advisable to devote a special article to this subject. This will prove a great boon to, seekers after truth. The surgical summaries include one on the use of refrigerated blood for blood transfusions; one on intractable sciatica due to retropulsed nucleus pulposus; one on sympathectomy and its uses; and many others of general surgical interest. Two sections are of interest to everyone. One on t...

1Synaptic Physiology Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA 2Laboratory of Immunology, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA 3Institutes of Brain Science, State Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology, Collaborative Innovation Center for Brain Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China ...

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of short non-coding RNA molecules that have attracted tremendous attention from the biological and biomedical research communities over the past decade. With over 1900 miRNAs discovered in humans to date, many of them have already been implicated in common human disorders. Facilitated by high-throughput genomics and bioinformatics in conjunction with traditional m...

Synonyms.?Bengal (Hong Kong, Singapore, etc.) rot, mango-toe, athlete's foot and foot tethers are synonyms for ringworm of the foot. The disease is caused by a fungus, chiefly the Epidermophyton fioccosum, and the nidus of infection is usually the feet, between the toes, especially the fourth and fifth toe, and the groin area. From the toes the infection spreads to the other parts of the foot a...