OBJECTIVE This prospective randomized controlled pilot study aimed to find whether gelatin-thrombin matrix used as a tissue sealant (FloSeal) can prevent the occurrence of pelvic lymphocele in patients with gynecologic cancer who has undergone pelvic lymphadenectomy. METHODS Each patient, who undergo a laparotomic pelvic lymph node dissection on both sides, was randomly assigned for FloSeal a...

A two-center three-electron 2c–3e bond (hemi-bond) is a non-classical chemical bond, and its existence has been supposed in radical cation clusters with lone pairs. Though the nature of the hemi-bond and its role in the reactivity of radical cations have attracted great interest, spectroscopic observations of hemibonded structures have been very scarce. In the present study, the presence of a s...

Intrastriatal injection of botulinum neurotoxin A (BoNT-A) results in improved motor behavior of hemiparkinsonian (hemi-PD) rats, an animal model for Parkinson's disease. The caudate-putamen (CPu), as the main input nucleus of the basal ganglia loop, is fundamentally involved in motor function and directly interacts with the dopaminergic system. To determine receptor-mediated explanations for t...

The hemi-inattention syndrome was studied in 15 right-handed adults, 12 men and 3 women. One patient had a pontic-mesencephalic lesion, 3 had right hemisphere damage, 7 had left-hemisphere lesion and 4 had bilateral lesions. All lesions were confirmed by CT-scan. Different criteria of hemi-inattention were used. All patients presented extinction, inattention and in 13 visuomotor akinesia; 5 of ...

Recent high-throughput techniques have generated a flood of biological data in all aspects. The transformation and visualization of multi-dimensional and numerical gene or protein expression data in a single heatmap can provide a concise but comprehensive presentation of molecular dynamics under different conditions. In this work, we developed an easy-to-use tool named HemI (Heat map Illustrato...