Through the meticulous study of the first cases and the telephone calls to those who attended the summer camp, 90% of the cases of the outbreak were detected.\n\nConclusions:
The active search of cases allowed an outbreak of whooping cough with a high attack rate to be studied in children and adolescents with a high vaccination coverage, and the application of control measures that contributed to stop the outbreak. (C) 2010 Elsevier Espana, S.L. All rights reserved.”
“In this work, a study about the separation of antioxidant substances from Siraitia grosvenori’ leaves considered as an SHP099 agricultural waste was undertaken. The leaves of S. grosvenori were extracted with ethanol (phi(B) = 0.95) to obtain a crude extract (SEE). The antioxidant activity of SEE was evaluated and compared with that of butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT) using DPPH free radical, ABTS free radical, total antioxidant activity and reducing power assay. SEE had an antioxidant activity
similar to that of BHT. The total flavonoids content of SEE was found to be catechin equivalent GS-9973 of 83.45 g kg(-1) of extract. Higher flavonoids compounds may be major contributors to its high antioxidant activity. Following activity-oriented separation, three flavonoid compounds such as kaempferol-3-O-alpha-L-rhamnopyranosyl-7-O-[beta-D-glucopyranosyl-(1-2)-O-L-rhamnoside] (GR), kaempferol-3-O-beta-D-glucose-7-O-alpha-L-rhamnoside (KG) and quercetin were separated from S. grosvenori’ leaves. All of them expressed good free radical scavenging activities. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.”
“AimsThe
great majority of ovarian clear cell carcinomas have a hepatocyte nuclear factor 1 homeobox B (HNF-1)-positive and oestrogen receptor (ER)-negative immunoprofile. However, the pattern of HNF-1 and ER immunostaining in clear cell carcinomas of the endometrium and PF-03084014 the usefulness of this panel in distinguishing clear cell carcinoma from other histological types of endometrial carcinoma have yet to be well defined. Methods and resultsWe examined the immunostaining patterns of HNF-1, ER and p53 in 15 morphologically classic pure endometrial clear cell carcinomas, and compared these patterns with 15 endometrioid and 15 4 serous carcinomas of the endometrium. We observed the presence of diffuse ( bigger than 70%) moderate to strong nuclear HNF-1 staining and negative ER staining in 14 of 15 clear cell carcinomas, with the remaining case showing both diffuse strong nuclear HNF-1 staining and focal ER staining. In comparison, only one of 15 serous carcinomas and none of 15 endometrioid carcinomas showed a combination of diffuse moderate to strong HNF-1 nuclear staining and negative ER staining. Aberrant p53 immunostaining was observed in five of 15 (33%) clear cell carcinomas.