Abstract Maintaining the stemness of the transplanted stem cell spheroids in an inflammatory microenvironment is challenging but important in regenerative medicine.Direct delivery of stem cells to repair periodontal defects may yield suboptimal effects due to the complexity of the periodontal inflammatory environment.Herein, stem cell spheroid is e
Evaluation of the 2007 WHO guideline to improve the diagnosis of tuberculosis in ambulatory HIV-positive adults.
BACKGROUND: In 2007 WHO issued a guideline campicon.com to improve the diagnosis of smear-negative and extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) in HIV-positive patients.This guideline relies heavily on the acceptance of HIV-testing and availability of chest X-rays.METHODS AND FINDINGS: Cohort study of TB suspects in four tuberculosis (TB) clinics in Phno
Encolpion Crosses from Finds at the Vodyanskoe Settlement
The subject of the study is the bronze encolpion crosses found at the Vodyanskoe settlement, an urban culture monument of the Golden Horde era.Material and spiritual culture of the Russian Golden Horde urban population of the 14th century is the object under study of this paper.The author analyzes personal godliness practice items of the Russian cu
Mineral concentrations of chickpea and lentil cultivars and breeding lines grown in the U.S. Pacific Northwest
Diseases and health complications caused by mineral deficiencies afflict billions of people globally.Developing pulse crops with elevated seed mineral concentrations can contribute to reducing the incidence of these deficiencies.The objectives of this study were to estimate variance components conditioning seed mineral concentrations of chickpea an
Exploratory Subject Searching in Library Catalogs: Reclaiming the Vision
Librarians have had innovative ideas for ways to use subject and classification data to provide an improved online search experience for decades, and yet, after thirty-plus years of improvements in online catalogs, users continue to struggle with narrowing down their subject searches to produce manageable lists containing only relevant results.This