Evaluation of insulin resistance improvement after laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy or gastric bypass surgery with HOMA-IR.

abstract：:Human serum albumin (HSA) is used as an important plasma volume expander in clinical practice. In the present study, HSA was N-terminally PEGylated and a PEGylated HAS (PEG-HSA) carrying one chain of PEG (20 kDa) per HSA molecule was obtained. The purity, secondary structure and hydrodynamic radius of the modified pro...

journal_title：Bioscience trends

authors： Zhao T,Yang Y,Zong A,Tan H,Song X,Meng S,Song C,Pang G,Wang F

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Precise diagnosis is a key measurement for malaria control and elimination, traditional microscopy and rapid diagnostic tests cannot satisfy the requirements especially in the low transmission endemic areas or in the malaria elimination phase. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) with high sensitivity and specificity can b...

journal_title：Bioscience trends

authors： Yin J,Li M,Yan H,Zhou S

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Citrus unshiu peel has been used to prevent and treat various diseases in traditional East-Asian medicine including in Korea. Extracts of C. unshiu peel are known to have various pharmacological effects including antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and antibacterial properties. Although the possibility of their anti-cance...

journal_title：Bioscience trends

authors： Ahn KI,Choi EO,Kwon DH,HwangBo H,Kim MY,Kim HJ,Ji SY,Hong SH,Jeong JW,Park C,Kim ND,Kim WJ,Choi YH

更新日期：2017-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently demonstrated that unconjugated bilirubin (UCB) limits the overexpression of adhesion molecules and inhibits the PMN endothelial adhesion induced by the pro-inflammatory cytokine TNFalpha. To understand the molecular events involved we investigated whether the inhibitory effect is determined by a direc...

journal_title：Bioscience trends

authors： Mazzone GL,Rigato I,Ostrow JD,Tiribelli C

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the current study was to investigate the effects of FL118, a novel camptothecin analogue, on migration and invasion of human breast cancer cells and the underlying mechanisms of those effects. A 3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyl-2H-tetrazolium bromide (MTT) assay and a plate clone formation assay we...

journal_title：Bioscience trends

authors： Yang Z,Ji L,Jiang G,Liu R,Liu Z,Yang Y,Ma Q,Zhao H

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Catalpol is a natural iridoid glycoside with diverse bioactivities that is found in abundance in Rehmannia glutinosa Libosch. (Scrophulariaceae). The present study assessed whether catalpol treatment (5, 10, or 20 mg/kg for 14 days by intragastric administration (i.g.)) has an antidepressant-like effect on mice perfor...

journal_title：Bioscience trends

authors： Wang J,Cui Y,Feng W,Zhang Y,Wang G,Wang X,Zhou G

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Information about medical students' choice of specialty can be helpful for planning health manpower. However, such information from medical students in Malaysian medical schools is lacking. We carried out a cross-sectional questionnaire survey among fourth- and fifth-year medical undergraduate students at Melaka-Manip...

journal_title：Bioscience trends

authors： Chew YW,Rajakrishnan S,Low CA,Jayapalan PK,Sreeramareddy CT

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We construct and validate a non-invasive clinical scoring model to predict mortality in HIV/TB patients at end stage of AIDS in China. There were 1,007 HIV/TB patients admitted to Beijing Ditan Hospital from August 2009 to January 2018 included in this study, who were randomly assigned to form derivation cohort and va...

journal_title：Bioscience trends

authors： Zhang Z,Xu L,Pang X,Zeng Y,Hao Y,Wang Y,Wu L,Gao G,Yang D,Zhao H,Xiao J

更新日期：2019-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Laparoscopic liver resection (LLR) has garnered attention as a new form of liver surgery. In China, many hepatobiliary surgeons are now encouraging the examination and assessment of LLC in order to improve its outcomes, and several young hepatobiliary surgeons recently shared their clinical experiences and the results...

journal_title：Bioscience trends

authors： Zhao X,Song P,Zhang Y,Huang J

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At the end of 2013, a Japanese newspaper reported that 4,173 children were unidentified or missing in Japan. The article concluded that child abuse was a matter of national concern. In examining the strengths and weaknesses of Japan's welfare system in regard to child abuse, it would seem that a weakness exists with r...

