A randomized control trial to evaluate the effect of local instillation of mitomycin-C at the porta after kasai portoenterostomy in patients of biliary atresia

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

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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

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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

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