PURPOSE To evaluate how the growth of neovascularization elsewhere (NVE) was delineated in an eye with hemicentral retinal vein occlusion (CRVO) using optical coherence tomography (OCT) angiography. PATIENTS AND METHODS We examined a 64-year-old man diagnosed with hemi-CRVO. The area around the occluded vein was scanned using a spectral-domain OCT device (RTVue XR Avanti). Blood flow was dete...

The cardia bifida in amphibians has the bulboventricular loop of the two hemi-hearts convex towards the mid-line. In birds the two loops have been reported to be convex towards the outside because all the experimental methods of producing cardia bifida in birds, unlike amphibians, impede the closure of the foregut. The morphologic expression of each cardiac primordium was studied without alteri...

UNLABELLED The identification of the mandibular canal (MC) is an important prerequisite for surgical procedures involving the posterior mandible. Cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) represents an advance in imaging technology, but distinguishing the MC from surrounding structures may remain a delicate task. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to assess the visibility of the MC in different ...

Craig J. Copi, Dragan Huterer, Dominik J. Schwarz, and Glenn D. Starkman Department of Physics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106-7079, USA Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics and Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA Fakultät für Physik, Universität Bielefeld, Postfach 100131, 33501 Bielefeld, Germany Beecroft In...

BACKGROUND In clinical evaluation of upper extremity, there is a lack of assessment methods that are quantitative, reliable, and informative of the overall functional capability of an individual. OBJECTIVE We present new methodology for the assessment of upper extremity impairments based on the concept of 3-dimensional reachable workspace using Microsoft Kinect. METHODS We quantify the reac...

It has been shown experimentally that cratered surfaces may have better adhesion properties than flat ones. However, the suction effect produced by the craters, which may be chiefly responsible for the improved adhesion, has not been properly modelled. This paper combines experimental, numerical simulation and analytical approaches towards developing a framework for quantifying the suction effe...

The discovery of 5-hydroxymethyl-cytosine (5hmC) in mammalian cells prompted us to look for this base in the DNA of Arabidopsis thaliana (thale cress), and to ask how well the Arabidopsis Variant in Methylation 1 (VIM1) protein, an essential factor in maintaining 5-cytosine methylation (5mC) homeostasis and epigenetic silencing in this plant, recognizes this novel base. We found that the DNA of...

The asymmetric unit of the title compound, C(9)H(9)N(2) (+.)0.5C(8)H(4)O(4) (-)·3H(2)O, contains one 2-phenyl-imidazolium cation, half a benzene-1,4-dicarboxyl-ate anion and three water mol-ecules, which are connected by O-H⋯O and N-H⋯O hydrogen bonds into a three-dimensional network.

INTRODUCTION Acute intermittent porphyria is a rare autosomal dominant metabolic disease. It is caused by a genetic mutation that results in deficiency of porphobilinogen deaminase enzyme, the third enzyme in heme biosynthesis. Acute intermittent porphyria precipitated by surgery is very rare. CASE PRESENTATION We present a 24 year-old woman who developed acute intermittent porphyria five day...

Patients with hemispatial neglect restricted to near (within reaching distance) or to far space (beyond reaching distance) have been described. This constitutes a double-dissociation considered by current neurocognitive thinking as compelling evidence for separate networks. However, a similar double-dissociation exists with respect to perceived as opposed to imagined space. If the organization ...