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brachytherapy as monotherapy in one fraction for the treatment of favorable stage prostate cancer

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Báo cáo khoa học: "Intraoperative radiation therapy in the treatment of early-stage breast cancer utilizing xoft axxent electronic brachytherapy" ppt

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... cavity through a small incision in the lateral breast and inflated with exactly 40 cc of saline (Figure 1) The conformity of the CED to the surrounding breast tissue was then evaluated under direct ... total of 60 cc, was inserted into the balloon Since a CED inflated to 60 cc was found to be the proper size, a × cm XB balloon catheter kit was then opened by the OR staff The CED was then deflated ... multi-catheter interstitial brachytherapy [10,11] Additional methods of balloon-based APBI are also being explored A modified form of balloon-based brachytherapy called Xoft Axxent Electronic Brachytherapy ...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "The initial experience of electronic brachytherapy for the treatment of non-melanoma skin cancer" docx

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... recording of treatment planning and treatment data and for the writing and final approval of this manuscript Competing interests AB was compensated by Xoft, Inc., for his role as Principal Investigator ... Radiotherapy of skin carcinomas of the pinna: a study of 115 lesions in 108 patients Int J Dermatol 2005, 44:513-517 Chan S, Dhadda S, Swindell R: Single fraction radiotherapy for small carcinoma of the ... of the treatment region to assess skin depth A digital photo, illustrating the method of immobilization of the treatment area and a simulation of the set-up of the system prior to the first fraction, ...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "cExternal beam radiation results in minimal changes in post void residual urine volumes during the treatment of clinically localized prostate cancer" ppt

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... positioning [12,13] Variables with the potential to influence prostate motion are an important aspect of clinical research in the delivery and treatment of prostate cancer The two organs receiving the ... increasingly important in the era of dose escalation The use of computerized tomography (CT) has been the gold standard for in vivo imaging as well as structure identification, and has been emphasized ... demonstrated an increase towards the end of therapy back to baseline measurements The magnitude of difference is less than 20 cc in both cohorts, which are at the limit of accuracy of the bladder...
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The Potential of Biofumigants as Alternatives to Methyl Bromide for the Control of Pest Infestation in Grain and Dry Food Products

The Potential of Biofumigants as Alternatives to Methyl Bromide for the Control of Pest Infestation in Grain and Dry Food Products

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... phosphine is a quick and effective tool for the control of stored-product insect pests In view of the scheduled phaseout of methyl bromide under the Montreal protocol, the role of phosphine in grain ... of all oils tested The main component of one of the oils is pulegone The other is not yet identified and it is called SEM76 (Shaaya and Kostyukovsky, 2006) In our study of the mode of action of ... used The main component of one of the oils was pulegone and of the other is not yet totally identified, and it is called SEM76 In space fumigation, these two volatiles caused total mortality of...
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Báo cáo hóa học: "Error Sign Feedback as an Alternative to Pilots for the Tracking of FEXT Transfer Functions in Downstream VDSL" pptx

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... perfectly and the remaining interference due to crosstalk might increase around the same power level as the additive noise, thereby decreasing the performance Mathematically, this means that the matrix ... thus on the SNR of the corresponding tone for the different users If we denote by bi the number of bits that could be transmitted on the tone of interest for user i, and by KLMS the number of pilot ... realizations3 of the channel as described above It can be seen that the gain is always decreasing for increasing interference coefficients (or decreasing noise variance) It can also be seen that the gain...
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Behavior of Nitrite Oxidizers in the Nitrification/Denitrification Process for the Treatment of Simulated Coke-Oven Wastewater

Behavior of Nitrite Oxidizers in the Nitrification/Denitrification Process for the Treatment of Simulated Coke-Oven Wastewater

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... -80oC The extraction of DNA was performed with Fast DNA SPIN Kit for Soil (Qbuiogene, USA) according to the instruction by the manufacturer In the preliminary step to nawwor down the species of ... 4oCstored Then, each of the samples were divided into two One of them was for DNA extraction and was washed with TE buffer at pH8.0, and stored at -20oC Another was for FISH analysis and was stored ... was applied, and the condition was optimized In general, the higher concentration of primers can lead to the formation of primer dimers Also, the cost of the chemicals should be minimized if the...
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Báo cáo khoa học: The modulation of metal bio-availability as a therapeutic strategy for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease pptx

Báo cáo khoa học: The modulation of metal bio-availability as a therapeutic strategy for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease pptx

