Niger J Clin Pract
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To investigate the effect of platform switched short dental implants and subcrestal placement on von Mises stress in the maxillary anterior region (D3 bone) by using three-dimensional finite element model analyses (3D FEM). ⋯ Numerical results from the current study suggest that, for short implants, implant diameter is considered more effective design parameter than implant length. Current findings state that platform switch short subcrestal implants results in conservation of marginal bone loss along with better stress distribution around peri-implant regions in D3 bone. However, all models analyzed in this study showed development of von Mesies stresses within physiological limits for human cortical bone.
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Midwives have a strategic role to inform, educate, and encourage pregnant women to maintain an active lifestyle during pregnancy. ⋯ The midwives lacked knowledge of physical activity during pregnancy and rarely provided such education and counseling. They advocated the need for training and workshops on maternal physical activity. Our findings suggest that physical activity should be integrated into the midwifery/nursing curriculum to empower midwives and other health providers to offer evidence-based physical activity education and counseling to women during antenatal health care as part of the primary health-care service.
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To establish normative values for functional, lateral, and Oblique Direction Reach Tests (ODRT) and to assess the validity and reliability of the ODRT in Saudi children of age 6-15 years. ⋯ : We established the normal values for functional, lateral, and ODRT in 6-15 years of Saudi children. We found that ODRT is a valid and reliable for measuring limits of stability in oblique direction.
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Observational Study
Clinicopathological comparison of VHL expression as a prognostic tumor marker in renal cell carcinoma: A single center experience.
To assess the VHL gene expression as a prognostic marker in Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC) and compare it with clinicopathologic features. ⋯ Complete loss of VHL expression was noted in majority of the specimens that leads to the development of RCC. Smoking has been found to be statistically significant in tumors that retain VHL expression which may contributes to more aggressive form of tumor. Association between rT staging, nature of lesion and cut surface, HPE type, pT staging, HPE grade, necrosis and lympho-vascular invasion were also found to be statistically significant.
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Adiponectin (ApN) is a 244-amino acid protein mainly secreted from the adipose tissue and involved in various physiological functions. ApN exerts its metabolic effects by binding to two major receptors: adiponectin receptor-1 (Adipo-R1) and adiponectin receptor-2 (Adipo-R2). Recent studies have reported ApN's involvement in the progression of cancer. However, there are no studies evaluating the relationship between Adipo-R1/R2 expression and gastric intestinal metaplasia (IM), which is a predisposing factor in gastric cancer (GC) development, and Helicobacter pylori H. pylori infection. ⋯ The resulting data suggests that ApN plays a role in GC processes via Adipo-R1/-R2 receptors.