Most of the Dust Has Settled

Microparticles in Crohn's disease--has the dust settled?

Most of the Dust Has Settled: cKit+ Progenitor Cells Are an Irrelevant Source of Cardiac Myocytes In Vivo.

+ cells in the heart are not cardiac stem cells Sultana et al T hat cKit + progenitor cells can transdifferentiate into new cardiac myocytes as a means of regenerating the heart after infarction injury has been hotly debated for nearly 15 years. A recent publication using exhaustive genetic reporters and lineage tracing shows definitively that endogenous cKit + cells in the heart are in fact en...

“ New paradigms ” in MT : the state of play now that the dust has settled

Harold L. SOMERS Centre for Computational Linguistics UMIST, PO Box 88, Manchester M60 1QD, England [email protected] 1. Background In 1988, at the Second TMI conference at Carnegie Mellon University, IBM’s Peter Brown shocked the audience by presenting an approach to Machine Translation (MT) which was quite unlike anything that most of the audience had ever seen or even dreamed of before....

The Role of Weakly Acidic Reflux in Proton Pump Inhibitor Failure, Has Dust Settled?

Patients that do not respond satisfactorily to standard proton pump inhibitor (PPI) treatment have become the most common presentation of gastro-esophageal reflux disease (GERD) in third referral gastrointestinal practices. The causes of refractory GERD include lack of compliance with treatment, residual acid reflux and weakly acidic reflux, esophageal hypersensitivity and persistent symptoms n...

Has echinococcus granulosus settled in Hokkaido?

Two fbms of human echinococcosis or hydatidosis have been reportedinJapan: alveolar hydatidosis (AHD), which is caused by larval Echinococcus multilocularis, and cystic hydatidosis (CHD), which is caused by larval E. granulosus ( 1 ). Thee hundred and eighty-three AHD cases were reported from 1937-1998 in Hokkaido, a large northemmost island of Japan (2). In contrast, CHD cases were reported fr...