Either a subconvulsive or a high convulsive current was delivered transcranially at various intervals after a learning trial to independent groups of newly hatched chicks. The one-trial learning involves suppression of the chicks' predilection to peck at a small shiny bead. The effect of current on retention was measured one day later. Results indicate a current-sensitive memory consolidation p...

Patients and methods 2 groups of patients were considered: Group A: 22 patients with a positive first SCXR (SCXR1) for pneumonia Group B: 18 patients with a negative SCXR1 for pneumonia, but who were subsequently diagnosed with pneumonia during their hospital stay following a second SCXR (SCXR2) or CT. Lung ultrasound examination was performed within 24 hours of admission, searching for direct ...

Sleep and wakefulness are governed by both the suprachiasmatic nuclei of the hypothalamus (SCN), and a sleep homeostatic process; however, the interaction of these control systems is not well understood. From rodent studies it has been assumed that the SCN promote neither wake nor sleep but gate the homeostatic sleep-promoting process. Yet in humans sleep tendency is lowest during the later wak...

The clinical effects of cyclosporin were evaluated during cytotoxic treatment in a 61 year old man with acute myeloid leukaemia. He had required a renal transplant 18 months before presenting with acute myeloid leukaemia (FAB subtype M4). He had received cyclosporin 3.5-4.0 mg/kg daily to maintain a plasma cyclosporin concentration of 75-150 ng/ml. Cyclosporin was continued during induction che...

Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) is a hypersensitive disease showing various radiographic and clinical manifestations. Its clinical course has not been fully understood. Here I describe a case of a 23-year-old immunocompetent man with frequently relapsing ABPA. He was asthmatic. He visited our hospital because of a chronic cough. Laboratory examination showed eosinophilia with inc...

The objective of the present research is to explore the causes of microventing, a phenomenon generally occurring in cohesive sediments during their deposition and consolidation. Microvents are characterized by volcano-like formations, remnants of the expulsion of fluid and sediment along a vertical channel through the sediment layer. The size of these vent formations ranges from the order of mi...

The mushroom bodies are key features of the brain circuitry for insect associative learning, especially when evoked by olfactory cues. Mushroom bodies are also notable for the close-packed parallel architecture of their many intrinsic neuronal elements, known as Kenyon cells. Here, we report that Kenyon cells of adult Drosophila exhibit synchronous oscillation of intracellular calcium concentra...