background â vascular neoplasms are the most common primary splenic tumors that include both benignand malignant variants. one of these variants is hemangioma which is a benign vascular tumor. hemangiomas are slow growing and large tumors are rare. these tumors are most often incidental findings during imaging studies, laparotomy, or at autopsy. case presentation herein, we presented a young la...

Although visceral organs represent only about 15% of the pig’s body weight, they account for about 45% of whole body oxygen consumption. The effect of diet on organ mass and in vitro oxygen consumption by some visceral organs was investigated in a study using 15 Yorkshire male castrates (18.961.5 kg initial body weight). Diets were based on casein-corn starch (CC), barley-canola meal (BCM) or b...

The plant heat stress protein, Hsp101, and the yeast ortholog, Hsp104, are required to confer thermotolerance in plants and yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae), respectively. In addition to its function during stress, Hsp101 is developmentally regulated in plants although its function during development is not known. To determine how the expression of Hsp101 is regulated in cereals, we investigate...

All societies face the need to make judgments about what interventions (both public health and personal medical) to provide to their populations under reasonable resource constraints. Their decisions should be informed by good evidence and arguments from health technology assessment (HTA). But if HTA restricts itself to evaluations of safety, efficacy, and cost-effectiveness, it risks being vie...

The growing shortage of available organs is a major problem in transplantology. Thus, new and alternative sources of organs need to be found. One promising solution could be xenotransplantation, i.e., the use of animal cells, tissues and organs. The domestic pig is the optimum donor for such transplants. However, xenogeneic transplantation from pigs to humans involves high immune incompatibilit...

When tested for ornithine and arginine decarboxylases, pyrrolizidine alkaloid-bearing Senecio riddellii, S. longilobus (Compositae), and Crotalaria retusa (Leguminosae) plants exhibited only ornithine decarboxylase activity. This contrasts with previous studies of four species of pyrrolizidine alkaloid-bearing Heliotropium (Boraginaceae) in which arginine decarboxylase activity was very high re...

This paper presents a technique for the segmentation of range images. It tends to be a hybrid approach that combines edge detection and region growing techniques toward accomplishing the task of segmentation. The surface coherency property of range data provided an important attribute, .;rhich enabled the improvision of extrinsic knowledge regarding the types of surface primitives existing with...