Abstract Background In cemented primary total knee arthroplasty (TKA), aseptic loosening remains a major cause for failure.Cementing techniques and characteristics of a chosen cement play a key role for good fixation and implant survival.A pastry bone cement was developed to facilitate the cement preparation and to rule out most of preparation-asso
Graphene-enabled wireless communications constitute a novel paradigm which has been proposed to implement wireless communications among nanosystems.Indeed, graphene-based plasmonic nano-antennas, or graphennas, just a few micrometers in size have been predicted to radiate electromagnetic waves at the terahertz band.In this work, the important role
BackgroundTraumatic brain injury (TBI) may be a risk factor for criminal behaviour however multiple factors potentially confound the association.MethodsRecord linkage and Cox proportional Bowl Brushes hazards regression analyses were used to examine the association between hospital-recorded TBI (n = 7,694) and subsequent first criminal conviction i
Abstract Regenerative medicine approaches to enhancing beta cell growth and survival represent potential treatments for diabetes.It is known that growth factors such as insulin, IGF-1 and HGF support beta cell growth and survival, but in people with type 2 diabetes the destructive effects of metabolic stress predominate and beta cell death or dysfu