The concept that pregnancy is associated with immune suppression has created a myth of
pregnancy as a state of immunological weakness and, therefore, of increased susceptibility to …

Cryotherapy is a common treatment modality after orthopedic surgery procedures. Single
institutional randomized clinical trials have evaluated the efficacy of cryotherapy after …

While LRYGB has become a cornerstone in the surgical treatment of morbidly obese patients,
concomitant cholecystectomy during LRYGB remains a matter of debate. The aim of this …

Objective: To compare length of hospital stay, in-hospital complications, in-hospital mortality,
and rate of routine discharge between laparoscopic and open appendectomy based on a …

Background The mechanisms of vascular thrombosis and pregnancy loss in the
antiphospholipid-antibody syndrome are unknown. Levels of annexin V, a phospholipid-binding …

Objective: To assess the morbidity after sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy compared with
SLN and completion level I and II axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) in a prospective …

Key points • The discovery of microRNAs (miRNAs) has established new mechanisms that
control health, but little is known about the regulation of skeletal muscle miRNAs in response …

Since the invading trophoblast represents a semi‐allograft, it should be rejected by the mother.
It has, therefore, been postulated that during normal pregnancy the trophoblast evades …

We have developed a novel single-chain Ep-CAM-/CD3-bispecific single-chain antibody
construct designated MT110. MT110 redirected unstimulated human peripheral T cells to …

Obtaining primary human endometrial stromal cells (HESCs) for in vitro studies is limited by
the scarcity of adequate human material and the inability to passage these cells in culture for …