The study was undertaken to evaluate the possible role of Androgen Receptor (AR) in relation to tumor grade, age, sex and urinary bladder cancer risk. Expression of AR detected by immunohistochemistry in 125 Transitional Cell Carcinoma and 100 control cases. Expression of AR was...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2011/304
Aims: To highlight an uncommon situation during stenting for obesity surgery complications. Place and Duration of Study: 1st Propaideutic Surgical Unit, Hippokration Hospital, Athens between December 2008 and November 2010. Results: 2 cases of obese patients are presented where t...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2011/288
The incidence of obesity has significantly increased worldwide. Surgery has proven to be the most effective long-term treatment for sustained weight loss and improvement of co-morbidities in morbidly obese patients. Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) is a relatively new proced...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2011/417
Dermatitis herpetiformis (DH) is an autoimmune blistering disorder associated with a gluten-sensitive enteropathy (GSE), and is generally accepted as a cutaneous manifestation of celiac disease and is characterized by grouped excoriations; erythematous, urticarial plaques; and pa...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2011/364
Aims: Soluble cytokeratin (CK) fragments and inflammatory interleukins (ILs) in bone marrow (BM) aspirates of colorectal cancer (CRC) patients are expected to indicate presence of disseminated tumor cells (DTCs) and anticancer response of the host, respectively. The present study...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2011/508
Retroviral vectors based upon the Moloney murine leukemia virus (MLV) have been used due to their high efficiency of stable gene transfer. Core binding factors (CBF) are heterodimeric transcription factors containing a DNA binding Runx 1, Runx 2, or Runx 3 subunit, along with a n...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2011/483
Aim: This study was designed to enhance the scope of sputum analysis by using it as a clinical tool in gene/protein expression, by making the paraffin embedded blocks. Methodology: The specimens were prepared as smear and cell blocks for cytopathologic examination. The preparatio...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2011/421
This project investigated genomic epidemiology of congestive heart disease, the clinical and non-invasive techniques for diagnosis and the modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors associated with the disease were explored. Trends in the morbidity and mortality of CHD revealed a...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2011/629
A set of embryonic proteins - potential markers for ovarian tumors is presented. More than ten new embryonic proteins have been tested, but no one strictly specific protein marker for diagnosis of ovarian tumors has been revealed. SOVA-1 is the most perspective marker for today....
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2011/344
Objective: Postmenopausal women usually experience symptoms related to vasomotor instability due to a decline in estradiol levels. Certain plants have been found to have components that are same in structure and function to female estrogen and progesterone. This study conducted t...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2011/163
Background: Down Syndrome (DS) is the most frequent chromosomal abnormality in live births with an incidence of 1 to 1.7 per 1,000 births and a variable physical expression. Down syndrome screening has been an integral part of routine prenatal care in recent decades. Currently, t...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2011/317
The study evaluated the effect of combined extracts of Vernonia amygdalina (VA) and Gongronema latifolium (GL) on the pancreas of streptozotocin (STZ) induced diabetic Wistar rats. Thirty-two (32) albino rats were divided equally into 4 groups. Groups A and B which served as norm...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2011/215
Aim/Background: The present study was planned to evaluate the antidiabetic activity of ‘Folk recipe’ a combination of traditional medicinal plants in normoglycemic and alloxan-induced diabetes rabbits. The level of antioxidant activity was determined by DPPH in relation to the to...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2011/245
E. Y. Osipova, T. V. Shamanskaya, O. A. Kurakina, V. A. Nikitina, B. B. Purbueva, A. Y. Ustugov, D. Y. Kachanov, E. V. Skorobogatova, Z. M. Dishlevaya & S. A. Roumiantsev·Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research·2011
Mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) have been widely used in different areas of medicine because of their immunosupressive properties and influence on regeneration of the damaged tissues. The objective of this study was to examine the kinetics of growth (MSC from 4-3 passages had signif...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2011/282
It is retrospective and hospital based case control study which was conducted in the federal city of Islamabad in Pakistan in order to assess the risk factors of the urinary bladder cancer. This study was based on the 100 controls and 50 cases comprising 150 subjects which were s...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2011/186