Neuromuscular blockade with pancuronium and its antagonism was evaluated in 33 critically ill infants. The evoked contraction of the adductor pollicis from indirect stimulation of the ulnar nerve was measured. The neuromuscular blockade recovered spontaneously from pancuronium in seven infants, 23 required one or more doses of atropine 0.02 ng kg-1 and neostigmine 0.06 mgkg-1. In three infants ...

Microbial consortia isolated from aged oil-contaminated soil were used to degrade 16 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (15.72 mgkg(-1)) in soil and slurry phases. The three microbial consortia (bacteria, fungi and bacteria-fungi complex) could degrade polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), and the highest PAH removals were found in soil and slurry inoculated with fungi (50.1% and 55.4%, respec...

The effectiveness of 1,2-dimethyl-3-hydroxypyrid-4-one (Ll) in increasing iron excretion in iron-loaded patients improved the propsects for replacing desferrioxamine (DF) with an oral chelating drug.’,’ L1 belongs to a new group of iron chelators, the a-ketohydroxypyridines (KHP); which are cheap to p ~ e p a r e ~ . ~ and orally active. Recently, a detailed article by Porter et al.’ on in vivo...

DURING the week of 2-6 June 2008, the State University of New York at Stony Brook (Stony Brook University) hosted and cosponsored a five day Stony Brook Modeling Week 2008. Stony Brook Modeling Week 2008 featured: 1) the ACM Solid and Physical Modeling Symposium (2-4 June 2008) and 2) the IEEE International Conference on Shape Modeling and Applications (4-6 June 2008). The first conference, ACM...

Cite this: The Pan African Medical Journal. 2017;27 (Supp 2):1. DOI: 10.11604/pamj.supp.2017.27.2.12701 Received: 08/05/2017 Accepted: 08/05/2017 Published: 09/06/2017

Cite this: The Pan African Medical Journal. 2016;25 (Supp 1):1. DOI:10.11604/pamj.supp.2016.25.1.10579 Received: 22/08/2016 Accepted: 24/08/2016 Published: 01/10/2016

Upper extremity musculoskeletal symptoms and disorders are common in the working population. The economic and social impact of such disorders is considerable. Long-time, dynamic repetitive exposure of the hand-arm system during manual handling operations (MHO) alone or in combination with static and postural effort are recognised as causes of musculoskeletal symptoms and disorders. The assessme...

Marylou Gabrié, Eric W. Tramel and Florent Krzakala 1 Laboratoire de Physique Statistique, UMR 8550 CNRS, Department of Physics, École Normale Supérieure and PSL Research University, Rue Lhomond, 75005 Paris, France 2 International Centre for Fundamental Physics and its interfaces at Ecole normale suprieure, 75005 Paris, France 3 Sorbonne Universits, UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR 8550, LPS, F-75005, ...

Small RNAs are used to silence transposable elements (TEs) in many eukaryotes, which use diverse evolutionary solutions to identify TEs. In ciliated protozoans, small-RNA-mediated comparison of the germline and somatic genomes underlies identification of TE-related sequences, which are then eliminated from the soma. Here, we describe an additional mechanism of small-RNA-mediated identification ...

Joseph Silk Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, UMR 7095, CNRS, UPMC Univ. Paris VI, 98 bis boulevard Arago, 75014 Paris, France Department of Physics and Astronomy, The Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA Beecroft Institute of Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Denys Wilkinson Building, 1 Keble Road, Oxf...