PURPOSE To report the diagnoses of lesions initially misdiagnosed as ocular melanoma. METHODS This retrospective study included all new patients who were referred with a presumptive diagnosis of choroidal melanoma to the ocular oncology clinic at Farabi Eye Hospital from January 2009 to December 2012. Each patient underwent a full ocular examination and B-scan ultrasonography by an ocular onc...

A series of acid hydrolysis lignin-g-poly-(acrylic acid) (AHL-g-PAA) composites was prepared by grafting acid hydrolysis lignin on the surface of the polyacrylic acid network. The results of structure analysis revealed that AHL-g-PAA had been grafted. The surface morphologies of the hydrogels were improved, as shown by scanning electron microscopy observation. The AHL-g-PAA hydrogel had high wa...

The effects aging of digital circuits are came into the focused due to observations made with several experiments and researchers has start working towards making changes for the improvements in base paper architecture. The integrated device suffers with NBTI and PBTI due to CMOS semiconductor properties and it affects the working of different logic operations and in the same context here we ha...

In studying "hemorrhagic necrosis" of tumors produced by endotoxin, it was found that the serum of bacillus Calmette--Guerin (BCG)-infected mice treated with endotoxin contains a substance (tumor necrosis factor; TNF) which mimics the tumor necrotic action of endotoxin itself. TNF-positive serum is as effective as endotoxin itself in causing necrosis of the sarcoma Meth A and other transplanted...

MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS MSJ JOURNAL Multiple sclerosis (MS) has an unpredictable course; while its course varies greatly from one individual to another, the overall life expectancy is 95% of normal. In the Vancouver cohort, secondary progression is attained 19 years after onset 1 and the median time to Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS) 6.0 is 28 years. 2 There is some evidence that the course ...

To the Editor: We found interesting the article by Lupo et al. about a case of fatal measles in an immunocompetent 29-yearold woman (Fatal measles without rash in immunocompetent adult, France; http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/ eid1803.111300). Perhaps, however, the possible diagnosis of secondary hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) should also have been considered in that setting. HLH is a poten...

Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia is a rare autosomal dominant inherited disease that is usually complicated by visceral vascular malformations. Patients harboring such malformations are at increased risk of brain abscess formation, which despite advances in diagnostic and surgical methods remains a life threatening medical emergency with high mortality and morbidity rates. In the present r...

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N-Acylhomoserine lactones (AHLs) function as quorum-sensing signaling molecules in many Gram-negative bacteria. We isolated a total of 672 bacterial strains from activated sludge obtained from seven sewage treatment plants in Tochigi Prefecture, Japan, and screened for AHL-producing and degrading strains. Isolates (n = 107) stimulated AHL-mediated purple pigment production in AHL reporter strai...

Many Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria communicate using small diffusible signal molecules called autoinducers. This process, known as quorum sensing (QS), links cell density to the expression of genes as diverse as those associated with virulence factors production of plant and animal pathogens, bioluminescence, antibiotic production, sporulation or biofilm formation. In Gram-negative b...