Clinically, chickens showed progressively developed clinical signs represented by sever cyanosis of the comb and wattles with hemorrhage at the shanks, depression, and ruffling feathers with loss of appetite and high daily mortalities. The ducks showed severe neurological signs as torticollus, seizures and inability to stand with mild signs of diarrhea and depression. Grossly, chickens showed h...

abstract infiltration process is one of the most important components of the hydrological cycle. on the other hand, the direct measurement of infiltration process is laborious, time consuming and expensive. in this study, the possibility of predicting cumulative infiltration in specific time intervals, using readily available soil data and artificial neural networks (anns) was investigated. for...

We retrospectively compared 81 temporal artery biopsy specimens demonstrating perivascular inflammation without evidence of temporal arteritis and 76 specimens demonstrating no inflammation. Patients with perivascular inflammation included 43 women (mean age, 71.2 years). Nineteen patients met the 1990 American College of Rheumatology (ACR) criteria for the diagnosis of temporal arteritis. All ...

Eosinophilic cellulitis (EC) is described as erythematous plaques with perivascular and interstitial infiltration of eosinophils. EC is associated with various skin disorders, and occurs in adverse drug reactions to many medications (1). A previous report described a patient with EC who was found to have increased interleukin (IL)-5-producing circulating T cells (2), suggesting the coexistence ...

BACKGROUND Chronic inhibition of endothelial nitric oxide (NO) synthesis by the administration of N:(omega)-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (L-NAME) to rats induces early vascular inflammatory changes (monocyte infiltration into coronary vessels and monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 [MCP-1] expression) as well as subsequent arteriosclerosis (medial thickening and perivascular fibrosis) and cardi...

Two patients successfully treated for prostatic cancer developed a progressive neurologic syndrome beginning with loss of voluntary horizontal eye movements followed by severe, persistent muscle spasms of the face, jaw, and pharynx. Both had mild gait unsteadiness, and one exhibited facial and abdominal myoclonus. Extensive diagnostic studies, including MRIs of the brainstem (with and without c...

Components of the plasminogen activator (PA) and matrix metalloprotease (MMP) cascade have been characterized in multiple sclerosis lesions by immunohistochemistry, enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and enzyme activity assays in order to establish a functional role for the enzyme sequence in lesion development. Highly significant quantitative increases in urokinase PA (uPA), urokinase receptor ...

abstract infiltration is one of the most important phenomena which is affected by the soil physical and hydraulic characteristics. measurement of infiltration needs the high cost and is time consuming, therefore estimation of infiltration is necessary. also, due to variability of soil moisture, it is important to determine the appropriate model for the estimating the infiltration rate. the pres...

The effects on the coronary arteries of feeding a normal diet to mice previously fed a high-fat diet have been described.' Following the first week of "recovery" (feeding a normal diet) there was a high incidence of medial hyalinization and a mural and perivascular infiltration of inflammatory cells. After two and three weeks of recovery a perivascular fibrosis and subendothelial hyperplasia of...

Article type: Case Report Normal Pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) is characterized by gait apraxia, urinary incontinence, and dementia. Mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD) is an autoimmune connective tissue disease that has never been reported to cause NPH. Our patient was a 67-year man with a one-year history of gradual worsening gait and balance, urinary urgency with urge incontinence and decr...