... ACHING IN THE UPPER JAW AND TEETH The maxillary (cheek) sinuses are located just above the teeth. In fact, the roof of the mouth, in the location of the dental roots) is the floor of the maxillary sinuses. While it is not uncommon for dental problems to lead to ... information from CT scans of patients with sinus disease. This information includes the status of the bony walls, the nature of material within the sinuses, and the status of the adjacent normal structures such as the eye, brain, and midface. The status of the bony walls of the sinuses is important both in benign sinus disease and also in sinus ... of substances that are meant to fight the presence of these particles. These include the release of histamine and other substances that create an inflammatory response. These responses were designed as a defense against the “foreign intruder” for instance, the dustmite particles. However, this allergy response has the unfortunate ...
Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 08:20
... anti-CD52 therapy twice-weekly for three weeks Therapy was then discontinued and tumor growth was monitored for several weeks Therapy significantly restricted solid tumor growth throughout the course ... of treated animals (Figure 6D) These results confirm the anti-tumor activity of anti-VLC therapy, as observed by others, and further support the use of anti-CD52 therapy in humans Discussion Our ... critical role for these cells in tumorigenesis and indicate that these cells may be novel therapeutic targets for solid tumor therapy Genetic manipulations to inhibit or eliminate these cells in...
Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 15:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "Feasibility study of volumetric modulated arc therapy for the treatment of retroperitoneal sarcomas" pdf
... local relapse rate inside the radiotherapy field with considerable toxicity, dissuading postoperative radiotherapy [4-6] The single randomized trial about adjuvant radiotherapy in resectable retroperitoneal ... structures In the postoperative planning (Group B), the CTV was defined together by the surgeon and the radiation oncologist to include the tumor bed and all the areas at risk To account for set-up ... Gy in the portion included in the PTV for the largest tumor The volume of small bowel-PTV receiving the prescribed dose was always below cc Dose constraints were largely respected for the kidney...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:20
Báo cáo y học: " Exercise therapy for the management of osteoarthritis of the hip joint: a systematic review" pot
... groups • Exercise therapy vs manual therapy • Two groups of 109 subjects: Exercise therapy: (53 subjects) 25 2× per week for weeks, total of individual sessions + home program Manual therapy: (56 ... Exercise therapy was defined as activities such as strengthening, aerobic conditioning, stretching, endurance, hydrotherapy, or a combination of these that lasted for at least weeks The review ... interventions and OA of the hip These were hip, osteoarthritis, osteoarthritic, pain, function, quality of life, exercise, rehabilitation, physical therapy, physiotherapy, hydrotherapy, aquatic, strength(ening),...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:22
Báo cáo y học: "Cost of acute renal replacement therapy in the intensive care unit: results from The Beginning and Ending Supportive Therapy for the Kidney (BEST Kidney) Study" pps
... domain The error bars represent the range between the maximum cost of each domain for CRRT and the minimum cost for IRRT and the maximum cost of each domain for IRRT and minimum cost for CRRT The ... Supportive Therapy for the Kidney; CRRT: continuous renal replacement therapy; ICU: intensive care unit; IQR: interquartile range; IRRT: intermittent renal replacement therapy; RRT: renal replacement therapy ... represents the 1st and 3rd quartiles of the total cost range The thick solid line represents the range difference between the median cost differences for CRRT and IRRT The thick white line represents the...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21
Báo cáo y học: "Inhaled activated protein C: a new therapy for the prevention of ventilator-induced lung injury" docx
... to prevent the development of lung injury when used as the initial mode of ventilation [11-14] Therefore, the clinically relevant questions now become whether inhaled APC can diminish the severity ... diminishing the enhanced apoptosis of epithelial and other cell populations which accompanies acute lung injury In the present experiments, treatment with APC was started before the initiation ... ventilation in the presence of acute lung injury due to sepsis or other etiologies and whether inhaled APC can prevent or minimize primary or secondary lung damage when low tidal volumes are used for mechanical...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21
Báo cáo hóa học: " Abstract Despite new additions to the standard of care therapy for high grade primary malignant brain tumors, the prognosis for patients with this disease is still poor." ppt
... patients The city locations of one or more cellular therapy trials are indicated with a blue star, the vaccine therapy trials with a red circle, and the combined cellular and vaccine therapy trials ... Cellular Therapy Trials The adoptive transfer of ex vivo activated cytotoxic effector cells to the patient is categorized as a form of passive immunotherapy The effector cells are administered either ... [68] Should the single or combined immune therapy modalities be ineffective, combining active or passive immunotherapy approaches with other gene therapy approaches may come to fruition For instance,...
Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20
Báo cáo y học: " Primary osteosarcoma of the urinary bladder following cyclophosphamide therapy for systemic lupus erythematosus: a case report" pptx
... and necrosis The tumor had invaded the whole thickness of the bladder wall and penetrated into the perivesical fat tissue, as well as the anterior wall of the vagina The rest of the bladder mucosa ... cases of primary osteosarcoma of the urinary bladder in the literature [3-5] and they show a male to female ratio of 4:1 The age of the patients ranges from 41 to 86 years (mean 64 years) and the ... epitheloid tumor cells, of either conventional or other types of carcinoma, lying adjacent to sarcomatoid cells The presence of in-situ carcinoma is also another supporting feature for epithelial...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 19:21
Báo cáo y học: " WT1 PEPTIDE VACCINATION IN COMBINATION WITH IMATINIB THERAPY FOR A PATIENT WITH CML IN THE CHRONIC PHASE"
... 2010, against most TKIs [1] Therefore, extermination of CML stem cells could be critically needed for CML patients to be fully liberated from the TKI therapy On the other hand, anti-tumor cytotoxic ... anti-tumor immunotherapy as in this case These data suggested the possible usefulness of treatment for suppressing the function of regulatory T cells in combination with anti-tumor immunotherapy including ... decreased the absolute number of WT1/MHC tetramer+CD8+ cells and the decrease was maintained for two to three weeks On the other hand, in MLPC cells without the addition of WT1 peptides, the absolute...
Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:39
Tài liệu Evidence-Based Guidelines for Migraine Headache in the Primary Care Setting: Pharmacological Management of Acute Attacks doc
... diagnosing migraine, the physician excludes any secondary causes of the patient’s headache In addition, the physician determines whether the patient has other coexisting primary headache (e.g., ... patient responses to these therapies are not always predictable Therefore, management is often indivudalized The choice of treatment should consider, among other characteristics, the frequency and ... manage their disease Aims of the Guideline The objective of the US Headache Consortium is to develop scientifically sound, clinically relevant practice guidelines on chronic headache for the primary...
Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 12:20
Tài liệu Analysing different technology pathways for the pulp and paper industry in a European energy systems perspective doc
... with the capital recovery factor gives the NPV for the investment if assuming that the cash flow is the same for all years during the economic lifetime as for the average year 17 This assumes the ... I-III, V, VII and IX, the net annual profit for an average year was used for the evaluation of the economic performance (see Eq 1, Section 5.3) For the cases where the mill is the studied system, ... also about the risk associated with the investment in the view of the decision-maker at the company making the investments Another, similar, alternative for evaluation of the economic performance...
Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 09:20
Tài liệu Novel Design of an Integrated Pulp Mill Biorefinery for the Production of Biofuels for Transportation pot
... From the calculations derived in Appendix A, the energy demand for the modified pulping section of the plant is 56 MW of electricity and 267 tonnes per day of steam The demand for the steam in the ... decided to use only a pulp mill rather than an integrated pulp and paper mill As a result, the pulp mill will require a steam demand listed in the tables below The pulp mill found in the papers does ... 62000 0.72 Compound NaOH Na2CO3 The pulp is then washed in order to separate the pulp from the cooking liquors This removes a large amount of the lignin in the wood The resulting byproduct, cooking...
Ngày tải lên: 26/02/2014, 14:20
Báo cáo khoa học: The N-terminal cysteine pair of yeast sulfhydryl oxidase Erv1p is essential for in vivo activity and interacts with the primary redox centre doc
... of the flexible C-terminal arm in the related Erv2p [11] In one conformation, this arm brings the CGC close to the redox-active centre of the other monomer, while in the second conformation the ... growth therefore depends on the expression of the genes from the plasmids The data in Table demonstrate that under these conditions only the wild-type protein supports growth at 36 °C, the restrictive ... reaches out to the open space Thus, the CGC motif on the flexible arm might exchange the de novo synthesized disulfides from the CXXC motif of the primary redox-active centre and passes them on to...
Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 10:20
METSO’S CUSTOMER MAGAZINE FOR THE PULP AND PAPER INDUSTRY pptx
... 2008 performs the same function as the white liquor sedimentation vessel it replaced The vessel and the PDW both separate white liquor and lime mud for further use in the pulping process at the mill ... depending on the structure of the roll or the cylinder The gears reduce the electric motor’s rotation speed to one suitable for the rolls and cylinders These gears are placed either outside the machine ... overall cost of the process The coating follows the contour of the sheet for complete and even coverage of the web The process was developed by Metso in close cooperation with the coating formulation...
Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 05:20
POLLUTION PREVENTION TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE BLEACHED KRAFT SEGMENT OF THE U.S. PULP AND PAPER INDUSTRY potx
... harming the pulp fibers The term brownstock refers to the raw pulp exiting the pulping stage At this point, the pulp still contains large amounts of reacted lignin and spent cooking chemicals The ... most pulping processes, bark is removed from the logs before they undergo chipping The most common debarking mechanism used for pulpwood is the debarking drum, which removes bark by tumbling the ... since market pulp producers in the U.S sell much of their product to European customers, who are increasingly looking at the processes used to manufacture the pulps they buy.5 Most pulp mills have...
Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 05:20
The Gerson Therapy for Those Dying of Cancer ppt
... HYDROTHERAPY FOR PAIN—Another Gerson treatment for pain is water therapy This can be in the form of a hot tub bath or hot fomentations (hot, damp cloths) laid over the painful area Hydrotherapy ... have, even in these far advanced cases, - The Basic Therapy 50% results The real problem arises when we cannot restore the liver Then there is no hope The liver the restoration of the liver and ... can’t let the cancer patient fast In the cancer patient the body is so depleted if you let them fast they go downhill terribly.”—Max Gerson, A Cancer Therapy, p 2 - The Basic Therapy: Forbidden...
Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 23:20
Steam System Opportunity Assessment for the Pulp and Paper, Chemical Manufacturing, and Petroleum Refining Industries pptx
... Information Included in the Appendices The appendices for the report contain: • Supporting information for the analyses • Suggestions and recommendations for assessing the effectiveness of the ... chemical pulps Other Thermal-Energy-Intensive Process Steps After isolating the wood pulp, there are several process steps that require thermal energy Pulp Drying In some cases, the pulp is sold on the ... required to dry the pulp depends on the type of pulping process used Washing In chemical pulping plants, water is used to displace pulping liquors, to clean the pulp, and to recover the pulping chemicals...
Ngày tải lên: 01/04/2014, 00:20
báo cáo hóa học:" Development of targeted therapy for ovarian cancer mediated by a plasmid expressing diphtheria toxin under the control of H19 regulatory sequences" doc
... 0.05) Discussion The present work shows the use of the regulatory sequences of the H19 gene for the development of DNAbased therapy for human ovarian cancer related ascites The successful development ... control to test the specificity of the ISH The intensity of the hybridization signal was indicated as (+1) for weak, (+2) for moderate and (+3) for strong signals The distribution of the hybridization ... the DT-A protein released from the lysed cells is not able to enter neighboring cells in the absence of the DT-B fragment [29] In order to determine the feasibility of this approach for the therapy...
Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 15:20
Báo cáo hóa học: " Fowlpox virus recombinants expressing HPV-16 E6 and E7 oncogenes for the therapy of cervical carcinoma elicit humoral and cell-mediated responses in rabbits" pot
... evaluated in preclinical studies for prophylaxis or therapy performing the challenge with transformed cells after or before vaccination [13] Immunotherapy with E6 and E7, either alone or expressed as ... 95°C for followed by 30 cycles at 95°C for 45 sec, 55°C for 30 sec, 72°C for min, and 72°C for in the PTC-200 thermocycler (MJ Research, Waltham, MA) Page of 12 teins were used both for the immunisation ... HPV-transformed cells [48], represent the main target for immune therapy, as they maintain the proliferative state and prevent apoptosis [49,50] In the present study, we have described the complete...
Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20
Báo cáo hóa học: " Development of targeted therapy for bladder cancer mediated by a double promoter plasmid expressing diphtheria toxin under the control of H19 and IGF2-P4 regulatory sequences" potx
... of 94°C for 30 sec, 59°C for 45 sec and 72°C for 60 sec, and finally 72°C for The PCR reactions were carried out in 25 μl volumes in the presence of ng/μl of each of the forward and the reverse ... ml HCl 0.1N for 15-sec (The bladder is rather resistant to implantation of cells, and therefore it is necessary to create abrasions in the bladder mucosa of the anesthetized rodent either by acid, ... the tumors already started to invade the lamina propria as well as the superficial and deep muscle (Figure 7B) These tumors would not therefore be suitable to start the treatment by the DTA therapeutic...
Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20