Basal serum growth hormone (GH) and insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) concentration was measured by radioimmunoassay in patients with diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH) with muscle and joint pain and stiffness (symptomatic group) and in DISH patients without these constitutional clinical symptoms (asymptomatic group), but with persistent radiographic evidence of DISH. Serum GH a...

Position-referenced microscopy (PRM) is based on smart sample holders that integrate a position reference pattern (PRP) in their depth, allowing the determination of the lateral coordinates with respect to the sample-holder itself. Regions of interest can thus be retrieved easily after culture dish transfers from a cell incubator to the microscope stage. Images recorded at different instants in...

Polymeric Nanoneedle Arrays In article number 2104828, Yaping Chen, Nicolas H. Voelcker, Roey Elnathan, and co-workers demonstrate the fabrication of relatively low-cost high throughput polymeric nanoneedles from cell culture polystyrene. The with precise geometry are imprinted directly on polystyrene petri dish via nanoimprint lithography. arrays can precisely manipulate cellular processes med...

OBJECTIVE Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH) are both characterized by new bone formation in the spine but presumably have a different pathogenesis. This study was undertaken to compare the natural course of new bone formation in AS and DISH. METHODS Lateral radiographs of the cervical and lumbar spine from AS and DISH patients obtained at ≥2 time ...

We suggest a naïve Bayes method for Japanese recipe pairing which uses ingredients of main and side dishes. For every pair of ingredients in the learning data, we calculate the probability of the co-occurrence. For a main dish of the evaluation, we guess a side dish whose posterior probability has the maximum value. In our experiment, the domain of evaluation data is restricted to the 100 examp...