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... and, by then delivering the bound metals into the cell, it activates specific protein kinases that induce an increase in the production of Ab-degrading MMPs Neurotoxicity generated by the interaction ... because of an imbalance in the activity of tau kinases and phosphatases [3] One particular tau kinase pertinent to metal dyshomeostasis in AD is glycogen synthase kinase-3 (GSK3) GSK3 has recently ... Once inside the cell, Cu and Zn, but not Fe, activated phosphoinositol 3-kinase mediated protein kinase pathways, which ultimately led to an increase in the secretion of matrix metalloproteinases...
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Báo cáo khoa học: Re-evaluation of intramolecular long-range electron transfer between tyrosine and tryptophan in lysozymes Evidence for the participation of other residues doc

Báo cáo khoa học: Re-evaluation of intramolecular long-range electron transfer between tyrosine and tryptophan in lysozymes Evidence for the participation of other residues doc

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... order, and the rate constants were obtained by nonlinear least-squares fitting to the absorbance data The numbering of the amino acid residues in each lysozyme protein follows that of the Protein Data ... proteins was achieved by calculation of the portion of the total area under the curve occupied by the dimers peak The obtained value was divided by two MALDI-TOF MS was performed at The Institute ... signal was observed in all peptides containing tyrosine 23 or 53 but not in peptides containing tyrosine 20 alone According to these results, tyrosines 23 and 53 could be involved in the dimerizations...
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Pelvic floor muscle training and adjunctive therapies for the treatment of stress urinary incontinence in women: a systematic review doc

Pelvic floor muscle training and adjunctive therapies for the treatment of stress urinary incontinence in women: a systematic review doc

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... specified in the other two studies Vaginal BF was used as a home treatment in three studies [44,45,47], as home and clinic treatment in one study [45] and in the others it was used only at clinic ... What is the evidence for the effectiveness of physical therapy in the clinical setting? Only one study stated specifically that the intervention was performed in a physiotherapy clinic in a primary ... Physiotherapists were the only health professionals stated to be performing the treatment (in 83% studies), and while continence training can be assumed for the therapists in these studies, the...
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báo cáo hóa học:" Identifying alemtuzumab as an anti-myeloid cell antiangiogenic therapy for the treatment of ovarian cancer" pdf

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... ascites requiring euthanasia of the animals ID8 cells were grown intraperitoneally inC57BL6 mice Twice-weekly intraperitoneal anti-CD52 therapy was initiated one week after the injection of tumor ... receive no treatment were maintained at 37C in the ascites fluid throughout the course of the experiment Viability of this control aliquot was then assessed with AnnexinV and 7AAD AnnexinV(-)/PI(-) ... detectable in the presence of heat inactivated Alemtuzumab, 75% of VLC were eliminated in the presence of fresh Alemtuzumab (Figure 3B(1) and 3C) This was associated with a proportionate increase in the...
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Báo cáo hóa học: "Adaptive robot training for the treatment of incoordination in Multiple Sclerosis" doc

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... Training protocol and study design Top: Phases of the training protocol: Baseline (B1), Robot Training, Baseline (B2), Subject Training, Wash-out The phases in which the robot generates no forces ... occurring during the Subject Training phase, we directly compared (planned comparisons) Baseline and Baseline (effect of Robot Training), Baseline and Wash-out (effect of Subject Training) and finally ... changes in movement kinematics We found no significant effects of Robot Training (baseline vs baseline 2) As regards the effect of Subject Training (baseline vs wash-out), we found a decrease in the...
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Báo cáo hóa học: " Influence of the training set on the accuracy of surface EMG classification in dynamic contractions for the control of multifunction prostheses" potx

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... boundary for each class separating it from all the others Including the dynamic portion in the training set increases substantially the number of windows available for each class, and so the unbalance ... set, training section and classifier The accuracy was evaluated on the testing set on all classes (including the rest class) The classification action was performed if the EMG activity in the current ... by involving the transitions between all the combinations of active classes in the learning process This would however increase the amount of training data and training time significantly making...
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báo cáo hóa học:" Two levels above and one level below pedicle screw fixation for the treatment of unstable thoracolumbar fracture with partial or intact neurology" pot

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... neurologic examination was also performed in all patients year later and the findings compared with the preoperative examination Following a routine examination and Xray of the spine, computed ... infection gression was defined as kyphosis measuring to 10° more at the time of follow-up than it had on the immediate postoperative radiographs Major progression was defined as an increase of ... JHH has contributed in acquisition of data, revising the manuscript critically and given the final approval, HKK has contributed in drafting the manuscript and designing of data and revising it...
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Báo cáo hóa học: " Double In Situ Approach for the Preparation of Polymer Nanocomposite with Multi-functionality" potx

