The present paper considers the problem of dietary conflict detection from dish titles. The proposed method explores the semantics associated with the dish title in order to discover a certain or possible incompatibility of a particular dish with a particular diet. Dish titles are parts of the elusive and metaphoric gastronomy language, their processing can be viewed as a combination of short t...

"What is the O2 concentration in a normoxic cell culture incubator?" This and other frequently asked questions in hypoxia research will be answered in this review. Our intention is to give a simple introduction to the physics of gases that would be helpful for newcomers to the field of hypoxia research. We will provide background knowledge about questions often asked, but without straightforwar...

BACKGROUND The in vivo hematopoietic microenvironment is composed of stromal cells and extracellular matrix in a 3D configuration. We have created a 3D microenvironment in vitro, employing spatial development of stromal cells in a nonwoven fabric porous carrier, Fibra-cel (FC). We compared its performance with that of a 2D microenvironment. METHODS Primary murine BM cells were inoculated on t...

OBJECTIVE Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH) is a skeletal disease characterized by ligamentous ossification of the anterolateral side of the spine. The aim of this study was to characterize risk factors associated with DISH. METHODS Subjects were recruited for participation in a screening survey of vertebral osteoporosis. The cases were 69 men and 62 women with DISH and the cont...

Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH) is characterized by calcifications and ossification of ligaments and tendon insertions. The patients with DISH are susceptible to spinal column injury with trivial trauma due to immobilization of vertebrae and this easily leads to spinal cord injury. However, only few reports on hyperextension injuries of the thoracolumbar spine with DISH exist. H...