Vieussens’ arterial ring (VAR) is a collateral pathway between the conus branches of the right and left coronary arteries that was first described by French anatomist Raymond de Vieussens. VAR’s are observed in 48% of the population; however, pathologic VAR is very rare. A 58 year-old male patient with a history of smoking and positive family history was admitted to our clinic complaining of ch...

Theorem 3.2 A consequence system (L,`) enjoys Craig interpolation with respect to an L-function var, if (i) there is a Craig generalized translation schema from (L,`) to another consequence system (L′,`′) with respect to var and an L′-function var′; (ii) (L′,`′) enjoys Craig interpolation with respect to var′. Proof: Let (h1, h2, h) be a Craig generalized translation schema from (L,`) to (L′,`′...

African histoplasmosis caused by Histoplasma capsulatum var. duboisii is an important deep mycosis endemic in Central and West Africa and in the island of Madagascar. The disease is characterized by presence of granulomatous lesions in the skin, subcutaneous tissues and bones. Lungs and other internal organs are rarely involved. The natural reservoir of the etiological agent has only been recen...

PURPOSE Cowden syndrome (CS), a Mendelian autosomal-dominant disorder, predisposes to breast, thyroid, and other cancers. Germline variations in succinate dehydrogenase genes (SDHx) occur in approximately 10% PTEN mutation-negative CS and CS-like (CSL) individuals (SDH(var+)). We previously showed that SDHx variants result in elevated reactive oxygen species (ROS), disruption of nicotinamide ad...

Seven new withanolides (1-7) were isolated from the aerial parts of Jaborosa caulescens var. caulescens and Jaborosa caulescens var. bipinnatifida. Three of the new compounds are related to jaborosalactones R, S, and T with a delta-lactone side chain and a hemiketal (or ketal) ring formed between a 21-hydroxyl and a 12-ketone (1-3). Compounds 4-7 are trechonolide-type withanolides with a gamma-...

Plasmodium falciparum relies on monoallelic expression of 1 of 60 var virulence genes for antigenic variation and host immune evasion. Each var gene contains a conserved intron which has been implicated in previous studies in both activation and repression of transcription via several epigenetic mechanisms, including interaction with the var promoter, production of long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs)...

Root-knot nematodes (Meloidogyne spp.) cause extensive damage to watermelon ICitrz,llus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai var. lanatusl, and resistance to rootknot nematodes has not been identified in any watermelon cultivar. Twenty-six U.S. Plant Introductions (Pis) of Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai var. citroides (L. H. Bailey) Mansf., one P1 of C. lanatus var. lanatus, and three P...

OBJECTIVE Reduced heart rate variability (HRV) is classically viewed as an early phenomenon in diabetic sensorimotor polyneuropathy (DSP). We aimed to determine the characteristics of HRV across the spectrum of clinical DSP in type 1 diabetes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Eighty-nine diabetic subjects and 60 healthy volunteers underwent assessment of RR interval variation (RR(var)) during deep...

"BioMed Central will be the most significant development for disseminating the results of biomedical researc h in our lifetime." In this article [1], equation (8) is incorrect because it omitted the covariance terms. Let h denote the number of strata, so s = 1,2,...,h. Let T denote transpose, • denote matrix product, and Diagonal Matrix [vector] denote a matrix of all 0's except for vector on t...

w t here {e } is independent white noise. The width of the forecast interval is proportional to the square r root of the one-step forecast error variance, var [x − f ] = var [e ] =σ , a constant. On the othe n +1 n , 1 n +1 e t i hand, actual financial time series often show sudden bursts of high volatility. For example, if a recen nnovation was strongly negative (indicating a crash, etc.), a p...