed single SNP effects on a wide variety of common and complex diseases and found many genetic variants associated with diseases. However, there is still a large portion of the genetic variants left unexplained. This missing heritability problem might be due...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Lee S,Kim Y,Kwon MS,Park T

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The zebrafish constitutes a powerful model organism with unique advantages for investigating the vertebrate circadian timing system and its regulation by light. In particular, the remarkably early and rapid development of the zebrafish circadian system has facilitated exploring the factors that control the onset of ci...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Ben-Moshe Z,Foulkes NS,Gothilf Y

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult orthodontics may confront problems related to the bonding performance of orthodontic brackets to new generation restorative materials used for crown or laminate restorations. The aim of the present study was to investigate the shear bond strength of ceramic brackets to two new generation CAD/CAM interpenetrating...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Özarslan MM,Üstün Ö,Buyukkaplan US,Barutcigil Ç,Türker N,Barutcigil K

更新日期：2018-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Anopheles gambiae is the major malaria vector in Africa. Examining the molecular basis of A. gambiae traits requires knowledge of both genetic variation and genome-wide linkage disequilibrium (LD) map of wild A. gambiae populations from malaria-endemic areas. We sequenced the genomes of nine wild A. gambiae mosquitoes...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Wang X,Afrane YA,Yan G,Li J

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：Objective:To evaluate the performance of contrast-enhanced mammography (CEM) compared to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for estimating residual tumor size after neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) in women with newly diagnosed breast cancer. Methods:The institutional review board approved this study. This prospective stu...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Barra FR,Sobrinho AB,Barra RR,Magalhães MT,Aguiar LR,de Albuquerque GFL,Costa RP,Farage L,Pratesi R

更新日期：2018-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was performed to assess the efficacy and safety of a topical diclofenac solution in patients with knee osteoarthritis (OA). PubMed, Embase, Cochrane Library, Web of Science, and Scopus databases were searched for randomized controlled trials until June 2020. The WOMAC pain, stiffness, physical function subs...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Ling T,Li JJ,Xu RJ,Wang B,Ge WH

更新日期：2020-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Sympathetic sprouting in the dorsal root ganglion (DRG) following nerve injuries had been proved to induce adult neuropathic pain. However, it is unclear whether the abnormal sprouting occurs in infant nerve injury. Methods:L5 spinal nerve ligation (SNL) or sham surgery was performed on adult rats and 10-da...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Liu P,Zhang Q,Gao YS,Huang YG,Gao J,Zhang CQ

更新日期：2020-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Large scalp defects, especially those complicated by calvarial defects, titanium mesh exposure, or cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leak, pose a challenge for the neurosurgeon and plastic surgeon. Here, we describe our experience of reconstructing the complex scalp defect with free flap transfer. Methods:From Octo...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Chen F,Ju H,Huang A,Yi Y,Cao Y,Xie W,Wang X,Fu G

更新日期：2020-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of this study was to analyse perceptually and acoustically the voices of patients with Unilateral Vocal Fold Paralysis (UVFP) and compare them to the voices of normal subjects. These voices were analysed perceptually with the GRBAS scale and acoustically using the following parameters: mean fundamental freque...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Jesus LM,Martinez J,Hall A,Ferreira A

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultrasonography has been widely employed to estimate the morphological changes of muscle during contraction. To further investigate the motion pattern of quadriceps during isometric knee extensions, we studied the relative motion pattern between femur and quadriceps under ultrasonography. An interesting observation is...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Zhang S,Huang W,Zeng Y,Shi W,Diao X,Wei X,Ling S

更新日期：2018-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed a new product called titanium-prepared platelet-rich fibrin (T-PRF). The T-PRF method is based on the hypothesis that titanium may be more effective in activating platelets than the silica activators used with glass tubes in Chouckroun's leukocyte- and platelet-rich fibrin (L-PRF) method. In this study, w...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Tunalı M,Özdemir H,Küçükodacı Z,Akman S,Yaprak E,Toker H,Fıratlı E

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single-sided deafness (SSD) induces cortical neural plastic changes according to duration of deafness. However, it is still unclear how the auditory cortical changes accompany the subcortical neural changes. The present study aimed to find the neural plastic changes in the cortical and subcortical auditory system foll...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Kim SY,Heo H,Kim DH,Kim HJ,Oh SH

