Effects of tilt of the gravito-inertial acceleration vector on the angular vestibuloocular reflex during centrifugation. Interaction of the horizontal linear and angular vestibuloocular reflexes (lVOR and aVOR) was studied in rhesus and cynomolgus monkeys during centered rotation and off-center rotation at a constant velocity (centrifugation). During centered rotation, the eye velocity vector w...

This study examined the influence of high dietary fat intake on the development of ovarian-independent mammary tumors in both vehicle-treated controls and rats made deficient in estrogen and prolactin during tumor induction. The majority of 7,12dimethylbenz(a)anthracene(DMBA)-induced mammary tumors in rats are dependent on estrogen and prolactin for growth, and suppression of prolactin and estr...

Motion sickness is a syndrome provoked by sensory conflict that involves the vestibular system with symptoms resembling those of common neuro-otological disorders including vestibular neuritis (VN) and vestibular migraine (VM). By contrast, it is generally believed that bilateral vestibular failure (BVF) causes reduced motion sickness susceptibility. We investigate differences between these con...

D URING A WALK ABOUT THE ONCOLOGY unit where I was receiving antibiotics for pneumonia, I encountered an elderly woman, her arm splinted and wrapped by a sling and burdened by intravenous and oxygen tubing. She was slowly and painfully making her way to the family lounge with her nurse and daughter. I helped them into the room, and then we all sat down. I asked her about her arm. She told me th...

Taxol is an antineoplastic drug which targets microtu-bules and which has significant clinical activity in ovarian and breast cancer, and also in lymphomas and non-small-cell lung cancer [1]. In the early clinical trials, a high incidence of acute reactions (bronchospasm, hypotension and arrhythmias) was observed due to the vehicle Cremophor [2]. For later clinical trials, taxol was administere...

Y. Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy followed by systemic lupus erythematosus and Sjögren syndrome: a case report. Two cases of chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculo-neuropathy (CIDP) associated with Graves' disease. The association of myasthenia gravis and connective tissue diseases-the role of Sjögren's syndrome. features of patients with myasthenia gravis associated...

I n a recent large study, patients with non–small-cell lung cancer who added beta blockers to radiotherapy showed better overall survival, distant metastasis– free survival, and disease-free survival than those receiving radiation alone. In this 12-year retrospective study of 722 patients, 155 who took beta blockers for hypertension and heart disease survived for a mean of 23.7 months, compared...