Background The sepsis burden on acute care services in middle-income countries is a cause
for concern. We estimated incidence, prevalence, and mortality of sepsis in adult Brazilian …

Background Geoeconomic variations in epidemiology, the practice of ventilation, and outcome
in invasively ventilated intensive care unit (ICU) patients without acute respiratory distress …

… normal controls were considered positive, as recommended by the updated international
classification criteria of APS [14] and also following the manufacturer's instructions (> 10 U/mL …

Antibody to Epstein–Barr virus (EBV) early antigen diffuse (anti-EA-D) is associated with
viral replication. However, their possible associations with clinical/therapeutic features in …

… that are used for the production of seasonal trivalent inactivated vaccines, and it was
presented in 5-ml multidose vials, with thimerosal added as a preservative (15 μg/0.5 ml dose). …

Esophageal achalasia is a primary esophageal motility disorder characterized by the
absence of esophageal peristalsis and failure of the lower esophageal sphincter to relax in …

… ml of distilled water for 5 min, mixed for 2 min, and then boiled again for 5 min. The decoction
was cooled to room temperature and extracted by addition of 400 ml … flow rate of 1 ml.min −…

Background: The neuropeptides oxytocin and vasopressin have been repeatedly implicated
in social decision making by enhancing social salience and, generally, cooperation. The …

Time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) calculations of electronic transitions
have been widely used to determine molecular structures. The excitation wavelengths and …

… For influx experiments, 0.5 ml of the platelet suspension (1 × 10 9 platelets/ml) was incubated
with l-[ 3 H]-arginine (37 kBq/ml) at 37 C. Total transport was fractionated into diffusion and …