Background: Kasai portoenterostomy (KPE) is the initial treatment for biliary atresia (BA).Even after initial jaundice clearance, a significant number of children presented with the reappearance of symptoms due to ongoing fibrosis involving porta and intrahepatic ducts.Mitomycin-C (MMC) is an antifibrotic agent, and the study hypothesized that loca
Total crown replacement technique: A biological treatment option for grossly destructed primary molars
Background: Restoration of severely damaged primary molars with very short clinical crowns is a big challenge and often extracted due to the lack of restorative options.Total crown replacement (TCR) is a novel vacuum pro vst treatment alternative for the restoration of such teeth through bonding of the biological restorations which are the sterile
The Semantics of Divine Attributes according to Avicenna and Its Relevance with the Issue of Language of Religion
One of the longstanding questions in philosophy and theology is how to understand and analyze the meanings of attributes which are shared by God and human beings; whether these attributes are predicated to God in ordinary human sense or they have an alternative meaning? This question which initially concerned divine attributes but it gradually got
Non-Target-Site Resistance to Herbicides: Recent Developments
Non-target-site resistance (NTSR) to herbicides in weeds can be conferred as a result of the alteration of one baltimore a minuit or more physiological processes, including herbicide absorption, translocation, sequestration, and metabolism.The mechanisms of NTSR are generally more complex to decipher than target-site resistance (TSR) and can impart
Quantitative and qualitative features of carotid and coronary atherosclerotic plaque among men and women
Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), particularly ischemic heart disease (IHD) and stroke, present epidemiologically in a different way among sexes.The reasons of these sex-based differences should be delved into sex-specific cardiovascular (CV) risk factors and different mechanisms of atherosclerotic progression.Imaging techniques of both carotid and c