Introduction: Hysterectomy is a common gynecologic surgery carried out to remove the pathologic uterus.Objective: To establish if sleep disorders and sexual function are associated with deterioration of the quality of life (QoL) in hysterectomized and sexually active women.Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out with inhabitants from two c
Chui-Lien Tsen,1 Yu-Harn Horng,1 Shwu-Jiuan Sheu1,2 1Department of Ophthalmology, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; 2School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan Background: We describe the anatomical and functional outcomes of eyes that underwent a modified technique of relaxing retinotomy, dashed line re
ABSTRACT Mobbing, group attack of prey on predator, is a behavior seen in many animal species in which prey animals use numbers and coordination to counter individually superior predators.We studied attack behavior of Pseudomonas aeruginosa toward the bacterivore Acanthamoeba castellanii.This behavior consists of directed motility toward and specif
Persistent immune activation is a striking consequence sunset sherbet autoflower of HIV-1 infection and a driving force of CD4+ T cell depletion and AIDS events during chronic infection.High level of T cell immune activation associates with antiretroviral therapy (ART)-treated clinical outcomes in chronically HIV-1-infected patients.However, the ro