In many physiological processes, peptides play a critical role as neurotrans mitters, hormones, antibiotics, etc. They have research importance in fields such as immunology, pharmacology, neuroscience and cell biology. There are many approaches for immunotherapies: some of them use the peptides as important components of chimeric molecules for immu...

By Nikolina Mihaylova, Andrey Tchorbanov

Arteriovenous fistula (AVF) between the external iliac artery (AIE) and external iliac vein (VIE) after trauma is rare. Rarely, it occurs that fistula is accompanied by an aneurysm of external iliac artery. Two thirds of AVF occur after stab wounds, one third after puncture wounds and only one percent after blunt injuries. A 32-year-old male visite...

By Nenad Ilić, Milan Jovanović, Zoran Damnjanović, Goran Stanojević

There are three adhesive restorative systems: etch and rinse (total etch), self etch and glass ionomer systems. Marginal gap and alteration of marginal enamel around composite and glass ionomer restoration may be influenced by the use of adhesive restorative procedure. The aim of this study was to evaluate the marginal integrity and morphology of t...

By Stefan Dačić, Dragica Simonović Dačić, Goran Radičević, Aleksandar Mitić, Goran Tošić, Ivan Ristić, Stefan Veličković

The aim of this paper was to determine how the needs of the Serbian health sector have been identified by the main donor and its implementation partners. The conceptual and analytical framework was synthesized and developed from the literature review and based on The Sphere Project, WHO and World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine prot...

By Sonja Novak

The aim of the study was to evaluate the effects of simvastatin therapy on bone mineral density in hypercholesterolemic postmenopausal women. Fifty-three women, mean age 62,92  +6,08 years treated at the Institute for Treatment and Rehabilitation Niška Banja were included into this study. All patients were divided into two groups: I gro...

By Todorka Savić, Dimitrije Janković, Irena Janković, Vladmila Bojanić, Boris Đinđić, Nataša Miladinović Tasić, Ivan Tasić

The aim of the paper was to examine the neuroendocrine differentiation of endocrine cells and neurons of myenteric plexus of fetal duodenum. The material consisted of duodenums of 14 fetuses of different gender, in the third and fifth month of gestational age. Fetal duodenal tissue was fixed in the Bouin solution, routinely processed and embedded i...

By Ivan Nikolić, Vera Todorović, Aleksandar Petrović, Dejan Mitić

The most often used reperfusion strategy for patients with STEMI is still thrombolysis, but it is not the end of treatment. The aim of this paper was to show whether routine in-hospital coronary angiography and subsequent revascularization (percutaneous or surgery) after thrombolysis improve an one-year prognosis in patients with STEMI.  The s...

By Danijela Đorđević-Radojković, Zoran Perišić, Svetlana Apostolović, Miodrag Damjanović, Milan Pavlović, Dušan Milenković

There is nearly a unanimous standpoint that fissure system is the "region sensitive to caries". These difficulties imposed the consideration of efficient protection of the fissure system from caries. For final realization of this method, both adequate selection and comprehensive planned application of contemporary materials is necessary (composite ...

By Lidija Mladenović, Dragan Mladenović, Sanja Mladenović

Although arterial hypertension is an important factor contributing to cardiovascular complications in coronary patients with and without diabetes mellitus (DM), target values of blood pressure are rarely achieved in practice. The aim of the study was to compare the attainment of target blood pressure in patients with DM who survived myocardial infa...

By Emina Aleksić, Radmila Stamenković, Marina Deljanin-Ilić, Ivan Tasić, Todorka Savić, Aca Vacić

Acute pancreatitis (AP) is an inflammatory process of the pancreatic parenchyma resulting in glandular autodigestion initiated by pancreatic enzymes. At the onset of AP, parenchymal edema and adiponecrosis occur (acute edematous pancreatitis). If necrosis spreads to the parenchyma, accompanied by hemorrhage and dysfunction of the gland, the conditi...

By Ivana Đorđević, Miroslav Jeremić, Miroslav Stojanović, Irena Janković, Karin Vasić, Mihajlo Djordjević