Sir, A 21-year-old male presented with multiple brown asymptomatic plaques arranged in a zosteriform pattern, confined to the left flank of abdomen (Fig. 1) of 6 months’ duration. There was no history of herpes zoster affecting the same location. His general physical and systemic examinations were within normal limits. Cutaneous examination revealed a 3–6 cm wide zosteriform band composed of br...

Boz H. (2015): Phenolic amides (avenanthramides) in oats – a review. Czech J. Food Sci., 33: 399–404. Whole grain cereals such as oats are important sources of phenolic compounds. Oats contain phenolic amides, also named avenanthramides (AVAs), which have beneficial health properties because of their antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and antiproliferative effects. The most common avenanthramides ...

OBJECTIVE To describe the severity and morphological features of high myopic maculopathy in Chinese patients and to evaluate their association with age, refractive error and visual acuity. METHODS Six hundred and four eyes of 337 patients (ages 8-88 years) with high myopia (refractive error ≤ -6.0 D) presenting to the Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center were studied retrospectively. All patients unde...

A fundamental goal of systems neuroscience is to probe the dynamics of neural activity that generate behavior. Here we present an instrument to simultaneously manipulate and monitor neural activity and behavior in the freely moving nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. We use the instrument to directly observe the relationship between sensory neuron activation, interneuron dynamics and locomotion in...

Acrokeratosis paraneoplastic (Bazex syndrome) is a rare, but distinctive paraneoplastic dermatosis characterized by erythematosquamous lesions located at the acral sites and is most commonly associated with carcinomas of the upper aerodigestive tract. We report a 58-year-old female with a history of a pigmented rash on her extremities, thick keratotic plaques on her hands, and brittle nails. Ch...

Macular telangiectasia type 2 (Mac Tel 2) also known as idiopathic perifoveal telangiectasia and juxtafoveolar retinal telangiectasis type 2A is an enigmatic disease of unknown etiology. It manifests both neurodegenerative and vasculopathic characteristics. It manifests itself during the fifth or sixth decades of life. Clinical characteristics include minimally dilated parafoveal capillaries wi...

In almost all nervous systems, rapid excitatory synaptic communication is mediated by a diversity of ionotropic glutamate receptors. In Caenorhabditis elegans, 10 putative ionotropic glutamate receptor subunits have been identified, a surprising number for an organism with only 302 neurons. Sequence analysis of the predicted proteins identified two NMDA and eight non-NMDA receptor subunits. Her...

Piezogenic pedal papules are skin-colored lesions on the heels caused by herniation of fat through the connective stroma. They are induced by weight bearing or pressure to the soles. We report a case of a 51-year-old female who had multiple painful skin-colored papules on the medial and lateral aspects of the left heel when applying force on it. Microscopically, the collagen bundles of the trab...

The presence of a low transvalvular pressure gradient (<40 mmHg) in conjunction with a small aortic valve area (AVA ≤1 cm) is a challenging situation as it raises uncertainty about the actual severity of aortic stenosis (AS) and therefore about the indication of aortic valve replacement (AVR) if the patient is symptomatic. This lowgradient ‘severe’ (small AVA) AS entity may in fact be related t...

Original approval signatures are on file with the University of Oregon Graduate School. One central question of neuroscience asks how a neural system can generate the diversity of complex behaviors needed to meet the range of possible demands placed on an organism by an ever changing environment. In many cases, it appears that animals assemble complex behaviors by recombining sets of simpler be...