Takotsubo cardiomyopathy is usually described following acute emotional stress. We report here the case of a 48-year-old woman admitted for acute coronary syndrome after an intensive squash match. Diagnosis of Takotsubo cardiomyopathy due to acute physical stress was suspected in presence of normal coronary arteries and transitory left ventricular dysfunction with typical apical ballooning. Car...

A general method for obtaining species-specific repetitive DNA sequences is described. The method is based on the detection of recombinant DNA clones containing repetitive sequences using labeled total genomic DNA. These repetitive DNA sequences can be used to identify individual mosquito adults, pupae, and larvae squashed on filter membranes (squash blots). This technique was used to distingui...

nature materials | VOL 7 | DECEMBER 2008 | www.nature.com/naturematerials 929 Erio Tosatti is at the Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA), via Beirut 2, 34014 Trieste, Italy; at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Strada Costiera 11, 34014, Trieste, Italy; and at the CNR-INFM Democritos National Simulation Center, via Beirut 2, 34014 Trieste, Italy. e-m...

Artificially occurring parthenocarpy can be induced by exogenous application of plant hormones and is useful in the fruit production many crops trees. In cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.), a model species Cucurbitaceae family, auxin, gibberellin, cytokinin, brassinosteroids are known to induce parthenocarpy. tropical squash (Cucurbita moschata synthetic auxins parthenocarpy, but effects still unkno...

PURPOSE To investigate the reliability and validity of the SQUASH physical activity (PA) questionnaire in a multi-ethnic population living in the Netherlands. METHODS We included participants from the HELIUS study, a population-based cohort study. In this study we included Dutch (n = 114), Turkish (n = 88), Moroccan (n = 74), South-Asian Surinamese (n = 98) and African Surinamese (n = 91) adu...