Despite numerous investigations into ocular or corneal astigmatism, the dynamic nature of astigmatism remains poorly understood.To reveal potential associations between age and astigmatism, 264 Japanese participants American Chocolate who underwent systemic and ophthalmological examinations in Funagata Town (Yamagata Prefecture, Japan) were evaluat

Many sialic acid-binding viruses express a receptor-destroying enzyme (RDE) that removes the virus-targeted receptor and limits viral interactions with the host cell surface.Despite a growing appreciation of how the viral RDE promotes viral fitness, little is known about its direct effects on the host.Infectious salmon anemia virus (ISAV) attaches

Abstract Background Gulf War Illness (GWI) remains a serious health consequence for at least 11,000 veterans of the first Gulf War in the early 1990s.Our understanding of the health consequences that resulted remains inadequate, and this is of great concern with another deployment to the same theater of operations occurring now.Chronic immune cell

Background: The current trend in perinatal medicine addresses the challenge posed to newborn survival by newborn prematurity and other morbidities requiring neonatal newborn intensive care.These ethical concerns span through the spectrum of education, clinical practice and research, domicile in obstetrics and neonatology.Effective application of et