Viroj Wiwanitkit

..Disturbance to the renal cell, alteration of renal function, and disorder of nephrological system in offsprings of exposed subjects are the three main focused topics...

..In female, pregnancy problem should be noted. Management of sexuality problem in quadriplegia is of interest. In this article, the author will briefly review on this topic...

..In this work, the author can identify many mutant prone positions within the studied FHM. Of interest, the author detected that FHM3 is a high resistant molecule when compared to FHM1 and FHM2...

..They are Arginine vasopressin (AVP) on chromosome 20 and AVP receptor 2 (AVPR2) on chromosome X. Physiogenomics approach could be a novel and useful tool for researches...

..7+/-7.3 ng/mL, respectively, which is significantly higher in patients than in controls (P< .05). In addition, the author reports a significant correlation between population ethnicity and thrombomodulin level (r= .96; P< .05)...

..The lack of association between pattern of GP IIb/IIIa PIA1/A2 polymorphism and ethnicity can also be showed in this study...

..In addition, the results from this study can be good information for further research on the diagnosis for mutants and new effective drug development...

..Control of a major outbreak would require a vaccine, but current manufacturing technology is not adequate to support influenza vaccine production in the event of an avian influenza outbreak...

..However, in-depth analysis on the effect of genetic I/D polymorphism of ACE has never been performed. The molecular mechanisms for each genotype expression in erectile dysfunction are poorly understood...

..The use of enzymatic modification technique by antioxidants can be useful alternative in management of male infertility...

..Sparganosis is a zoonosis that occurs occasionally in humans. The infection is reported in many countries but is most common in eastern Asia. In Thailand, a southeast Asian country, the infection is sporadic...

..Thailand, a tropical country in Southeast Asia, is the well-known endemic area for malaria. Although Thailand has a high prevalence of malaria, few cases of congenital malaria were reported in the past...

..With regard to the tertiary structure, the deterioration of folds, accompanied by the aberration in secondary structure of globin in Hb Geneva can be identified...

..It can be noted that the C-C cleavage pathway is less preferable, implying that the 1.5 H-shift should be the more common phenomenon...

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..In conclusion, overt bleeding is not uncommon in malaria. General practitioners in the endemic areas should be aware of malarial infection in any patient presenting with unexplained fever and bleeding...

..In addition, an ethical committee should carefully ensure that the patient was actually informed before approval...

..Therefore, the recommendation for usage of thrombin tube for PSA test should be modified from general usage. Shortening of the period between blood collection and sample analysis than general case must be done...

..However, there are also some other uncommon non-respiratory manifestations of swine flu. In this specific article, the author will briefly summarize on those important non respiratory manifestations of swine flu...

..Therefore the feasibility of new alternative usage of point of care testing that might be a useful tool for cervical cancer prevention needs to be stressed...

..The prevention of extensive damage due to superimposed conditions is a core approach for cancer prevention at the tertiary level. In this article, the author discusses influenza vaccination for cancer patients in this light...

..Several complications of thalassaemia have been documented. Infection is a major problem and the leading cause of death, particularly in E-beta thalassaemia...

..5-0.7), 3.0 +/- 0.2% (range 3-3.2) and 5.2 +/- 0.1 (range 5.1-5.4), respectively. All outbreak settings shared the same sandy loam soil type. It can imply that provinces with this type of ecology may have sites harboring C. botulinum...

..The most widely used screening tests for syphilis are the VDRL and the rapid plasma reagin (RPR) and for confirmation the fluorescent treponemal antibody (FTA) and the treponema pallidum hemagglutination (TPHA) tests...

..To evaluate the spermatotoxicity of gold nanoparticles...

..coli infection, the specific knowledge on E. coli O104:H4 is very limited. To add up to known knowledge, the author hereby summarizes up-to-date information on renal failure among patients in 2011 E. coli O104:H4 outbreak...

..Focusing on treatment, symptomatic and supportive treatment is the main therapeutic approach. The role of antiviral drugs in the treatment of dengue fever has been limited, but is currently widely studied...

..According to this study, the ratio between the required binding energy between the wild and mutated types is equal to 1: 1.16...

..Estrogen is an important female hormone. The estrogen receptor (ER) plays a critical role in the development of breast cancer. Mutations within the ER can have clinically significant consequences...

..Neurological manifestations of swine flu have been reported, but there is not much documentation. This note briefly summarizes what is known about the neurological manifestation of swine flu...

