An Alternative Efficient Technique For Thin Tooth Sectioning

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Authors: Muneer Gohar Babar, Ma Angela Gonzalez. ABSTRACT Background: The importance of tooth sectioning is realized in disasters such as earthquake, airplane crash investigation, terror, micro leakage studies, age estimation etc. The objective of this study was to develop a simple method to make thin sections (approximately 100 mm) from freshly extracted teeth. Methods: One […]

Self-Measured Bed-Time, Arising and Day Blood Pressures of Normotensive Young Male and Female Adults

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Authors: Nyunt Wai, Sze Wei Thing, Ting Ngiik Liing. ABSTRACT Morning surge in blood pressure is an independent cardiovascular risk factor in the middle-aged and the elderly. Whether such a surge occurs in young subjects is not known. Eighty normotensive subjects (age: 21.8 ± 1.3 yr) measured their own blood pressure (BP) using an automatic […]

Successive objective long-case assessment as a driver of clerkship learning – Evaluation through perception questionnaire

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Authors: Toh Peng Yeow, Wai Sun Choo, Amir S Khir, Li Cher Loh. ABSTRACT Background: Clinical clerkship in a busy hospital environment forms an important part of undergraduate medical training. Regular objective assessment of this activity with feedback would be expected to improve outcome. Methods: We implemented fortnightly clinical assessments using modified OSLER (Objective Structured […]

Detection of glycoproteins from human erythrocytes of different ABO blood groups infected with Plasmodium falciparum

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Authors: Ramon Chin Beng Ong, Patricia Kim Chooi Lim, Joon Wah Mak. ABSTRACT Background: Many proteins released by cells to the blood and other fluids are glycoproteins. One set of glycoproteins carry the ABO blood group determinants and glycoproteins have been shown to be vital in determining the structure and organization of plasma membranes. There […]