This paper presents the morphological, histological and ultrastructural characteristics of Myxobolus oliveirai sp. nov., a parasite of the gill filaments in Brycon hilarii from the Brazilian Pantanal. Out of 216 B. hilariispecimens examined (126 wild and 90 cultivated), 38.1% of wild specimens (n = 48) were infected. The parasites form elongated plasmodia primarily in the tip of gill filaments,...

Aims: The present study is to investigate the value of multi-slice spiral computed tomography (MSCT) in the differentiation of benign and malignant solitary pulmonary nodule (SPN). Methods: A total of 21 patients with benign SPN and 21 patients with malignant SPN were included in the present study. MSTC perfusion imaging characteristics and parameters were analyzed. For imaging analysis, shapes...

Fieldwork was conducted in 1998 and 1999 in the Okavango River and Delta and a total of 275 fishes representing 31 species were examined for the presence of myxosporean parasites. A total of seven myxosporeans of the genus Myxobolus Bütschli, 1882 were found infecting the fishes. Two new species namely Myxobolus etsatsaensis sp. n. from Barbus thamalakanensis Fowler, 1935 and M. paludinosus sp....

  Solitary pulmonary nodule (SPN) is a frequent finding on the chest x-ray and computed tomography. Nuclear medicine techniques play an important role in the diagnosis and management of SPN. In the current review, we briefly will explain the different nuclear medicine modalities in this regard including positron emission tomography (PET) using 18-F-FDG, and 11-C-Methionine, and single photon em...

androsten-17a-yl)propionic acid g-lactone (SPN), is a competitive aldosterone antagonist, which is used as a potassiumsparing diuretic in premature infants to reduce lung congestion. The stability of SPN in solution was reported by Pramar and Gupta. In the study, SPN was most stable at pH 4.5, and the degradation rate increased with increasing and decreasing pH. The apparent first-order rate co...

The scaffold protein spinophilin (SPN) is a regulatory subunit of phosphatase 1a (PP1a) located at 17q21.33. This region is frequently associated with microsatellite instability and LOH and contains a relatively high density of known tumor suppressor genes, and several unidentified candidate tumor suppressor genes located distal to BRCA1. Spn is located in this locus and proposed to be a new tu...

Myxobolus buri sp. n. is described from the brain of yellowtails, Seriola quinqueradiata T. et S. with serious scoliosis. The sites of infection were the cerebral cavities and the surfaces of the olfactory lobes , optic lobes and medulla oblongata, Spores of the species were differentiated from those of the other mem bers of the genus Myxobolus on the basis of a through recording of their shape...