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Superficial Fungal Infection Of The Skin In Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis After Methotrexate Therapy, Firas Elias Douri

Iraqi Postgraduate Medical Journal

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Fungal infection of the skin is common disorder characterized by recurrent candidal skin infection, tinea cruris ,tinea (pityriasis) versicolor and candidal infection of the nails in patients suffered of rheumatoid arthritis (R.A.) and treated by methotrexate. AIM OF THE STUDY: To discover the fungal skin complications after usage of methotrexate in the treatment of patients with Rheumatoid arthritis. METHOD: Thirty two patients with R.A. were enrolled in the study who received 7.5 mg methotrexate and daily 100mg diclofenac for six months in comparison to 32 patients with R.A. who received only daily100 mg diclofenac as treatment. RESULTS: Ten …

In Vitro Evaluation Of The Scolicidal Activity Of Cyclosporin A Against The Protoscolices Of Human Echinococcus Granulosus, Samer Noori Hashim

Iraqi Postgraduate Medical Journal

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND : Hydatid disease, also known as echinococcosis or hydatidosis, is caused by infection with larva of Echinococcus granulosus, which causes cystic hydatid disease. Surgery is the recommended treatment for hydatid cysts; however, drug therapy and percutaneous drainage have recently been introduced as alternative treatments. The scolicidal agents, including 3% hydrogen peroxide, 10% chlorhexidine, 20% hypertonic saline have been used mainly during surgical manipulation of the cysts. Recently cyclosporin A has been found to be lethal for E. granulosus protoscolices in vitro using cultured sheep hydatid cyst. METHOD: The present work was designed to evaluate the effectiveness of different …

Evaluation Of The Cinical Use Of Silymarin In Knee Osteoarthritis: Application Of The Dual Inhibitory Concept Of Cyclooxygenase And 5-Lipoxygenase, Intesar Tariq Numan

Iraqi Postgraduate Medical Journal

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Many compounds from natural sources, including silymarin, proved to have effective inhibitory effects on cyclooxygenase (COX) and 5-lipoxygenase (5-LO) in vitro qnd experimental animals. The exellent pharmacological pre-clinical profile of these compounds indicates a broad range anti-inflammatory effectiveness devoid of the most troublesome side effects, which have at least impart impaired the clinical use of the classical COX inhibitors, including the newer selective COX-2 inhibitors. OBJECTIVES: This project designed to evaluate the clinical utility of silymarin, as a dual inhibitor of COX and 5-LO, as a single agent or in combination with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) of both …

A Systematic Analysis Of The Deracialization Concept, Byron D. Orey, Boris E. Ricks

Department of Political Science: Faculty Publications

The concept of deracialization gained notoriety following elections held in November of 1989. During these elections, a number of African-American candidates captured victories in majority-white electoral jurisdictions, leading McConnick to coin this Election Day as "Black Tuesday." Among those elected on "Black Tuesday" include: L. Douglas Wilder as governor of Virginia, David Dinkins as mayor of New York City, Norman Rice as mayor of Seattle and Chester Jenkins, mayor of Durham, North Carolina. In this article we systematically examine the deracialization construct/strategy and the potentially damaging impact that such a strategy might pose on the black community.

Impacts Of Climate Warming And Permafrost Thaw On The Riverine Transport Of Nitrogen And Phosphorus To The Kara Sea, Karen E. Frey, James W. Mcclelland, Robert M. Holmes, Laurence G. Smith

Geography

Measurements of nitrogen and phosphorus (N and P) concentrations from previously unstudied streams and rivers throughout west Siberia suggest that climate warming and/or associated permafrost thaw will likely amplify the transport of N and P to the Kara Sea and adjacent Arctic Ocean. We present concentrations of dissolved organic nitrogen (DON), ammonium (NH4-N), nitrate (NO3-N), total dissolved nitrogen (TDN), and total dissolved phosphorus (TDP) from 96 streams and rivers within the Ob'-Iriysh, Nadym, and Pur river drainage basins. The sampled sites span ∼106 km2, a large climatic gradient (∼55°N-68°N), and include 41 cold, permafrost-influenced and 55 warm, permafrost-free watersheds. Concentrations …

