Pedunculopontine nucleus deep brain stimulation for multiple system atrophy by Martin, S

“…</p> <p><b>Study Design</b></p> <p>Five patients with parkinsonian subtype MSA that were fit to undergo surgical intervention were recruited, after independent confirmation of clinical diagnosis by two consultant neurologists with a specialist interest in movement disorders, with all patients satisfying the diagnostic criteria of MSA. …”

The effect of manual removal on movement distances in populations of signal crayfish (Pacifastacus leniusculus) by Moorhouse, T, Macdonald, D

“…Half of the crayfish captured from the removal sections were removed and humanely destroyed by freezing, and half were marked with their trap location and released there. …”

Strategies for antigen choice and priming of dendritic cells influence the polarization and efficacy of antitumor T-cell responses in dendritic cell-based cancer vaccination. by Galea-Lauri, J, Wells, J, Darling, D, Harrison, P, Farzaneh, F

“…DCs loaded with class I- and class II-restricted OVA synthetic peptides served as controls. Primed DCs were assessed by the in vitro activation of B3Z OVA-specific CD8 T cells and the proliferation of OVA-specific CD8 and CD4 T cells from OT-I and OT-II TCR transgenic mice, respectively. …”

Parkin disease: a clinicopathologic entity? by Doherty, K, Silveira-Moriyama, L, Parkkinen, L, Healy, D, Farrell, M, Mencacci, N, Ahmed, Z, Brett, F, Hardy, J, Quinn, N, Counihan, T, Lynch, T, Fox, Z, Revesz, T, Lees, A, Holton, J

“…Freezing of gait, postural deformity, and motor fluctuations were common late features. …”

Measurement of the chondrocyte membrane permeability to Me2SO, glycerol and 1,2-propanediol. by Xu, X, Cui, Z, Urban, J

“…The addition of cryopreservative agents (CPAs) to chondrocytes and natural and engineered cartilage is critical to protect the cells and tissues from freezing damage during cryopreservation, but this may cause cell damage, e.g. by osmotic shock. …”

Tc99m-sestamibi: pembangunan kit radiofarmaseutikal untuk pemetaan jantung by Wan Hamirul Bahrin W.K., Mohd Cairul Iqbal M.A, Rosnani H., Zulkifli M.H, Yahaya T., Karuppaiya A., Rasyieda A.

“…A development and comparison study of the Nuclear Malaysia’s Tc99m-sestamibi heart imaging agents (NM kits) and the commercial products is reported. Three batches of kits labelled as B1, B2 and B3 were produced by freeze drying technique. …”
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Flowability of selected Malaysian herbal powders and their formulations by Etti, Christopher Joseph

“…Labisia pumila powder was compressed into tablets using a stainless steel cylindrical uniaxial die of a 13-mm- diameter with compaction pressures ranging from 7 to 25 MPa. Two feed weights, 0.5 and 1.0g were used to form tablets and four compression models were used to describe and understand compressibility characteristics of the herbal powders. …”
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The cytotoxic effect of baeckea frustescens extracts in eliminating hypoxic breast cancer cells by Shahruzaman, S. H., Yusof, F. Z., Maniam, S., Fakurazi, Sharida, Maniam, S.

“…In this study, the cytotoxic efect of B. frutescens leaves and branches extracts against hypoxic human breast cancer (MCF-7) was investigated. Method: The extracts were prepared using Soxhlet apparatus for ethanol and hexane extracts while the water extracts were freeze-dried. …”
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Preparation And Development Of An Ethylene Vinyl Acetate (Eva) Copolymer Emulsification System For Pour Point Depressant (Ppd) Application by Rosdi, Muhamad Ridhwan Hafiz

“…Interfacial tensiometer, ZetaSizer Malvern instrument, emulsion stability test, freeze–thaw cycle method, and Brookfield viscometer were employed to investigate emulsion stability. …”
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Evaluation of wound healing biomarkers of Interleukin 6 (IL-6), vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and matrix metalloproteinases 9 (MMP-9) in post lower segment caesarean S... by Omar, Julia

“…The data were analysed using SPSS version 22. Results: A total of 39 patients from C.striatus and 34 patients from placebo group were included in this study. …”
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Applications of alginate-based nanomaterials in enhancing the therapeutic effects of bee products by Al-Hatamleh, Mohammad A. I., Alshaer, Walhan, Hatmal, Ma’mon M., Lambuk, Lidawani, Ahmed, Naveed, Mustafa, Mohd. Zulkifli, Low, Siew Chun, Jaafar, Juhana, Ferji, Khalid, Six, Jean-Luc

“…This review presents an overview of alginates, including their properties, nanoformulations, and pharmaceutical applications, placing a particular emphasis on their applications for the enhancement of the therapeutic effects of bee products. Despite the paucity of studies on fabrication of alginate-based nanomaterials loaded with bee products or their extracts, recent advances in the area of utilizing alginate-based nanomaterials and other types of materials to enhance the therapeutic potentials of bee products are summarized in this work. …”
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Bioprocess development for anaerobic cultivation of probiotic bacteria bifidobacterium longum for high cell mass production by Malek, Muhammad Khairuddin, Abd. Malek, Roslinda, Othman, Nor Zalina, Aziz, Ramlan, Mohamed Abdelrahman, Hassan Mohamed, El-Enshasy, Hesham Ali Metwally

