Publications by authors named "P M Teo"
Background: A considerable number of schizophrenia patients still require long-term hospital care despite psychiatric deinstitutionalisation, especially in developing nations. Prolonged hospitalisation is associated with greater impairment in psychosocial functioning. This study aimed to determine the level of psychosocial functioning and its predictors among long-stay schizophrenia patients in a Malaysian mental institution.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPriority question exercises are increasingly used to frame and set future research, innovation and development agendas. They can provide an important bridge between the discoveries, data and outputs generated by researchers, and the information required by policy makers and funders. Microbial biofilms present huge scientific, societal and economic opportunities and challenges.
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- Study aimed to identify factors that predict the risk of head and neck lymphedema (HNL) after radiation therapy for head and neck cancer (HNC) due to its impact on patient quality of life.
- Researchers analyzed data from 76 patients who underwent radiation therapy, focusing on clinical, disease-related, and dosimetric factors to develop predictive models for both external and internal HNL.
- Key findings revealed that lymph node status, specifically the number of lymph nodes removed and advanced adenopathy, were significant predictors for external lymphedema, while advanced adenopathy and specific radiation doses to the larynx were associated with internal lymphedema risk.
Allogeneic chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-expressing T cells offer many advantages over autologous therapies, but their benefits are curtailed by graft-versus-host disease and elimination by recipient immune cells. Moreover, just as with autologous therapies, allogeneic CAR T cells are susceptible to activation-induced cell death (AICD) caused by chronic antigen exposure (CAE). Granzyme B- and Fas/Fas ligand-initiated caspase-mediated apoptoses are key mechanisms of T-cell death caused by T/NK cell-mediated allorejection or CAE.
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