Abstract: Background: While underserved pregnant women smoke for many of the same reasons as smokers in general, there are other factors contributing to higher smoking prevalence. Health interventions require an understanding of the problem if they are to be appropriately targeted and effective....
Abstract: Background: Cultural competent care seems to improve quality of care. Community nurses and otherhealth care professionals should have the knowledge and skills in understanding and dealing with immigrant patients/clients....
Abstract: The hospitalization of smokers is an additional motivation to cessation, as it poses forced abstinence.Studies including outpatients that attended a cessation clinic reveals differences in self-reported and biochemically verified abstinence...
Austin Journal of Gastroenterology
Abstract: We report a rare case of endoscopic observations of the distinctive progression of a small hyperplastic polyp (HP) with low grade dysplasia to early gastric cardia cancer in a background of atrophic pangastritis that led to...
Austin Journal of Nutrition and Food Sciences
Abstract: Several ingredients are added to many food systems in order to deliver a wide selection of products for the consumer. Food hydrocolloids or food gums are added to food systems for many reasons, principally adjusting the texture,...
Austin Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Abstract: Objective: To evaluate the impact of pre-pregnancy maternal obesity on Nuchal Translucency (NT) measurement during a first trimester screen ultrasonographic examination....
Abstract: The budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a valuable model for uncovering molecular mechanisms of cellular aging in multicellular eukaryotic organisms [1-3]. Because of the relatively short and easily...
Austin Journal of Biosensors & Bioelectronics
Abstract: It was analyzed the efficiency of different ways for the functionalization of optrodes by the referent cells at the determination of the gene toxicity of a different chemical substances. As biosensor structure it was taken fiber optical...
Abstract: The Rai and Binet clinical staging systems, which rely on physical examination and blood counts, have represented for more than 40 years the basis for prognostication of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia...
Abstract: Phagocytosis is a well-known function of the granulocytic and mononuclear cell series. Phagocytic activity of myeloblasts particularly monoblasts has also been described in literature but morphologically...
Abstract: The effect of increased dietary protein supply on repeated Gastrointestinal Nematode (GIN) parasite Haemonchuscontortus infection was assessed in growing meat goats. Using a 2�2 factorial design, 16 intact male bucks were...
Abstract: Acetic acid is an endogenous compound produced and utilized for biological fuel under starved conditions. Under fed conditions, the acetic acid administered would be metabolized to acetyl-CoA with concomitant formation of intracellular...