Objectives: To evaluate the role of placental leucine aminopeptidase (P-LAP) in miscarriage and searching to select the gene of this enzyme in miscarriage to exclude direct or indirect effects of abortion. Methods: Total RNA is purified from the fresh placental tissue sample acco...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/6185
Tan Luor Shyuan Maudrene, Bautista Dianne Carrol Tan, Khoo Eric Yin Hao, Griva Konstadina, New Michelle, Amir Mohammad, Lee Yung Seng, Lee Jeannette, Tai E Shyong & Wee Hwee Lin·Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research·2014
Aims: Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a growing concern globally given the increase in T2DM prevalence. Generic HRQoL instruments are important to allow cross-cultural, cross-population and cross-study comparisons. The short version of...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/9054
Hypothesis: Several studies demonstrated that the patho-physiologic and morphologic changes in early diabetic nephropathy were mediated by either an increase or decrease in the nitric oxide (NO) production and/or activity. There are few reports suggesting a relationship between N...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/7585
Aims: Our objective is to describe our institutional experience with nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC), and the initiation of a community education and screening program. Study Design: Retrospective case series; academic medical center. Methodology: All cases of NPC treated at our i...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/5895
Dimitrios K. Manatakis, Nikolaos Stamos, Ioannis D. Dontas, Christos Agalianos, Michael Gkiaourakis, Michail Athanasios Karvelis, Ioannis D. Kyriazanos & Demetrios Davides·Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research·2014
Aim: Transversus abdominis plane (TAP) block is mainly used as part of multimodal postoperative analgesia regimens in a wide variety of abdominal operations. Our purpose was to evaluate feasibility and safety of TAP block as anesthesia method for inguinal hernia repair. Methodolo...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/8976
Taketo Okubo, Yoshiyuki Suehara, Takayuki Kawasaki, Keisuke Akaike, Midori Toda, Naoko Okubo, Daisuke Kubota, Kenta Mukaihara, Yongji Kim, Takafumi Kaketa, Yasuhiro Homma, Norio Shimanouchi, Tsuyoshi Saito, Tatsuya Takagi & Kazuo Kaneko·Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research·2014
Background: To prevent locomotor dysfunction, the Japanese Orthopaedic Association (JOA) proposed the concept of locomotive syndrome (LS) in 2007, and has carried out many campaigns to increase the awareness of LS. Recently, the JOA reported that 26.6% of people recognized LS in...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/7506
Aims: Either down-regulation of protein kinases or up-regulation of protein phosphatases weakens the level of neuronal protein phosphorylation and affects the function of neuron. Low-function and/or low-content of protein phosphatases in the hippocampus neurons is proposed to be...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/6591
Background: In Nigeria, malaria is one of the main causes of morbidity and mortality in children. Nigeria government has put in efforts on malaria control and prevention. This is in consonance with Roll back malaria initiative’s objectives. Thus, with the expiration of RBM 2010 t...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/8068
Aims: Examine feasibility, implementation and impact of a Health Maintenance Organization (HMO)-Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) collaboration in providing after-hours care as an Emergency Department (ED) diversion strategy. Study Design: Prospective study using pre-post...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/8370
Group A Streptococcal infection in the throat is responsible for causing initial and recurrent attacks of acute guttate psoriasis (AGP). Up to 70% of these AGP patients go on to develop chronic plaque psoriasis (CPP). We hypothesized that chronic sub-clinical, on-going streptococ...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/9331