Although previous studies have characterized some aspects of the immune response of the teleost gut in response to diverse pathogens or stimuli, most studies have focused on the posterior segments exclusively. However, there are still many details of how teleost intestinal immunity is regulated that remain unsolved, including the location of IgM(+) and IgT(+) B cells along the digestive tract a...

Various studies have evaluated the relationship between Caspase-3 expression and cancers of digestive tract. However, the prognostic value of Caspase-3 expression remains unclear. Hence, a meta-analysis was conducted with eligible studies which quantitatively evaluated the relationship between Caspase-3 expression and survival of patients in gastrointestinal tract cancers. Electronic databases ...

This study describes the functional or organic abnormalities of the upper digestive tract observed in Brachycephalic dogs suffering from chronic obstructive respiratory syndrome (CORS) and digestive disorders. The population that was studied includes thirty dogs (22 males, 8 females), 28 months of age on the average, belonging to 4 different breeds (22 French Bulldogs, 5 English Bulldogs, 2 Pug...

AIM to have the picture of infectious disease pattern and serum albumin level in elderly people with respiratory tract infection hospitalized at the Internal Medicine Ward, Dr. Moewardi Hospital Surakarta. METHODS descriptive-retrospective study. Sample was taken from the medical records of patients hospitalized at the Internal Medicine Ward DR. Moewardi Hospital from January to December 2004...

The aim of this study was to investigate the structure and ultrastructure of the digestive tract of Qinling lenok (Brachymystax tsinlingensis Li, 1966), a cold water Salmonidae fish, an endangered teleost species, with high potential for controlled rearing in Shaanxi Province of China, by light and electron microscopy. Morphological data of the digestive tract are important for understanding fi...

Inferring the development of the earliest echinoderms is critical to uncovering the evolutionary assembly of the phylum-level body plan but has long proven problematic because early ontogenetic stages are rarely preserved as fossils. Here, we use synchrotron tomography to describe a new early post-metamorphic blastoid echinoderm from the Carboniferous (approx. 323 Ma) of China. The resulting th...

 Abstract Gastrointestinal mesenchymal tumors are a group of tumors originating from the mesenchymal stem cells of the GI tract. Digestive tract Schwannomas are rare mesenchymal tumors which occur most frequently in the stomach. We report a 56-yearold woman who was examined endoscopically for dyspepsia which she had suffered from since 3 years ago. Around gastric antral mass was seen. Surgical ...