Following injury to the CNS, astrocytes undergo a broad range of biochemical, morphological, and molecular changes collectively referred to as reactive astrogliosis. Reactive astrocytes exert both inflammatory and protective effects that inhibit and promote, respectively, neural repair. The mechanisms underlying the diverse functional properties of reactive astrogliosis are not well understood....

Oscular and orbital injuries due to stab wounds may mask underlying serious intracranial damage. The correct clinical assessment and treatment of such cases require the attention of a team comprising a neurosurgeon, ophthalmologist, otolaryngologist, and plastic surgeon.

An initial management of bed rest and hydration is performed routinely. In case of persistent bleeding, definite diagnosis is usually made by angiography, and selective embolization can be performed within the same angiography session as a definite treatment. Open exploration and partial or total nephrectomy are rarely required. We report a case of delayed renal bleeding following stab wound wh...

The present study was conducted to isolate the causal agent of necrotic enteritis (NE) from broiler chickens. A total of 50 jejunal samples from necropsied broiler chickens were collected for isolation of Clostridium perfringens, the causal agent of NE. The novel method for isolation of Clostridium perfringens was stab culture in association with pouring of olive oil on the surface of the stab ...

Following Bayer and Macr̀ı, we study the birational geometry of singular moduli spaces M of sheaves on a K3 surface X which admit symplectic resolutions. More precisely, we use the Bayer-Macr̀ı map from the space of Bridgeland stability conditions Stab(X) to the cone of movable divisors on M to relate wall-crossing in Stab(X) to birational transformations of M . We give a complete classification ...

A selective conservative treatment for penetrating anterior abdominal stab injuries is an increasingly recognized approach. We analyzed patients who followed-up and treated for penetrating anterior abdominal stab injuries. The anterior region was defined as the area between the arcus costa at the top and the mid-axillary lines at the laterals and the inguinal ligaments and symphysis pubis at th...

BACKGROUND The incidence of penetrating abdominal injuries (PAI) has increased in the West African sub-region. OBJECTIVE To determine the pattern and management outcome of penetrating abdominal injuries (PAI) in the two main teaching hospitals in Ghana. STUDY DESIGN A prospective and retrospective descriptive study. SETTING Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), Kumasi and Korle-Bu Teachi...

The a ppli cation of cer tain power stab ili zation a nd measure men t tec hniqu es to t he problem of attenuation measurement has y ielded a measureme nt syste m wit h a stab ili ty a nd resolu t ion of t he o rder o f 0.0001 decibel. A pract ical a ppli cation fo r t his tech nique was rece nt ly provided in t he calibrat ion of a rotary vane type of varia b le microwave attenu ata I' . In or...

The Foley catheter is described in the emergency treatment of penetrating cardiac injuries, and its intra-operative use to control bleeding while definitive measures for intravascular embolization are being made. We present the first reported case of the use of a urinary catheter to control haemorrhage in an extremity stab injury to obtain haemodynamic stability while awaiting definitive surgic...

Penetrating wounds of the aorta are not necessarily fatal. A successfully managed patient with a stab wound of the ascending aorta is reported, and some problems of management associated with such injuries are discussed.