journal_title：Bioscience trends

authors： Takahashi K,Kanda H,Sugaya N

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present observational study aimed to clarify the relationship between the tip position of an indwelling venous catheter and the subcutaneous edema using ultrasonography images. Data were obtained before catheter removal in a medical ward of a university hospital in Tokyo, Japan. Two hundred peripheral intravenous ...

journal_title：Bioscience trends

authors： Murayama R,Takahashi T,Tanabe H,Yabunaka K,Oe M,Oya M,Uchida M,Komiyama C,Sanada H

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis C, caused by the hepatitis C virus (HCV) that attacks the liver and leads to inflammation, is a severe threat to human health. Pegylated interferon α (INF-α) and ribavirin based therapy was once the standard therapy for HCV infection. However, it is suboptimal in efficacy and poorly tolerated in some patient...

journal_title：Bioscience trends

authors： Gao J,Ju C

更新日期：2017-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The maternal mortality ratio in Laos in 2005 was 660 per 100,000 lives birth which was the third highest in Asia-Pacific Region. The objective was to determine the availability and use of emergency obstetric care (EmOC) in provincial and district hospitals in Borikhamxay, Khammouane, and Savannakhet provinces using UN...

journal_title：Bioscience trends

authors： Douangphachanh X,Ali M,Outavong P,Alongkon P,Sing M,Chushi K

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study investigated the effect of the VEGF165 gene on adhesion, migration, and proliferation of endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) derived from peripheral blood of rabbits. Peripheral blood mononuclear cells were isolated from rabbits by density gradient centrifugation with Ficoll-Plaque Plus. EPCs were ch...

journal_title：Bioscience trends

authors： Gu X,Miao X,Xu J,Cao J

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tissue engineering has been one of the most promising strategies for the regeneration of impaired tissue. Application of three-dimensional porous scaffolds has greatly improved the outcome of tissue engineering in many categories. Cell seeding is one of the key issues in tissue regeneration. It depends not only on the...

journal_title：Bioscience trends

authors： Dai W,Dong J,Chen G,Uemura T

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study is an extension of the previous enhancement of dissolution properties of repaglinide using liquisolid compacts. The development and validation of a highperformance liquid chromatography (HPLC) assay for the determination of repaglinide concentration in rabbit plasma for pharmacokinetic studies is described....

journal_title：Bioscience trends

authors： El-Houssieny BM,Wahman L,Arafa NM

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study is to compare the efficacy of endoluminal ultrasonography (EUS) and spiral computerized tomography (SCT) in preoperative local staging of rectal carcinoma. EUS and SCT were performed prior to surgery in 78 patients with rectal carcinoma. After radical surgery, the preoperative findings were compa...

journal_title：Bioscience trends

authors： Ju H,Xu D,Li D,Chen G,Shao G

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Information about the muscarinic receptor subtype(s) mediating pulmonary circulatory vasodilator responses to acetylcholine (ACh) is limited. The aim of this study was to pharmacologically characterize the muscarinic receptors associated with ACh-induced pulmonary vasodilation in a pulmonary hypertension model. Vasodi...

journal_title：Bioscience trends

authors： Orii R,Sugawara Y,Sawamura S,Yamada Y

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammation-based markers are considered prognostic indicators for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) after liver resection. However, there is little information concerning whether they are useful for HCC patients with clinically significant portal hypertension (CSPH). In this study, 1452 patients were enro...

journal_title：Bioscience trends

authors： Qin L,Li C,Xie F,Wang Z,Wen T

更新日期：2020-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:In patients at risk of hepatocarcinogenesis, tumors are frequently detected with atypical radiological patterns related to hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) on imaging studies. Despite their high potential for malignancy, whether to resect such lesions immediately is controversial. Based on histological findings, patient...

journal_title：Bioscience trends

authors： Higaki T,Midorikawa Y,Nakashima Y,Nakayama H,Matsuoka S,Moriyama M,Sugitani M,Takayama T

