Background NICE guidance exists for the use of faecal calprotectin (FC) when irritable bowel
syndrome or inflammatory bowel disease are suspected. Often, however, colorectal cancer …

Phagocytosis is defined as the ingestion of particulates over 0.5 µm in diameter and is
associated with cells of the immune system such as macrophages or monocytes. Neurones are …

Aim: Access to colonoscopy was limited during the Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19)
pandemic peak. It was, therefore, of great importance that a tool such as faecal …

From a security standpoint, manual code review is widely regarded as a dependable
practice, particularly in systems with heightened security needs. However, it is also a time-…

We present a case of an 87-year-old female who presented 3 months following an emergency
Hartmann's procedure for perforated diverticulum with per rectum bleed. She was found to …

Background Treatment of pediatric T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) has improved,
but there is a considerable fraction of patients experiencing a poor outcome. There is a …

More than 1200 isolates of lactic acid bacteria isolated from different environments were
screened for antifungal activity in a dual-culture agar plate assay. Approximately 10% of the …

Objectives To develop and evaluate a fully automatic method to measure diameters of the
ascending and descending aorta on non-ECG-gated, non-contrast computed tomography (CT…

A case of small-bowel obstruction after insertion of a percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy
(PEG) tube is described. At laparotomy, the PEG tube was found to have penetrated the …

The electronic spectrum of the UO 2 molecule has been determined using multiconfigurational
wave functions together with the inclusion spin−orbit coupling. The molecule has been …