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Food perception is a multimodal sensation which implies cross-modal interplays. Tactile, thermal, painful and kinaesthetic stimuli arising from food intake may impact on flavour perception, especially taste perception. The influence of oral somatosensory signals on food taste perception remains unclear. The aim of the…

OBJECTIVE: To analyze the production of research that adopted as object of investigation: institutional strategies, actions and programs to curb and/or prevent the nursing workplace violence. METHOD: Integrative review of 14 articles in full, available in the databases LILACS, PubMed Central, Scopus, CINAHL and Web of…

With the aim to modernize and harmonize prescribing education, the European Association for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (EACPT) Working Group on education recommended the extensive use and distribution of digital learning resources (DLRs). However, it is unclear whether the complex task of prescribing medici…

OBJECTIVES: The aim of this paper is to investigate electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) from the otorhinolaryngologic point of view. METHODS: The authors searched Central Database of Kirikkale University Library, Google, PubMed, and Proquest and Google Scholar. RESULTS: An electronic cigarette or e-cigarette is a ba…

BACKGROUND: and purpose: Aquatic exercise exerts low contact stresses on the joints and may expedite an efficient recovery in persons with haemophilia. The objective of this review is to provide a qualitative summary of the interventional trials on the effects of aquatic exercise for haemophilia. METHODS: The literatu…

BACKGROUND: Central nervous system (CNS) tumors are a rare but devastating malignancy, often robbing patients of the basic quality of life. Despite advances in our understanding of the CNS tumor disease processes, the prognosis for patients with CNS tumors remains poor. Better characterization and diagnostic and monito…

PURPOSE: To summarize information on the history, incidence, clinical manifestation, best treatment, as well as prognosis of seizures in transplant recipients. METHODS: In October 2017, we searched the literature on PubMed in English with the search terms: "transplantation" AND "seizure", "transplantation" AND "epilep…

Thegene encodes for the p27protein, firstly characterized as a cyclin dependent kinase (CDK)-inhibitor. Germlinepathogenic variants have been described in hereditary tumors, such as multiple endocrine neoplasia (MEN)-like syndromes and familial prostate cancer. Despite its central role in tumor progression, for a long…

Metabolic syndrome (MetS) has a collection of some abnormal and pathological conditions that cause many critical diseases. Resistin is one of the possible candidates for these pathologies but there are not enough data to prove if resistin has positive, neutral, or negative effects on one or some components of MetS. Thi…

The potential application of stem cell biology in human dentistry is a new and emerging field of research. The objective of the current review was to study the efficiency of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) in sinus lift augmentation (SLA). A literature review was performed in PubMed Central using MeSH keywords such as si…

BACKGROUND: The keystone design perforator island flap is useful for the reconstruction of lower extremity defects. We performed a systematic review with the objective of identifying complication rates associated with using the keystone design perforator island flap to treat such defects. METHODS: The MEDLINE, PubMed…

BACKGROUND: Tobacco smoking has detrimental influence on human health and is one of the leading causes of preventable mortality worldwide, associated with lung cancer, chronic obstructive lung disease and cardiovascular disease. AIM: The analysis of the influence of tobacco smoking on pathology of the anterior segment…

Both systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and its treatments can contribute to increased mortality rates. The focus of this review is recent studies on mortality and comorbidities during the last 5 years from around the world. The authors conducted a literature review, using PUBMED, for articles relating to SLE mortality…

The association between the NUDT10 rs5945572 polymorphism and prostate cancer (PCa) was not clear. We thus conducted a meta-analysis to assess the association between NUDT10 rs5945572 polymorphism and PCa risk. A literature search was carried out using PUBMED, EMBASE, and Cochrane Library Central database before Dec 20…

The aim of this review was to provide a comprehensive summary of medicinal plants used as antifertility agents in females throughout the world by various tribes and ethnic groups. We undertook an extensive bibliographic review by analyzing classical text books and peer reviewed papers, and further consulting well accep…

BACKGROUND: Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality among patients with diabetes, underscoring the importance of choosing drugs that do not increase cardiovascular risk and reduce the risk of cardiovascular events. Since 2008, the US Food and Drug Administration has recommended that new d…

OBJECTIVE: The prescription of multiple medications for older people is common, despite concerns over the dangers associated with this. Older adults are particularly vulnerable to adverse effects of medication, and this is an even greater risk in patients with dementia. Many drugs used for physical health conditions ca…

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the efficacy of periodontal treatment for the management of cardiovascular risk factors. METHODS: Eligible studies in Cochrane Controlled Trials Register/CENTRAL, PubMed, EMBASE, and China Biology Medicine disc (CBMdisc) were searched until October 13, 2011. References of the included studies we…

Objective. Despite the systematic literature review of the current evidence, we aim to answer the question " is Deqi an indicator of clinical effects in acupuncture treatment?" Methods. We systematically searched CNKI, VIP, Wanfang Data, PubMed, Embase, and the CENTRAL for three types of study: (1) empirical research p…

INTRODUCTION: HIV-associated oral lesions have been used as clinical indicators of HIV infection and/or HIV-disease progression. It is well established that there is a significant reduction in the incidence of most HIV-associated oral lesions in patients on HAART compared with the levels seen in HIV-seropositive patien…