Ossification of spinal ligaments, such as ossification of ligamenta flava (OLF) and ossification of posterior longitudinal ligament (OPLL) in the cervical spine, is not common and usually asymptomatic. Once cervical myelopathy and radiculopathy due to the OPLL, OLF or both, surgical managements are often required when conservative treatment is not effective. The diagnosis is based on computed t...

The varied pressures required for disruption of Neisseria gonorrhoeae and other species of Neisseria when the Sorvall-Ribi refrigerated cell fractionator is used in the preparation of cell walls and cellular protoplasm are reported. Optimal disruption pressure for the gonococcus was considerably less than that required for other members of the genus Neisseria. Pressures varied from 8,000 psi fo...

The individual differences in response to administered substance (medicament) were observed throughout the whole history of humankind. Pythagoras is thought to be one of the first to observe pharmaco/nutrigenetic interaction as he found out that only some people will get sick after eating fava beans, but others will not. It took approximately 2400 years to elucidate the basis of this observatio...

The long-jawed orb-weavers of the family Tetragnathidae are a cosmopolitan spider clade, particularly diverse in humid tropical and subtropical areas world. subfamily Leucauginae comprises six genera genus Tylorida Simon, 1894 includes eight species. Four them reported from India comprehensive revision Indian species was published by Sankaran et al. (2017) with description T. flava as new but b...

Only three species of Medetera Fischer von Waldheim were known from Inner Mongolia. Here the following ten new species of Medetera, of which three species belong to Medetera apicalis group and seven belong to Medetera diadema-veles group, are added to the fauna of Inner Mongolia: Medetera albens sp. n., Medetera bisetifera sp. n., Medetera flava sp. n., Medetera ganshuiensis sp. n., Medetera li...

Seven new polyketides, for which the trivial names hyafurones A1-B (1-3), hyapyrrolines A (4) and B (5), and hyapyrones A (6) and B (7) are proposed, were isolated from the fermentation broth of the myxobacteria Hyalangium minutum, strains NOCB-2(T) and Hym-3. Their structures were elucidated from NMR and HRESIMS data, and their geometric configuration was assigned based on NOE and vicinal (1)H...