Endothelial images from a specular microscopy of 6125 Icelanders were used in the analysis, providing measures of cell density, CV, and HEX. The equipment also produced CCT measurements. These images were obtained as a part of a comprehensive phenotyping of a general population sample (the deCODE ...
and often left its victims purple in color as their lungs filled with blood and starved the body of oxygen. One book on the subject is even titledPurple Death. According tosome estimates, as many as 50 million people worldwide died during from the disease. Just as pulp heroes...
A Sysmex KX-21 blood analyzer (Sysmex Corporation, Japan) was utilized to assess an extensive panel of hematological characteristics, including total red blood cells, neutrophils, eosinophils, basophils, lymphocytes, mean RBC volume, monocytes, platelet count, hematocrit, mean RBC hemoglobin concentration...
When 41 meta-analysis studies were identified per variant, only the latest and most comprehensive one was used. Next, we identified additional studies published after the chosen meta-analysis studies by extended computer-based searches of PubMed. In terms of BP association, meta-analyses had not ...
At the end of the exposure period, mice were subjected to a cross maze test, in order to quantify anxiety. Thereafter, mice were killed by decapitation, blood was immediately collected, and all the tissues were dissected for mercury quantification and gene expression analysis. For muscle fiber ...
The aim of this study was to conduct a comprehensive survey of clinically measurable variables in order to determine the best predictors of 5FU toxicity. Although many of these variables have been investigated in separate studies (Chua et al, 2011b), few have analysed all of them in a ...
We expect that as more studies of other types, such as prospective cohort and family-based studies become available, a more comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis can be conducted to provide additional information on the role of this SNP in MS and SLE. Third, we only evaluated the ...