Quality of life in patients with rheumatic heart disease.

Objective: To assess the quality of life in patients with rheumatic heart disease.

Methods: This case-control study was conducted at the Gulab Devi Chest Hospital, Lahore, Pakistan, from October 2016 to March 2017, and comprised patients with rheumatic heart disease.Convenient sampling technique was used.

Heterologous Secretory Expression and Characterization of Dimerized Bone Morphogenetic Protein 2 in .

Recombinant human Bone Morphogenetic Protein 2 (rhBMP2) has important applications in the spine fusion and ortho/maxillofacial surgeries. Here we first report the secretory expression of biological active dimerized rhBMP2 from system. The mature domain of BMP2 gene was amplified from pTz57R/BMP2 plasmid.