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Although adaptive servo-ventilation (ASV) therapy is considered clinically beneficial to patients with heart failure (HF), a large proportion of patients fail to show improvement in HF. We aimed to identify reliable markers indicative of a favorable response to ASV. We evaluated 103 consecutive patients with New…

Cerebral Palsy (CP) is a well known group of disorders of movement, muscle tone, or other features that reflect abnormal control over motor function by the central nervous system.  The oral findings in these groups of patients are important to know in order to allow…

The present study was conducted to evaluate drug resistance patterns of salmonella enterica serotype typhi and paratyphi in enteric fever. This study is an observational study. The place of this study is the Department of Medicine, Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences Hospital and the duration…

Altered olfactory functions in patients with eating disorders have been reported with obesity, during hunger, following food ingestion and after bariatric surgery, but subsequent data have remained controversial. Methods: We investigated olfactory function (threshold, identification, discrimination) by Sniffin Sticks® in six independent studies: At baseline…

Thyroid hemiagenesis is a rare variant of thyroid dysgenesis in which one lobe of the gland fails to develop. It is considered to be the rarest developmental abnormality of the thyroid gland. Only about 310 cases have been reported till date. Hemiagenesis commonly involves the…

The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of eight weeks resistance training on leptin levels changes and insulin resistance in obese females. Twenty inactive and obese female students (mean age 23.5± 1.56, the average height of 160.1± 4.4 and the average BMI…

Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and hypertension are known to be associated. We aimed to study how hypertension may influence the levels of adipogenesis, inflammation and lipid metabolism in patients with T2DM. We studied 57 normotensive and 23 hypertensive patients with T2DM. The circulating levels of…

Molecular mimicry in the broad sense is structural, functional or immunologic similarity between unrelated macromolecules (Oldstone, 1998). In biomedical studies this phenomenon is discussed as the most proven mechanism of triggering/prevention of autoimmune diseases (Kivity et al., 2009). In this paper, we isolate and structurally…

The potential impact of integrating a biodigester into a beef feedlot on the use, application and cost of applying manure products on cropland was estimated. Manure application to cropland was modeled as a non-linear programming problem to include raw or digested manure, and standards limiting…

In this paper, the effect of fuel composition on gasification exergetic efficiency is investigated with the aid of equilibrium and non-equilibrium models. The work aims at comparing, for different fuels, the second principle theoretical efficiencies of air gasification and oxygen-steam gasification.  The study considered several…