更新日期：2017-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The dominant-negative inhibition of KCNJ2-encoded inward rectifier potassium channels (Kir2) is currently considered the best approach to biological pacemakers. We hypothesized that inhibition of the inward rectifier potassium current (IK1) in ventricular myocytes by RNA interference (RNAi) would convert ventricular m...

journal_title：Bioscience trends

authors： Hu B,Zhu XL,Fan QX,Li HX,Zou CW

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current study retrospectively investigated variations in audiological phenotypes in children with GJB2 gene mutations. Subjects were 128 infants and young children who were seen as outpatients by Otology at Beijing Tongren Hospital from 2012 to 2018. Of the 128 subjects, 99 had biallelic truncating (T/T) mutations...

journal_title：Bioscience trends

authors： Wang X,Huang L,Zhao X,Wang X,Cheng X,Du Y,Liu D

更新日期：2018-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:In all malignant diseases, several clinical and histopathological tests are established as standard methods for diagnosis. Alternative diagnostic quantitative methods are still lacking or conflicting in cancer of the cervix. Although DNA analysis was one of the earliest applications in flow cytometry and the DNA conte...

journal_title：Bioscience trends

authors： Chhavi,Saxena M,Negi MP,Singh S,Singh PK,Singh U,Bhatt ML

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spontaneous esophageal perforation (Boerhaave's syndrome) is an uncommon and challenging condition with significant morbidity and mortality. Surgical treatment is indicated in the large majority of cases and different procedures have been described in this respect. We present the results of a mono-institutional evalua...

journal_title：Bioscience trends

authors： Pezzetta E,Kokudo T,Uldry E,Yamaguchi T,Kudo H,Ris HB,Christodoulou M,Vuilleumier H,Halkic N

更新日期：2016-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibiotics are medicines used to prevent and treat bacterial infections. Antibiotic resistance occurs when bacteria change in response to the use of these medicines. Antibiotic resistance is rising to dangerously high levels in all parts of the world, leading to higher medical costs, prolonged hospital stays, and inc...

journal_title：Bioscience trends

authors： Tang Q,Song P,Li J,Kong F,Sun L,Xu L

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obesity has become a severe public health problem worldwide. Crocin, a natural product, has been reported to have a number of pharmacological activities, including anti-inflammatory, anti-cancer, neuroprotective, antihypertensive, and cardioprotective action. The aims of the current study were to identify the benefici...

journal_title：Bioscience trends

authors： Gu M,Luo L,Fang K

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We identified the prevalence of depression and quality of life (QOL) of Japanese children with childhood cancer after discharge using the Birleson Depression Self-rating Scale for Children (DSRS-C) and the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory (PedsQL). Subjects were 118 caregivers who raised children ages 2-18 with chi...

journal_title：Bioscience trends

authors： Wakimizu R,Hiraga N,Furuya K,Fukushima T,Tsuchida M,Koike K,Yamamoto T

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mortality rate of fulminant hepatic failure was high until liver transplantation was presented as a potential therapy. We encountered a patient with hyperacute fulminant hepatic failure due to hepatitis B virus infection. Living donor liver transplantation was planned but abandoned because her brain edema progress...

journal_title：Bioscience trends

authors： Takemura N,Sugawara Y,Tamura S,Kakeno J,Matsui Y,Makuuchi M

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malignant pericardial effusion is one of the severe complications in advanced lung cancer patients, seriously affecting the patient's cardiopulmonary function and even life. Pericardial drainage and instillation of anti-neoplastic drugs in the pericardial cavity seems to offer the best chance of controlling pericardia...

journal_title：Bioscience trends

authors： Sun T,Zhang Y,Shen Y,Hu K,Zuo M

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the first outbreak of human infection with avian influenza A (H7N9) virus was identified in 2013, five seasonal outbreaks have occurred in China. The fifth outbreak started earlier than usual. A sudden increase in cases of human infection with avian influenza A (H7N9) virus has been reported in China since Septe...

journal_title：Bioscience trends

authors： Shen Y,Lu H

更新日期：2017-03-22 00:00:00