At the 1957 Conference on Rumen Function, Barrentine et al. (1958) and Emery et al. (1958) presented reports supporting the use of penicillin for the control of bloat in cattle. At the same conference, Johnson et al. (1958) and Smith and Emery (1958) reported that the administration of 50 to 100 mg of penicillin daily reduced the incidence of pasture bloat, but this control was not effective af...

What is known of the genetic basis for dilated cardiomyopathy is the result of studying pedigrees with intermediate phenotypes. In these diseases the dilated hypocontractile heart is only one feature of the phenotype and other clinical manifestations allow precise definition of affection status. The first such phenotypes to be studied were Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophies, allelic X-lin...

The Front Cover shows efforts among Brazilian, American, and European researchers to combat neglected tropical diseases. New heterocyclic compounds based on imidazopyridine/pyrimidine furopyridine cores originating from Brazil travel the USA Europe be developed as anti-infective agents against Trypanosomiases. By exploring chemical diversity at eight different positions of central core, we obta...

Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy (EMD) is characterised by (1) early contractures of the Achilles tendons, elbows, and postcervical muscles, (2) slowly progressive muscle wasting and weakness with a predominantly humeroperoneal distribution in the early stages, and (3) cardiomyopathy with conduction defects and risk of sudden death. Inheritance is usually X linked recessive but can be autosoma...

Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy (EDMD) is a rare X-linked muscular dystrophy. Creatine kinase (CK) activity usually is increased in serum of affected males, but results for aldolase and lactate dehydrogenase (LD) in serum have been inconsistent, as have those for CK in carrier females. There have been few studies of CK-MB or LD isoenzyme-1 (LD-1) in EDMD. We measured CK, CK-MB, LD, LD-1, and ...

We study the spin-1 Ising model with bilinear and biquadratic exchange interactions and single-ion crystal field. In addition to the four usual phases: disordered DIS, ferromagnetic FER, antiquadrupolar AQU and ferrimagnetic FRI, we found three new phases in the case of a thin magnetic film, namely: the sublattice A non magnetic phase NMA, the sublattice B non magnetic phase NMB and the global ...

Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy (EDMD), a rare inherited disease, is characterized clinically by humero-peroneal muscle atrophy and weakness, multijoint contractures, spine rigidity and cardiac insufficiency with conduction defects. There are at least six types of EDMD known so far, of which five have been associated with mutations in genes encoding nuclear proteins. The majority of the EDMD ...

We report on a man that had weakness of humeroperoneal distribution associated with limited range of motion of the cervical spine and elbows since he was 5 years old. At age 26 he developed tachycardia episodes. A complex arrhythmia was discovered, and a nodal ablation was done with a cardiac pacemaker implanted. The patient had an arrhythmia and sudden death followed this. Emery-Dreifuss muscu...