Single-cell suspensions derived from immature rodent and ungulate testes can reconstitute testicular cords upon grafting into immunodeficient mice. In the present study, neonatal common marmoset monkey (Callithrix jacchus) testes were digested to a single-cell suspension, which was transplanted subcutaneously into immunodeficient mice. After 9 or 18 weeks of incubation, the derivatives of the g...

BACKGROUND Estimation of the nares-to-epiglottis and nares-to-vocal cords distances would facilitate the selection of properly sized nasopharyngeal airways and appropriate positioning of a fibreoptic bronchoscope in young children. The purposes of this study were to measure the nares-to-epiglottis and nares-to-vocal cords distances and to create an algorithm to predict these distances based on ...

OBJECTIVES Injectable Bromelain Solution (IBS) is a modified investigational derivate of the medical grade bromelain-debriding pharmaceutical agent (NexoBrid) studied and approved for a rapid (four-hour single application), eschar-specific, deep burn debridement. We conducted an ex vivo study to determine the ability of IBS to dissolve-disrupt (enzymatic fasciotomy) Dupuytren's cords. MATERIA...

An important question in self-learning robots is how robots can autonomously learn about and act in their environment in an on-line and unsupervised manner. This paper introduces and evaluates Context Recognition in Data Streams (CoRDS), a method that enables a robot to identify and recognise different situations in its environment. CoRDS achieves this by processing the data stream from the rob...

To cite: VY V, Kesav P, Mehta S, et al. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2013008862 DESCRIPTION A 24-year-old lady, recently married, was brought to our hospital by her husband when he incidentally noticed a tuft of hair in her lower back which he considered as a bad omen after consulting a rural Indian faith healer. On physical examination, she had...

Published by the IEEE CS n 1536-1268/17/$33.00 © 2017 IEEE T amount of business travel I have been doing has greatly increased in the past year—so much so that I have achieved “status” on one of the airlines, which makes the travel a bit more bearable. However, all of this travel has really hammered home the power issues of pervasive computing and the Internet of Things. When I travel, I bring ...

Mycobacterium abscessus is a reemerging pathogen that causes pulmonary diseases similar to tuberculosis, which is caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. When grown in agar medium, M. abscessus strains generate rough (R) or smooth colonies (S). R morphotypes are more virulent than S morphotypes. In searching for the virulence factors responsible for this difference, R morphotypes have been found ...

Acute forms of African swine fever are characterized by hemorrhagic lesions in the lymphoid organs. This paper reports the evolution of lesions in the splenic cords of pigs inoculated with African swine fever (ASF) virus (strain Malawi'83). Ultrastructural examination of the splenic cords of the infected pigs revealed numerous macrophages attached to the muscle cells harboring virus replication...

Abstract In this paper, experimental and numerical investigations on cord–elastomer composites are presented. A finite-element model is introduced, which was developed within the framework of an industrial project. The able to simulate elastomer matrix with inserted cords as load bearing elements predict strains stresses in cord sections. inelastic material behavior yarns described by correspon...

To establish the frequency of necrotizing funisitis in congenital syphilis, we conducted a prospective descriptive study of maternal syphilis in Bolivia by testing 1,559 women at delivery with rapid plasma reagin (RPR). We examined umbilical cords of 66 infants whose mothers had positive RPR and fluorescent treponemal antibody absorption tests. Histologic abnormalities were detected in 28 (42%)...