Tricky Anomaly

Tricky trichomonas

I ended a relationship about a year ago. I have always seemed to have a yeast infection when I went to doctors before. In my relationship I had went to the doctors before because of discharge and just told them I didn?t need to really be looked at because I know what it is. Well at the end of my relationship I went to the doctor to get a whole check-up. Come to find out that what I thought was ...

How TriC Folds Tricky Proteins

How chaperonins orchestrate the successful folding of even the most elaborate of proteins is a question of central importance. In two recent studies in Cell by Joachimiak et al. and Freund et al., a new class of TRiC substrate is identified, and how the chaperonin exploits its different subunits to extend its substrate repertoire and direct productive folding is revealed.

Vitamin D: the tricky hormone.

Prolonged QT interval: a tricky diagnosis?

Prolonged heart-rate adjusted QT intervals on the electrocardiogram (ECG) are associated with an increased risk for coronary heart disease and sudden death. However, the diagnosis of the prolonged QT interval is hampered by lack of standards. We studied variations in the prevalence of prolonged QT, based on different common definitions, in a large nonhospitalized population, and compared our re...

Propofol-dip for tricky stent delivery

A 70-year-old male patient was referred for closure of patent foramen ovale after recurrent transient cerebral ischaemia. A 25-mm Amplatzer PFO occluder was implanted. Thereafter and due to his age and a history of chest pain during the past six months, we performed coronary angiograms which demonstrated tight stenosis of the distal part and significant stenosis of the proximal part of the righ...