Atopic dermatitis (AD) in children usually get better with increasing age-Why?

Sixty percent of children with AD are seen to clear of the disease by 10 years of age. It happens due to age specific changes in immunity and skin barrier function. What is/ are the immunological...

01 January 1970 6,083 4 View

Are you in favour of prescribing systemic corticosteroids in all cases of erythroderma?

Despite diverse etiologies in erythroderma , the end stage immunologic pathways are similar. As results there are similar clinical findings irrespective of causes. But in some cases systemic...

01 January 1970 7,201 4 View

Gross national happiness (GNH) index.

GNH index is used to measure the collective happiness and well being of a population. How is it calculated? Is it a substitute for gross domestic products (GDP)?

01 January 1970 2,210 2 View

Detection of fetal cells in maternal tissues.

There is a bidirectional flow of fetal and maternal cells in pregnancy. Fetal cells migrate and resides in breast tissue, thyroid tissue, skin and so on in mothers body. How can we detect these...

01 January 1970 703 3 View

Early detection of dengue.

We go for NS1 (antigen) testing to diagnose dengue. In some cases NS1 may be negative. Antibodies take a few days to develop. How dengue could be diagnosed prior to development of antibodies...

01 January 1970 8,404 9 View

Criteria of an ideal teacher.

Teaching is a noble profession. A teacher is he, who is engaged in teaching. A teacher helps students to acquire knowledge, competence and virtue (Wikipedia). In many cases we use the term ideal...

01 January 1970 6,846 16 View

RG members stats over view: A question.

Two RG member's stats over view are as follows: Member 1: 175 reads and 229 citations Member 2: 302 reads and 679 citations How the number of citations could be more than number of reads? Can a...

01 January 1970 9,433 7 View

Most effective therapeutic option for seborrhoeic dermatitis (SD).

SD runs a very chronic course like that of Diabetes or hypertension but SD is not asymptomatic. It produces many symptoms. Pruritus is one of them which is sometimes unbearable. Many treatment...

01 January 1970 7,149 3 View

Prenatal Vit-D supplementation.

Prenatal Vit-D supplementation is a common practice. Is there any positive impact of these supplementation on fetal health?

01 January 1970 8,647 4 View

First line systemic therapy for moderate to severe atopic dermatitis in children.

01 January 1970 8,245 2 View

What are the values needed for gabor filter's parameter for cifar10 data?

Hi, I implemented a code to gabor filter cifar10 data but the images after being filtered and stacked are not clear like the original images. I think the problem is in the way I am using the...

03 March 2021 6,317 1 View

What are the most reliable approaches to extract key continuous frames from a video, with complete automation?

I have an input video, of skin (from a microscope that means it is magnified such that blood capillaries are visible). The idea is to extract 15 sec of continuous frames from a video of 1 min,...

02 March 2021 2,735 2 View

New Journal, "Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science" -- do you not know, and have you not seen, this done before?

Question to you and THEM, the New Journal, "Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science" -- do you not know, and have you not seen, this done before? There appears to be a core problem for...

02 March 2021 3,024 2 View

Which cell line should we use to perform biological dosimetry experiments?

We are preparing some experiments based on irradiating cells under different conditions in order to evaluate the effects in terms of DNA damage, genetic expression, etc. As our project is...

01 March 2021 3,355 3 View

Is it necessary to report effect size (ES) in statistics of biomedical research given that we already report p values routinely?

Pls share your thoughts

01 March 2021 7,330 4 View

Which reagent is best among 'Dimethylglyoxime" and "Dithiothreitol" for spectroscopic determination of Nickel ?

What I think is Dithiothreitol. As it is water-soluble and does not form a precipitate. But, the thing is it contains sulphur which is quite hazardous to aquatic animals.

01 March 2021 8,374 4 View

How can we simulate an hyperelastic-viscoelastic behavor with Ansys APDL?

I am working on modeling and simulation of biomecanical material behaviour, I have succeded on simulating skin using anisotropic hyperelastic material, on APDL and in our lab's finite element...

28 February 2021 552 3 View

For modelling epoxy-based matrices (in composites), which model in ABAQUS is the most suitable, Concrete damaged plasticity or Drucker-Prager model?

I am working on developing a micromechanical FE model for predicting kink-band formation in UD composites. To model matrix plasticity, which model, out of Concrete Damaged Plasticity and...

28 February 2021 5,415 1 View

B-mercaptoethanol (BME) protocol?

Hi everybody, I have been running a multiplex IHC which allow me to stain the same tissue with different markers (Primary Ab + Secondary conjugated Ab) (AF487, AF555, AF647). Since I would like to...

27 February 2021 5,028 2 View

What is the best surface to culture cells isolated from a skin biopsy?

Hello, recently I am having some difficulties with maintaining the cell culture of primary cells isolated from a skin biopsy (normal and malignant). The coating of culture plates with Matrigel (a...

26 February 2021 6,151 2 View