~E use ofUW solution l has resulted in improved graft ~ . function after transplantationz.J even with long average preservation times.4 However. although the incidence of primary nonfunction (PNF) has decreased, it remains a significant clinical problem. in part because the demand for livers has caused an increased use of previously discarded organs.' Greig et al6 have reported that prostagland...

A topology optimized lumbar interbody fusion cage was made of Ti-Al6-V4 alloy by the rapid prototyping process of selective laser melting (SLM) to reproduce designed microstructure features. Radiographic characterizations and the mechanical properties were investigated to determine how the structural characteristics of the fabricated cage were reproduced from design characteristics using micro-...

We analyzed linkage and chromosomal positions of genes in A. lyrata ssp. petraea that are located near the centromere (CEN) regions of A. thaliana, using at least two genes from the short and long arms of each chromosome. In our map, genes from all 10 A. thaliana chromosome arms are also tightly linked in A. lyrata. Genes from the regions on the two sides of CEN5 have distant map localizations ...

Assessment of diastolic function has emerged as another important contribution of echocardiography to the clinical care of patients. Diastolic dysfunction as diagnosed by echocardiography carries a negative prognostic value,1–3 and diastolic assessment is now a routine part of any complete echocardiographic report.4 Bhella et al,5 in this issue of Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging, investigat...

Patients with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction account for about half of the 6 million patients with heart failure and the $35 billion spent annually on related medical costs. Over the past 25 years, heart failure management has evolved through randomized trials of specific therapy and the extensive clinical experience accumulated at referral centers, many of which arose initially to...

An. subpictus Grassi is a dominant species in Haryana and Uttaranchal states. Though it is a non-vector species but recently infected specimens with malarial parasite have been reported from India, Indonesia and Java1. This species is distributed throughout India, Afghanistan, Borneo, China, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Java and Indonesia. Morphological variations have been record...

Assessment of diastolic function has emerged as another important contribution of echocardiography to the clinical care of patients. Diastolic dysfunction as diagnosed by echocardiography carries a negative prognostic value,1–3 and diastolic assessment is now a routine part of any complete echocardiographic report.4 Bhella et al,5 in this issue of Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging, investigat...

Our understanding of the development of intrinsic reproductive isolation is still largely based on theoretical models and thorough empirical studies on a small number of species. Theory suggests that reproductive isolation develops through accumulation of epistatic genic incompatibilities, also known as Bateson-Dobzhansky-Muller (BDM) incompatibilities. We can detect these from marker transmiss...

Where do intimal smooth muscle cells (SMCs) come from? For many years, the idea that intimal SMCs originated from the underlying media went unchallenged.1 Then, reports2,3 began to appear that up to half of the SMCs in the intima of atherosclerotic plaques and injured arteries arose from circulating progenitor cells of bone marrow origin. This new view of intimal SMC formation was potentially i...

COMMUNICATIONSTO THE EDITOR 615 misdiagnosed as diffuse alveolar damage or fibrosing alveolitis. Dr. Carrington has re-reviewed the slides and agrees that this is an example of eosinophilic pneumonia with an unusual degree of bronchiolitis obliterans. The patient has also been included in another report4 as an example of acute fibrosing alveolitis. It is recognized that patients with rheumatoid...