GERD

Antiphospholipid Antibodies and Heart Valve Disease in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus.

Evaluation of antiphospholipid antibodies (aPL) and correlation with heart valve abnormalities among patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Nested case-control study was conducted with 70 patients with SLE selected from a longitudinal database based on levels of aPL and presence or absence of valve disease by echocardiogram. Valvular abnormalities observed were regurgitation (52), other...

Predictors of short-term and long-term incontinence after robot-assisted radical prostatectomy.

Purpose To determine retrospectively the prognostic factors for urinary incontinence following robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP). Methods Altogether, 180 patients with localized prostate cancer underwent RARP (same surgeon). Preoperative physical status, disease characteristics, laboratory findings, and surgical technique were recorded and the patients checked 1, 6, 12, and 24 months aft...

Omics Data Complementarity Underlines Functional Cross-Communication in Yeast.

Mapping the complete functional layout of a cell and understanding the cross-talk between different processes are fundamental challenges. They elude u...

Prediction of marker genes associated with hypertension by bioinformatics analyses.

This study aimed to explore the underlying marker genes associated with hypertension by bioinformatics analyses. A gene expression profile (GSE54015) ...

Quantitative analysis of patients with celiac disease by video capsule endoscopy: A deep learning method.

BACKGROUND: Celiac disease is one of the most common diseases in the world. Capsule endoscopy is an alternative way to visualize the entire small inte...

Drug repositioning based on triangularly balanced structure for tissue-specific diseases in incomplete interactome.

Finding new uses for existing drugs has become a new strategy for decades to treat more patients. Few traditional approaches consider the tissue speci...

InterPred: A pipeline to identify and model protein-protein interactions.

Protein-protein interactions (PPI) are crucial for protein function. There exist many techniques to identify PPIs experimentally, but to determine the...

Improved prediction of protein-protein interactions using novel negative samples, features, and an ensemble classifier.

Computational methods are employed in bioinformatics to predict protein-protein interactions (PPIs). PPIs and protein-protein non-interactions (PPNIs)...

Increased Bolus Volume Effect on Delayed Pharyngeal Swallowing Response in Post-stroke Oropharyngeal Dysphagia: A Pilot Study.

OBJECTIVE: To confirm a relationship between the pharyngeal response and bolus volume, and examine whether increasing the fluid bolus volume can impro...

A case of severe corrosive esophagitis, gastritis, and liver necrosis caused by ingestion of methyl ethyl ketone peroxide.

The plastic hardener methyl ethyl ketone peroxide is unstable peroxide that releases free oxygen radicals. Ingestion of this compound induces widespre...

Improved protein-protein interactions prediction via weighted sparse representation model combining continuous wavelet descriptor and PseAA composition.

BACKGROUND: Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) are essential to most biological processes. Since bioscience has entered into the era of genome and pr...

Development of a simple and objective evaluation method for thickened liquids using funnels.

UNLABELLED: Some patients with dysphagia are prone to aspiration of low-viscosity liquids. Thickened liquids are often used in attempts to prevent asp...

Multichannel Convolutional Neural Network for Biological Relation Extraction.

The plethora of biomedical relations which are embedded in medical logs (records) demands researchers' attention. Previous theoretical and practical f...

Automatic Detection and Classification of Colorectal Polyps by Transferring Low-Level CNN Features From Nonmedical Domain.

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide. Although polypectomy at early stage reduces CRC incidence, 90% of the polyps ar...

Type 2 gastric neuroendocrine tumor: report of one case.

In this article we reported a female patient with type 2 gastric neuroendocrine tumor (NET). The patient developed upper abdominal pain, acid reflux, ...

Compatibility of proton pump inhibitors in a preservative-free suspending vehicle.

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the microbiological and physicochemical compatibility of commonly used proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) esomeprazole, lansoprazol...

A Randomized Phase 2 Trial of Prophylactic Manuka Honey for the Reduction of Chemoradiation Therapy-Induced Esophagitis During the Treatment of Lung Cancer: Results of NRG Oncology RTOG 1012.

PURPOSE: Randomized trials have shown that honey is effective for the prevention of radiation-induced mucositis in head and neck cancer patients. Beca...

Prediction of Protein-Protein Interactions by Evidence Combining Methods.

Most cellular functions involve proteins' features based on their physical interactions with other partner proteins. Sketching a map of protein-protei...

Independent test of a model to predict severe acute esophagitis.

PURPOSE: Treatment planning factors are known to affect the risk of severe acute esophagitis during thoracic radiation therapy. We tested a previously...

Combining sequence and Gene Ontology for protein module detection in the Weighted Network.

Studies of protein modules in a Protein-Protein Interaction (PPI) network contribute greatly to the understanding of biological mechanisms. With the d...