Pulmonology

Effect of Si on the oxidation reaction of α-Ti(0 0 0 1) surface: molecular dynamics study.

We present our molecular dynamics (MD) study of the effect of Si on the oxidation of α-Ti(0001) surfaces. We varied the Si concentration in the first layer of the surface from 0 to 25 at.% and the oxygen coverage () on the surface was varied up to 1 monolayer (ML). The MD was performed at 300, 600 and 973 K. For  = 0.5 ML, oxygen penetration into the slab was not observed after 16 ps of MD at 973...

Ventilatory efficiency and aerobic capacity in people with multiple sclerosis: A randomized study.

OBJECTIVES: To assess ventilatory efficiency and aerobic capacity in people with multiple sclerosis and whether treadmill walking or progressive strength training has an effect on these parameters in this population.

High-Dose Vitamin D Administration Is Associated With Increases in Hemoglobin Concentrations in Mechanically Ventilated Critically Ill Adults: A Pilot Double-Blind, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Trial.

BACKGROUND: Anemia and vitamin D deficiency are highly prevalent in critical illness, and vitamin D status has been associated with hemoglobin concent...

A prospective study of risk factors associated with persistent pleural effusion after total cavopulmonary connection with special reference to serum cortisol level.

OBJECTIVES: The Fontan operation is usually followed by significant pleural effusion. We aimed to study the factors associated with persistent pleural...

Azithromycin and Chloramphenicol Diminish Neutrophil Extracellular Traps (NETs) Release.

Neutrophils are one of the first cells to arrive at the site of infection, where they apply several strategies to kill pathogens: degranulation, respi...

Angiotensin-(1-7) Inhibits Thrombin-Induced Endothelial Phenotypic Changes and Reactive Oxygen Species Production via NADPH Oxidase 5 Downregulation.

The angiotensin-(1-7)/angiotensin-converting enzyme 2/Mas receptor axis counter-regulates the detrimental effects of angiotensin II. Beneficial effec...

Construction of a 26‑feature gene support vector machine classifier for smoking and non‑smoking lung adenocarcinoma sample classification.

The present study aimed to identify the feature genes associated with smoking in lung adenocarcinoma (LAC) samples and explore the underlying mechanis...

Can a standardised Ventilation Mechanical Test for quantitative intraoperative air leak grading reduce the length of hospital stay after video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery lobectomy?

We standardised a Ventilation Mechanical Test (VMT) after video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) lobectomy that classifies intraoperative alveola...

Vitamin D Deficiency and Atopic Dermatitis: Consider Disease, Race, and Body Mass.

Vitamin D deficiency causes rickets, but has been associated with various diseases, including atopic dermatitis (AD). This study analyzes serum vitami...

A multicentre verification study of the QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus assay.

OBJECTIVES: The aim of this verification study was to compare the QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus (QFT-Plus) to the QuantiFERON-TB Gold In Tube (QFT-GIT). Th...

isGPT: An optimized model to identify sub-Golgi protein types using SVM and Random Forest based feature selection.

The Golgi Apparatus (GA) is a key organelle for protein synthesis within the eukaryotic cell. The main task of GA is to modify and sort proteins for t...

Rapid and sensitive method for simultaneous determination of first-line anti-tuberculosis drugs in human plasma by HPLC-MS/MS: Application to therapeutic drug monitoring.

First-line anti-tuberculosis drugs are playing vital roles for curbing rapid spread of tuberculosis. Multidrug therapies are commonly applied in clini...

Radiology report annotation using intelligent word embeddings: Applied to multi-institutional chest CT cohort.

We proposed an unsupervised hybrid method - Intelligent Word Embedding (IWE) that combines neural embedding method with a semantic dictionary mapping ...

Selective cytotoxic and genotoxic activities of 5-(2-bromo-5-methoxybenzylidene)-thiazolidine-2,4-dione against NCI-H292 human lung carcinoma cells.

BACKGROUND: Thiazolidine-2,4-dione ring system is used as a pharmacophore to build various heterocyclic compounds aimed to interact with biological ta...

A machine learning approach to triaging patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

COPD patients are burdened with a daily risk of acute exacerbation and loss of control, which could be mitigated by effective, on-demand decision supp...

3D multi-view convolutional neural networks for lung nodule classification.

The 3D convolutional neural network (CNN) is able to make full use of the spatial 3D context information of lung nodules, and the multi-view strategy ...

Endothelial markers in high altitude induced systemic hypertension (HASH) at moderate high altitude.

BACKGROUND: Chronic intermittent hypoxia is known to induce systemic arterial hypertension whereas chronic hypoxia causes pulmonary arterial hypertens...

Deep reinforcement learning for automated radiation adaptation in lung cancer.

PURPOSE: To investigate deep reinforcement learning (DRL) based on historical treatment plans for developing automated radiation adaptation protocols ...

Deep Learning to Classify Radiology Free-Text Reports.

Purpose To evaluate the performance of a deep learning convolutional neural network (CNN) model compared with a traditional natural language processin...

FUZZY COMPUTATIONAL MODELS TO EVALUATE THE EFFECTS OF AIR POLLUTION ON CHILDREN.

OBJECTIVE: To build a fuzzy computational model to estimate the number of hospitalizations of children aged up to 10 years due to respiratory conditio...