Introduction. Pneumatosis intestinalis (PI) is an uncommon pathology characterised by the presence of gas within the intestinal wall. It has been associated with various conditions, including connective tissue diseases. This is the first report of PI being the initial presentation of systemic sclerosis. Case Presentation. The patient, a 75-year-old female, presented with an 8-month history of w...

Mice deficient for the homeobox gene Six1 display defects in limb muscles consistent with the Six1 expression in myogenic cells. In addition to its myogenic expression domain, Six1 has been described as being located in digit tendons and as being associated with connective tissue patterning in mouse limbs. With the aim of determining a possible involvement of Six1 in tendon development, we have...

Tenderness is a quality of meat highly regarded by the consumer, who may have a very clear idea of how he rates it. For the meat scientist, interested in putting a number on it, it poses problems. Tenderness, or more often toughness, is ideally measured by selected human jaws. Fortunately for experimental convenience and precision, mechanical shear values correlate fairly well with panel scores...

Connective tissue massage (CTM) is a manipulative technique that facilitates the diagnosis and treatment of a wide range of pathologies. Observation and subsequent manipulation of the skin and subcutaneous tissues can have a beneficial effect upon tissues remote from the area of treatment. These effects appear to be mediated by neural reflexes that cause an increase in blood flow to the affecte...

A 23 years old girl with a past history of sero-positive oligoarticular juvenile idiopathic arthritis developed nodules and depressed scars over face and limbs. Biopsy from the lesion revealed mixed panniculitis. She responded to steroids and hydroxychloroquine but has residual lipoatrophic scars needing reconstructive surgery.

The connective eccentric index of a graph is a topological index involving degrees and eccentricities of vertices of the graph. In this paper, we have studied the connective eccentric index for double graph and double cover. Also we give the connective eccentric index for some graph operations such as joins, symmetric difference, disjunction and splice of graphs. MSC (2010): Primary: 05C35; Sec...