three-year-old boy came to emergency room of soraya medical center with abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting and distended abdomen for a period of three days. x-ray showed fluid in the peritoneal cavity and at pleural space, mild elevation of the hemi diaphragm, and thick left diaphragm. surgery showed sub diaphragmatic abscess under in the hemi diaphragm and peritonitis. the autopsy showed several...

We investigated whether motion aftereffects (MAE) can be contingent on surroundings. Random dots moving leftward and rightward were presented in alternation. Moving dots were surrounded by an open circle or an open square. After prolonged exposure to these stimuli, MAE were found to be contingent upon the surrounding frames: dots moving in a random direction appeared moving leftward when surrou...

Insurmountable antagonism (maximal response to the agonist depressed) can result from a temporal inequilibrium involving a slow offset orthosteric antagonist or be the result of an allosteric modulation of the receptor. The former mechanism is operative when the antagonist, agonist, and receptors cannot come to proper equilibrium during the time allotted for collection of agonist response (hemi...

Previous investigations have shown that one mechanism of irregular vocal fold vibration may be a desynchronization of two or more vibratory modes of the vocal fold tissues. In the current investigation, mechanisms of irregular vibration were further examined using a self-oscillating, physical model of vocal fold vibration, a hemi-model methodology, and high-speed, stereoscopic, digital imaging....

We describe a method for controllably generating giant balloon-like liposomes through electroformation of densely micro-patterned lipid films. These balloon-like liposomes are still tethered to the substrate through a thin lipid tube. We found that the patterns that were more densely spaced generated the balloon-like liposomes, whereas patterns that were sparsely spaced generated hemi-spherical...

OBJECTIVE Diaphragm pacing by phrenic nerve (PN) stimulation is currently used for patients with central respiratory paralysis to be weaned from mechanical ventilation. Electrodes are inserted either through bilateral thoracotomy or through four ports laparoscopy. The aim of this experimental work is to demonstrate the feasibility of trans-mediastinal bilateral implantation of PN electrodes usi...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the value of MRI for surveillance of primary hemi-HIFU therapy for localized PCa in a single-center. PATIENTS AND METHODS Patients with localized prostate cancer were treated with hemi-HIFU from October 2009 to March 2014. All patients performed MRI before focal therapy, the reader was blinded to the treatment. Oncological failure was defined as positive biopsy or bioche...

In maize the transposable elements Activator/Dissociation (Ac/Ds) transpose shortly after replication from one of the two resulting chromatids ("chromatid selectivity"). A model has been suggested that explains this phenomenon as a consequence of different affinity for Ac transposase binding to holo-, hemi-, and unmethylated transposon ends. Here we demonstrate that in petunia cells a holomethy...

We show that cryptdin-4 (Crp4), an antimicrobial peptide found in mice, induces the aggregation and hemi-fusion of charged phospholipid vesicles constructed of the anionic lipid POPG and the zwitterionic lipid POPC. Hemi-fusion is confirmed with positive total lipid-mixing assay results, negative inner monolayer lipid-mixing assay results, and negative results from contents-mixing assays. Aggre...