Dr. Kosaku Nitta, Department of Medicine, Kidney Center, Tokyo Women’s Medical College, 8-1 Kawada-cho, Tokyo 162 (Japan) Dear Sir, Membranous lipodystrophy is the name previously given by Nasu et al. [1] to a rare disease in which cyst-lesions of adipose tissue, including that of long bones, occur together with sudanophilic leukoencephalopa-thy. This disease has recently been recognized as her...

A new species of cyst nematode, Globodera ellingtonae, is described from soil collected from a field in Oregon. Second-stage juveniles (J2) of the species are characterized by body length of 365-515 μm, stylet length of 19-22.5 μm, basal knobs rounded posteriorly and pointed anteriorly, tail 39-55 μm, hyaline tail terminus 20-32.5 μm, and tail tapering uniformly but abruptly narrowing and const...

background nephrotoxicity is characterized and scored by many parameters such as vacuolization, dilatation, hyaline cast, debris or degeneration in injured renal tissue. in this short report, we attempt to find, the most correlated parameters with kidney tissue pathology damage score (pds) in cisplatin-induced nephrotoxicity. method a total of 207 normal and toxic rats’ kidney tissue (induced b...