There have been considerable recent advances in the understanding and management of femoroacetabular impingement and associated labral and chondral pathology. We have developed a classification system for acetabular chondral lesions. In our system, we use the six acetabular zones previously described by Ilizaliturri et al. The cartilage is then graded on a scale of 0 to 4 as follows: grade 0, n...

The ADAMs (A Disintegrin and Metalloprotease Domain) are a growing family of multifunctional proteins thought to be important in a wide range of biological processes such as cell adhesion, cell fusion and proteolysis. In general, they are type I transmembrane glycoproteins comprising an N-terminal metalloprotease domain, a disintegrin domain, a cysteine-rich region and an EGF-like domain (revie...

Bladder cancer is the fourth most common malignancy in American men and almost 25% is muscle invasive at the time of diagnosis (Cancer Facts and Figures, 2009; Nieder et al., 2008). Currently, most effective local treatment of muscle invasive bladder cancer and noninvasive, high-grade bladder tumors that recur or progress despite intravesical therapies is open radical cystoprostatectomy with ur...

The white pine weevil, Pissodes strobi Peck (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), is a serious forest pest in young pine and spruce plantations in much of Canada and the northern US (Mitchell et al., 1990; Alfaro et al., 1995). Adults emerge in early spring to begin feeding and egg laying in the secondary phloem of the1-year-old terminal leader of young trees (Silver, 1968). Upon hatching, larvae mine d...

Cervical cytology is accepted worldwide for early detection of cervical neoplasia since the inception of the conventional Pap smear. The 2001 Bethesda Terminology System implemented the criteria for determining the squamous cell cytologic abnormalities as atypical squamous cells (ASC), low-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion (LSIL), high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion (HSIL) and squamo...

Chong et al., Nishio et al., and Suri et al. (Reports, 24 March 2006, pp. 1774, 1775, and 1778) confirmed that treating nonobese diabetic (NOD) mice with an immune adjuvant and semisyngenic spleen cells can reverse the disease but found that spleen cells did not contribute to the observed recovery of pancreatic islets. We show that islet regeneration predominately originates from endogenous cel...

The goal of white-box cryptography is to design implementations of common cryptographic algorithm (e.g. AES) that remain secure against an attacker with full control of the implementation and execution environment. This concept was put forward a decade ago by Chow et al. (SAC 2002) who proposed the first white-box implementation of AES. Since then, several works have been dedicated to the desig...

A new species of softshell turtle (Pelodiscus jiangxiensis sp. nov.) is described based on five specimens from Jiangxi, China. Phylogenetic analysis mitochondrial sequences indicated that the sister lineage to a Pelodiscus clade includes two currently recognized species, namely P. axenaria Hunan and huangshanensis Gong, et al. Anhui. Morphologically, most similar but can be distinguished by its...