The feasibility of using an image analyser, the CAS 100, to assess the ploidy of smooth muscle tumours on formalin fixed paraffin wax embedded tissue was assessed. Various different methods of assessment were compared. A paraffin wax block of 15 leiomyomata and 13 leiomyosarcomata yielded serial sections of 3 microns, 5 microns, and 7 microns and a cytospin preparation (from a 50 micron section...

AIM To evaluate the potential of the retinal thickness analyser (RTA) as an objective tool for assessment and follow up of diabetic macular oedema. METHODS A prototype of the RTA that operates on the principle of laser slit biomicroscopy was used. Retinal thickness was obtained in 41 eyes of 41 diabetic patients. The clinical diagnosis was cystoid macular oedema (CMO) in 10 eyes, clinically s...

were first used clinically for diabetes mellitus in the 1950s. Since phenformin was found to have a lethal side effect, lactic acidosis, in the late of 1970s, its usage decreased rapidly in many countries and was finally withdrawn. Then use of other biguanides declined gradually because of their own adverse effects. Lactic acidosis, hypoglycemia, and digestive organ dysfunction have been found ...

The role of endothelin-1 in mediating changes in cardiac 2 sympathetic nerve activity in heart failure 3 4 Yonis Abukar, Clive N May and Rohit Ramchandra. 5 6 Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, University of Melbourne, 7 Parkville Victoria, Australia and Department of Physiology, Auckland 8 University, Auckland, New Zealand. 9 10 11 Brief title: Endothelin-1 and CSNA 12 13 14 T...

Data formats play a central role in information processing, exchange and storage. Security-related tasks such as the documentation of exploits or format-aware fuzzing of files depend on formalized data format knowledge. In this article, we present a model for describing arbitrary data format instances as well as arbitrary data formats as a whole. Using the Bitstream Segment Graph (BSG) model an...

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Previous studies [Tiemann et al., J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 120, 2355-2365 (2006)] have reported the localization of marine mammals in 3-D from their clicks using multipath arrivals. Bathymetric variations were advantageously used to predict multipath arrival times with a raytracer. These arrivals are directly discernible from the time series for impulsive sources, such as whale clicks, but extension...

Sarcocystis hominis was first isolated from slaughtered cattle raised in Japan. Cysts were 1,220-4,460 x 80-384 microns in size and their wall was 3 to 6 microns thick and appeared radially striated in the histopathological sections because of the presence of palisade-like villar protrusions on the surface. The protrusions were 3.1-4.3 x 0.7-1.1 microns in size and had many microtubules in the ...