In Vitro Interactions between Aspirin and Amphotericin B against Planktonic 1 Cells and Biofilm Cells of C. albicans and C. parapsilosis 2 3 Yabin Zhou, Ganggang Wang, Yutang Li, Yang Liu, Yu Song, Wenshuai Zheng, Ning Zhang, 4 Xiaoyan Hu, Shikun Yan, Jihui Jia 5 6 Department of Microbiology and Key Laboratory for Experimental Teratology of Chinese Ministry of Education, 7 School of Medicine, S...

This article focuses on the cultural valence of human-fish (ningyo), a hybrid aquatic creature with human face and fish body, in premodern Japan from eighth to nineteenth century. Located at intersection religious, political, scientific discourses, ningyo becomes an exclusive observation point for better understanding mechanisms interweaving mutual fertilization between apparently unrelated sem...

Hui Yang1, Lili Chen2, Yuxin Chen3 and Guangwei Wei4* 1Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Shandong Province Qianfoshan Hospital, Shandong University, 16766 Jingshi Road, Jinan, 250012, P.R China 2Department of Pathology, Jinan Forth People’s Hospital, 50 Shifan Road, Jinan, 250012, P.R China 3Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, 107 Wenhua Xi Road, Jin...

background: children with myelomeningocele (mmc) develop a wide variety of hip deformities such as muscle imbalance, contracture, subluxation, and dislocation. various methods and indications have been introduced for treatment of muscle imbalances and other hip problems in patients with mmc but there is no study or meta-analysis to compare the results and complications. this review aims to find...

The topic of the reviews in this series will be prenatal exposure to drugs such as cocaine and alcohol and their effects on neural ontogeny and associated neurocognitive/neurobehavioral development in offspring. Exposure to drugs prenatally, surely an important concern for practitioners, is part of the broader field of behavioral teratology or the study of perinatal developmental injury and of ...

In the author affiliations, affiliation 1 and affiliation 2 are erroneously switched. Affiliation 1 should be: Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education for Experimental Teratology, Department of Histology and Embryology, School of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, China. Affiliation 2 should be: Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Remodeling and Function Research, Chinese Ministry of Educat...

Birth defects induced by maternal exposure to exogenous agents during pregnancy are preventable, if the agents themselves can be identified and avoided. Billions of dollars and manhours have been dedicated to animal-based discovery and characterisation methods over decades. We show here, via a comprehensive systematic review and analysis of this data, that these methods constitute questionable ...