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Sex estimation using dimensions around the nutrient foramen of the long bones of the arm and forearm in South Africans
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Elsevier
, 2017 , Article)
South Africa has had an increase in rates of crime, interpersonal violence and homicide since the introduction of democracy in 1994. Forensic osteological standards was lacking for South Africans of different population ...
Letter to Editor: Apocrine carcinoma is the fact. Comment on the recent paper entitled "Invasive apocrine carcinoma of the breast: Myth or fact?" by Gurrado et al (Breast J. 2019 Sep 8. doi: 10.1111/tbj.13569. [Epub ahead of print].
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Wiley
, 2019 , Article)
The most recent WHO classification of breast cancer also recognizes the concept of “pure apocrine carcinoma” (called carcinoma with apocrine differentiation) with cancers having >90% of apocrine morphology (an essential ...
Assessing the use of the anatomical method for the estimation of sub-adult stature in Black South Africans
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Elsevier
, 2018 , Article)
Stature estimation is rarely attempted in sub-adults due to the general lack of available standards as a result of the dearth of sufficiently large sub-adult skeletal collections with known demographic information. To ...
Using tibial fragments to reconstruct the total skeletal height of black South Africans
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Elsevier
, 2019 , Article)
Stature is an important component of the biological profile of unknown skeletal remains and regression equations for estimating stature have been derived for a number of bones. However, bones are rarely recovered intact ...
Activation of K7 channels with the anticonvulsant retigabine alleviates neuropathic pain behaviour in the streptozotocin rat model of diabetic neuropathy.
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Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
, 2019 , Article)
Diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) is the most incapacitating complication of diabetes mellitus. Up to 50% of patients with DPN develop peripheral neuropathic pain (PNP). The underlying ionic and molecular mechanisms of ...
Phospholipase C zeta profiles are indicative of optimal sperm parameters and fertilisation success in patients undergoing fertility treatment.
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wiley
, 2020 , Article)
Oocyte activation is driven by intracellular calcium (Ca ) oscillations induced by sperm-specific PLCζ, abrogation of which causes oocyte activation deficiency in humans. Clinical PLCζ investigations have been limited to ...
Mutual inter-regulation between iNOS and TGF-β1: Possible molecular and cellular mechanisms of iNOS in wound healing.
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Elsevier
, 2020 , Article)
Abnormal wound healing with excessive scarring is a major health problem with socioeconomic and psychological impacts. In human, chronic wounds and scarring are associated with upregulation of the inducible nitric oxide ...
MXene Nanosheets May Induce Toxic Effect on the Early Stage of Embryogenesis.
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American Scientific Publishers
, 2020 , Article)
MXene (Ti₃C₂T), as a novel 2D material, has produced a great interest due to its promising properties in biomedical applications, nevertheless, there is a lack of studies dedicated to investigate the possible toxic effect ...
The largest reported papillary thyroid carcinoma arising in struma ovarii and metastasis to opposite ovary: Case report and review of literature
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BioMed Central Ltd.
, 2018 , Article)
Background: Malignant struma ovarii (MSO) is a very rare, germ cell tumor of the ovary, histologically identical to differentiated thyroid cancers. Struma ovarii (SO) is difficult to diagnose on clinical basis or imaging ...
Association of cardiac myosin-binding protein-C with the ryanodine receptor channel - putative retrograde regulation?
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Company of Biologists Ltd
, 2018 , Article)
The cardiac muscle ryanodine receptor-Ca2+ release channel (RyR2) constitutes the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) Ca2+ efflux mechanism that initiates myocyte contraction, while cardiac myosin-binding protein-C (cMyBP-C; also ...