Ginger (Zingiber officinale Roscoe) is an important vegetable with medicinal value. Rhizome development determines ginger yield and quality. However, little information available about the molecular features underlying rhizome expansion maturation. In this study, we investigated anatomy characteristics, lignin accumulation transcriptome profiles during development. young rhizomes, vascular bund...

Over the last decades, the pig has been chosen as a feasible animal organ donor for the human species, namely regarding heart transplantation. This has led to the development of transgenic pigs with the goal of avoiding the rejection caused by xenotransplantation. It is therefore pertinent to characterize in detail the vascular anatomy of the pig heart and compare it with that of humans. In thi...

Cardiac computed tomography (CT) is an evolving modality that includes a variety of examinations to assess the anatomy and pathology of the cardiac chambers, valves, myocardium, coronary arteries and veins, pericardium, aortic root, and central great vessels. The development of multidetector CT scanners with increasing numbers of detector rows, narrow section thicknesses, increasing scanner spe...

INTRODUCTION Traditional anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) surgery has demonstrated good results, but there is still a subset of unsatisfactory outcomes. Trends in reconstruction technique have changed from bone-patella-tendon-bone to hamstring refixation, and the next step appears to be the double bundle concept. METHODS We examined six fresh-frozen cadaver knees to evaluate the double bundle...

This study was undertaken to develop a quantitative scintigraphic measurement of ischemia. We recorded 201TI scintigrams by the seven-pinhole tomographic technique immediately after exercise and 3 hr later in 15 normal subjects with a low likelihood of coronary disease and in 55 catheterized patients with chest pain. Circumferential profiles of the initial and 3 hr tracer distribution and of th...

More than a quarter of the primary productivity on land, and a large fraction of the food that humans consume, is contributed by plants that fix atmospheric CO(2) by C(4) photosynthesis. It has been estimated that transferring the C(4) pathway to C(3) crops could boost yield by 50% and also increase water use efficiency and reduce the need for fertilizer, particularly in dry, hot environments. ...

This study was undertaken to develop a quantitative scintigraphic measurement of ischemia. We recorded 201TI scintigrams by the seven-pinhole tomographic technique immediately after exercise and 3 hr later in 15 normal subjects with a low likelihood of coronary disease and in 55 catheterized patients with chest pain. Circumferential profiles of the initial and 3 hr tracer distribution and of th...

Identifying coronary artery progenitors and their developmental pathways could inspire novel regenerative treatments for heart disease. Multiple sources of coronary vessels have been proposed, including the sinus venosus (SV), endocardium and proepicardium, but their relative contributions to the coronary circulation and the molecular mechanisms regulating their development are poorly understoo...

The relation between the length of the main left coronary artery and the presence of atherosclerosis in its branches or the presence of complete left bundle-branch block was studied by selective coronary arteriography in 43 persons. The length of the main left coronary artery was found to be significantly shorter in patients with coronary atherosclerosis than in subjects without angiographic ev...