In our previous work (Fabri et al. 2009), we showed that different extracts of Mitracarpus frigidus had significant antibacterial, antifungal and leishmanicidal activities. In order to increase our knowledge about this species, this work assesses the chemical composition and the in vitro biological activity of its essential oil. Thus, the essential oil obtained by hydrodistillation of the aeria...

conclusions in most cases, the conus artery can be visualized in cardiac ct. a description of the conus artery should be a part of the standard clinical coronary ct angiography description. objectives to examine whether it is possible to visualize the conus artery in multi-slice computed tomography (ct). patients and methods in 79 consecutive patients (aged 56 ± 12.9 years; 13 women), 64-slice ...

We carried out a definition of the species group to which Conus praecellens A. Adams 1854 belongs using a combination of comparative morphological data, molecular phylogeny based on standard genetic markers and toxinological markers. Prior to this work, Conus praecellens was generally postulated to belong to a clade of similarly high-spired, smaller Conusspecies such as Conus pagodus Kiener, 18...

The biology of modern Conidae (cone snails)--which includes the hyperdiverse genus Conus--has been intensively studied, but the fossil record of the clade remains poorly understood, particularly within an evolutionary framework. Here, ultraviolet light is used to reveal and characterize the original shell coloration patterns of 28 species of cone snails from three Neogene coral reef-associated ...

We examined the anatomical height and shape of the conus medullaris in 602 cases using magnetic resonance imaging. The peak of the distribution of the conus height was at the middle one-third of L1. The comparison of the conus level had no significant relationships with age or sex, but the juvenile group had more a caudal distribution of the conus level. The shape of the conus medullaris was cl...

To date, only a few reports described the potential factors influencing the position of conus medullaris. One previous study revealed no significant change of conus locations in patients with idiopathic scoliosis; however, the effect of ankylosing spondylitis (AS)-related thoracolumbar kyphosis on conus position remains unexplored. Therefore, we aimed to investigate the variation of conus medul...

There are few reports of electrocardiogram (ECG) changes of conus branch occlusion. A conus branch artery supply to the outflow tract of right ventricle. A conus branch artery is considered as the substrate of Brugada syndrome. We report a case of conus branch occlusion during angioplasty with ST segment elevation in V1-3 like Brugada syndrome ECG. We need to bear in mind that this ECG change m...