BACKGROUND The use of bariatric surgery in the management of morbid obesity is rapidly increasing. The two most frequently performed procedures are laparoscopic Roux-en-Y bypass and laparoscopic gastric banding. The objective of this short overview is to provide a critical appraisal of the most relevant scientific evidence comparing laparoscopic gastric banding versus laparoscopic Roux-en-Y byp...

We perform a quantitative textural analysis of banding in obsidian from Big Glass Mountain (BGM), Medicine Lake Volcano, California and from Mayor Island (MI), New Zealand. The samples are compositionally homogeneous, with banding defined by variable microlite content (BGM) or vesicularity (MI). The spatial distribution of alternating light and dark bands has a 1/wavenumber power-spectral densi...

Yeasts are eukaryotic microorganisms including 1,500 species. They are an important model organism in modern cell biology research, and are one of the most thoroughly researched eukaryotic microorganisms. Some yeast can find potential application in the field of bioremediation. In the present investigation the yeast samples were isolated on YPD medium from natural sources like ripened fruits, m...

As a prelude to investigating the mechanism of regression of pressure overload-induced left ventricular (LV) hypertrophy (LVH), we studied the time course for the development and subsequent regression of LVH as well as accompanying alterations in cardiac function, histology, and gene expression. Mice were subjected to aortic banding for 4 or 8 wk to establish LVH, and regression was initiated b...

RESULTS................ 15 Species Composition and Relative Abundance . . . . 15 Site characteristics.......................... . . 19 Banding results ................................ 21 Candidate Species and Antrozous pallidus .......... 21 Sex Ratios....................................... 22 DISCUSSION........................................... 25 Species Composition and Relative Abundance . ...

Conventional alkaline C-banding was found to be an effective additional step in restriction endonuclease banding to improve staining contrast and to reveal hidden changes in the heterochromatic blocks. Examples of these cases are demonstrated on the bovine chromosome set using Hinf I and Taq I endonucleases in the digestion experiments.

which there is little agreement on the best therapeutic option (1-5). A 47-years-old male, with alcoholic liver cirrhosis (Child-Pugh class C; MELD 29) and previous oesophageal varices bleeding, was admitted for profuse hematochezia. He was tachycardic, hypotensive and had haemoglobin 2,7 g/dl. Fluid and blood resuscitation, intravenous octreotide, ciprofloxacin and PPI were promptly started. E...

The prevalence of morbid obesity is increasing at an alarming rate worldwide and is becoming a major public health problem in the United States. Because of the failure of conventional weight loss therapies for morbid obesity, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) recommends surgical therapy as the only intervention associated with long-term suc...