The testicle was enlarged, very tender, but not particularly painful. He attributed the disease to a crush between his legs in getting out of bed. Under Epsom salts and tartar emetic it was quite well in about a couple of days, but the fever instead of subsiding now assumed an intermittent (tertian) type. This continued until the 5th January, about a week, when the other testicle became inflame...

In this review we summarize the essential findings about the function of tumour necrosis factor (TNF) and its cognate receptors TNFR1 and TNFR2, and lymphotoxin alpha (LT-alpha) ligands in immune-mediated CNS inflammation and demyelination. The advent of homologous recombination technology in rodents provides a new method which has been used during the last 5 years and has led to insights into ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Spondyloarthritis (SpA) is a well recognized extraintestinal manifestation of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBDs), either Crohn's Disease(CD) or Ulcerative Colitis (UC). A much larger percentage of SpA patients have subclinical gut inflammation manifested either by endoscopic findings or by histology. The aim of the present article is to review clinical and experimental ...

Next generation computer and communications technology for instructional environments is expected to accelerate progress in distributed and collaborative learning and interactive multimedia courseware. Various industry and international standards groups are currently creating specifications which will define a framework for how this technology will be structured. These standards encompass distr...

The straightforward but unexpected relationship presented here relates crustal thickness to magma type in the Izu-Ogasawara (Bonin) and Aleutian oceanic arcs. Volcanoes along the southern segment of the Izu-Ogasawara arc and the western Aleutian arc (west of Adak) are underlain by thin crust (10-20 km). In contrast those along the northern segment of the Izu-Ogasawara arc and eastern Aleutian a...

Sperm proteomics is the identification and functional study of sperm proteins. It is based on the separation of proteins to generate a sample suitable for mass spectrometry and subsequent protein identification. Various proteomic approaches can be employed to study sperm proteins. Currently it has led to the identification and cataloging of thousands of sperm proteins. Ultimately, the goal is t...

This paper details an expression of interest (EoI) in the area of “biometric identity authentication”. This EoI was submitted in response to an invitation made by the EC as part of its preparation of the Sixth Framework Programme. The work in this area is to be supported by a proposed network of excellence (NoE). This will be formed by regrouping the critical mass of expertise required to promo...