Sneddon's syndrome (SS) is a rarely seen thrombotic vasculopathy characterized by the combination of ischemic cerebrovascular disease with livedo racemose (LR) and mainly affects young women in third decade life. We present case an 32 year old diagnosed SS 17 years ago, admitted to our emergency department when she was 37 weeks pregnant, as having superimposed severe preeclampsia intrahepatic c...

Abstract Indentation techniques have proven to be effective characterize the mechanical properties of materials. For elastic deformation, commonly used models are Hertz model and Sneddon model. However, neither them works for indenting spherical samples using pyramid or conical indenter. Therefore, one modified has been developed determine Young’s modulus from indentation results. In this study...

The former family Trachelostenidae is returned to tribal status in Tenebrionidae-Tenebrioninae and reconstituted to include Trachelostenus Solier, 1851 of southern Chile, currently in a separate family Trachelostenidae, Myrmecodema Gebien, 1943 of central Chile, currently in Stenochiinae-Cnodalonini, and Leaus Matthews & Lawrence, 1992 of eastern Australia, currently in Tenebrioninae-Titaenini....

Living human corneal epithelial cells have been probed in vitro via atomic force microscopy, revealing the frictional characteristics of single cells. Under cell media, measured shear stresses of 0.40 kPa demonstrate the high lubricity of epithelial cell surfaces in contact with a microsphere probe. The mechanical properties of individual epithelial cells have been further probed through nanome...

Sneddon syndrome (SS) is increasingly recognised as a cause of ischaemic stroke in young adults. As the natural course of SS is not well defined, the authors performed a prospective six year clinical and neuroradiological follow up study. Thirteen patients with definite diagnosis of SS (livedo racemosa, characteristic skin biopsy, and history of stroke) entered a follow up programme that consis...

Debate about the possibility of fish pain focuses largely on the fish’s lack of the cortex considered necessary for generating pain. That view is appealing because it avoids relatively abstract debate about the nature of pain experience and subjectivity. Unfortunately, however, that debate cannot be entirely avoided. Subcortical circuits in the fish might support an immediate, raw, “pain” exper...

ATP and norepinephrine (NE) are cotransmitters released from many postganglionic sympathetic nerves. In this article, we review the evidence for ATP and NE cotransmission in the rodent vas deferens with special attention to the mechanisms involved in removing the cotransmitters from the neuroeffector junction. Although the clearance of NE is well understood (e.g., the primary mechanism being re...

IgA pemphigus is a rare neutrophilic acantholytic skin disorder with only approximately 70 cases reported in the indexed literature to date. Here we describe two patients with IgA pemphigus (subcorneal pustular dermatosis type and intraepithelial neutrophilic type) that to our knowledge are the first Scandinavian patients with this disease. Initially, both patients were misdiagnosed as subcorne...