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Old Familiar Faces

Newcomer joints old familiar faces.

akayasu arteritis (TA) is a chronic vasculitis of unknown etiology that involves the aorta and its main branches, such as the innominate, carotid, subclavian, vertebral, and renal arteries, as well as the pulmonary and coronary arteries.1 This disease is more common in young females in Asia, Middle East, and Middle and South America than in Europe and North America. TA has 2 stages: an acute, “...

Familiar Old Wine: Great New Bottle

Nature versus nurture in childhood obesity: a familiar old conundrum.

Childhood obesity is an emerging pandemic of the new millennium, and thus we urgently need to understand its causal web. During the past decade, the identification of an obesity gene and the development of new insights into the physiology of appetite regulation and energy metabolism led to great promise and excitement. Despite these advances, we have yet to uncover the complex dynamics of energ...

An old familiar face: Tremella anaptychiae sp. nov. (Tremellales, Basidiomycota)

Tremella anaptychiae, a lichenicolous fungus growing on Anaptychia ciliaris, is described as new. Both morphological and molecular data (DNA sequences from the ITS and 28S regions) are used to characterize and distinguish it from other Tremella s. l. species. Tremella anaptychiae is closely related to T. parmeliarum but comparatively distantly related to other previously recognized lichenicolou...