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The detection of BRAF V600E immunoexpression in papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is extremely important because of its association with poor prognosis. Is poor prognosis really associated with all histological variants of thyroid papillary carcinoma? To contribute to this elucidation, using the BRAF V600E mutation-specific antibody, the present study was performed to determine the association between BRAF V600E immunoexpression and clinicopathological variant groups of PTC. Tumour tissue samples collected from 95 patients with papillary thyroid cancer and tumour size

Case Presentation: A 69-year-old man consulted for a 3-day history of fever, wet cough, and yellow-green phlegm. He denied having any dyspnea, chest pain, hemoptysis, swallowing disorders, choke, chills, asthenia, anorexia, or weight loss. He reported a continuous dry cough and three episodes of pneumonia in the past 4 years. He was a nonsmoker, without any other personal or familial medical history. He had no known professional exposure. He was born and lived in Vietnam but had no known contact with TB in his family or workplace. He was never imprisoned or homeless and did never travel abroad. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the present study, the composites have been prepared using vacuum hot pressing process technique. The influence of 2.0 wt.% nanometric SiC particles (n-SiCp) on the microstructure and fracture mechanism of 7075 aluminum alloy was studied by means of metallographic microscope, scanning electron microscope (SEM), energy-dispersive spectrometer (EDS), X-ray diffraction (XRD), laser scanning confocal (LSC). The results indicate that SiCp fill at grain boundaries dispersing evenly and nail to aluminum grains which sizes have been reduced successfully, that making the organization tighter, the gaps fewer and the surface rougher. Meanwhile, phases (MgZn2) precipitated from the 7075 aluminum alloy were been detected. The grain bonding states of matrix alloys are strengthened by the combination of fine grains strengthening and dispersion strengthening and thus affect the fracture morphology. The micro-fracture mechanism of 7075 aluminum alloy is micro-porous aggregation fracture, however, the 7075 aluminum matrix composites (AMCs) are quasi cleavage fracture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Studies the impact of mutations within the putative Ca2+ binding lumenal interhelical a-b loop of the photosystem II D1 protein. Double flash measurements of oxygen release; S2 and S3 decay measurements in the isolated membranes; Measurements of the flash interval dependence of photoactivation; Destabilization of the intermediates of photoactivation in the a-b loop mutants.