Effects of physical exercise on rehabilitation of cancer patients undergoing radiotherapy.

Background: According to the World Health Organization and American Cancer Society, cancer survivors should involve in mild-to-moderate intensity exercises and consume vegetarian diet. These lifestyle alterations show improvement in cancer recurrence, risk reduction, and quality of life (QOL).

Objective: The purpose of this study was to study the effect of physical activity on health/behavioural changes among adult cancer survivors.

The predictive ability of SAPS II, APACHE II, SAPS III, and APACHE IV to assess outcome and duration of mechanical ventilation in respiratory intensive care unit.

Objectives: The objective is to determine utility of SAPS II, APACHE II, SAPS III, and APACHE IV scoring system in assessing outcome in mechanically ventilated patients in respiratory intensive care unit and to predict duration of mechanical ventilation (MV).

Materials And Methods: A prospective observational study where 83 mechanically ventilated patients were grouped into Group 1 (n = 40, NIV) and Group 2 (n = 43, Invasive ventilation) was conducted. SAPS II, APACHE II, SAPS III, and APACHE IV scores based predicted mortality (PM) were collected at day 1, and day 3.

Biological Roles of Protein Kinetic Stability.

A protein's stability may range from nonexistent, as in the case of intrinsically disordered proteins, to very high, as indicated by a protein's resistance to degradation, even under relatively harsh conditions. The stability of this latter group is usually under kinetic control because of a high activation energy for unfolding that virtually traps the protein in a specific conformation, thereby conferring resistance to proteolytic degradation and misfolding aggregation. The usual outcome of kinetic stability is a longer protein half-life.