We examined lampbrush chromosomes (LBC) prepared from chicken oocytes of 1-3-mm diam using both light and electron microscopy. Both macro- and microchromosomes form LBC with morphologies very similar to the well known newt and salamander LBC. In chicken LBC typical loops have a contour length of approximately 15 microns, although some loops range up to 50 microns. Multiple transcription units a...

BACKGROUND Cervical cancer risks, estimated by using cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grade 3 (CIN3) or more severe diagnoses (≥CIN3) endpoints, have not been quantified for different combinations of results from currently approved screening methods. Understanding these risks will guide optimal patient management. METHODS Women aged ≥25 years (n = 7,823) underwent high-risk human papillomav...

BACKGROUND In the United States, liquid-based cytology (LBC) has become a common screening method for cervical cancer. However, the extent of LBC use, and how it varies by patient and practice characteristics, is unknown. OBJECTIVE This report describes the ordering and provision of Papanicolaou (Pap) tests, with a major focus on the extent to which LBC has supplanted conventional cytology. T...

Nutter (2003) showed that the use of coarsely resolved and/or temporally interpolated lateral boundary conditions (LBCs) is sufficient to cause underdispersive limited area model (LAM) ensemble forecasts. The effect is present in all typical modeling systems using “one-way” LBC forcing and suggests the need to apply statistically consistent, finescale LBC perturbations at every time step throug...

OBJECTIVE Fine-needle aspiration (FNA) is a safe and cost-effective technique for the diagnosis of breast lesions, especially when correlated with clinical and imaging studies. However, the success of breast FNA is highly dependent on the adequate preparation of cytological conventional smears (CS). The liquid-based cytology (LBC) technique consists of an automated method for preparing thin-lay...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study is to examine psychological health of left-behind children (LBC), social support and rearing behavior towards LBC as well as their correlations in the city of Shaoxing, China. METHODS By stratified sampling, 401 LBC and 527 non-left-behind children (NLBC) had completed the questionnaires in 2014. Spearman's correlation was performed to clarify the relation...

In the present study, aspiration biopsy cytology (ABC) was used for the diagnosis of peripheral nodular lesions in the lung (PNLL), and liquid-based cytology (LBC) was carried out on the material collected to evaluate it in comparison with the conventional method (CM). The subjects comprised 130 cases that underwent computed tomography (CT)-guided ABC for PNLL. A total of 73 cases received a tu...

We discuss a new algorithm based on a network measure, local betweenness centrality (LBC), for search in complex networks that are heterogeneous in node degree and edge weights. LBC search utilizes both the heterogeneities and performs the best in scale-free weighted networks. We further argue that the amount of information used by LBC search could be optimal.

BACKGROUND Liquid-based cytology (LBC) has been compared with conventional cytology in numerous studies. In the current study of 2 LBC systems, the accuracy, rates of unsatisfactory cytology, and sufficiency of residual LBC specimens for Hybrid Capture 2 (HC2) HPV DNA testing were compared. METHODS Eligible women ages 30 to 49 years were recruited for this cross-sectional population-based stu...

Citation: Crosby L, Tatu C, Charles K. Lung and Bronchus Cancer Deaths in Boone County, Wv Before and After Mountaintop Removal Mining. J Rare Dis Diagn Ther. 2016, 2:1. Abstract Coal has been mined from Boone County, WV for over 100 years. Mountaintop removal mining (MTR) has increased dramatically since the 1970’s and may account for ˃30 per cent of West Virginia’s coal. For people who live n...