EFFICIENCY OF TRIPLE (METHOTREXATE + SULFASALAZINE + HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE) COMBINATION DISEASE-MODIFYING THERAPY VERSUS METOTREXATE MONOTHERAPY IN PATIENTS WITH RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS by E E Gubar', A G Bochkova, N V Bunchuk, E E Gubar, A G Bochkova, N V Bunchuk

“…Sixty patients with RA, who had received no disease-modifying anti-inflammatory drugs, were enrolled in a 24-month open-label study. …”
Get full text

Long term survival analysis of cementless Spotorno femoral stem in young patients by Murat Mert, Cenk Ermutlu, Emrah Kovalak, Ethem Ünkar, Sibel Çağlar Okur

“…Patients with femoral neck fracture had a more favorable functional outcome (p = 0.027), while those with stems in varus had lower scores (p = 0.017). 31 stems (49%) were undersized and 30 hips (47%) had perifemoral osteolysis. …”
Get full text

OPEN DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS IN PREMATURE INFANTS WITH EXTREMELY LOW AND VERY LOW BODY WEIGHT by Людмила Николаевна Игишева, Жанна Анатольевна Звягина, Елена Глебовна Цой, Андрей Владимирович Шабалдин, Тамара Михайловна Вакулова

“…The aim of the research – to identify significant factors affecting the postnatal functioning of PDA in premature infants with extremely low and very low body weight and to evaluate them from a manageability perspective. …”
Get full text

Assessing the Elderly Health-related Unmet Needs and Some Related Factors in Hamadan City, Iran by Fatemeh Mansouri-Shad, Parvin Cheraghi, Sediqheh Mafakheri-Bashmagh, Qhadir Nouri, Zahra Cheraghi

“…Results The social dimension had the highest mean of met needs (15.98±0.15), the psychological dimension (66.93±0.7), and the physical dimension (91.04±1.8) had the lowest met need. …”
Get full text

Effect of Substituting Concentrate Mix With Sweet Potato Vines on Growth Performances and Carcass Components of Yearling Rams and Its Potential in Mitigating Methane Production by Assefa Tadesse, Natascha Titze, Markus Rodehutscord, Aberra Melesse

“…Rams fed with the SPV0 diet had higher (p<0.05) hot carcass weight than those reared in the SPV10, SPV20, and SPV40 diets. …”
Get full text

Out-patient diagnostics of psycho-autonomic status in pregnant women with various stages of blood pressure increase by I. E. Mishina, T. S. Polyatykina, S. V. Andreeva, O. V. Bezrukova

“…CAH patients demonstrated disturbed general functional status and non-adequate reaction to physical stress. …”
Get full text

Vasculitis, Atherosclerosis, and Altered HDL Composition in Heme-Oxygenase-1-Knockout Mice by Kazunobu Ishikawa, Mohamad Navab, Aldons J. Lusis

“…Homozygous HO-1-knockout mice had severe aortitis and coronary arteritis with mononuclear cellular infiltration and fatty streak formation even on a standard chow diet. …”
Get full text

Realization of Professional Ethics among Employees of Scientific and Educational Centers (Case Study of Razi University of Kermanshah) by Mohammad Ebrahim Malmir, Ali Malmir

“…This means that the dimensions of professional ethics were realized in Razi University and the communication dimension had the highest score and the personality dimension had the lowest score. …”
Get full text

KIF22 in the Prognosis and Immune Biomarking of Pan-Cancer by Xiuhong Guo, Huayue Cao, Mei Hu, Yuening Wu, Jingxiang Li

“…Available evidence indicated that KIF22 was associated with cancer occurrence and development. However, the functions and underlying mechanisms of KIF22 in carcinogenesis and cancer progression remain largely unknown. …”
Get full text

Quantitative Fractal Analysis of Fracture Mechanics and Damage Evolution in Recycled Aggregate Concrete Beams: Investigation of Dosage-Dependent Mechanical Response Under Increment... by Xiu-Cheng Zhang, Xue-Fei Chen

“…The results indicated that the RFA dosage had a negative quadratic influence, while load had a positive linear effect, with dosage impact increasing with load. …”
Get full text

Lokale organisasjoner med en nasjonal overbygning. Brannkassene og Samtrygd 1914–1939 by Harald Espeli

