INTRODUCTION: In affluent countries habitual physical activity (PA) levels are low while participation of middle-aged people in road running events is increasing. We compared PA determinants of runners aged 50+ to those of a general population sample of similar age in Switzerland. METHOD: Cross-sectional study comparing 580 road running event participants to 1,067 general population subjects. B...

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CONGENITAL hepatic fibrosis is an uncommon cause of portal hypertension and usually presents as alimentary bleeding in childhood or adolescence. The occurrence in more than one member of a family has been described (Kerr et al., 1961; Campbell et al., 1958). This report concerns four members of one family who have presented with clinical features attributable to congenital hepatic fibrosis. Pat...

Purpose: To report a case of asymptomatic Wilson’s disease (WD) in which the identification of a Kayser-Fleischer (K-F) ring and its characterization by confocal biomicroscopy led to the diagnosis. Methods: Case report. Results: Confocal biomicroscopy showed clustered, highly reflective, and round foci in Descemet’s membrane, which we believed to be depositions of copper in this patient with as...

To help the difficult determination of the angle γ of the unitarity triangle, Aleksan, Dunietz and Kayser have proposed the modes of the type K − D + s , common to B s and ¯ B s. We point out that it is possible to gain in statistics by a sum over all modes with ground state mesons in the final state, i.e. s. The delicate point is the relative phase of these different contributions to the dilut...

A 64-year-old woman was referred to our hospital with jaundice of the bulbar conjunctiva and general fatigue. After admission, she developed hepatic encephalopathy and was diagnosed with fulminant hepatitis based on the American Association for the Study of Liver Disease (AASLD) position paper. Afterwards, additional laboratory findings revealed that serum ceruloplasmin levels were reduced, uri...

The ant(4')-IIa gene was previously cloned from Pseudomonas aeruginosa on a 1.6-kb DNA fragment (G. A. Jacoby, M. J. Blaser, P. Santanam, H. Hächler, F. H. Kayser, R. S. Hare, and G. H. Miller, Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 34:2381-2386, 1990). In the current study, the ant(4')-IIa gene was localized by gamma-delta mutagenesis. A region of approximately 600 nucleotides which contained the ant(4...

[PDF] [Full Text] [Abstract] , October 27, 2009; 106 (43): 18362-18366. PNAS Shawn A. Steckenfinger and Asif A. Ghazanfar Monkey visual behavior falls into the uncanny valley [PDF] [Full Text] [Abstract] , October 13, 2010; 30 (41): 13609-13623. J. Neurosci. and Jon Driver Toemme Noesselt, Sascha Tyll, Carsten Nicolas Boehler, Eike Budinger, Hans-Jochen Heinze Visual Detection Sensitivity S...

RATIONALE Wilson's disease (WD) is an autosomal recessive inherited disorder of copper metabolism with excellent prognosis if treated timely. However, WD is usually prone to neglect and misdiagnosis at an early stage. We reported a rare WD pedigree, and the clinical features, laboratory tests, and gene mutations were analyzed in detail. PATIENT CONCERNS The patient was a 17-year-old and 136-c...