INCIDENCE OF Y-CHROMOSOME MICRODELETIONS IN CHILDREN WHOSE FATHERS UNDERWENT VASECTOMY REVERSAL OR IN VITRO FERTILIZATION WITH EPIDIDYMAL SPERM ASPIRATION: A CASE-CONTROL STUDY

Incidence of Y-chromosome microdeletions in children whose fathers underwent vasectomy reversal or in vitro fertilization with epididymal sperm aspiration: a case-control study

ABSTRACT Objective To evaluate the Cut Off Tank incidence of Y-chromosome microdeletions in individuals born from vasectomized fathers who underwent vasectomy reversal or in vitro fertilization with sperm retrieval by epididymal aspiration (percutaneous epididymal sperm aspiration).Methods A case-control study comprising male children of couples in

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Comparative transcriptomic and proteomic signature of lung alveolar macrophages reveals the integrin CD11b as a regulatory hub during pneumococcal pneumonia infection

IntroductionStreptococcus pneumoniae is one of the main causes of community-acquired infections in the lung alveoli in children and the elderly.Alveolar macrophages (AM) patrol alveoli in homeostasis and under infectious conditions.However, the molecular adaptations of AM upon infections with Lipsticks Streptococcus pneumoniae are incompletely reso

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Use of a semiquantitative procalcitonin kit for evaluating severity and predicting mortality in patients with sepsis

Pomegranate Tsuneaki Kenzaka,1 Masanobu Okayama,2 Shigehiro Kuroki,1 Miho Fukui,3 Shinsuke Yahata,3 Hiroki Hayashi,3 Akihito Kitao,3 Eiji Kajii,2 Masayoshi Hashimoto41Division of General Medicine, 2Division of Community and Family Medicine, Center for Community Medicine, Jichi Medical University School of Medicine, Shimotsuke; 3Department of Genera

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