OBJECTIVE Warfarin is associated with medial arterial calcification in humans, but the magnitude and specificity of this effect and the role of other risk factors are unknown. Using serial mammograms, progression of arterial calcification was compared in women receiving no anticoagulants, warfarin, or other anticoagulants, and before, during, and…[Read more]

BMSCs-derived exosomes restrained apoptosis in hippocampal tissues of depressed rats. BMSCs-derived exosomes and upregulated miR-26a elevated SOD level, lessened MDA, LDH, TNF-α and IL-1β levels, boosted hippocampal neuron proliferation and suppressed apoptosis in depressed rats. CONCLUSION Collectively, our study reveals that miR-26a is lowly e…[Read more]

0001) 6 specific risk scores (10 models) for SSIs after CABG. Although ASSIST performed differently in the 2 validation samples, in both, as well as in the derivation data set, the combined model outweighed (albeit not always significantly) the preoperative-only model, both for additive and logistic ASSIST.

In the derivation data set,…[Read more]