Mar 02, 2020

Sepsis is a life-threatening response to infection associated with inflammation, oxidative stress and mitochondrial dysfunction. We investigated differential effects of three forms of vitamin E, which...

Mar 02, 2020

This study was designed to evaluate the analytical performance of the recently commercialized Beckman Coulter Access procalcitonin (PCT) chemiluminescent test on the Access immunoassay system. The ana...

Mar 02, 2020

Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) arthritis is one of the most detrimental joint diseases known and leads to severe joint destruction within days. We hypothesized that the provision of auxiliary immun...

Mar 02, 2020

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) and can lead to persistent hypogonadotropic hypogonadism (PHH) and poor outcomes. We hypothesized that autoimmune and inflammatory mechanisms contribute to PHH pathogenesi...

Mar 02, 2020

Evidence suggests that pediatric traumatic brain injury (TBI) may be causally related to alcohol misuse later in life; however, the nature and extent of the association has not been well described. Th...

Mar 02, 2020

This research explores snowsport head injury trends in western Canadian resorts over the decade 2008-2018.Ecological study.Head-injury and participation data on alpine skiing and snowboarding (snowspo...

Mar 02, 2020

Necrostatin-1 (Nec-1) has previously been shown to protect neurons from death in traumatic and ischemic brain injuries. The present study tests the hypothesis that Nec-1 protects neural cells against ...

Mar 02, 2020

A diagnosis of alcohol use disorder is associated with a higher risk of dementia but a dose-response relationship between alcohol intake consumption and cognitive impairment remains unclear. Alcohol i...

Mar 02, 2020

Copeptin, arginine vasopressin (AVP)-associated 39 aminoacid glycopeptide, is a C-terminal part of pro-AVP. AVP acts through V1a, V1b, and V2 receptors. The effect on V1a receptors is connected with ...

Mar 02, 2020

Severe maternal morbidity continues to be an issue of national and global concern and is increasing in incidence. The incidence of infertility is also on the rise, and infertile women experience a hig...

Mar 02, 2020

Doxorubicin (DOX) is a powerful anthracycline antineoplastic drug whose clinical application is limited by serious cardiotoxic side effects. Dihydromyricetin (DHM), a flavonoid compound extracted from...

Mar 02, 2020

To assess, whether S. aureus nasal colonization is a risk factor for infections in patients with durable ventricular assist device (VAD).Prospective, single-centre, cohort study (i) ascertaining S. au...

Mar 02, 2020

Internal jugular vein thrombosis is a rare critical cardiovascular emergency, which has potential catastrophic clinical outcomes by resulting in stroke and pulmonary embolism. Several etiologies have ...

Mar 02, 2020

There is limited evidence on the effectiveness and safety of direct-acting oral anticoagulants in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation (NVAF) and advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD). This s...

Mar 02, 2020

Ischemic stroke is a serious threat to human life and health, which is often accompanied by cerebral ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) injury in clinic. Ischemic postconditioning (IPostC) is a short period o...

Mar 02, 2020

Background The increase in soluble suppression of tumorigenicity 2 (sST2) both in the diagnosis and prognosis of heart failure is well established; however, existing data regarding sST2 values as the ...

Mar 02, 2020

To review our experience with Extra-Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) for respiratory support in neonates. From 1989 to 2018 2,114 patients underwent respiratory ECMO support, with 764(36%) neonat...

Feb 28, 2020

After several years of a booming economy in Iceland, the economic bubble burst in 2008 and affected most Icelanders in one way or another. We explore whether the economic collapse in 2008 and subseque...

Feb 28, 2020

Hypernatremia is a commonly associated electrolyte disturbance in sepsis and septic shock patients in the ICU. The objective of this study was to identify the prognostic value of hypernatremia in seps...

Feb 28, 2020

The aim of this study was to investigate the possible influences of circPRKCI abnormal expression on lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced HK2 cell injury and its mechanism. The circPRKCI level was identif...