Background: Caregiving to bedridden patients in India is set to become a major problem in future.Objective: To ascertain the profile of caregivers for the adult bedridden patients in Chandigarh, India.Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on 100 purposively selected bedridden people.The Katz Index of Bike Parts - Seatposts
Solitary Rectal Ulcer Syndrome (SRUS) is an uncommon rectal disorder.Severe rectal bleeding, anaemia and a mass on evaluation are a rare presentation of SRUS, and can pose as an endoscopic challenge in differentiating from other causes of rectal bleeding.The incidence of SRUS is 1 in 100,000 people per year.Hence, a high degree of suspicion and tim
Hybrids have been successfully used to improve crop productivity, including Brassicas.Nucleo-cytoplasmic interactions have been reported to influence the expression of resistance to insect pests in several crops.We studied the effects of Cytoplasmic Male Sterility (CMS) in Brassica juncea carrying alien cytoplasms and their respective maintainer (B
The shortnose sturgeon, Acipenser brevirostrum, oft considered a phylogenetic relic, is listed as an "endangered species threatened with extinction" in the US and "Vulnerable" on the IUCN Red List.Effective conservation of A.brevirostrum depends on understanding its diversity and evolutionary processes, yet challenges associated with the polyploid
Abstract Background Bacterial vaginosis (BV) has been most consistently linked to sexual behaviour, and the epidemiological profile of BV mirrors that of established sexually transmitted infections (STIs).It remains a matter of debate however whether BV pathogenesis does actually involve sexual transmission of pathogenic micro-organisms from men to