To cite: Carswell C, Northey LC, Davies L, et al. Pract Neurol 2015;15:76–79. A 72-year-old man presented with sudden onset of right-sided facial muscle weakness and slurred speech and a 3-day history of fevers, myalgia and sore throat. There was no hyperacusis, change in taste or lacrimation. His history included untreated hepatitis C diagnosed 10 years before, but quiescent at his annual live...

social capital that exists in relations among social actors and the existence of fortified civil society, with a modern, powerful and developmental state can advance the development process in developing countries with minimum damage and in shortest time. the elements are the three sides of one single triangle. if unity and balance exist and an organic relationship is made between those element...

A healthy 58-year-old man presented to the emergency department with right arm weakness first noticed while playing hockey that day. He could not recall the onset of injury, but endorsed several weeks of antecedent intermittent right shoulder discomfort. Examination revealed a deformity of the right biceps brachii with distal bunching of the muscle (Figure). Tenderness existed along the proxima...

Respiratory failure is a common complication of acute neuromuscular disease and high cervical cord lesions and should be monitored by measuring forced vital capacity and respiratory rate. Urgent imaging is mandatory if there is any clinical suspicion of spinal cord disease. Treatment of Guillain-Barré syndrome with plasma exchange or intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg) speeds up the rate of recov...

Paralysis of the diaphragm occurring as a result of damage to the phrenic nerves during thoracic and neck surgery is well recognised.' 2 It is likely that weakness, as opposed to complete paralysis, of the diaphragm could occur after less severe trauma to the phrenic nerves. We describe a patient who developed bilateral diaphragm weakness after complicated surgery on a cervical disc, with subse...

This paper summarizes answers to frequently asked questions about the iOS keychain weakness described in [HB11]. It provides further information for security evaluators on the impact of the findings.

JCB • VOLUME 168 • NUMBER 6 • 2005 850 Acyl cycles move Ras cyl groups cycle endlessly on and off Ras to confine the protein to the Golgi and plasma membrane (PM), as shown by Oliver Rocks, Alfred Wittinghofer, Philippe Bastiaens (EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany), and colleagues. These locales are the homes of two Ras isoforms, Nras and Hras, both of which are modified with the acyl group palmitate. ...