Pancreatic Diseases

Safety and feasibility of the robotic platform in the management of surgical sequelae of chronic pancreatitis.

BACKGROUND/AIM: The application of minimally invasive surgery to chronic pancreatitis (CP) procedures is uncommon. Our objective was to report the safety and feasibility of the robotic approach in the treatment of surgical sequelae of CP, and provide insights into the technique, tricks, and pitfalls associated with the application of robotics to this challenging disease entity.

Antioxidant and anti-glycation capacities of some medicinal plants and their potential inhibitory against digestive enzymes related to type 2 diabetes mellitus.

ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE: Plants preparations are used by traditional medicine in the treatment of various diseases, such as type-2 diabetes mellitus. Some medicinal plants are capable of controlling the complications of this metabolic disease at different levels, for example, providing antioxidant compounds that act against oxidative stress and protein glycation and others which are capable...

Counting the cold ones: A comparison of methods measuring total alcohol consumption of managed alcohol program participants.

INTRODUCTION AND AIMS: Managed alcohol programs (MAP) aim to reduce harms experienced by unstably housed individuals with alcohol use disorders by pro...

Age at drinking onset, age at first intoxication, and delay to first intoxication: Assessing the concurrent validity of measures of drinking initiation with alcohol use and related problems.

INTRODUCTION: Drinking at an early age (AO) and quickly progressing to drinking to intoxication (Delay=Age of Intoxication[AI]-AO) confer risk for alc...

Determination of total plasma oxysterols by enzymatic hydrolysis, solid phase extraction and liquid chromatography coupled to mass-spectrometry.

The potential use of cholesterol esterases was tested to avoid alkaline hydrolysis for cleavage of plasma esterified oxysterols. The enzymatic hydroly...

Antimicrobial Furoquinoline Alkaloids from Vepris lecomteana (Pierre) Cheek & T. Heller (Rutaceae).

Three new prenylated furoquinoline alkaloids named lecomtequinoline A (), B (), and C (), together with the known compounds anhydroevoxine (), evoxine...

The role of cinnamon as a modulator of the expression of genes related to antioxidant activity and lipid metabolism of laying quails.

Since cinnamon has vitamins and minerals in addition to antioxidants compounds in its chemical composition studies have shown the potential of cinnamo...

Improved perioperative outcomes of laparoscopic distal pancreatosplenectomy: modified lasso technique.

BACKGROUND: Simultaneous division of the splenic artery, splenic vein and pancreatic parenchyma during laparoscopic distal pancreatosplenectomy (LDPS)...

Circulating triacylglycerols but not pancreatic fat associate with insulin secretion in healthy humans.

BACKGROUND: Loss of adequate insulin secretion for the prevailing insulin resistance is critical for the development of type 2 diabetes and has been s...

Variability in Tidal Volume Affects Lung and Cardiovascular Function Differentially in a Rat Model of Experimental Emphysema.

In experimental elastase-induced emphysema, mechanical ventilation with variable tidal volumes (V) set to 30% coefficient of variation (CV) may result...

Development and Validation of a Chromatography Method Using Tandem UV/Charged Aerosol Detector for Simultaneous Determination of Amlodipine Besylate and Olmesartan Medoxomil: Application to Drug-Excipient Compatibility Study.

A study was carried out to investigate compatibility of amlodipine besylate and olmesartan medoxomil with a variety of pharmaceutical excipients. Both...

Production of vinegar using edible alcohol as feedstock through high efficient biotransformation by acetic acid bacteria.

In this paper, an optimal semi-continuous process for vinegar production from edible alcohol through biotransformation by acetic acid bacteria (AAB) W...

Development and validation of a bioanalytical method for quantification of LNA-i-miR-221, a 13-mer oligonucleotide, in rat plasma using LC-MS/MS.

LNA-i-miR-221, a 13-mer oligonucleotide, is a new miR-221 inhibitor that could be used as a novel drug for multiple myeloma. Herein, an ion-pair rever...

Catalytic Properties of Amylolytic Enzymes Produced by Using Agroindustrial Residues on Solid-State Fermentation.

Amylases catalyze the hydrolysis of starch, a vegetable polysaccharide abundant in nature. These enzymes can be utilized in the production of syrups, ...

Anti-Lipase Potential of the Organic and Aqueous Extracts of Ten Traditional Edible and Medicinal Plants in Palestine; a Comparison Study with Orlistat.

Herbs have played a fundamental and essential role in the humans life since ancient times, especially those which are used as food and/or folk medici...

Pancreatic gross tumor volume contouring on computed tomography (CT) compared with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI): Results of an international contouring conference.

PURPOSE: Accurate identification of the gross tumor volume (GTV) in pancreatic adenocarcinoma is challenging. We sought to understand differences in G...

Mobile phone sensors and supervised machine learning to identify alcohol use events in young adults: Implications for just-in-time adaptive interventions.

BACKGROUND: Real-time detection of drinking could improve timely delivery of interventions aimed at reducing alcohol consumption and alcohol-related i...

Nano-biotinylated liposome-based immunoassay for the ultrasensitive detection of protein biomarker in urine.

With the development of proteomics and the continuous discovery of biomarkers of trace proteins, it is important to accurately quantify low abundance ...

An EEG-based functional connectivity measure for automatic detection of alcohol use disorder.

BACKGROUND: The abnormal alcohol consumption could cause toxicity and could alter the human brain's structure and function, termed as alcohol used dis...

Alcoholism Detection by Data Augmentation and Convolutional Neural Network with Stochastic Pooling.

Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is an important brain disease. It alters the brain structure. Recently, scholars tend to use computer vision based techniqu...