Health-Related Quality Of Life Of Patients Following Selected Types Of Lumbar Spinal Surgery: A Pilot Study, Karen L. Saban, Sue M. Penckofer, Ida Androwich, Fred B. Bryant

Psychology: Faculty Publications and Other Works

Background

Over 500,000 spinal surgeries are performed annually in the United States. Although pain relief and improved health-related quality of life (HRQOL) are expectations following lumbar spinal surgery, there is limited research regarding this experience from the individual's perspective. In addition, no studies have examined the HRQOL of persons who have had this surgery using a comprehensive approach. The intent of this study was to address this deficiency by an assessment of both the individual and environmental factors that impact perceived HRQOL using the Wilson and Cleary Model for Health-Related Quality of Life in persons who have undergone lumbar spinal …

Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Responce To Orlistat Therapy In Iraqi Type 2 Diabetic Obese Patients, Faris Abdul Kareem Khazal

Iraqi Postgraduate Medical Journal

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Non alcoholic fatty liver disease is now recognised as the most common liver disease. insulin ressistance, Increase serum free fatty acids and oxidants incorporate in the pathogenesis leading to a syndrome extended from Simple mild steatosis to steatohepatitis to cirrhosis. OBJECTIVE: The aim to evaluate the effect of orlistat on features of fatty liver disaese in addition to glucose and lipid profile. METHODS: This is A prospective study of 60 type2 diabetic obese patients had evidence of non alcoholic fatty liver disease on ultrasound examination followed for 4 months with orlistat therapy, and asses BMI, waist circumfrence, glucose …

Inconclusive Urinary Bladder Biopsy; Facts And Lessons, Ausama Saadi Abdul Muhsin

Iraqi Postgraduate Medical Journal

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: To review the pathologic analysis of urinary bladder biopsies and study the frequency and causes of inconclusive biopsies among Iraqi patients. METHODS: This is a retrospective study in which 933 patients underwent 1047 urinary bladder biopsy procedures during endoscopic evaluation, or transurethral resection of a known bladder cancer in Surgical Specialties Hospital, Baghdad, Iraq between June 2000 and June 2007. Pathologic records of patients were reviewed. RESULTS: In 933 patients aged 2-100 years with a mean age of 56.87±14.3 years who underwent 1047 urinary bladder biopsy procedures, pathologic review showed bladder cancer in 655 (62.56%) biopsies, no overt …

Skeletal Manifestations And Role Of Dexa Study In 32 Patients With Multiple Myeloma, Mahmood Kh. Yasseen

Iraqi Postgraduate Medical Journal

ABSTRACT: AIM OF THE STUDY : To discuss skeletal manifestation of patients with multiple myeloma &the role of double energy X-ray photometry study in the management of those patients . PATIENTS & METHODS: During period from the 1st of April 2004 to 1st of January 2005 we collected 32 patients who fulfilled the criteria of diagnosis of multiple myeloma. .All our patients have detailed history & physical examination including: Age, Sex, Bone pain, pathological fracture, Localized tenderness & Bone swelling RESULTS: Pathological fracture found in (14) (43.75%), (10) were males (50%) of total males & (4) were females (33.3%) of …

Genotyping Of Human Papilloma Virus Infections And Phenotyping Of Tumor Infiltrating Lymphocytes In Iraqi Patients With Uterine Cervical Neoplasia, Majid Mohammed Mahmmod Al-Jewari

Iraqi Postgraduate Medical Journal

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Among most basic and clinical investigations for detection and genotyping HPV, only In Situ Hybridization (ISH) is effective in studing the relation of HPV genome to that histopathological entity. Tumor Infiltrating Lymphocytes (TILs) represent the local cellular immune response against both cervical cancer and the associated HPV. OBJECTIVE: This study is aimed to investigate ISH in detection and genotyping of HPV and immunohistochemical (IHC) study in phenotyping of TILs in Iraqi women with different grades of cervical neoplasia. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This retrospective research included a total number of 129 cervical tissue blocks , 64 with invasive and …

