Journal of Ayub Medical College, Abbottabad : JAMC
Jan 1, 2016
BACKGROUND: Diseases caused by Hepatitis B virus (HBV) have a worldwide distribution. Pakistan adopted the recommendations of World Health Organization (WHO) for routine universal infant vaccination against hepatitis B in 2002, currently being admini...
OBJECTIVES: Various physiological and pathological conditions can induce significant variations in plasma concentrations of tumor markers, such as CA 19-9, which is present in the serum and amniotic fluid of pregnant women. Herein, we aimed to determ...
Revista chilena de infectologia : organo oficial de la Sociedad Chilena de Infectologia
Dec 1, 2015
INTRODUCTION: β-hemolytic streptococci (Streptococcus pyogenes) groups A, C or G, secretes streptolysin O, toxin which causes in the infected individual an adaptive humoral immune response with production of serum antibodies called anti-streptolysin ...
BACKGROUND: Inflammatory bowel disease, comprising Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, is a group of debilitating conditions associated with deregulated mucosal immune response. Vitamin D has been implicated in immune response and gastrointestina...
PURPOSE: To compare the diagnostic performance of different segmentations of the nerve fiber layer (NFL) thickness measurements using an artificial neural network and to define the optimal number of sectors with best diagnostic ability for glaucoma d...
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the relation of circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25[OH]D) levels to age, sex, and bone mineral density (BMD) in adults living in Guangzhou Province.
Investigative ophthalmology & visual science
Jun 1, 2015
PURPOSE: To increase the effectiveness of treating open-angle glaucoma (OAG), we tried to find a screening method of differentiating OAG from glaucoma suspect (GS) without a visual field (VF) test.
OBJECTIVE: The long-term effects of traumatic brain injury (TBI) can resemble observed in normal ageing, suggesting that TBI may accelerate the ageing process. We investigate this using a neuroimaging model that predicts brain age in healthy individu...
Journal of Ayub Medical College, Abbottabad : JAMC
Jan 1, 2015
BACKGROUND: Toxoplasma gondii (T. gondii) infection is one of the most common parasitic infections among humans and other warm-blooded animals worldwide. The aim of this study was to evaluate toxoplasmosis status in patients admitted to Al-Zahra hosp...
International journal of data mining and bioinformatics
Jan 1, 2015
Genome-wide Association Studies (GWAS) have resulted in many discovered risk variants for several obesity-related traits. However, before clinical relevance of these discoveries can be achieved, molecular or physiological mechanisms of these risk var...
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