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 | Excimer laser coronary atherectomy in septal collaterals during retrograde recanalization of a chronic... | Figure 2: Selective visualization of the septal collaterals (arrow) with a microcatheter (Quick cross, Spectranetics, USA).Bottom Line: Management of chronic total occlusions has been refined through the development of a retrograde approach via collateral pathways.We describe here the use of excimer laser coronary atherectomy in the septal collaterals.This appraoch was not yet described in... | Ohlow MA, Lotze U, Lauer B - Heart Int (2011) |
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 | Radiofrequency exposure near high-voltage lines. |  Bottom Line: The present work does not question these results but is intended to draw attention to a possible concurrent cause that might also increase the incidence of this disease; the presence on an electric grid of radiofrequency currents used for communications and... | Vignati M, Giuliani L - Environ. Health Perspect. (1997) |
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 | Artificial external glottic device for passive lung insufflation. | Figure 1: A fully assembled apparatus for measuring LIC with the artificial external glottic device (LICA): a resuscitation bag is connected to the AEGD.Connection part (A); Control part (B). LIC, lung insufflation capacity; AEGD, artificial external glottic device;...Bottom Line: In order to confirm the utility of AEGD, vital capacity, maximum insufflation capacity (MIC), and lung insufflation capacity (LIC) with AEGD (LICA) were measured.For 30 patients, MICs were initially zero.The mean LICA was 1,622.7±526.8 mL.Although MIC was... | Kim DH, Kang SW, Park YG, Choi WA, Lee HR - Yonsei Med. J. (2011) |
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 | Platelets pull in progenitors | fig1: Bone marrow–derived progenitor cells (BM-PC) bind directly to platelets (Plt) at sites of blood vessel injury.Bottom Line: Not Available. | |
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 | Aneurysm of the Superior Posterior Pancreatic-Duodenal Artery Presenting with Recurrent Syncopes. | Figure 2: Selective angiography of the superior mesenteric artery. Approximately 5 cm from the major branch a small bleeding infarction is visible. Also, a large connection between the superior mesenteric artery and the celiac trunk via the gastroduodenal artery is present....Bottom Line: We present a 61-year-old woman with hypovolemic shock due to a ruptured aneurysm of the superior posterior pancreatic-duodenal artery in whom recurrent syncopes were the first presenting sign of pancreatic-duodenal artery aneurysm (PDAA).PDAA is a rare but... | van Doesburg IA, Boerma D, van Leersum M, et al. - Case Rep Gastroenterol (2009) |
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 | Comparative genomic analysis of mycobacteriophage Tweety: evolutionary insights and construction of compatible... | f1: Virion morphology of Tweety. Electron micrograph of mycobacteriophage Tweety particles. Scale bar, 100 nm.Bottom Line: The Tweety genome is 58 692 bp in length, contains 109 protein-coding genes, and shows significant but interrupted nucleotide sequence similarity with the previously described mycobacteriophages Llij, PMC and Che8.A gene encoding an integrase of the tyrosine-recombinase... | Pham TT, Jacobs-Sera D, Pedulla ML, Hendrix RW, et al. - Microbiology (Reading, Engl.) (2007) |
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 | Comparison of the effectiveness of embolic agents for bronchial artery embolization: gelfoam versus polyvinyl... | Figure 1: 39-year-old male with hemoptysis in right lower lobe.A. Bronchial angiography showed bleeding from right bronchial artery which originated from intercostobronchial trunk.B. After embolization with 2-Fr microcatheter, follow-up bronchial angiography showed no...Bottom Line: The clinical success and mid-term results (percentage of patients who were free of hemoptysis) were compared at 1 and 12 months after the procedure, respectively.Neither the technical successes (group 1; 85%, 2; 85%, 3; 90%) nor the clinical successes (group... | Hahn S, Kim YJ, Kwon W, Cha SW, Lee WY - Korean J Radiol (2010) |
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![SEM images after positively charged silver nanoparticles were sprayed onto the negatively charged e-beam pattern. About 0.7 μm thick lines were generated over a large area with doses as low as 50 nC/cm2, showing the feasibility of ultrafast patterning by electrostatic lithography. (A) Scale bar = 50 μm. (B) Scale bar = 10 μm. (Reprinted with permission from Reference [133]. Copyright 2006 AVS The Science & Technology Society.)](/imgs/rescaled137/3246612_1556-276X-2-519-10.png) | Strategies for controlled placement of nanoscale building blocks. | Figure 10: SEM images after positively charged silver nanoparticles were sprayed onto the negatively charged e-beam pattern. About 0.7 μm thick lines were generated over a large area with doses as low as 50 nC/cm2, showing the feasibility of ultrafast patterning by electrostatic...Bottom Line: ABSTRACT: The capability of placing individual nanoscale building blocks on exact substrate locations in a controlled manner is one of the key requirements to realize future electronic, optical, and magnetic devices and sensors that are composed of such blocks.This... | Koh S - Nanoscale Res Lett (2007) |