Jimmy "Lermont" Devine

African American Funeral Programs

Jimmy_-Lermont-_Devine.pdf - Funeral program for Jimmy "Lermont" Devine

Mirsky Holiday Lectures On Science 2007, The Rockefeller University

Posters

48th Annual Alfred E. Mirsky Holiday Lecture on Science for high school students Five Great Ideas of Biology delivered by Paul Nurse

Starspots And Relativity: Applied Doppler Imaging For The Gravity Probe B Mission, Stephen C. Marsden, Svetlana V. Berdyugina, Jean-Francois Donati, Joel A. Eaton, Michael H. Williamson

Information Systems and Engineering Management Research Publications

We present Doppler images and surface differential rotation measurements for the primary of the RS CVn binary IM Pegasi, the guide star for the Gravity Probe B experiment. The data used is a subset of that taken during optical support of the mission and was obtained almost nightly over a near three year period from the Automatic Spectroscopic Telescope operated by Tennessee State University. Using the technique of least-squares deconvolution to increase the signal-to-noise ratio of the data, we have reconstructed 31 maximum entropy Doppler images of the star. The images show that the spot features are relatively stable for …

Deafdigest: Deaf Sports News December 27, 2007, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Sports 2007

No abstract provided.

Vol.35 N.32 December 27th 2007, Brown Publishing Company

Black Voice News

No abstract provided.

12/27/2007 Obituary Records, Hawaii Obituaries

Obituaries

List of Obituaries for individuals who passed away on 12/27/2007. Scroll down to see the names and obituary description.

12/27/2007 Obituary Records, Hawaii Obituaries

Obituaries

List of Obituaries for individuals who passed away on 12/27/2007. Scroll down to see the names and obituary description.

Science Plan For Potential 2008 Experimental High Flow At Glen Canyon Dam, Grand Canyon Monitoring And Research Center

All U.S. Government Documents (Utah Regional Depository)

No abstract provided.

The Voters’ Right To Protect Marriage Initiative

Initiatives

Provides that only marriage between one man and one woman is valid or recognized in California. Prohibits decreasing marriage rights shared by one man and one woman. Defines man and woman. Voids or makes unenforceable certain rights and obligations conferred by California law on same-sex and opposite-sex couples registered as domestic partners, concerning subject areas including, but not limited to, community property, intestate succession, stepparent adoption, child custody, child support, hospital visitation, health care decisions for an incapacitated partner, insurance benefits, death benefits, and recovery for wrongful death. Summary of estimate by Legislative Analyst and Director of Finance of fiscal …

Acetylation In Nuclear Receptor Signaling And The Role Of Sirtuins, Chenguang Wang, Michael J. Powell, Vladimir M. Popov, Richard G. Pestell

Department of Cancer Biology Faculty Papers

It has been known since the early 1970s that nuclear receptor complexes bind DNA in association with co-regulatory proteins. Characterization of these nuclear receptor coregulators has revealed diverse enzymatic activities which temporally and spatially coordinate nuclear receptor activity within the context of local chromatin in response to diverse hormone signals. Chromatin modifying proteins, which dictate the higher order chromatin structure in which DNA is packaged, in turn orchestrate orderly recruitment of nuclear receptor complexes. Modifications of histones include acetylation, methylation, phosphorylation, ubiquitylation, sumoylation, ADP ribosylation, deimination and proline isomerization (1). At this time, we understand how a subset of these …

The Murray Ledger And Times, December 27, 2007, The Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

No abstract provided.

