Introduction: Severe infections in critically ill patients carry a high morbidity and mortality rate. Given the impact of early and broad-spectrum empirical therapy in several studies and the emphasis on this in international guidelines, there is a low threshold for initiating antibiotics in many patients with suspected infection. This has led to t...
Objective. While transcranial focused ultrasound is a very promising neuromodulation technique for its non-invasiveness and high spatial resolution, its application to the human deep brain regions such as the subthalamic nucleus (STN) is relatively new. The objective of this study is to design a simple ultrasound transducer and study the transcrani...
Objective. While transcranial focused ultrasound is a very promising neuromodulation technique for its non-invasiveness and high spatial resolution, its application to the human deep brain regions such as the subthalamic nucleus (STN) is relatively new. The objective of this study is to design a simple ultrasound transducer and study the transcrani...
Introduction: Severe infections in critically ill patients carry a high morbidity and mortality rate. Given the impact of early and broad-spectrum empirical therapy in several studies and the emphasis on this in international guidelines, there is a low threshold for initiating antibiotics in many patients with suspected infection. This has led to t...
Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) non-B subtype infections occurred in Belgium since the 1980s, mainly amongst migrants and heterosexuals, whereas subtype B predominated in men-having-sex-with-men (MSM). In the last decade, the diagnosis of F1 sub-subtype in particular has increased substantially, which prompted us to perform a detailed r...
Objective : The QUO VADIS study evaluated disease activity and health-related quality-of-life (HRQoL) in ankylosing spondylitis (AS) patients treated with golimumab (GLM) or infliximab (IFX, originator) during routine clinical care. Methods : 'This prospective observational study followed biologics-naive AS patients newly treated with GLM or IFX fo...
Hydrogels have been used in the literature in tissue engineering, in drug delivery, and as enzyme biomimics. Herein, we report the synthesis of a functional biomaterial using BSA as scaffold and epichlorohydrin as cross-linker. The hydrogels reported in this paper were shown to exhibit tunable pore size as a function of BSA concentration by scannin...
This work evaluates the magnetically-guided delivery of DOX-loaded dendritic-Fe3O4 nanoparticles and their tumor regression efficacy in subcutaneous melanoma in C57BL/6 mice. The hematological, biochemical and histopathological parameters were minimally affected. The nanoparticles localized in lungs, liver and spleen suggesting non-specific uptake....
In this work, an efficient superparamagnetic iron oxide-reduced graphene oxide (Fe3O4-RGO) nanohybrid has been synthesized following one-step co-precipitation method. The phase identification, microstructure and magnetic behavior of nanohybrid were characterized by X-ray diffraction, transmission electron microscopy (TEM), raman spectroscopy and vi...
