Herbaceous peony (Paeonia lactiflora Pall.), one of the world's most important ornamental plants, is highly susceptible to Botrytis cinerea, and improving resistance to this pathogenic fungus is a problem yet to be solved. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) play an essential role in resistance to B. cinerea, but until now, no studies have been reported concerning miRNAs induction in P. lactiflora. Here, we con...

OBJECTIVES Cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) elicits an inflammatory response which is potentially harmful and that is partly caused by activation of leukocytes. Despite promise from earlier studies, however, the value of intraoperative leukocyte-depletion (LD) remains equivocal. We studied the effect of LD during routine cardiac surgery. METHODS For a short period (2.5 months), all operations at ...

This review will focus on pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia (pALL), highlighting risk factors, classification, presentation, risk group assignment and treatment stratification, treatment, outcome, and long-term consequences of therapy. Other forms of pediatric leukemia, such as acute and chronic myeloid leukemia are not reviewed. The reader is referred to several recent publications review...

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Obituary British dermatology and the Bristol medical community suffered a grievous loss on 1.7.92 when Bob and Anne warm vvere both killed in a car crash near Salisbury, while they were travelling to the Bournemouth Meeting of the British and he and Anne had been such central figures in the Association for so many years that it was difficult to believe he Meeting could continue in their absence...

Introduction In the underlying study we evaluated different single-use filtration systems for cell separation and harvest clarification in 1,000 L scale. A screening of different depth filters was carried out with various single-use filters from Pall, Cuno (3M), Millipore and Sartorius Stedim. In total, we included 85 depth filtrations in the screening. Out of that, two single-use filtration sy...