OBJECTIVE: To aid in the development of a comprehensive list of functional variants in the swine genome, single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) were identified from whole genome sequence of 240 pigs. Interim data from 72 animals in this study was publ...
Brazilian journal of microbiology : [publication of the Brazilian Society for Microbiology]
Dec 3, 2018
Salmonella spp. is one of the most common foodborne infectious pathogen. This study aimed to develop a real-time nucleic acid sequence-based amplification (NASBA) assay for detecting Salmonella in foods. Primers and a molecular beacon targeting the S...
OBJECTIVE: To test whether neurotoxic effects of a bupivacaine liposome injectable suspension differ from those of a standard formulation of bupivacaine hydrochloride (HCl) after intraneural injection into the sciatic nerves in pigs.
Deep learning has emerged as a powerful artificial intelligence tool to interpret medical images for a growing variety of applications. However, the paucity of medical imaging data with high-quality annotations that is necessary for training such met...
The success rate of pre-hospital endotracheal intubation (ETI) by paramedics is lower than physicians. We aimed to establish a remote robot-assisted intubation system (RRAIS) and expected it to improve success rate of pre-hospital ETI. To test the ro...
Spatial and spatio-temporal epidemiology
Aug 29, 2018
In an emerging epidemic, public health officials must move quickly to contain the spread. Information obtained from statistical disease transmission models often informs the development of containment strategies. Inference procedures such as Bayesian...
BACKGROUND: Myocardial ischemia has a complex and time-varying electrocardiographic signature that is used to diagnose and stratify severity. Despite the ubiquitous clinical use of the ECG to detect ischemia, the sensitivity and specificity of ECG ba...
The international journal of medical robotics + computer assisted surgery : MRCAS
Jul 30, 2018
BACKGROUND: Unlike a manual surgical instrument, a surgical instrument used in robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery (MIS) is configured with a wrist to improve flexibility in surgical operation. However, this configuration has a shortcoming that...
BACKGROUND: Minimally invasive surgical approaches still provide limited exposure. Access to the L2-L5 intervertebral discs during a single procedure is challenging and often requires repositioning of the patient and adopting an alternative approach.