A growing era of alternative medicine is upon us. All who practice medicine have a small population of patients who eschew Western medicine and prefer alternative approaches, including botanical remedies, to treat their medical problems. Many alternative practitioners advertise and sell products on the Internet. Indeed, this trend now includes a growing number of topical treatments for skin can...

For the first time, hen egg white coagulum was utilized as a surface modification agent for biomimetic multilevel structured nanomaterials (BMSN). By using a straightforward thermal control process, hen egg white can be coagulated in a precisely tailored manner, which is specifically adapted to the morphology of BMSN. Consequently, the structural stability, hydrophobicity and biocompatibility o...

A method for the quantitative separation of serum urate from the proteins present, that does not employ chemical precipitation, is presented. The separation is accomplished by heat coagulation of serum and the subsequent aqueous extraction of the purine from the intact coagulum. Serum is placed at the bottom of a container of sufficient size to permit the formation of a thin layer and then coag...

THIS panel was developed to quantify natural killer (NK) cell subsets in Rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) during SIVmac239 infection induced pathogenesis. It includes markers to monitor changes in the activation/proliferation phenotype of up to 12 NK cell populations. The performance of the staining was tested on cryopreserved lymph node samples, and on fresh and cryopreserved peripheral blood ...

A 52-yr-old man presented with hematuria and clot retention. He had undergone simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation with exocrine pancreas bladder drainage 16 yr ago. The patient suffered from progressive transplant kidney failure with gradually decreasing urine output and needed hemodialysis every other day. Gross hematuria persisted after removal of all blood clots. Cystoscopy showed m...