Validation Of The Aura Microwave Limb Sounder Hnomeasurements, M L. Santee, A Lambert, W G. Read, N J. Livesey, R E. Cofield, D T. Cuddy, W H. Daffer, B J. Drouin, L Froidevaux, R A. Fuller, R F. Jarnot, B W. Knosp, G L. Manney, V S. Perun, W V. Snyder, P C. Stek, R P. Thurstans, P A. Wagner, J W. Waters, G Muscari, R L. De Zafra, Jack E. Dibb, D W. Fahey, P J. Popp, T P. Marcy, K W. Jucks, G C. Toon, R A. Stachnik, P F. Bernath, C D. Boone, K A. Walker, J Urban, D Murtagh

Earth Sciences

We assess the quality of the version 2.2 (v2.2) HNO₃ measurements from the Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) on the Earth Observing System Aura satellite. The MLS HNO₃ product has been greatly improved over that in the previous version (v1.5), with smoother profiles, much more realistic behavior at the lowest retrieval levels, and correction of a high bias caused by an error in one of the spectroscopy files used in v1.5 processing. The v2.2 HNO₃ data are scientifically useful over the range 215 to 3.2 hPa, with single-profile precision of ∼0.7 ppbv throughout. Vertical resolution is 3–4 km …

Christian Ministry Degree Available In Evening For Adult Students, Lindenwood University

Archived Lindenwood Press Releases

No abstract provided.

Phase Dynamics Of Inas/Gaas Quantum Dot Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers, T. Piwonski, Guillaume Huyet, Et. Al.

Physical Sciences Publications

The gain and phase dynamics of InAs∕GaAs quantum dot amplifiers are studied using single and two-color heterodyne pump probe spectroscopy. The relaxation of the wetting layer carrier density is shown to have a strong effect on the phase dynamics of both ground and excited state transients, while having a much weaker effect on the gain dynamics. In addition, the dynamical alpha factor may also display a constant value after an initial transient. Such behavior is strongly encouraging for reduced pattern effect operation in high speed optical networks.

The Weekly Challenger, December 27, 2007, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The December 27, 2007, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

Summary Of Hsu V. County Of Clark, 123 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 60, Diane L. Welch

Nevada Supreme Court Summaries

This case is an appeal from a district court order, entered on remand, dismissing an inverse condemnation action. While the current appeal was pending, the Nevada Supreme Court decided an intervening case with substantively similar facts which changed Nevada law when analyzing airspace takings.

Summary Of Johanson Vs. Dist. Ct., 123 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 58, Jamie Zimmerman

Nevada Supreme Court Summaries

Petitioner requested writ of mandamus to vacate a district court order sealing divorce proceedings and issuing a gag order restricting all communication regarding the case.

New Name, New Leader For Department Of Communication Sciences And Disorders, Jennifer Farish

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - The new year will mark new beginnings for the communicative disorders department at the University of Mississippi as a national search begins to find a chair for the newly named department. Formerly the Department of Communicative Disorders, the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders received its new name in fall 2007 after approval from the Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning. It is part of the School of Applied Sciences.

Limits On Anomalous Triple Gauge Couplings In Pp̄ Collisions At S=1.96tev, T. Aaltonen, A. Abulencia, J. Adelman, T. Affolder, T. Akimoto, M. G. Albrow, S. Amerio, D. Amidei, A. Anastassov, K. Anikeev, A. Annovi, J. Antos, M. Aoki, G. Apollinari, T. Arisawa, A. Artikov, W. Ashmanskas, A. Attal, A. Aurisano, F. Azfar, P. Azzi-Bacchetta, P. Azzurri, N. Bacchetta, W. Badgett, A. Barbaro-Galtieri, V. E. Barnes, B. A. Barnett, S. Baroiant

Faculty Publications

We present a search for anomalous triple gauge couplings (ATGC) in WW and WZ boson production. The boson pairs are produced in pp̄ collisions at s=1.96TeV, and the data sample corresponds to 350pb-1 of integrated luminosity collected with the CDF II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron. In this search one W decays to leptons, and the other boson (W or Z) decays hadronically. Combining with a previously published CDF measurement of Wγ boson production yields ATGC limits of -0.18<λ<0.17 and -0.46<Δκ<0.39 at the 95% confidence level, using a cutoff scale Λ=1.5TeV. © 2007 The American Physical Society.

Summary Of Asap Storage, Inc. V. City Of Sparks, 123 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 61, Tyler James Watson

Nevada Supreme Court Summaries

No abstract provided.