1Department of General Medicine, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kita-ku, Okayama-shi, Okayama, Japan 2Devision of Infection Control and Prevention, Osaka University Hospital, Suita-shi, Osaka, Japan 3Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kita-ku,...

In adults, calculation of left ventricular mass (LVM) has been shown to give higher values when based on M-mode measurements obtained by the second-harmonic imaging (SHI) technique than with the older fundamental imaging (FI) technique. No information is available in paediatric subjects. This study, therefore, compares LVM calculated from measurements obtained with SHI and FI in 14 children, ag...

OBJECTIVE To describe the epidemiology, clinical manifestations and evolutive characteristics of pediatric patients with severe head injury (SHI). MATERIAL AND METHOD A review was made of the patients admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) with SHI between July 1983 and December 2009. RESULTS Of the 389 patients with head injuries admitted to the PICU during the study period, ...

BACKGROUND eHealth is developing rapidly and brings with it a promise to reduce social health inequalities (SHIs). Yet, it appears that it also has the potential to increase them. OBJECTIVES The general objective of this review was to set out how to ensure that eHealth contributes to reducing SHIs rather than exacerbating them. This review has three objectives: (1) identifying characteristics...

1 Japan Atomic Energy Agency, 2-4 Shirakata, Tokai-mura, Ibaraki, 319-1195, Japan 2 Oita Prefecture-Mie Hospital, 3964-1 Miemachi-Miyano, Bungoono-shi, Oita, 879-7101, Japan 3 Shin-Beppu Hospital, 3898 Tsurumi, Beppu-shi, Oita, 874-0833, Japan 4 Tokai University Oiso Hospital, 21-1 Gakkyou, Oiso-machi, Kanagawa, 259-0198, Japan 5 Tokai University Hospital, 143 Shimokasuya, Isehara-shi, Kanagawa...

Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) using variable diffusion times (t(diff)) was performed to investigate wild-type (wt) mice, myelin-deficient shiverer (shi) mutant mice and shi mice transplanted with wt neural precursor cells that differentiate and function as oligodendrocytes. At t(diff) = 30 ms, the diffusion anisotropy "volume ratio" (VR), diffusion perpendicular to the fibers (lambda( perpendi...

The article reported three new species of the genus Xiphidiopsis Redtenbacher, 1891 in China: Xiphidiopsis (Xiphidiopsis) minorincisus Han, Chang & Shi sp. nov., Xiphidiopsis (Xiphidiopsis) protensus Han, Chang & Shi sp. nov. and Xiphidiopsis (Xiphidiopsis) anisolobulus Han, Di & Shi sp. nov. The type material is deposited in the Museum of Hebei University, Baoding, P. R. China.

The yeast shi mutation affects the spacing between the TATA promoter element and transcription initiation sites; for the H2B and ADH1 genes, a series of start sites located approximately 50-80 bp downstream of TATA is used in addition to the wild-type initiation sites located at around 100 bp from TATA (1). Here, the yeast SHI wild-type gene has been isolated by complementation and shown to be ...