Introduction: Case reports of parasitic teratomas exist; however, most viable ovarian dermoids reimplant into the omentum. It is rare to report a viable ovary containing a dermoid that has undergone autoamputation and reimplantation in the posterior cul-de-sac. Case Description: We report the case of a 48-year-old woman with a history of lower abdominal pain that was relieved with pain control ...

The field of heteropolymetallic complexes is of current interest in connection with the structures and roles of polymetallic active sites in biological systems [1], and the design of new molecular materials with magnetic, optical and electrical properties [2,3]. Among various relevant systems, oxamido-bridged polynuclear complexes [2,4] and phenolato-oxygen-bridged macrocyclic complexes [5,6] r...

Four heteronuclear complexes Mn(CuL)2(SCN)2 (1), {[Mn(CuL)2(mu-dca)2].2H2O}n (2), Zn(CuL)2(SCN)2 (3), and [Fe(CuL)(N3)2]2 (4) incorporating macrocyclic oxamide ligands have been synthesized and structurally characterized. L is the dianion of diethyl 5,6,7,8,15,16-hexahydro-6,7-dioxodibenzo[1,4,8,11]-tetraazacyclotetradecine-13,18-dicarboxylate, and dca is the dicyanamide. The structure of 1 or ...

Mast cell populations in the vaginal cul-de-sac of female brushtail possums do not appear to be related to microbial invasion but changes in their density occur at oestrus, indicating a hormonal influence. The present study examined the effect of treatment with oestradiol on microflora and on mast cell numbers and their spatial location in cul-de-sac tissue of seasonally anoestrous brushtail po...

Five new 2D coordination polymers, [Co(nip)(CuL)(H(2)O)]·CH(3)OH (1), [Mn(ip)(NiL)]·0.63H(2)O (2), [Cu(ip)(CuL)] (3), [Mn(6)(CuL)(6)(btc)(4)(H(2)O)(4)]·7H(2)O (4), and [Cu(CuL)(Hbtc)(H(2)O)] (5)(ML, H(2)L = 2,3-dioxo-5,6,14,15-dibenzo-1,4,8,12-tetraazacyclo-pentadeca-7,13-diene; H(2)nip = 5-nitroisophthalic acid; H(2)ip = m-isophthalic acid; H(3)btc = 1,3,5-benzenetricarboxylic acid) have been ...

remains unknown, however, whether the original cells in cul ture synthesized immunoglobulins or whether this capacity de veloped in the culture environment. The successful establish rnent of continuous white cell cultures from two patients who are still alive has given us an opportunity to investigate this question. Morphologic, immunochemical, ixnmunofluorescent, and bio synthetic methods were...

A new 2D highly flexible and breathing porous framework [CuL(Me2NH)]·DMF·H2O () (H3L = 5-(4'-carboxylphenoxy)nicotinic acid) has been synthesized using a tritopic linker with a flexible joint. The desolvated framework, [CuL(Me2NH)] (), undergoes structural contraction, and exhibits selective and double-step hysteretic adsorption for CO2. