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Innate immunity includes defensins

COMMENTARY We would like to comment on the comprehensive review of Karantanos and Gazouli in Annals of Gastroenterology [1] about genetics and innate immunity in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The authors appreciate the important role of innate immune sensing and the production of antimicrobial peptides in maintaining the integrity of the mucosal barrier. Pertinent studies on the subject are...

Neillia Includes Stephanandra (Rosaceae)

Recent phylogenetic analyses of tribe Neillieae in Rosaceae, which comprises Neillia, Physocarpus, and Stephanandra, based on both nuclear and chloroplast DNA sequences revealed that Neillia and Stephanandra together form a strongly supported monophyletic group and that species of Stephanandra are nested within Neillia. The close relationship between Neillia and Stephanandra is also supported b...

No needle to fear: An approach to needle phobic patients

   18F-FDG is the most commonly used radioisotope in PET scanning and is administered intravenously. When patients cannot cannulated, there are limited options available for functional tumour assessment. A fifty year old male presented for investigation of a suspected lung carcinoma identified during investigation of pneumonia. The patient had a severe needle phobia, intellectual dis...

Towards a self-consistent plate mantle model that includes elasticity: simple benchmarks and application to basic modes of convection

S U M M A R Y One of the difficulties with self-consistent plate-mantle models capturing multiple physical features, such as elasticity, non-Newtonian flow properties and temperature dependence, is that the individual behaviours cannot be considered in isolation. For instance, if a viscous mantle convection model is generalized naively to include hypo-elasticity, then problems based on Earth-li...