Orthopedics
Feb 28, 2020
Periodontal disease (PD) is a chronic inflammatory disease that affects the gum tissue and bone supporting the teeth. Although tooth-site level PD progression is believed to be spatio-temporally refer...
Feb 28, 2020
Neoplastic transformation is a rare but serious complication of Paget's disease of bone (PDB), occurring in fewer than 1% of individuals with polyostotic disease. Their prognosis is poor, with less th...
Feb 28, 2020
Clinical Scenario: Low back pain is widely prevalent in the general population as well as in athletes. Therapeutic exercise is a low-risk and effective treatment option for chronic pain that can be ut...
Feb 25, 2020
Falls and bone fractures are important causes of morbidity and mortality in the elderly. The objective of this study was to identify the degree of consistency between the anticholinergic scales used f...
Feb 25, 2020
Antiresorptive therapies reduce fracture risk; however, long-term bone turnover inhibition may raise concerns about rare, but serious, skeletal adverse events-atypical femoral fracture (AFF) and osteo...
Feb 25, 2020
To investigate the effectiveness of the T-score values provided by Radiofrequency Echographic Multi Spectrometry (REMS) in the identification of patients at risk for incident osteoporotic fractures.A ...
Feb 25, 2020
Lower back pain (LBP), as well as lower extremity injuries, are major problems among young volleyball players. Nevertheless, only few studies have focused on the relationship between lower extremity i...
Feb 25, 2020
Low back pain is experienced by a large number of people in western countries and may be caused and influenced by many different pathologies and psychosocial factors including disc degeneration. Disc ...
Feb 18, 2020
Bone defects are usually difficult to be regenerated due to pathological states or the size of the injury. Researchers are focusing on tissue engineering approaches in order to drive the regenerative ...
Feb 18, 2020
Under the condition of LPS/IFN-γ activation, macrophage metabolism is conversed from oxidative phosphorylation to glycolysis. In the present work, we analyzed whether glycolysis could affect IL-1β e...
Feb 18, 2020
Struma ovarii is a rare, usually benign ovarian tumour with malignancy occurring in 3000 µg/L following recombinant TSH administration prior to her first dose of I131. At 25 months following radioiod...
Feb 18, 2020
Enhancement of cell-matrix adhesion is preferable and crucial in various fields of tissue engineering. Integrins are important receptors that facilitate cell-matrix adhesion, mediated by intracellular...
Feb 17, 2020
To develop an automated pipeline based on convolutional neural networks to segment lumbar intervertebral discs and characterize their biochemical composition using voxel-based relaxometry, and establi...
Feb 17, 2020
Emerging evidence highlights the role of the long noncoding RNA (lncRNA) KCNQ1OT1 in fracture healing. Osteoblast proliferation, migration, and survival are pivotal during this process. In this study,...
Feb 17, 2020
Pulsed radiofrequency (PRF) has been used successfully to treat myriad types of chronic pain, including spinal radicular pain and that associated with facet arthropathy. Although there are a few repor...
Feb 17, 2020
Modulation of pain perception by oxytocin (OXT) has attracted increased scientific and clinical interest. Neural mechanisms underlying these effects are poorly understood. In this study, we aimed to i...
Feb 17, 2020
This study aimed to analyse the effect of a portfolio with three activities fostering students' reflection, self-efficacy and teaching of communication skills and professionalism.A cross-sectional stu...
Feb 17, 2020
The Wickerhamiella and Starmerella genera form a clade (W/S clade) that branches close to Yarrowia lipolytica in the Saccharomycotina species tree. It comprises approximately 90 recognized species and...
Feb 17, 2020
Fungal effector proteins facilitate host-plant colonization and have generally been characterized as small secreted proteins (SSPs). We classified and functionally tested SSPs from the secretomes of t...
Feb 17, 2020
Orientin and isoorientin are C-glycosidic flavonoids, considered as markers of some plant species as Passiflora edulis var. flavicarpa Degener and reported in the literature to have pharmacological pr...