“…Among nine growth media were evaluated to determine their suitability for high cell mass of B. longum, the best medium was yielded a cell mass of 4.5 g L-1 in shake study with the main components are glucose (20 g L-1), yeast extract (5 g L-1), meat extract (10 g L-1) and peptone (10 g L-1).Then, five different carbon sources which were glucose, lactose, sucrose, mannitol, and glycerol were screened in shake flasks and the best carbon source that contribute to the highest cell mass was glucose. …”
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Dimensões nasofaringeanas e faciais em diferentes padrões morfológicos Nasopharyngeal and facial dimensions of different morphological patterns by Murilo Fernando Neuppmann Feres, Carla Enoki, Wilma Terezinha Anselmo-Lima, Mirian Aiko Nakane Matsumoto

“…<br>OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to compare the dimensions of the nasopharynx and the skeletal features-evaluated by cephalometric examination-of individuals with different morphological patterns. METHODS: Were used cephalometric radiographs of 90 patients of both genders, aged 12 to 16 years, which were also divided into three distinct groups, according to their morphological patterns, i.e., brachyfacials, mesofacials and dolichofacials. …”
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LA PROTECCIÓN INTERNACIONAL DE LAS PERSONAS QUE HUYEN POR RAZONES POLÍTICAS Y DE SOBREVIVENCIA DE LA REPÚBLICA BOLIVARIANA DE VENEZUELA ¿CRISIS HUMANITARIA? by Sonia Margarita Barcia Rodríguez, Sonia Gabriel Plúa Barcia

“…Consequently, without judicial or legislative power, Venezuela is a dictatorial state that does not ensure human rights, which has generated a massive exodus of its inhabitants, counting as of May 2020, a number that exceeds five million people who have fled. from the country. …”
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Titratable Pharmacological Regulation of CAR T Cells Using Zinc Finger-Based Transcription Factors by Bettina Kotter, Fabian Engert, Winfried Krueger, Andre Roy, Wael Al Rawashdeh, Nicole Cordes, Britta Drees, Brian Webster, Niels Werchau, Dominik Lock, Sandra Dapa, Dina Schneider, Stephan Ludwig, Claudia Rossig, Mario Assenmacher, Joerg Mittelstaet, Andrew D. Kaiser

“…Inducible CAR T cells executed fine-tuned cytolytic activity against target cells both in vitro and in vivo, whereas CAR-related functions were lost upon drug discontinuation. …”
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Pilot Study of a Fall Prevention and Management Intervention Program for People With Multiple Sclerosis Who Use a Wheelchair or Scooter Full-Time by Laura A. Rice, PhD, MPT, ATP, Rebecca Yarnot, MS, JongHun Sung, PhD, ATC, Jacob J. Sosnoff, PhD, Deborah Backus, PT, PhD, Libak Abou, PhD, MPT, PT, Sa Shen, PhD, Elizabeth W. Peterson, PhD, OTR/L

“…Main Outcome Measures: Fall frequency tracked 12 weeks pre- and 24 weeks post intervention. Outcomes were assessed pre- and post intervention and 12 weeks post intervention. …”
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Conocimiento objetivo y subjetivo sobre el VIH/SIDA como predictor del uso de condón en adolescentes Objective and subjective knowledge on HIV/AIDS as predictors of condom use in a... by Alberto Villaseñor-Sierra, Ramiro Caballero-Hoyos, Alfredo Hidalgo-San Martín, José Ignacio Santos-Preciado

“…Study subjects were 1 410 adolescents of four socioeconomic strata from Guadalajara, Mexico. …”
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The Absence of Sensory Axon Bifurcation Affects Nociception and Termination Fields of Afferents in the Spinal Cord by Philip Tröster, Julia Haseleu, Jonas Petersen, Jonas Petersen, Oliver Drees, Achim Schmidtko, Achim Schmidtko, Frederick Schwaller, Gary R. Lewin, Gohar Ter-Avetisyan, York Winter, Stefanie Peters, Susanne Feil, Robert Feil, Fritz G. Rathjen, Hannes Schmidt

“…To investigate the functional consequences of impaired axon bifurcation during adult stages we generated conditional mouse mutants of Npr2 and cGKI (Npr2fl/fl;Wnt1Cre and cGKIKO/fl;Wnt1Cre) that lack sensory axon bifurcation in the absence of additional phenotypes observed in the global knockout mice. …”
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Emotion regulation strategies and the two-dimensional model of adult attachment: a pilot study by Marcos Domic-Siede, Mónica Guzmán-González, Josefa Burgos, Catalina Carvallo, Camila Flores-Guerra, Constanza Fredes-Valenzuela, Javiera Suazo, Oscar Véliz-García, Carlos Calderón, Andrea Sánchez-Corzo, Marcela Perrone-Bertolotti, Marcela Perrone-Bertolotti, Jennifer Marín-Medina

“…Extensive research has shown that people with different attachment orientations exhibit divergencies in how they perform emotion regulation strategies.Methods44 adults performed an experimental emotion regulation task in which they were instructed to attend, reappraise, or suppress their emotions while viewing negative and neutral images taken from the International Affective Picture System (IAPS). …”
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Global phylogenomic diversity of Brucella abortus: spread of a dominant lineage by Nicolette R. Janke, Charles H. D. Williamson, Kevin P. Drees, Marcela Suárez-Esquivel, Adrian R. Allen, Jason T. Ladner, Christine R. Quance, Suelee Robbe-Austerman, David O’Callaghan, David O’Callaghan, Adrian M. Whatmore, Jeffrey T. Foster

“…We hypothesize that European arrival to the Americas starting in the 15th century introduced B. abortus from Western Europe through the introduction of a few common cattle breeds infected with strains from clade D. …”
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