“…Abstract From the 1890s to World War I, the fire insurance mutuals had insured larger values than their main competitor, the state-owned Norges Brannkasse, in the countryside. …”
Get full text

Successful management of a case of sudden cardiac arrest in a postoff-pump coronary artery bypass graft surgery patient on fourth postoperative day and lessons learned: A resuscita... by Kunal Sarin, Naresh Dhawan, Vikas Kumar Shankhyan

“…Background: Every patient who has undergone a cardiac surgery carries a risk of sudden hemodynamic instability in the postoperative period due to already compromised cardiovascular functional status which has not yet fully recovered. …”
Get full text

First dorsal metacarpal artery islanded flap: A useful flap for reconstruction of thumb pulp defects by Satish Chetan, Nema Sunit

“…It is very important to reconstruct these defects using sensate flaps as the thumb pulp needs to be sensate for implementing the various functions of the thumb. A very good option for coverage of these defects is the islanded first dorsal metacarpal artery flap. …”
Get full text

The microstructure of white feathers predicts their visible and near-infrared reflectance properties. by Devi Stuart-Fox, Elizabeth Newton, Raoul A Mulder, Liliana D'Alba, Matthew D Shawkey, Branislav Igic

“…Feathers with rounder barbs and more closely situated barbules also had high average reflectance, particularly for NIR wavelengths. …”
Get full text

Raspberry Ketone Analogs: Vapour Pressure Measurements and Attractiveness to Queensland Fruit Fly, Bactrocera tryoni (Froggatt) (Diptera: Tephritidae). by Soo J Park, Renata Morelli, Benjamin L Hanssen, Joanne F Jamie, Ian M Jamie, Matthew S Siderhurst, Phillip W Taylor

“…Raspberry ketone (4-(4-hydroxyphenyl)-2-butanone) and analogs that had esters (acetyl, difluoroacetyl, trifluoroacetyl, formyl, propionyl) and ethers (methyl ether, trimethylsilyl ether) in replacement of the phenolic group, and in one case also had modification of the 2-butanone side chain, were measured for their vapour pressures by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), and their attractiveness to Q-fly was assessed in small cage environmentally controlled laboratory bioassays. …”
Get full text

THE DIAGNOSIS AND CLINICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS ACCORDING TO THE DATA OF THE KAZAN CITY RHEUMATOLOGY CENTER by L I Myasoutova, S A Lapshina, A G Vasilyev, I G Salikhov

“…More than half of the patients had high clinical (BASDAI ≥4 in 71.2%) and laboratory (C-reactive protein >6 mg/l in 67.3%) activities, an active inflammatory process according to the results of magnetic resonance imaging, and a significantly limited functional state (BASFI ≥4 in 61.5%). …”
Get full text

Investigating Subtypes of Motor Skills and Activities of Daily Living among Young Children with Motor Delay by Keisuke Irie, Kohei Mukaiyama, Reika Yamashita, Hala Zeidan, Anuradhi Bandara, Momoko Nagai-Tanima, Tomoki Aoyama

“…Children with subtype II had more difficulty dressing movements and less communication skills than subtype III (p<0.05). …”
Get full text

Mechanical properties of reactively flame retarded cyanate ester/epoxy resin blends and their carbon fibre reinforced composites by A. Toldy, P. Niedermann, G. Szebenyi, B. Szolnoki

“…Although the epoxy resin (EP) and FR decreased the Tg, even the flame retarded CE/EP blends had at least 22 °C higher Tg than the benchmark DGEBA composite. …”
Get full text

Immune Reconstitution in Late-Presenting HIV-Positive a Case with Idiopathic Liver Cirrhosis and Ischemic Brain Stroke by Ivaylo Pakov

“…After 20 days of hospital treatment, the patient recovered from the stroke and ascites but with persisting anaemia and thrombocytopenia. Liver cirrhosis had been confirmed, and relevant treatment had been administered. …”
Get full text

Sociobiome signals by high income for increased mobile genetic elements in the gut microbiome of Chinese individuals by Chen Tian, Zhigang Zhang

“…Among these, MGEs related to integration/excision had the highest mean abundance, while those involved in stability/transfer/defense had the lowest. …”
Get full text