Content of presentation 200 patients referred for UDS of lower limb arteries at two Medical Physics departments in the UK underwent an automated ABI and PVR measurement using a device utilising volume plethysmography followed by a UD Scan. PAD was recorded for automated ABI if <0.9 (and noted if >1.30), PVR’s if graded mild/moderate/severe and with a haemodynamically significant stenosis or occ...

Umbral dots (UDs) were observed in a stable sunspot in NOAA 10944 by the Hinode Solar Optical Telescope on 2007 March 1. The observation program consisted of blue continuum images and spectropolarimetric profiles of Fe I 630 nm line. An automatic detection algorithm for UDs was applied to the 2-hour continuous blue continuum images, and using the obtained data, the lifetime, size, and proper mo...

The amount of unscheduled DNA synthesis (UDS) produced in the cells adjacent to excimer laser ablations in the cornea was compared for 193-nm and 248-nm laser wavelengths. UDS is interpreted to indicate the process of excision repair of pyrimidine dimers formed in DNA. 193-nm laser ablation did not produce a statistically significant difference in the amount of UDS as compared to a negative con...

Unscheduled DNA synthesis (UDS) induced by melphalan, nitrogen mustard and ultra-violet irradiation was studied in bone marrow cells from myeloma patients. In a previous study, normal bone marrow cells in various stages of maturation were found to display a gradual decrease in UDS parallel with the process of maturation. Myeloma cells showed a similar pattern. Poorly differentiated myeloma cell...

UMR_S949, INSERM, Université de Strasbourg (UdS), Etablissement Français du SangAlsace, Strasbourg; UMR_S1109, INSERM, UdS, Strasbourg; UMR_7104, CNRS, UMR_S964, INSERM, UdS & Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire (IGBMC), Illkirch-Graffenstaden, France; Rudolf Virchow Center, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany; UMR_S770, INSERM, Université Paris-Sud, Le Kremlin-...

Wolfram syndrome (WS) is an autosomal recessive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by DIDMOAD (diabetes insipidus, diabetes mellitus, optic atrophy, and deafness). Genetic analysis has demonstrated mutations of the WOLFRAMIN gene (WFS1) in patients with this syndrome (1), which may be complicated by other conditions, among them urological disorders (UDs). According to one study, UDs were ...

provided the original work is properly cited. CC In this issue, we bring attention to two specific articles. Each exhibit strong rhetoric, which is rare in the world of scientific journals, in which storytelling is generally considered to be trivial. In the first article, Park et al. [1] stated that some previously reported confidence intervals for 95% thresholds estimated with the up-and-down ...

Protracted, low-daily-dose gamma-ray exposure (3.8-7.5 cGy/day) segregates canines into separate survival- and pathology-based subgroups by the early elicitation of distinct, repair-mediated hemopathological response pathways. In this study, we verified the blood and marrow responses of two major subgroups prone to either aplastic anemia or myeloproliferative disease, along with two variants, a...

This work aims to constrain the physical nature of umbral dots (UDs) using high-resolution spectropolarimetry. Full Stokes spectra recorded by the spectropolarimeter on Hinode of 51 UDs in a sunspot close to the disk center are analyzed. The height dependence of the temperature, magnetic field vector, and line-of-sight velocity across each UD is obtained from an inversion of the Stokes vectors ...

High resolution and seeing-free spectroscopic observation of a decaying sunspot was done with the Solar Optical Telescope aboard Hinode satellite. The target was NOAA 10944 located in the west side of the solar surface from March 2 to March 4, 2007. The umbra included many umbral dots (UDs) with size of ∼300 km in continuum light. We report the magnetic structures and Doppler velocity fields ar...