TAPPING THE MASTOID CELLS.

When is fluid in the mastoid cells a worrisome finding?

Mastoiditis is a common clinical entity that is technically present in all cases of otitis media; only a minority of cases actually represents the otolaryngologic emergency of acute coalescent mastoiditis. When reviewing an image with a radiologic diagnosis of mastoiditis, looking for key signs such as destruction of bony septa and considering patient presentation can help distinguish mild mast...

Tapping CD4 T Cells for Cancer

Tapping into the glial reservoir: cells committed to remaining uncommitted

The development and maturation of the oligodendrocyte requires a series of highly orchestrated events that coordinate the proliferation and differentiation of the oligodendrocyte precursor cell (OPC) as well as the spatiotemporal regulation of myelination. In recent years, widespread interest has been devoted to the therapeutic potential of adult OPCs scattered throughout the central nervous sy...

Tapping the Matrix: Revisited

The software infrastructure used on Volunteered Distributed Computing is evolving to meet the diverse needs of researchers. These emerging systems are being built using Open Source tools. We describe a number of such systems in the context of this emerging field. Throughout this paper we revisit concepts presented in the April 2004 paper entitled, “Tapping the Matrix”. 1. Machines are underutil...

Tapping the Bowel

By Surgeon A. Toji.es, Civil Surgeon Midnapore. Apropos of the question of the advisability of puncturing the inflated intestine in obstruction or strangulation, which was raised at a recent meeting of the Calcutta Medical Society. The following notes of a case in which the procedure was completely successful may be of interest. The tapping was not limited to the tumour, it was a case of Strang...