No independent association between insufficient sleep and childhood obesity in the National Survey of Children's Health.

Background: Prior studies have supported an association between insufficient sleep and childhood obesity, but most have not examined nationally representative samples or considered potential sociodemographic confounders.

Objective: The main objective of this study was to use a large, nationally representative dataset to examine the possibility that insufficient sleep is associated with obesity in children, independent of sociodemographic factors.

Methods: The National Survey of Children's Health is a national survey of U.

The immunoproteasomes regulate LPS-induced TRIF/TRAM signaling pathway in murine macrophages.

We have proposed the novel concept that the macrophage ubiquitin-proteasome pathway functions as a key regulator of Lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced inflammation signaling. These findings suggest that proteasome-associated protease subunits X, Y, and Z are replaced by LMP subunits after LPS treatment of RAW 264.7 cells.

Usage of sewage effluent in irrigation of some woody tree seedlings. Part 3: Swietenia mahagoni (L.) Jacq.

A pot experiment was investigated to study the effect of sewage irrigation treatments (primary and secondary effluents) compared with tap water on the growth and chemical constituents of mahogany seedlings (Swietenia mahagoni (L.) Jacq.) as well as soil chemical properties.

Acute kidney injury associated with metamizole sodium ingestion.

Metamizole sodium, a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug, has been widely used in the last 100 years. Its efficacy as an analgesic and antipyretic is unquestionable. Only few cases of acute kidney injury (AKI) induced by metamizole sodium were reported in the medical literature.

Functional properties and characterization of dietary fiber from Mangifera pajang Kort. fruit pulp.

A dried high fiber product from bambangan (Mangifera pajang Kort.) fruit pulp was prepared and evaluated for proximate composition, functional properties, and soluble and insoluble dietary fiber composition. Mangifera pajang fibrous (MPF) consisted of 4.

The calcium connection--deficient mothers with normal newborn.

A cross-sectional study on blood calcium levels of pregnant women of low socioeconomic status was designed to find out the consequences of low levels on the outcome of pregnancy. Blood samples from 52 women and their cord were collected at the time of delivery. Calcium was analyzed calorimetrically in maternal as well as cord blood.

Antepartum fetal heart rate feature extraction and classification using empirical mode decomposition and support vector machine.

Background: Cardiotocography (CTG) is the most widely used tool for fetal surveillance. The visual analysis of fetal heart rate (FHR) traces largely depends on the expertise and experience of the clinician involved. Several approaches have been proposed for the effective interpretation of FHR.

Beware of the focal uptake at the ischium on the bone scan in prostate cancer.

Rationale: The isotope bone scan is routinely used in the management of prostate cancer as the skeleton is the second most common area of metastasis after lymph nodes. A classic site of involvement in the pelvis is the ischium, and the aim of this study was to assess the value of single-photon emission computed tomography/computed tomography (SPECT/CT) imaging in patients with focal ischial uptake on the planar scan.

Materials And Methods: This was a retrospective study of consecutive 150 patients with prostate cancer who were referred for a whole-body bone scan between August 2007 and 2008.

Antimicrobial activity of erythromycin and clarithromycin against clinical isolates of Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella and Proteus by disc diffusion method.

Fifty clinical isolates comprising of Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella and Proteus were collected from different local pathological laboratories and their resistant pattern against two well known macrolides; erythromycin and clarithromycin were studied using disc diffusion method. Klebsiella (41.67% against erythromycin and 58.

Unusual case of pancreatic inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor associated with spontaneous splenic rupture.

Background: Spontaneous splenic rupture considered a relatively rare but life threatening. The three commonest causes of spontaneous splenic rupture are malignant hematological diseases, viral infections and local inflammatory and neoplastic disorders. We describe a unique and unusual case of inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor of the tail of pancreas presented with massively enlarged spleen and spontaneous splenic rupture.

Phytoplankton composition of Euphrates River in Al-Hindiya barrage and Kifil City region of Iraq.

Seasonal variations in phytoplankton abundance and their composition were studied at five stations in the middle region (between Al-Hindiya barrage to Kifil City) of the Euphrates River in Iraq between March, 2004, and February, 2005. A total 151 taxa of phytoplankton were identified, belonging to Bacillariophyceae (98), Chlorophyceae (33), Cyanophyceae (14), Euglenophyceae (2), Xanthophyceae (2), and Dinophyceae (2). The total abundance of phytoplankton cells varied from 136 to 5312 cells l(-1) with maxima in spring and fall.

Satellite phage TLCφ enables toxigenic conversion by CTX phage through dif site alteration.

