Raun Gunn

Pulsed micro-arc oxidation (MAO) in a strongly alkaline electrolyte (pH > 13), consisting of Na2SiO3⋅9H2O and NaOH, was used to form a thin porous oxide coating consisting of two layers differing in chemical and phase composition. The unique procedure, combining MAO and removal of the outer layer by blasting, enables to prepare a coating suita…[Read more]

4 (6.4-8.7) versus 9.5 (8.1-11.0); adjusted hazard ratio (HR) (95% CI) = 0.81 (0.60-1.09), P = 0.17. Patients exposed to SPS did not experience a higher rate of adverse GI events in the year after SPS initiation versus the year before SPS initiation; P-value for parallel trend = 0.87. Patients on-CPS also did not show an increased risk of adverse…[Read more]

The study of patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) behaviors has led to a greater understanding of factors that affect the pain experience. Although PCA behaviors can be influenced by cues to medication availability, no studies have examined the effects of such cues in pediatric populations.

This randomized controlled trial examined patient…[Read more]

C. hirsuta had a relatively lower number of flowering MADS-box genes than A. thaliana and probably tandem duplication event resulted in the expansion of FLC, SQUA and TM3 family members in Arabidopsis. Moreover among the conserved motifs, ChMADS5 of SQUA, ChMADS34 of TM3 and ChMADS51 of AGL15 families had no K-domain. This study provides a basis…[Read more]

BACKGROUND Chronic midline low back pain is the number one reason for disability in the United States despite the prolific use of medical and surgical interventions. Notwithstanding the widespread use of epidural spinal cord stimulators (SCSs), there remains a large portion of the population with inadequate pain control thought to be because of…[Read more]

These results demonstrate the establishment of an inducible expression system in cells that can be preserved in the dry state and highlight a possible application to the production of large and complex proteins.Many bacteria possess multiple chemosensory pathways that are composed of homologous signaling proteins. These pathways appear to be…[Read more]

Approximately 58% of the studies did not externally validate the models.

For clinical application, LTG maintenance dose could be optimized using population pharmacokinetic models employing covariates such as concomitant antiepileptic drugs, body weight, and genetic polymorphisms. However, these models should be assessed for their…[Read more]