Another side of the editorial wall

Another side of the editorial wall.

Another brick in the wall.

Sao Paulo Med J/Rev Paul Med 2002; 120(2):35. The history of lung cancer spans many years, and over recent decades excision of tumors has been considered as the only effective treatment. In 1933 Graham performed the first successful pneumonectomy due to lung cancer. In 1937 Ochsner and DeBakey first concluded that smoking is a cause of lung cancer. This important observation was confirmed by Do...

Negative pressure ventilation in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: another brick in the wall [editorial].

Accessible online at: www.karger.com/journals/res Although negative pressure ventilation (nPV) is an effective therapy for patients with restrictive lung disease [1] its position in the management of chronic ventilatory failure due to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is less clear. In the largest study to address this question Shapiro et al. [2] randomised 184 patients to receive ei...

Radiation Pattern Analysis of Inverted-F Antenna Mounted on the Side Wall of a Long Cylinder

An analytical technique is proposed for estimation of the radiation pattern of inverted-F antenna (IFA) which is mounted on the side wall of a long cylinder. The method can be applied to describe the IFA radiation in a lot of practical cases. It is indicated that this radiation pattern is a combination of radiation patterns of a horizontal and a vertical small radiator, near the cylinder with a...

LipidII: Just Another Brick in the Wall?

Nearly all bacteria contain a peptidoglycan cell wall. The peptidoglycan precursor molecule is LipidII, containing the basic peptidoglycan building block attached to a lipid. Although the suitability of LipidII as an antibacterial target has long been recognized, progress on elucidating the role(s) of LipidII in bacterial cell biology has been slow. The focus of this review is on exciting new d...