We compared the structure of the membranous and respiratory bronchioles of resected lungs from 111 patients with a normal predicted forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1) to the structure of these airways from 45 patients with an FEV1 reduced below the 95% confidence limits for height and age. Membranous and respiratory bronchioles of less than 2 mm in internal diameter were counted and ...

PURPOSE We analyzed factors associated with early recovery of continence after laparoscopic radical prostatectomy. MATERIALS AND METHODS Among 467 patients treated with laparoscopic radical prostatectomy for localized prostate cancer between 2007 and 2012, 249 patients who underwent a preoperative urodynamic study were enrolled. The patients' age, prostate volume, preoperative serum prostate-...

With the discovery of the phospholipase A2 receptor (PLA2R) and thrombospondin type-1 domain-containing 7A (THSD7A) as target antigens in 80% of patients with primary membranous nephropathy clinical and experimental research as well as patient management can be better adapted to the pathophysiology of the disease (Beck et al., 2009; Tomas et al., 2014). This is still not possible in the remaini...

BACKGROUND Adenocarcinoma of the periampullary region is associated with poor prognosis and new prognostic and treatment predictive biomarkers are needed for improved treatment. Membranous expression of podocalyxin-like 1(PODXL), which is a cell-adhesion glycoprotein and stem cell marker, has been found to correlate with an aggressive tumour phenotype and adverse outcome in several cancer types...

HYPOTHESIS Pancreatic cystic neoplasms and ductal adenocarcinoma manifest diverse clinical features and prognoses, which might be related to cellular distribution of ezrin modulated through various trophic molecules. DESIGN Laboratory investigation and retrospective analysis. SETTING Medical school-affiliated university hospital. PATIENTS AND METHODS Patients with solid pseudopapillary tu...

introduction antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (anca)-associated glomerulonephritis (gn) is characterized by necrotizing and crescentic gn with paucity of immunoglobulin (ig) and complement deposition, which is also known as pauci-immune crescentic gn. membranous nephropathy (mn) is characterized by the formation of subepithelial immune deposit with resultant changes in glomerular basement ...

Severe violet root rot occurred in a field of membranous milk vetch in Bonghwa, Korea, in October 2010. Two fungal isolates from the diseased plants were identified as Helicobasidium mompa based on their morphological, cultural, and molecular characteristics. This is the first report that H. mompa causes violet root rot on membranous milk vetch in Korea.

BACKGROUND Idiopathic membranous nephropathy is a major cause of the nephrotic syndrome in adults, but its etiologic basis is not fully understood. We investigated the genetic basis of biopsy-proven cases of idiopathic membranous nephropathy in a white population. METHODS We performed independent genomewide association studies of single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in patients with idiopat...

Data from rodent models of induced microgyria suggest that bilateral damage leads to more severe rapid auditory processing deficits than unilateral damage. It is unclear whether this reflects the degree, or bilateral/unilateral nature, of damage. The current study evaluates the effects of microgyric severity by assessing rats with single- vs double-pair bilateral focal microgyric lesions, using...