A brain in doubt leaves it out

Getting in Shape? Leaves work it out with KANADI1.

Maybe your New Year’s resolution involved getting in shape—that’s something developing leaves do all the time. Instead of working on their abs and glutes, however, leaves specify adaxial (upper) and abaxial (lower) cell fates (reviewed in Yamaguchi et al., 2012). This polarity initiates from signals within the shoot apical meristem, which cause the two sides of the leaf to develop different cel...

Performance of the “if in doubt, cut it out” rule for the management of nodular melanoma

BACKGROUND The recognition of nodular melanoma is clinically challenging, and the diagnostic accuracy of dermoscopy and confocal microscopy is lower than for superficial spreading melanoma. OBJECTIVES To test a management strategy consisting in the excision of any nodular lesion that cannot be confidently and precisely classified as a benign tumor after clinical and dermoscopic examination. ...

Breasts, bellies, below, and beyond: body piercing jewelry and the transfer technique--when in doubt, don't necessarily take it out!

30 9 body piercing, or implants, have been practiced in become increasingly common to remove body jewelry for 31 10 societies across the world for thousands of years. In diagnostic imaging (computed tomography/magnetic reso32 11 recent years, these practices have become more common nance imaging) or surgical procedures. However, the ques33 12 and widespread, moving beyond what we might have pre...

doubt about prediction role of s100b protein in brain death

Doubt About Prediction Role of S100B Protein in Brain Death

1Minimally Invasive Surgery Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran 2Department of Epidemiology, Faculty of Public Health, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran 3Department of Surgery, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran 4Department of Toxicology and Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Imam Hossein Hospital...