PurposeExtended criteria of donors for heart transplant (HTx) include many factors, such as left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH), decreased LVEF, older donor age, inotrope dependence, well gender and size mismatch. It has also been reported that various combinations extended risk factors appear to have worse outcomes depending on severity the characteristic. We sought assess if LVH with acceptabl...

Mating-type switching in Schizosaccharomyces pombe involves replacing genetic information at the expressed mat1 locus with sequences copied from one of two silent donor loci, mat2-P or mat3-M, located within a 20-kb heterochromatic domain. Donor selection is dictated by cell type: mat2 is the preferred donor in M cells, and mat3 is the preferred donor in P cells. Here we show that a recombinati...

brain death is defined as the permanent, irreversible and concurrent loss of all brain and brain stem functions. brain death diagnosis is based on clinical criteria and it is not routine to use paraclinical studies. in some countries, electroencephalogram (eeg) is performed in all patients for the determination of brain death while there is some skepticism in relying on eeg as a confirmatory te...