BACKGROUND Transcranial sonography (TCS) in the B-mode has the ability to image, infratentorial and supratentorial brain structures. For this reason, it has potential use in the diagnosis and differential diagnosis of various intracranial pathologies. METHODS AND RESULTS The authors reviewed the contribution of TCS to the differentiation of a number of neurodegenerative diseases: in parkinson...

The human neocortex is increased in size and complexity as compared with most other species. Neocortical expansion has recently been attributed to protracted neurogenesis by outer radial glial cells in the outer subventricular zone, a region present in humans but not in rodents. The mechanisms of human outer radial glial cell generation are unknown, but are proposed to involve division of ventr...

Experiments have shown that the depletion of polymer in the region between two apposed (contacting or nearly contacting) bilayer membranes leads to fusion. In this paper we show theoretically that the addition of nonadsorbing polymer in solution can promote lateral contraction and phase separation of the lipids in the outer monolayers of the membranes exposed to the polymer solution, i.e., outs...

The microstructure of the outer taenite rim and cloudy zone of meteoritic metal was investigated using high resolution scanning electron microscopy and analytical electron microscopy. The microstructure is formed by a series of complex phase transformations at ~400°C. These transformations are interpreted using the Fe-Ni phase diagram. The outermost subzone (zone 1) of the outer taenite rim is ...

The distribution of Herbst corpuscles in the oropharynx of the ostrich and emu has recently been documented. However, although the morphology of these mechanoreceptors is well known in neognathous birds, little structural information is available on the Herbst corpuscles of ratites. Tissue sections from those regions of the oropharynx known to possess a high concentration of Herbst corpuscles w...

BACKGROUND The Prevalence of liver disease among diabetics has been estimated to be between 17% and 100%. Most of these data were obtained from adult studies. The aim of our study was to screen for liver disease among type 1 diabetic children. METHODS Children with type 1 diabetes following in clinic have been examined for existence of liver disease, from November 2008 to November 2009. All w...

A theory of fractional kinetics of glial cancer cells is presented. A role of the migration-proliferation dichotomy in the fractional cancer cell dynamics in the outer-invasive zone is discussed an explained in the framework of a continuous time random walk. The main suggested model is based on a construction of a 3D comb model, where the migrationproliferation dichotomy becomes naturally appar...