In the present study, we have identified and characterized homologues of the homeoboxcontaining gene EmH-3 from Ephydatia muelleri in three additional freshwater sponges: Eunapius fragilis, Spongilla lacustris and Trochospongilla horrida. They were designated EmH-3Efr, EmH-3Sl and EmH-3Th. They exhibited a great conservation of genomic and amino acid sequences, exon/intron structure and express...

Focal dermal hypoplasia (FDH) is a rare inherited genodermatosis with an X-linked dominant trait. FDH is associated with skin defects and other abnormalities of bone, nails, hair, limbs, teeth and eyes. We present the case of a 26-year-old female in the 27th pregnancy week and a previous history of miscarriage. After careful physical examination and dermal biopsy, histopathology revealed that t...

Spontaneous uterine rupture due to placenta percreta in the second trimester is extremely rare and difficult to manage. A 26-year old pregnant woman at 27 gestational weeks with a history of two previous cesarean sections admitted to our center because of abdominal pain and vaginal bleeding. Ultrasound examination revealed placenta previa with moderate amount of intraperitoneal fluid. The borde...

Results Whole body bone scan revealed asymmetrical increased up take in ankle and linear increased up take in left metatarsus (3th). His abdominal CT Scan showed multiple variable size hypodense lesions in bilateral kidneys and buldging and distortion of renal border. Bone marrow biopsy performed that revealed positive for CD45 and CD3. His renal lesions biopsy confirmed the diagnosis of Malign...

The Yunis-Varón syndrome represents a rare autosomal recessive syndrome of easy recognition characterized by defective growth of the cranial bone along with complete or partial absence of the clavicles (cleidocranial dysplasia), absence of thumbs and halluces, distal aphalangia, ectodermal anomalies, growth retardation and poor outcome. The molecular genetic basis is unknown. Here, we report an...

Background: Pemphigus vulgaris, the most common form of pemphigus, is due to the production of auto-antibodies directed against adhesion molecules (desmoglein 1 and 3) that belong to the cadherin family. B cell-activating factor of the TNF family (BAFF) and a proliferation-inducing ligand (APRIL) may play a significant role in autoimmune diseases such as pemphigus vulgaris. Only a few studies h...

Sabina Anwar,2* Owen Peters,1* Steven Millership,1* Natalia Ninkina,1,4 Natalie Doig,5 Natalie Connor-Robson,1 Sarah Threlfell,2 Gurdeep Kooner,1 Robert M. Deacon,3 David M. Bannerman,3 J. Paul Bolam,5 Sreeganga S. Chandra,6 Stephanie J. Cragg,2 Richard Wade-Martins,2 and Vladimir L. Buchman1 1School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF10 3AX, United Kingdom, 2Department of Physiology...

Andrew Sharott,1,2 Alessandro Gulberti,1 Simone Zittel,3,4 Adam A. Tudor Jones,2 Ulrich Fickel,1 Alexander Münchau,3,4 Johannes A. Köppen,5 Christian Gerloff,3 Manfred Westphal,5 Carsten Buhmann,3 Wolfgang Hamel,5 Andreas K. Engel,1 and Christian K.E. Moll1 1Department of Neurophysiology and Pathophysiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, 20246 Hamburg, Germany, 2Medical Research ...

Human action can be naturally represented as multidimensional arrays known as tensors. In this paper, a simple and efficient algorithm based on tensor subspace learning is proposed for human action recognition. An action is represented as a 3th-order tensor first, then tensor principal component analysis is used to reduce dimensionality and extract the most useful features for action recognitio...