background & importance: disc herniation is defined as the prolapsed of material disc into the spinal canal. if the disc fragment is free in spinal canal, it is called sequestration disc fragment. occasionally, alteration in sequestration disc fragment makes the diagnosis of the disc herniation, challenging. case presentation: we reviewed a rare case of the cervical sequestrated disc herniation...

We have imaged the disc of the young star HL Tau using the VLA at 1.3 cm, with 0.08 resolution (as small as the orbit of Jupiter). The disc is around half the stellar mass, assuming a canonical gas-mass conversion from the measured mass in large dust grains. A simulation shows that such discs are gravitationally unstable, and can fragment at radii of a few tens of AU to form planets. The VLA im...

OBJECTIVE To describe the prevalence of major relapse and healthcare costs among patients with granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA); to find patients with microscopic polyangiitis (MPA) in administrative databases, because no MPA diagnosis code exists; and to describe the clinical and economic burden associated with MPA. METHODS Adults (≥ 18 yrs) with ≥ 2 diagnoses of GPA [International Cla...

By fractionating conditioned medium (CM) from Drosophila imaginal disc cell cultures, we have identified a family of Imaginal Disc Growth Factors (IDGFs), which are the first polypeptide growth factors to be reported from invertebrates. The active fraction from CM, as well as recombinant IDGFs, cooperate with insulin to stimulate the proliferation, polarization and motility of imaginal disc cel...

PURPOSE To document the clinical features of disc hemorrhage in patients with branch retinal vein occlusion (BRVO) and normal tension glaucoma (NTG), and to evaluate the relationship between BRVO and NTG with disc hemorrhages. METHODS From July 2001 to May 2006, sixteen patients with both NTG and BRVO in different eyes were successively collected from outpatient population of Seoul National U...

The article considers a dispenser-distributor with soil-transporting elements, substantiates and determines its technological design parameters. As result of the theoretical studies carried out, analytical dependences were obtained to determine diameter disk soil dispenser-distributor, height element volume required cover potato tubers. results work in field theory calculation planters are syst...

Optic disc pit (ODP) is rare congenital cavitary anomaly of the optic disc. Serous detachment of macula is the most common complication of ODP and occurs in 25%-75% of these cases. Although various surgical techniques have been used for the treatment of ODP maculopathy; consensus still eludes as far as the optimal surgical approach is concerned. We herein report a case of ODP maculopathy in a y...

to study response of bread wheat cv. sardari to row spacing and seeding rate and to determine the desirable seed density under cold rain-fed conditions a two-year study (2008 and 2009) was carried out in qamloo research station located in kurdistan. a strip plot design with three replications was used. four rows spacing including 15, 17.5, 20 and 25 cm as horizontal factor and four seeding rate...

We present ISO observations made between 2.5 and 180 m of the nearby G0V dwarf HD 207129 taken as part of a large survey of nearby main-sequence stars in search of debris discs. HD 207129 emits radiation in excess of the photospheric flux density between at least 60 and 180 m. The infrared excess is explained by a disc of cold dust particles (25 to 50 K) and, to account for the absence of a sig...

BACKGROUND Vitamin D deficiency is associated with impaired immune responses and increased susceptibility to a number of intracellular pathogens in individuals infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). It is not known whether such an association exists with Cryptococcus neoformans. METHODS Levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25[OH]D) were measured in 150 patients with cryptococcal meningit...