In this study, the role of local injection of butyric acid (BA) with autogenous omental graft was evaluated in healing of experimental Achilles tendon injury in rabbits. Nine adult male New Zealand rabbits were anesthetized and a partial thickness tenotomy was created on both hindlimbs. In treated group, omental graft was secured in place using BA soaked polygalactin 910 suture. In control grou...

Basophils (Ba) and mast cells (MC) are important effector cells of inflammatory reactions. Both cell types derive from CD34(+) hematopoietic progenitors. However, little is known about the cell subsets that become committed to and give rise to Ba and/or MC. We have generated a monoclonal antibody (MoAb), 97A6, that specifically detects human Ba, MC (lung, skin), and their CD34(+) progenitors. O...

a r t i c l e i n f o The discovery and calibration of high resolution paleoceanographic proxies is necessary to extend historic climate records and to understand regional climate variability. Chemical variations of skeletal remains have emerged as an often reliable recorder of environmental conditions. Specifically, Ba/Ca ratios have been correlated to temperature, salinity, seawater Ba/Ca, an...

Monoclonal antibody BA-i binds to B lymphocytes, to cells from most cases of non-T acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). and weakly to neutrophils. To determine whether BA-i also reacts with hematopoietic progenitor cells (HPC), we studied the effect of removal of BA-i cells from human bone marrow on the proliferation in vitro of the trilineage precursor cell CFU-GEMM, and of the committed progen...

Biological age (BA) estimation from radiologic data is an important topic in clinical medicine, e.g. in determining endocrinological diseases or planning paediatric orthopaedic surgeries, while in legal medicine it is employed to approximate chronological age. In this work, we propose the use of deep convolutional neural networks (DCNN) for automatic BA estimation from hand MRI volumes, inspire...

In the article, “Evaluation of a combined posterior lateral and anteromedial approach in the treatment of terrible triad of the elbow: A retrospective study”, which appeared in Volume 96, Issue 22 of Medicine, the author byline should have appeared as “Xulin Wu, MM, Bensen Tang, BA, Weimin Zhu, BA, Guangfu Zhou, BA, Fuyao Liu, BA, Bing Qiu ∗ , BA, Hong-Wei Chen, MB, Zi-Yang Wang, MB.” The corre...

BACKGROUND & AIMS Glucocorticoids, produced by the adrenal gland under control of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, exert their metabolic actions largely via activation of the glucocorticoid receptor (GR). Synthetic glucocorticoids are widely used as anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressive drugs but their application is hampered by adverse metabolic effects. Recently, it has been shown t...

BACKGROUND/PURPOSE Medial layer hypertrophy of hepatic arterial branches may be associated with biliary atresia (BA) pathogenesis. This study aimed at evaluating medial layer thickness in hepatic arterial branches at portoenterostomy and liver transplantation. METHODS The authors evaluated 1274 arterial branches both in BA cases and in control subjects involving a total of 1108 arterioles and...

Sulfotransferase-2A1 catalyzes the formation of bile acid-sulfates (BA-sulfates). Sulfation of BAs increases their solubility, decreases their intestinal absorption, and enhances their fecal and urinary excretion. BA-sulfates are also less toxic than their unsulfated counterparts. Therefore, sulfation is an important detoxification pathway of BAs. Major species differences in BA sulfation exist...

Several authors have demonstrated that theory of mind is associated with a cerebral pattern of activity involving the medial prefrontal cortex. This study was designed to determine the cerebral regions activated during attribution of intention to others, a task which requires theory-of-mind skills. Eight healthy subjects performed three nonverbal tasks using comic strips while PET scanning was ...