Bacterial chromosomes often carry integrated genetic elements (for example plasmids, transposons, prophages and islands) whose precise function and contribution to the evolutionary fitness of the host bacterium are unknown. The CTXφ prophage, which encodes cholera toxin in Vibrio cholerae, is known to be adjacent to a chromosomally integrated element of unknown function termed the toxin-linked cryptic (TLC). Here we report the characterization of a TLC-related element that corresponds to the genome of a satellite filamentous phage (TLC-Knφ1), which uses the morphogenesis genes of another filamentous phage (fs2φ) to form infectious TLC-Knφ1 phage particles.

Spirometry use among pediatric primary care physicians.

Objective: This study explores the use of spirometry in primary care settings.

Methods: A 4-page survey was mailed to a national, random sample of office-based family physicians and pediatricians. Survey items addressed knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding spirometry and standardized clinical vignettes.

Kaposi's sarcoma: HIV-negative man with isolated penile localization.

Kaposi's sarcoma is the malignant proliferation of the endothelial cell vessels. Its genesis is still unclear; however, it seems to be related to the herpes virus infection (HHV-8). This neoplasia usually affects the lower limbs and the affected persons are mostly from the Mediterranean region.

International variations in harsh child discipline.

Background: Although the history of recognition of child abuse in Europe and North America extends over 40 years, recognition and data are lacking in other parts of the world. Cultural differences in child-rearing complicate cross-cultural studies of abuse.

Objective: To ascertain rates of harsh and less-harsh parenting behavior in population-based samples.

Studies of food drug interactions.

Medicines can treat and alleviate many diseases provided that they must be taken properly to ensure that they are safe and useful. One issue related with the medicines is that whether to take on empty stomach or with food. The present work gives information regarding food-drug interactions that were studied by collecting seventy five prescriptions from various hospitals.

Tuberculous dactylitis pseudotumor of an adult thumb: a case report.

Tuberculous dactylitis is an uncommon condition which is particularly difficult to differentiate from other lesions, particularly tumors. We report the case of a 56-year-old, healthy, left-handed person who consulted for progressive painful swelling of 8-month duration in the right thumb, which had developed after direct trauma. The plain radiograph of the thumb revealed extensive destruction of the proximal phalanx associated with pathological fracture.

Undergraduate medical education in the Gulf Cooperation Council: a multi-countries study (Part 2).

Background: The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries have witnessed over the last 40 years a rapid and major social, cultural, and economic transformation. The development of medical education in the region is relatively new, dating from the late 1960s. An important goal among the medical colleges in the region is to graduate national physicians who can populate the healthcare service of each country.

Undergraduate medical education in the Gulf Cooperation Council: a multi-countries study (Part 1).

Background: The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries have witnessed over the last 40 years a rapid and major social, cultural, and economic transformation. The development of medical education in the region is relatively new, dating from the late 1960s. An important goal among the medical colleges in the region is to graduate national physicians who can populate the healthcare service of each country.

Cervical cancer screening among Sudanese women.

Background: Worldwide, cervical cancer is one of the three most common female cancers and accounts for over 370,000 new cases each year ( nearly 10% of all cancers). In Sudan, invasive cervical cancers is a leading cause of cancer death among women.

Methods: We conducted a community-based survey of Sudanese women living in Khartoum, from 2003 to 2008.

Infectious aneurysm of the cavernous carotid artery in a child treated with a new-generation of flow-diverting stent graft: case report.

Objective: To report a unique case of wide-necked mycotic cerebral aneurysm treated with a new generation of intracranial stent.

Clinical Presentation: A 10-year-old girl presented with meningitis complicated by an infectious intracavernous large aneurysm revealed by cranial nerve palsy.

Intervention: The aneurysm was treated by a new-generation, flow-diverting, endoluminal implant (SILK; BALT EXTRUSION, Montmorency, France) placed across the aneurysm neck without coiling.

Complete subtalar release for older children who had recurrent clubfoot deformity.

Background: Neglected idiopathic clubfoot deformities, and severe recurrent deformity after previous surgery presents technical difficulties for correction and challenges for surgeons to achieve primary skin closure.

Methods: Between 2000 and 2006, 18 children (30 feet), had complete subtalar release (CSTR) for failed previous surgery in 28 feet and severe neglected congenital talipes equinovarus (CTEV) in 2 feet followed by cross leg fasciocutaneous flaps for reconstruction of residual defect at the ankle and foot after full correction of the deformity. Mean patients followed up were 4.

Assessment of the evolutionary origin and possibility of CRISPR-Cas (CASS) mediated RNA interference pathway in Vibrio cholerae O395.

Bacteria have developed several defense mechanisms against bacteriophages over evolutionary time, but the concept of prokaryotic RNA interference mediated defense mechanism against phages and other invading genetic elements has emerged only recently. Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) together with closely associated genes (cas genes) constitute the CASS system that is believed to provide a RNAi-like defense mechanism against bacteriophages within the host bacterium. However, a CASS mediated RNAi-like pathway in enteric pathogens such as Vibrio cholerae O395 or Escherichia coli O157 have not been reported yet.