A new technique for the staining of the corneal endothelium combines the actions of the vital stain trypan blue and the intercellular stain alizarin red S. The technique is an improvement over former staining methods, because it defines both viable and nonviable cells and thereby permits an investigator to accurately quantify endothelial cell damage.

The eastern cherry fruit ßy, Rhagoletis cingulata (Loew), and black cherry fruit ßy, R. fausta (Osten Sacken), are the most important insect pests of cherries Prunus spp. in the eastern and midwestern United States. In 1998, we studied the responses of cherry fruit ßy species using the recommended V-shaped Pherocon AM board. SigniÞcantly more R. cingulata ßies were caught on boards with aqueous...

a new metal-organic compound, [fe(pydc)(dmso)(h2o)cl], (where pydc is pyridine-2, 6-dicarboxylate and dmso is dimethyl sulfoxide), has been synthesized and characterized by singlecrystal x-ray diffraction, tga/dta, ir and raman spectroscopy. green-yellow crystals,crystallized in the monoclinic system, space group p21/n, a = 7.2461(4) å, b = 10.3018(4) å, c =17.7667(10) å, α = 90°, β = 90.014°(5...

OBJECTIVES Pyrophosphate arthropathy has been linked to diverse clinical subtypes. The two most common are: acute synovitis (pseudogout) and chronic pyrophosphate arthropathy ("pseudo-osteoarthritis"). We have conducted a study to examine whether these are overlapping syndromes. METHODS We reviewed all synovial fluid (SF) analyses performed in our laboratory from January 1988 to May 1997 to d...

Digital images of soybean canopies/Glycine max (L.) Merrill] were obtained within selected narrow wavebands (6-1 O nm bandwidths) to determine their capability for early detection of plant stress. Images and physiological measurements of stress were acquired 2 days, 4 days, and 7 days following application of control, drought, and herbicide [(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-l, I-dimethylurea, or DCMU] trea...

Ollie Jay, Louise M. Gariépy, Francis D. Reardon, Paul Webb, Michel B. Ducharme, Tim Ramsay, and Glen P. Kenny Laboratory of Human Bioenergetics and Environmental Physiology, School of Human Kinetics, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Yellow Springs, Ohio; Defence R&D Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; and Ottawa Health Research Institute, The Ottawa Hosp...

To cite: Santiago T, Coutinho M, Malcata A, et al. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2013202183 DESCRIPTION An 80-year-old woman presented with a 1-month history of bilateral shoulder pain and swelling (figure 1). There was no history of any trauma. Physical examination showed limited and painful active and passive range of motion of the shoulders an...

The fifth instar larva of the saturniid silkworm, Rhodinia fugax, is light yellowish-green on its dorsal surface and dark green on the ventral surface with a lateral demarcation between the two colours. The larva of R. fugax closely resembles the leaves of the host plant, Quercus serrata, in colour and shape. The spectral reflectance of the larval integument of R. fugax corresponds to that of t...