... and Drug Administration; RCT = randomized controlled trial.
Arthritis Research & Therapy Vol 6 No 3 Fries and Krishnan
Research article
Equipoise, design bias, and randomized controlled trials: ... to
accept the trial upon the pooled expectation for the RCT
arms and not upon the value of any single arm. The
principle of ‘equal uncertainty between the...
... ophthalmology, dermatology, dentistry and
rheumatology [10,11].
Based up on these data the aim of this study was
to observe the potential of Esterified
Hyaluronic Acid
(EHA) as a coadjuvant of grafting ...
PATIENTS AND METHODS
Study drug
Hyaloss® matrix, trade names of products
composed entirely of an ester of hyaluronic acid with
benzyl alcohol (HYAFF™) [2],...
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by linear regression analysis by plotting the specific
bindin g of the radioligand on th e X-axis and bound/free
on the Y- axis. The maximal binding is a measure of the
total number of ... in the tissue and
the equilibrium dissociation constant is the measure of
the affinity of the receptors for the radioligand. The K
d
is inversely related to...
... regimen might influence the immediate
postoperative period especially the pain scores and the
length of stay in the post anesthetic care unit (PACU). In
this open randomized study, we compared postoperative ... any analgesic
medication or corticosteroid drug prior surgery. They were
instructed the day before surgery about the study design
and to express their pain...
... where the system is
dynamic but under little control, in the case of postural sway the system is swaying equally on either
side of the stable position. The researchers consider an indicator of ... means by which to quantify a non-linear system and as such
may be more readily accepted by clinicians. The potential of the fractal dimension analysis is yet to be
realiz...
... Sweden) and the bands were revealed by
silver staining. The gels were scanned and the intensity of
each band on the gel was analyzed with IPLab Gel soft-
ware (BioSystematica, Plymouth, UK). The ... assigning
the patients to various categories, we set the intensity of
the 676-bp band of the molecular mass marker on each
gel as the arbitrary cutoff point (Fig. 1,...
... deposition and
compromising the physical integrity of the membrane.
Central to the pathogenesis of lupus is continuous activation
and proliferation of B-lymphocytes and T-lymphocytes with
specificity ... by the MMPs would facilitate the deposition of immune
complexes by compromising the integrity of the glomerular
membranes. In this manner, the combined presenc...
... range
of fields, who had expected that the number of genes to be
a measure of organismal complexity. Furthermore, the
imprecision of the estimate raised questions about the
validity of many predicted ... the reference human
genome at NCBI. ey identified around 5 Mb of novel
sequence in each of the new genomes, and they estimate
that the human ‘pangenome’,...