Gadolinium ethoxybenzyl dimeglumine (Gd-EOB-DTPA, Primovist® in Europe and Eovist® in the USA) is a liver-specific magnetic resonance imaging contrast agent that has up to 50% hepatobiliary excretion in the normal liver. After intravenous injection, Gd-EOB-DTPA distributes into the vascular ...
Parizel The human brain is a unique, sophisticated and complicated structure. The brain consists of some 100 billion nerve cells (give or take a few bil- lion). Each cell is connected to thousands of other nerve cells in an astonishingly complex network. In scientific terms, the brain is ...
Due to stem cells’ remarkable regenerative capacity and ability to differentiate into liver cells, they are considered the most effective treatment. The stem cells most commonly used for the therapy are MSCs. Crohn’s disease Crohn’s diseaseis a chronic inflammatory bowel disease affecting the dig...
This is a hormonal condition that — in males — is caused by low levels of the hormone testosterone. Testosterone is an important male sex hormone that influences the development of sex characteristics like body and facial hair. It also affects muscle development, sperm production, and sex drive...
Vitamin D acquired through sun exposure or through oral consumption is metabolized within about 3 days, by the liver, into 25(OH)D. In temperate climates, serum 25(OH)D concentrations rise and fall throughout each year, in a pattern that parallels, with a delay of about 2 months, the ...
Ask your healthcare provider what a healthy weight is for you. Ask your provider to help you create a weight loss plan, if needed. Eat a variety of healthy foods. You may need to limit the amount of fats and salt you eat. You may also need to limit foods rich in vitamin A and ty...
Triglyceride transport is an efficient process. Meals containing as much as 100 g triglycerides are usually absorbed and disposed within a few hours with only a moderate rise in the plasma triglyceride concentration.1 Most of the lipoprotein triglyceride
emerged as a common strategy to reduce the radiation dose. The primary application of DECT post-processed images was in detecting focal liver lesions (47% of articles), with predominance of study focusing on hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) (27%). Furthermore, a significant proportion of the artic...
7. Illumination of the brain: Size matters 8. Gene therapy: Alternative direction for movement disorders therapy 9. Is RNA gene therapy closer to clinical translation? 10. Therapeutic pole position for the antisense oligonucleotides 11. Summary and outlook CRediT authorship contribution statement Declara...
How severe is a grade 3 fatty liver? What changes would you expect to see in the liver cells of someone suffering from chronic alcoholism? Which of the following diseases is associated with ascites? a. alcoholism b. malnutrition c. both a and b d. n...