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... temperature to increase more rapidly increasing the ease of ignition Since the LOI measures ease of extinction, which essentially depends on the same physical phenomena as ignition, the results ... with the release of BuOH and excess water After this stage, the pressure of the reactor was reduced to less than 100 Pa and maintained for 1.5 h The excess water and BuOH was separated from the ... and 52 mL of BuOH The actual volume of water removed was 184 mL and of BuOH was 50 mL Thus, the extent of the reaction was more than 96% Transmission electron microscope images of the nanocomposite...
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Báo cáo y học: "In vitro model for the analysis of synovial fibroblast-mediated degradation of intact cartilage" pptx

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... Total RNA was then isolated using the RNeasy® Micro kit according to the supplier's instructions including a DNase digestion step Following removal of the SFB (in the case of co-culture), the shock-frozen ... potent inductors of aggrecanase activity in both cases, underlining the key role of these cytokines in proteoglycan depletion On the other hand, the clearly increased aggrecan activity in co-cultures ... network to the main elements of interest The focus of the model was the representation of initial cartilage destruction, thereby reflecting the main features of early matrix degradation in RA under...
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báo cáo khoa học: "Surgical perspectives from a prospective, nonrandomized, multicenter study of breast conserving surgery and adjuvant electronic brachytherapy for the treatment of breast cancer" pps

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... published guidelines for the screening and selection of patients for Page of 10 APBI [22,23], and these guidelines formed the basis for patient selection in the EBT multicenter study [20] Of the 65 patients ... an incision site approach in 27% of cases, a medial approach in 5%, and an inferior approach in 7% A trocar was used during applicator insertion in 27% of cases The procedure lasted a mean of ... breast and skin within an area of less than 2.5 cm of the skin surface As seen in Figure 2, this can readily be accomplished by using modifications of the standard oncoplastics incisions Since the...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "Transarterial chemoembolisation (TACE) using irinotecan-loaded beads for the treatment of unresectable metastases to the liver in patients with colorectal cancer: an interim report" pdf

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... was administered for the first treatment and 80% of the dose for subsequent treatments Complete occlusion was achieved in 28% of cases, near in 32%, and partial occlusion was achieved in 40% The ... consisted of vials of DEBIRI loaded with 200 mg of Irinotecan One vial contained beads measuring 300-500 μm and the other contained beads measuring 300-500 μm Zofran was given during the procedure, ... risks include liver failure and gastric irritation caused by seepage into the gastrointestinal tract Until now, the effectiveness of this device for the treatment of CRHM has not been examined in...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "Prospective multi-center trial utilizing electronic brachytherapy for the treatment of endometrial cancer" ppsx

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... given the option of treating with an EBT prescription dose of 6.0 Gy x to the vaginal surface or 8.0 Gy x to the vaginal surface Treatment planning was performed according to the standard of care ... increasing utilization of HDR vaginal brachytherapy Currently, the most common method of delivering vaginal brachytherapy relies on a radioactive isotope, Iridium-192, which is not feasible for ... Ir-192 HDR treatment, EBT was associated with increased "hot spots" in the vaginal canal [5] Specifically, the %V150 (percent of the target volume receiving 150% of the prescription dose) was 58.9%...
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Báo cáo y học: "P38 MAP kinase inhibitors as potential therapeutics for the treatment of joint degeneration and pain associated with osteoarthritis" ppsx

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... translate the effects observed in these animal models into a clinical benefit in human OA as there are currently no approved disease modifying drugs for the treatment of OA A number of protein kinases ... pain responses in animal models Therefore, the inhibition of proinflammatory cytokines may provide an important therapeutic approach for the treatment of OA Clinical trial data on cytokine inhibitors ... in the present study is in the range of the inhibitory effect of MMP inhibitors tested in this model [28] Although the effects of p38 inhibitor in OA models has not been previously reported the...
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Báo cáo y học: "Aerosolized colistin for the treatment of nosocomial pneumonia due to multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria in patients without cystic fibrosis" ppt

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... colistin as monotherapy; she had received intravenous colistin therapy before aerosolized colistin for days and continued to receive the intravenous therapy after the end of aerosolized therapy (for ... deterioration in renal function was observed in the other seven patients during colistin treatment One patient had baseline serum creatinine levels of 5.4 mg/dl, and at the end of colistin treatment ... least two of the following: new onset of purulent sputum, change in the character of sputum, increased respiratory secretions, or increased requirement for suctioning; new onset or worsening of...
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