THORACIC EPIDURAL ANAESTHESIA AND ANALGESIA AMELIORATES SURGERY-INDUCED STRESS RESPONSE AND POSTOPERATIVE PAIN IN PATIENTS UNDERGOING RADICAL OESOPHAGECTOMY

Objective An acute severe stress response associated with major surgery can adversely affect the inflammatory and hormonal responses.We hypothesised that total intravenous anaesthesia (TIVA) combined with thoracic epidural anaesthesia and analgesia (TEA) attenuates the stress response and postoperative pain in patients undergoing radical oesophagec

The epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a cellular process critical for wound healing, cancer metastasis and embryonic development.Recent Intestinal parasitic infections in a community from Pampa del Indio, Chaco (Argentina) and their association with socioeconomic and environmental factors. efforts have identified the role of hybrid epithel

Background and setting: The global food price surge of 2006 to 2008 has negatively impacted South African households.Rising food prices adversely affect food security in South Africa.The ever-increasing prices for food commodities and lack of access to finance make it very difficult to strengthen food security amongst households in South Africa.Aim

The polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (POSS) additivated polystyrene (PS) based nanocomposites were prepared by melt processing and the structure-properties relationships of the POSS-PS systems were compared to those of the neat PS.In order to investigate the effect of these structural parameters on the final properties of the polymer nanocompos