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BACKGROUND Volvulus of the gallbladder is an unusual event. Over 300 cases have appeared in the literature since first reported by Wendel in 1898, ranging in age from 2 to 100 years old. Unusual mobility of the gallbladder due to congenital anomalies is a constant factor in all occurrences. CASE REPORT This is a report of a laparoscopic cholecystectomy in an 82-year-old white female with volv...

Development, validation and applications of the in vitro pyrogen test (IPT) based on human whole blood (submitted to J Clin Immunol) International validation of novel pyrogen tests based on human monocytoid cells. on cryopreserved human whole blood for lipidic parenterals (Pharmeuropa, in print) on cryopreserved human primary blood cells (J Immunol Methods, in print) Comparison of the reactivit...

Abstract We study the analogue of Wendel’s equality in random polytope models which hull points is formed by intersections congruent balls, called spindle (or hyper-) convex hull. According to classical identity Wendel probability that origin contained (linear) n i.i.d. distributed according an symmetric distribution d -dimensional Euclidean space $$\mathbb {R}^{d}$$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http:/...

279:8694-8700. and TLR9 enables activation of human monocytes by CpG and muropeptides. (submitted to J Biol Chem) muropeptides – direct and synergistic effects on the immune system.like receptor 2 polymorphism does not affect lipoteichoic acid-induced chemokine and inflammatory responses. Infect Immun 72:1828. Heterozygous toll-like receptor 4 polymorphism does not influence lipopolysaccharide-...

Despite the amount of work published on phylogeography of European plant species in recent years, Mediterranean plant groups have been comparatively much less studied (but see Gutiérrez Larena & al., 2002; Hampe & al., 2004; and other papers in this volume). This is partly due to the difficulty of unravelling complex patterns in this area that resulted from a combination of causes such as Pleis...

Levels and patterns of nucleotide diversity vary widely among lineages. Because allopolyploid species contain duplicated (homoeologous) genes, studies of nucleotide diversity at homoeologous loci may facilitate insight into the evolutionary dynamics of duplicated loci. In this study, we describe patterns of sequence diversity from an alcohol dehydrogenase homoeologous locus pair (AdhC) in allot...

Since Kelly and Wendel [Arch Ophthalmol 1991;109:654-659] first reported successfully treating macular holes (MHs) using pars plana vitrectomy in 1991, MH surgery has been constantly improved. For example, introducing the removal of the internal limiting membrane considerably increased the closure rate of MHs, and the advent of microincision vitrectomy surgery reduced surgical trauma and decrea...

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