The lima bean lectin recognizes terminal alpha-D-GalNAc groups and agglutinates human type A erythrocytes. We have cloned a portion of the gene encoding the alpha subunit of the lima bean lectin. The clone was obtained using the polymerase chain reaction and verified from a genomic clone encoding the mature protein of 253 amino acids. The deduced amino acid sequence has significant overall homo...

Brazilian physician and researcher Henrique da Rocha Lima was born in 1879 in the city of Rio de Janeiro, where he studied medicine and obtained the degree of M.D. in 1901. He specialized in Clinical Medicine in Germany and was the ambassador in European countries of the scientific medicine that emerged from the Oswaldo Cruz Institute in the early twentieth century. Rocha Lima has discovered th...

a total of ten isolates of fungi with rhizoctonia-like mycelia were obtained from infected roots and stems of pistachio pistacia vera grown in a commercial nursery in rafsanjan, iran, during the autumn of 2011. the infected seedlings showed symptoms of chlorosis that later turned to necrosis. all of the isolates were identified as binucleate rhizoctonia on the basis of hyphal characteristics an...

BackgroundThe main objective of the AMI-PONT trial was to assess whether a CABG strategy including bridge distribute LIMA outflow provides non-inferior patency rates compared conventional surgery with separated graft LAD and aorto-coronary SVG other anterolateral targets. The grafting uses short interposed between at least one target, grafted on hood just above anastomosis (almost direct LIMA-L...

Method Between December 2012 and 2014 total 28 patients were taken up for Surgery using off pump MIDCAB and MICS CABG technique. LIMA was harvested in all cases using harmonic scalpel and target LAD grafting was done using polypropylene 7-0 or 8 0 depending on luminal size and quality of LIMA. All patients were evaluated with preoperative risk stratification and standard work up protocol includ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the outcome of off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (OPCABG) using a bilateral internal mammary artery (BIMA) Y configuration graft to achieve total arterial myocardial revascularization. METHODS From October 2002 to December 2008, 208 patients (196 males and 12 females) underwent OPCABG using a BIMA Y configuration graft. The average age of the patients was 56.5 ± 1...

A male neonate with gestational age of 30 weeks, weighting 940 g at birth, with respiratory failure right after birth, and radiological signs compatible with hyaline membrane disease. At his tenth day of life, the patient presented vomiting and abdominal distention, presenting with radiological signs of pneumoperitoneum (Figure 1). Initially, the neonate was submitted to peritoneal drainage, du...

OBJECTIVES The basic aim of surgical interventions in patients with coronary artery disease is to complete myocardial revascularization. In such patients, however, complementary revascularization techniques may require in patients with multisegmental left anterior descending disease. Among the different procedures, we performed an alternative option in patients with multisegmental lad disease f...

background: radiotherapy is one of the most important factors which results in negative effects on wound healing and increases anastomosis leakage. diverting loop ileostomy has been usually performed after colorectal anastomosis in cases of colorectal cancer with a history of neoadjuvant radiotherapy to decrease the chance of leakage. considering the side effects of diverting loop ileostomy, th...