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Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is primarily a disease process of the gastrointestinal tract of neonates that results in inflammation and bacterial invasion of the bowel wall.
Despite extensive research, the pathophysiology of NEC remains unclear and therapeutic options are limited.
Clinical
Over one million infants are born to HIV-1-infected women every year in Sub Saharan Africa. In Zimbabwe, annual births stand at 379,000 with approximately 48,000 infants being born every year to HIV-1-infected women on lifelong highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). Concerns have been
The present study is a randomized double-blind placebo controlled repeated measures design, with sampling of the cohorts on five separate occasions.
Group 1: Intervention Group (n = 24) Healthy, overweight or obese physically inactive males, supplement, n = 12 Healthy, overweight or obese physically
Study design: This is a prospective not controlled, not randomized, unicentric study to establish predictive biomarkers for a safe and effective treatment withdrawal in patients with type 1 AIH.
Length of the study: Screening is expected to take a year. Treatment withdrawal will be done gradually
This study is conducted in a tertiary care hospital, Dr.A.Ramachandran's Diabetes Hospitals, Chennai. The persons with no history of diabetes, seeking a screening for diabetes will be invited to participate in the study and after signing the informed consent form they will be assessed by the risk
Bowel cancer, or colorectal cancer (CRC), is the second most common cancer affecting both men and women in England. The majority of CRCs develop from a pre-cancerous type of growth in the bowel called an adenoma. Detecting and removing these adenomas is important in reducing CRC risk. A study which
The investigators will analyze cross-sectional data from 8,492 participants in the Nurses' Health Study who were free of diabetes and cardiovascular disease to evaluate the association between intake of sugar sweetened beverages (SSB), juice and artificially sweetened beverages (ASB) and biomarkers
The interesting material properties, such as good mechanical strength, electrical conductivity, low density, porosity adaptable, are closely associated to the intrinsic characteristics of carbon nanotubes (CNTs), of which BP is made . The high surface development of CNT, in addition to promoting
The Buckypaper (BP) is an innovative material that has attracted the attention of many research groups engaged in the study of its possible applications in various technological fields preliminary to human experimentation. In fact the experimentation, preliminary conducted on animal model, will be
BACKGROUND Chronic liver disease is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States. A retrospective cohort study identified 2,353 patients with newly diagnosed chronic liver disease (63.9 cases/100,000 population). Extrapolating this incidence rate there will be approximately
The etiology of Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis (PSC) is unknown. There are no proven effective therapies and no early markers of the disease to predict which patients with colitis may be at risk to develop PSC.
Our group has demonstrated an increased prevalence of CFTR alleles (the gene responsible
In patients with primary hyperoxaluria (PH), deficiency of hepatic enzymes important in disposition of glyoxylate results in marked hyperoxaluria. Calcium oxalate crystals and high oxalate concentrations in the renal filtrate result in inflammation and injury in the renal parenchyma. Loss of renal
Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) is the most common form of muscular dystrophy affecting 1 in every 3500 live male births. The disease is characterised by severe muscle wasting and weakness, which becomes clinically evident between the ages of 3 to 5 years. Affected individuals stop walking by 12