2011 January - 9 articles
A clinical effect of warfarin depends on highly polymorphic drug-metabolizing (CYP2C9) and drug-target (VKORC1) enzymes. The objective of this study was to investigate the impact of CYP2C9*2, CYP2C9*3, and VKORC1 (G-1639A) polymorphisms on the variab...
The issue of complexity is more and more present in numerous domains of biological research, including aging research. In the present paper, based on a selective review of literature, we propose both a conceptual and a methodological framework to add...
The objective of this study was to identify case characteristics and clinical course of the disease in patients hospitalized with 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1) infection during the first wave of the pandemic and to identify risk factors associated...
The aim of the study was to analyze the management and outcome in the case of giant peptic ulcer hemorrhage (GPUH).
Material and Methods. We analyzed the data of all 372 cases of 348 patients treated for acute peptic ulcer hemorrhage during 2005–2007...
The aim of this study was to estimate cytokeratin 7 (CK-7) expression in biopsy specimens of patients with different stages of primary biliary cirrhosis and clinicopathological patterns (cholestatic and hepatitic) and its correlation with some bioche...
The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of heating and cooling on time course of voluntary and electrically induced muscle force variation.
Material and Methods. Ten volunteers performed 50 maximal voluntary and electrically induced contr...
Adriamycin is an anthracycline antibiotic widely used for the treatment of many types of cancer. The cytotoxic effect of Adriamycin occurs by a free radical-mediated mechanism. Thus, to prevent or reduce the toxic effect of Adriamycin, it is possible...
The aim of this study was to evaluate the survival of patients with testicular cancer in Lithuania during 1998–2002 and factors that influenced the survival.
Material and methods. The survival rates of testicular cancer patients were evaluated using t...
The aim of the study was to evaluate patients’ satisfaction with the quality of provided services in private primary health care institutions in Kaunas.
Material and Methods. A questionnaire-based inquiry of 280 persons registered to family physician...
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