更新日期：2018-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Periodontitis is an inflammatory disease involving complex interactions between oral microorganisms and the host immune response. Understanding the structure of the microbiota community associated with periodontitis is essential for improving classifications and diagnoses of various types of periodontal diseases and w...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Chen WP,Chang SH,Tang CY,Liou ML,Tsai SJ,Lin YL

更新日期：2018-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Our aim was to verify the effects of prednisone related to gastrointestinal motility, intestinal histology, and mucosal mast cells in rats. Two-month-old male Wistar rats were randomly assigned to control group (vehicle) animals receiving saline 0.9% (n = 7) or treated orally with 0.625 mg/kg/day of prednisone (n = 7)...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： de Lima MB,Gama LA,Hauschildt AT,Dall'Agnol DJR,Corá LA,Americo MF

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients aged from 40 to 60 with displaced fractures of the femoral neck (Garden III or IV) who received fixation with three cannulated screws from January 2005 to December 2012 were evaluated retrospectively for the development of nonunion. Plasma HbA1C, a marker for long-term plasma glucose level, anti-T2DM medicati...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Zhu XZ,Zheng XY

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The VAD (vincristine-doxorubicin-dexamethasone) regimen has been used for decades to treat multiple myeloma (MM). Based on reports that vascular endothelial growth factor- (VEGF-) mediated angiogenesis is critical for MM pathogenesis, the antiangiogenic compound thalidomide has been added to VAD (T-VAD). However, it r...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： He GL,Xu DR,Zou WY,He SZ,Li J

更新日期：2018-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypolactasia, or intestinal lactase deficiency, affects more than half of the world population. Currently, xylose quantification in urine after gaxilose oral administration for the noninvasive diagnosis of hypolactasia is performed with the hand-operated nonautomatable phloroglucinol reaction. This work demonstrates t...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Sánchez-Moreno I,Monsalve-Hernando C,Godino A,Illa L,Gaspar MJ,Muñoz GM,Díaz A,Martín JL,García-Junceda E,Fernández-Mayoralas A,Hermida C

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：Purpose:Computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) can aid in improving diagnostic level; however, the main problem currently faced by CAD is that it cannot obtain sufficient labeled samples. To solve this problem, in this study, we adopt a generative adversarial network (GAN) approach and design a semisupervised learning algorith...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Zheng G,Han G,Soomro NQ,Ma L,Zhang F,Zhao Y,Zhao X,Zhou C

更新日期：2019-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with clinical suspicion of large-vessel vasculitis (LVV) may present with nonspecific signs and symptoms and increased inflammatory parameters and may remain without diagnosis after routine diagnostic procedures. Both the nonspecificity of the radiopharmaceutical (18)F-FDG and the synergy of integrating funct...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Balink H,Bennink RJ,van Eck-Smit BL,Verberne HJ

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The achievement of successful biostimulation of active microbiomes for the cleanup of a polluted site is strictly dependent on the knowledge of the key microorganisms equipped with the relevant catabolic genes responsible for the degradation process. In this work, we present the characterization of the bacterial commu...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Merlino G,Balloi A,Marzorati M,Mapelli F,Rizzi A,Lavazza D,de Ferra F,Carpani G,Daffonchio D

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sarcopenia is the presence of low muscle mass and low muscle function. The aim of this study was to establish cutoffs for low muscle mass using three published methods and to compare the prevalence of sarcopenia in older Australians. METHODS:Gender specific cutoffs levels were identified for low muscle mass...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Yu S,Appleton S,Adams R,Chapman I,Wittert G,Visvanathan T,Visvanathan R

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We aim to investigate the effects of curcumin on preventing diabetes-induced vascular inflammation in association with its actions on Txnip, ICAM-1, and NOX2 enzyme expressions. Male Wistar rats were divided into four groups: control (CON), diabetic (DM; streptozotocin (STZ), i.v. 55 mg/kg BW), control-treated with cu...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Wongeakin N,Bhattarakosol P,Patumraj S

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Taenia solium thioredoxin-1 gene (TsTrx-1) has a length of 771 bp with three exons and two introns. The core promoter gene presents two putative stress transcription factor binding sites, one putative TATA box, and a transcription start site (TSS). TsTrx-1 mRNA is expressed higher in larvae than in adult. This gene en...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Jiménez L,Rodríguez-Lima O,Ochoa-Sánchez A,Landa A

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00