The purpose of this study was to adapt and validate the Revised Practice Environment Scale of the Nursing Work Index, to be utilized among the Cyprus nurses’ population. Validated research scales are valuable tools in the hands of researchers in their attempt to recommend alterations within health care systems, especially during reform periods. Internal consistency reliability of...
Objective Nowadays, due to the technological advances of high-throughput techniques, Systems Biology has seen a tremendous growth of data generation. With network analysis, looking at biological systems at a higher level in order to better understand a system, its topology and the relationships between its components is of a great importance. Gene expression, signal transduction...
, Georgios Efstathiou†1, Nikolas Papanikolaou1, Nikos C. Kyrpides2, Pantelis G. Bagos3, Ioannis Iliopoulos1Email author and Georgios A. Pavlopoulos1, 2Email author †Contributed equally BMC Research ... Arena3D [25, 26] for 3D multilayered network visualization and better handling of bipartite graphs taking into account their special topological properties. Notes Theodosios Theodosiou and Georgios
Introduction An Amyand’s hernia is a rare occurrence of an inguinal hernia, with an estimated prevalence of 1%. The major complications of an Amyand’s hernia include necrotizing fasciitis of the anterior abdominal wall and secondary intestinal perforation. Though the incidence of this type of hernia is low, the appendix may easily become initially incarcerated, possibly leading...
An Amyand’s hernia is a rare occurrence of an inguinal hernia, with an estimated prevalence of 1%. The major complications of an Amyand’s hernia include necrotizing fasciitis of the anterior abdominal wall and secondary intestinal perforation. Though the incidence of this type of hernia is low, the appendix may easily become initially incarcerated, possibly leading to...
Signaling through the T cell receptor (TCR) initiates adaptive immunity and its perturbation may results in autoimmunity. The plasma membrane scaffolding protein LAT acts as a central organizer of the TCR signaling machinery to activate many functional pathways. LAT-deficient mice develop an autoimmune syndrome but the mechanism of this pathology is unknown. In this work we have...
Introduction Tuberculous colitis is a rare form of tuberculosis and is found in immunosuppressed patients, usually with the clinical appearance of Crohn's disease. The purpose of this article is to report a rare case of tuberculous colitis in a transplant patient, presenting in the form of bowel obstruction and acute abdomen. Case presentation Methods A male patient, 51 years old...
Andrew K. Ottens 4 Greg S. Cavey 9 Georgios Efstathiou 3 James H. Scrivens 3 James I. Langridge 1 Scott J. Geromanos 8 0 Institute for Immunology, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg