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BACKGROUND: To combat the coronavirus pandemic different vaccines have been developed. However, diverse adverse effects have been reported due to their use, including oral manifestations. Our objective is to review the existing bibliography to analyze what complications these vaccines have caused in the oral cavity. M…

OBJECTIVE: Analyze the state of the art about instruments, at national and international levels, for assessing the risk of suicide in elderly people with depression assisted in the community. METHODS: Integrative review of 38 complete articles, published in journals indexed in the databases: US National Library of Med…

Controversies exist in literature regarding nature, pathogenesis, and behaviour of giant cell lesions (GCLs) of jaws. Studies were attempted to solve these mysteries with immunohistochemical analysis, using various biological markers. Thus, the aim of this review is to appraise the role of immunohistochemistry (IHC) in…

Biomedical publishing stands at a crossroads. The traditional print, peer-reviewed, subscription journal has served science well but is now being called into question. Because of spiraling print journal costs and the worldwide acceptance of the Internet as a valid publication medium, there is a compelling opportunity t…

The Nuclear Protein Database (NPD) is a curated database that contains information on more than 1300 vertebrate proteins that are thought, or are known, to localise to the cell nucleus. Each entry is annotated with information on predicted protein size and isoelectric point, as well as any repeats, motifs or domains wi…

The availability of research data sets is an important milestone because it can enhance the dynamics of research. This study aims to analyze the PubMed Central repository to determine the availability and type of raw data sets in Cell & Tissue Engineering journals indexed in Journal Citation Reports. The number and typ…

OBJECTIVE: to identify and synthesize the evidence from randomized clinical trials that tested the effectiveness of traditional Chinese acupuncture in relation to sham acupuncture for the treatment of hot flashes in menopausal women with breast cancer. METHOD: systematic review guided by the recommendations of the Coc…

Olfactory Reference Disorder is a little explored and widely unknown phenomenon, even research has shown more interest in it during the last years. This review summarizes the existing literature and illustrates its findings with a case history. The databases PubMed, PsychNet, PsychPub, Hogrefe EContent and the Cochrane…

OBJECTIVE: The objective of this scoping review is to identify instruments that measure the physical haptic fidelity of procedural skills trainers. INTRODUCTION: Procedural skills trainers have demonstrated beneficial outcomes for clinicians when used to practice and rehearse procedures. Despite this, several design f…

OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this systematic review is to present and compare results from studies that have been using autologous tissue for POP repair. METHODS: Systematic review was done according to the Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews. We aimed to retrieve reports of published and ongoing studies on the eff…

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to evaluate the association between posterior unilateral crossbite and craniomandibular asymmetry in children, adolescents and adults through a systematic review of the literature. DATA SOURCE: A literature search was performed utilizing the Medline database (Entrez PubMed) and the…

OBJECTIVE: To review the literature to assess the amount of change in height and width of the residual ridge after tooth extraction. MATERIAL AND METHODS: MEDLINE-PubMed and the Cochrane Central register of controlled trials (CENTRAL) were searched through up to March 2009. Appropriate studies which data reported conc…

Each year, around 30,000 intercostal chest drains (ICDs) are inserted in the UK, with complications like displacement being a common concern. Various fixation techniques have been proposed to secure ICDs, but there is no consensus on a gold standard. A scoping review was conducted to identify publications describing IC…

Cancer metastasis is the leading cause of death in cancer patients. Due to the limitations of conventional cancer treatment, such as chemotherapy, there is a need for novel therapeutics to prevent metastasis. Ginsenoside Rg3, a major active component ofC.A. Meyer, inhibits tumor growth and has the potential to prevent…

BACKGROUND: Leukoencephalopathy with calcifications and cysts (LCC) is a rare disease in which parenchymal cysts and calcifications within a widespread leukoencephalopathy can cause a broad spectrum of neurological symptoms. We present cases with adult LCC and discuss previously described entities in relevant literatur…

INTRODUCTION: Brain solid tumors are a leading cause of cancer-related mortality at all ages. The updated 2021WHO Central Nervous System tumor classification is based on genomic diagnostics. Nonetheless, extracellular vesicles (EVs) proteomics is a platform for protein biomarker discovery in brain tumor patient managem…

OBJECTIVE: To verify the scientific evidence on the association between Autistic Spectrum Disorder and Central Auditory Processing Disorder in children, aiming to answer the following research question: What is the association between Autistic Spectrum and Alteration of Auditory Processing in Children? METHODS: Studie…