..However, in additional to standard treatment, the role of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) should be mentioned...

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..Here, the authors used the advanced nanomedicine technique for modification of the basic blood group test for detection of weak B subgroup. Of interest, it can be seen that gold nanoparticle can help increase the agglutination reaction...

..However, data on the impact of malaria on this parameter are ambiguous...

..In this work, the author discusses on the synergistic effect of concomitant usage of the two drugs and also further notes on the myth in using this combination...

..The induction of abnormal electroencephalography is also mentioned. The observation on the effect of present crisis in pediatric neurology can provide more information and help better understand this topic...

..In this article, non-malignant thyroid disease after exposure to radioactive elements during nuclear explosion was reviewed and discussed...

..In oncology, there is no doubt that exposure to nuclear leakage can cause cancer. In this particular brief article, the author discusses the existing evidence of nuclear denotation and the incidence of cancer...

..A solution of gold nanoparticles was mixed with a blood sample and analysed. The results showed platelet aggregation. This finding could be useful for the development of new haemostatic drugs...

..There are emerging questions on the adverse effect and toxicity of melamine. Acute renal failure due to acute melamine intoxication is reported. In this paper, the author will briefly discuss on the problem of melamine in obstetrics...

..This review summarizes some of the recent published patents on malarial vaccines covering antigens, candidate epitopes and recombinant processing...

..This paper summarizes those non vector-borne transmissions of dengue including vertical transmission, transfusion related transmission, transplantation related transmission, and needle-stick-related transmission...

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..It seems that the alternative, 4 h, gives the most effectiveness in the shortest period of turnaround time. Hence, this alternative is recommended for screening proteinuria...

..In medicine, there is limited knowledge on the toxicity of nanoparticles. In medicine, there has been limited knowledge on the effect of nanoparticles on the white blood cell...

..Malarial merozoite surface protein 1 (MSP-1) may have value as a protective immunogen in novel vaccines against malaria. This study was performed to find potential T-cell epitopes for MSP-1 of Plasmodium vivax...

..To study the effect of different numbers of repeats of the AR...

..This new disease becomes pandemic at present. In this specific article, epidemiology, symptomatology, pathology, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of swine flu disease are discussed and described in the light of current literature...

..These results provide good information for further study in diabetes medicine. However, further experimental works are required to support this in silico research...

..Here, the author covers the use of H. pylori screening as a strategy based on an economical analysis in the scenario of a tropical developing country...

..In this article, the recent patients relating to bird flu infection covering the diagnostic and treatment aspects for both avian species and human are reviewed and discussed...

..Due to this, for decades in Thailand, rural service has been mandatory for healthcare workers...

..It is accepted that hepatitis C virus is an oncogenic virus that can lead to liver cancer. Some recent researches also mentioned the possibility of hepatitis C virus as a risk for renal cell carcinoma...

..Based on the present appraisal, colonoscopy without pre-screening occult blood test provides more cost effectiveness than colonoscopy with such pre-screening...

..The reasons that we need the swine flu vaccine will be discussed. Also, the present status, current attempts and problems of swine flu vaccine development will be presented in this commentary...

..Finally, the author also discussed on the importance of leishmaniasis in Thailand relating to the present globalization and good traveling system...

..This editorial focuses on the usefulness of the case report on emerging infectious disease to the medical society. Publication in this area is highly welcomed by the journal and can serve as a future point of reference...

..Those new anti-inflammatory drugs are developed expecting for the better pharmacological reaction. In this article, the author will briefly review on the patents on new topical anti-inflammatory drug...

..Luckily, with the present wide distribution of HAART, the prevalence of the opportunistic intestinal protozoa infections is significantly decreased...

..The determined peptides are useful for further vaccine development because it can reduce the time and minimize the total number of required tests to find the possible proper epitopes, the target for vaccine development...

..Clinical findings of oxygen depletion in abnormal hemoglobin should therefore be due to the other processes rather than genomics, proteomics, and expression levels...

..The total energy requirement for C-C cleavage was negative, implying that this reaction can occur without any external energy source. The resulting complex fits the reported tertiary structure model for the deferiprone-iron complex...

..However, there are a number of atypical forms of dengue infection including those presented with liver dysfunction. However, there are only a few reports concerning the liver dysfunction among the patients with dengue infections...

