Aims: To evaluate hospital evacuation in light of recent hospital evacuations in Bangkok and surrounding areas. This information was compared with results reported in the literature. Study Design: Retrospective and qualitative. Place and Duration of Study: Bangkok, Thailand, Dece...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/5059
Demian F. Obregon, Yuyan Zhu, Antoinette R. Bailey, Samantha M. Portis, Huayan Hou, Jin Zeng, Saundra L. Stock, Tanya K. Murphy, Michael A. Bengtson & Jun Tan·Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research·2013
Aims: Implicated in autoimmune encephalitis, neuromyotonia and genetic forms of autism, here we report that contactin-associated protein-like 2 (CNTNAP2) contains a potential autoepitope within the extracellular region. Methodology: CNTNAP2 sequence-similar regions (CSSRs) from h...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/6135
Aims and Objective: Giddiness is one of the commonest presenting complaints to the emergency physicians. Differentiation between ‘peripheral’ and ‘central’ etiologies is important to avoid unnecessary investigations and avoid missing a potentially serious diagnosis such as an isc...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/5688
Aim: This study aims to evaluate serum uric acid levels and assess its effect on endothelial dysfunction by measuring flow mediated vasodilatation (FMD) of brachial artery in type 2 diabetes mellitus. Study Design: Observational and prospective Place and Duration of Study: The st...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/5487
Aims: The present study investigates in a mouse model the extent of immunomodulatory effects after exposure to cadmium chloride (in vivo) in the testes. Study Design: Experimental study. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Biotechnology, Assam University, Silchar, Assam, I...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/5498
Aim: The aim of this study was to examine whether a Human herpes virus-6 (HHV-6) infection increases the risk of MS in individuals harboring particular cytokine receptor α-chain gene alleles. Study Design: MS patients and controls were assessed for HHV-6 DNA and for single nucleo...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/5550
Aims: Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer in European populations. It has been shown previously that neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), pre-operative albumin, and haemoglobin are useful prognostic indicators. The aim of this study was to assess how these factors inf...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/5444
Aims: To evaluate the level of lipid peroxidation (by measuring malondialdehyde) and endogenous antioxidant enzyme (glutathione peroxidase) in acute myocardial infarction. Study Design: Cross sectional study. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Biochemistry in collaboratio...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/5283
Aims: To test the hypothesis that Hybanthus enneaspermus leaf has an antinociceptive effect. Methodology: Seventy-two male rats were randomly divided in a blinded fashion into 4 groups each for the tail immersion test (n=12 per group) and formalin test (n=6 per group). Group 1 (c...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/4217
Proteomics is a science that facilitates global analysis of protein expression, molecular interactions and functional states of protein in a cell, organ or organism under consideration. Protein at the molecular level represents the biological endpoint and therefore more suitable...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/5268