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Rat megakaryocytes in mixed bone marrow cell suspension underwent mor­ phologic change when exposed to adenosine diphosphate (ADP) and epi­ nephrine. Viewed by phase microscopy, marginal membranes developed ragged or vacuolated appearance within one minute after exposure to ADP or epinephrine. Recovery from the change induced by ADP occurred within five minutes. These effects were inhibited by ...

This paper presents a complete modeling system that extracts complex building structures with irregular shapes and surfaces. Our modeling approach is based on the use of airborne LiDAR which offers a fast and effective way to acquire models for a large urban environment. To verify and refine the reconstructed ragged model, we present a primitive-based model refinement approach that requires min...

We present a boy of eight years of age with symptoms of Kearns-Sayre syndrome (KSS) characterised by ophthalmoparesis, palpebral ptosis, mitochondrial myopathy, pigmentous retinitis, associated to short stature, cerebellar signs, cardiac blockade, diabetes mellitus, elevated cerebrospinal fluid protein concentration, and focal hand and foot dystonia. The skeletal muscle biopsy demonstrated ragg...

Mitochondrial encephalopathies (MEs) are characterized by an extreme clinical heterogeneity since they can involve different systems and manifest at distinct ages with variable course. Many affected individuals display a cluster of clinical features that fall into discrete syndromes among syndromic pictures, epilepsy is relevant in myoclonic epilepsy with ragged-red fibers (MERRF), mitochondria...

Introduction. Symptoms of mitochondrial diseases and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) frequently overlap and can easily be mistaken. Methods. We report the case of a patient diagnosed with CFS and during follow-up was finally diagnosed with mitochondrial myopathy by histochemical study of muscle biopsy, spectrophotometric analysis of the complexes of the mitochondrial respiratory chain, and genet...

The aim of this study was to assess the heterogeneous clinical presentations of children with mitochondrial disorders evaluated at a metabolic neurogenetic clinic. The charts of 36 children with highly suspected mitochondrial disorders were reviewed. Thirty one children were diagnosed as having a mitochondrial disorder, based on a suggestive clinical presentation and at least one of the accepte...

Ribosomal gene compensation and magnification that might be detected on a whole-plant basis was not found in maize. Plants monosomic for chromosome 6 (the NOR chromosome) were compared with monosomic-8 and monosomic-10 plants, disomic sibs, and parental lines. Assuming no rDNA compensation, monosomic-6 plants showed approximately the decrease expected in rRNA cistron number. Monosomic-8 had a n...

The web is changing the way in which data warehouses are designed and exploited. Nowadays, for many data analysis tasks, data contained in a conventional data warehouse may not suffice, and external data sources, like the web, can provide useful multidimensional information. Also, large repositories of semantically annotated data are becoming available on the web, opening new opportunities for ...

I n general, the clinical course of patients suffering from different types of mtDNA mediated neurodegenerative disorders progresses with age. The clinical progression of muscle weakness has been reported to correlate with an increase in cytochrome c oxidase (COX) negative fibres or with an increase of mutant mtDNA in skeletal muscle. In a recent issue we reported on a patient with mitochondria...