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 | A presumptive developmental role for a sea urchin cyclin B splice variant. | Figure 12: CBsv microinjection induces first cell cycle lengthening and developmental disorders in sea urchin embryos. CBsv (1 μM final concentration) was microinjected before fertilization in sea urchin eggs. Pictures were then taken during cleavage of microinjected...Bottom Line: It is found strikingly abundant in growing oocytes and cells committed to differentiation during embryogenesis.Cyclin B splice variant (CBsv) protein associates weakly in the cell with Xenopus cdc2 and with budding yeast CDC28p.We assume that CBsv is produced... | Lozano JC, Schatt P, Marquès F, Peaucellier G, et al. - J. Cell Biol. (1998) |
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 | Vaporization of perfluorocarbon droplets using optical irradiation. | g004: Droplet vaporization observed via optical microscopy. The initial droplet size was 4.5 µm (left). The bubble size was 19.5 µm one second after vaporization (right). The scale bar is 30 µm.Bottom Line: The photoacoustic response was proportional to nanoparticle loading and successful optical droplet vaporization of individual PFC droplets was confirmed using photoacoustic, acoustic, and optical measurements.A minimum laser fluence of 1.4 J/cm(2) was required... | Strohm E, Rui M, Gorelikov I, Matsuura N, et al. - Biomed Opt Express (2011) |
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 | Malaria Panel Assay versus PCR: detection of naturally infected Anopheles melas in a coastal village... | Figure 3: Fragments obtained from DNA amplification by PCR. Lines with the mark (+) correspond to positive amplifications of P. falciparum parasites from salivary glands. The last fragments to the right correspond to positive and negative controls.Bottom Line: By using PCR as the gold standard method when dipstick assay was compared, matching results were obtained for 6 mosquitoes and, in one case MRP was positive while PCR was not reactive.MRP assay showed a low sensitivity (3.3%) when compared with falciparum-DNA... | Moreno M, Cano J, Nzambo S, Bobuakasi L, Buatiche JN, et al. - Malar. J. (2004) |
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 | Identification by automated screening of a small molecule that selectively eliminates neural stem cells... | pone-0007155-g005: Effect of solTNFα on NSC survival.3 concentrations of solTNFα (0.1 µM, 1 µM and 10 µM) were added to freshly seeded NSC cultures. Cells were evaluated up to 24 hours for signs of cell death. No increase in cell death relative to untreated cultures was...Bottom Line: Amiodarone HCL was found to be selectively toxic to NSCs but not to differentiated neurons or glial cells.The gene expression analysis suggests that activation of cell-type specific cationic channels may underlie the toxicity of the drug.In conclusion, we have... | Han Y, Miller A, Mangada J, Liu Y, Swistowski A, et al. - PLoS ONE (2009) |
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 | A double mutation of the ryanodine receptor type 1 gene in a malignant hyperthermia family with multiminicore... | Figure 4: Electron micrographs showing streaming and disruption of irregular Z-lines, and the amorphous cores from individuals III-17 (A) and III-1 (B).Bottom Line: Haplotyping analysis revealed that the two missense heterozygous mutations (c.7304G>A and c.12891C>T) were always present on a common haplotype allele, and were closely cosegregated with histological multiminicores and elevated serum CK.All the subjects with... | Jeong SK, Kim DC, Cho YG, Sunwoo IN, Kim DS - J Clin Neurol (2008) |
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 | Stenting in the treatment of acute ischemic stroke: literature review. | Figure 2: Cerebral angiogram shows a left MCA-M1 occlusion (A), which was successfully recanalized with deployment of a self-expandable stent (B). Intraarterial infusion of tissue plasminogen activator (25 MG) and thrombectomy with the Concentric Merci Retriever failed...Bottom Line: The use of these devices yielded higher recanalization rates compared to traditional thrombectomy devices.Encouraged by these results, retrievable SES systems have been recently used in AIS.Some of these stents can also be detached in case permanent stent placement... | Samaniego EA, Dabus G, Linfante I - Front Neurol (2011) |
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