..However, knowledge on the human BRCA1-estrogen receptor alpha-estrogen complex is limited. Here, the author focuses on its 3D molecular structure and properties...

..Travelers' diarrhea is an important gastrointestinal disorder in developing countries...

..In this article, the author reviews the issues on vaccination of some important tropical mosquito borne infectious diseases...

..To use new medical imaging technology to predict the motility pattern of Trichomonas vaginalis within the vagina...

..05). Here, the lymphopenia can be documented as an important characteristic of blood picture in the patients with SARS or it can indicate that "SARS is a viral-induced lymphopenia disease"...

..The main purpose of this pilot study was to assess knowledge of leptospirosis among a sample of rural villagers in the highly endemic area, Thailand...

..A new drug that can inhibit M. leprae binding to and activation of, ErbB2 and Erk1/2 in primary Schwann cells is the new therapeutic option. However, the ligand-binding pattern of ErbB2 has never been clarified...

..In this study, the author assesses the effect of various sizes of immune complex in three common GN diseases on the biomechanics of blood flow in the renal vascular. Further discussion on the impact on hypertension is also provided...

..For prevention, vaccination is an important infection control method. In this brief article, the author will discuss the importance of vaccination in a post-earthquake situation...

..8%, 76.4%, 23.6% and 27.2%, respectively. Therefore, we can conclude that estimation of maternal CRP is not helpful in the detection of chorioamnionitis, compared with standard investigations...

..According to this study, the frequency of DD genotype in group 1 is significant higher than group 2 (p < 0.05). In addition, the author first reports a non-significant correlation between the ethnicity and the ACE gene polymorphism...

..With prolonged glucosuria, the impairment of glomerulus, decrease in pore size, develops. Finally, the albuminuria occurs as late complication...

..However, this study focused on only 33 cross-sectional surveys in Thailand; further similar study in other countries to assess the correlation between rainfall and the prevalence of infection is required to substantiate this conclusion...

..Gathering of the energy from the nearby cellular compartment during formation of HbA(1c) might be an important pathological process...

..59 +/- 11.29 mg/L. The average percentage of parasitemia was 3.4 +/- 3.5 % (range 2 to 13 %). According to this study, there is significant correlation between both parameters (r = 0.921; p < 0.05)...

..In this report, general aspects of some important genetic disorders and malaria in Indo-China area (Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, Vietnam, Yunnan and Manipur) are summarized and discussed...

..The consistency of the repeat analysis results are an orderly decrease from epithelium (4 days), red blood cell (3 days), white blood cell (3 days), and cast (2 days). However, as time passes, reliability decreases...

..The common screening methods include red blood cell (RBC) index determination, application of mathematical model and hemoglobin electrophoresis...

..In the present study, the author used the technique named molecular dicing to study the interaction surface between the two molecules. Accordingly, the interaction surface in c-Scr and imatinib could be identified...

..An investigation was carried out in Thailand to study the correlation between rainfall and prevalence of dengue infection during 2002-03, which can be used for prevention and control of the disease...

..The frequency of the DD genotype in Group 1 is not significantly different from that in Group 2 (P>.05). In addition, the author first reports a nonsignificant correlation between ethnicity and ACE gene polymorphism...

..Of the studied parameters, it was found that urine protein was significantly different (p < 0.05) in vegans and controls. Vegans had significantly lower urine protein level...

..This can prevent possible problems and make the physician' listener continue to respect the physician's words...

..Abnormalities in the fold structure of globin in Hb Pakse were identified, and helices additional to the normal alpha globin chains were shown in the elongated part of Hb Pakse...

..In conclusion, bleeding presentation in patients with bird flu might relate to the pathology of platelets. Based on present knowledge, there is no report of thrombotic complication in H5N1 infection...

..In this article, problem of using hemoglobin A1C measurement in endemic area of hemoglobinopathy is addressed...

..It can be seen that the amino acid in the middle portion of the sequence pose high antigenicity. This part could be selected for further vaccine development...

..No significant difference was found between urine hippuric acid level between both groups. The data from the current study indicates that smoking does not influence the urinary hippuric acid levels in this study group...

..015 +/- 0.053 mg/g creatinine) (p < 0.05). We recommend the monitoring of urine ttMA in these workers. The monitoring of the possible benzene contamination of the water and fish is recommended for further study...

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..05). Working in the air pollution in the urban area can be health hazard for the police. Exposure to the benzene from automobile exhaust can be an important occupational problem for these police...