T he cardinal manifestations of chronic pancreatitis are re current or persistent abdominal pain that lasts for months to years, accompanied by diabetes, steatorrhea, and pancreatic calculi. Morphologically, the disease is characterized by destruction and loss of exocrine parenchyma that may be focal, segmental, or diffuse, as well as by fi brosis of the pancreas (Fig. 194-1). These changes may...

There are currently two competing dichotomies used to describe how local stereoscopic information is processed by the human visual system. The first is in terms of the type of the spatial filtering operations used to extract relevant image features prior to stereoscopic analysis (i.e. 1st- vs 2nd-order stereo; [Hess, R. F., & Wilcox, L. M. (1994). Linear and non-linear filtering in stereopsis. ...

INTRODUCTION A group version of the Trier Social Stress Test (TSST-G) was introduced as a standardized, economic and efficient tool to induce a psychobiological stress response simultaneously in a group of subjects. The aim of the present study was to examine the efficacy of the TSST-G to repeatedly induce an affective and autonomic stress response while comparing two alternative protocols for ...

BACKGROUND The last decade was marked by major advances in HCV treatment with the introduction of first wave protease inhibitors (1st-wave PIs, telaprevir or boceprevir) in 2011 and second direct-acting antivirals (2nd-wave DAAs) in 2014, that followed low effective pegylated interferon α / ribavirin bitherapy. We estimated the number of patients initiating HCV treatment in France between 2007 ...

Network reduction is considered in application to visual analytics of relational data. We construct a reduced network by merging structurally equivalent nodes. This network specifies the initial structure of relations in a more compact way without any loss of information. The analysis of such reduction is presented in application to the communication network from Stanford Large Network Dataset ...

This volume is consistent with previous issues in providing annual monographs covering a wide range of topics in medicinal chemistry. Volume 10 follows a similar pattern in consisting of six major sections each edited by competent section editors: I, CNS Agents by M. Gordon; II, Pharmacodynamic Agents, by F.H. Clarke; III, Chemotherapeutic Agents by G. H. Warren; IV, Metabolic Diseases, Endocri...

Lipoprotein subclasses Robert S. Rosenson (Chicago IL) discussed lipoprotein subclasses, inflammation, and cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk in the metabolic syndrome. Insulin resistance impairs VLDL particle clearance, leading to greater interchange of core triglyceride from VLDL with LDL and HDL, with LDL and HDL triglyceride enrichment leading both to become substrates for hepatic lipase, re...

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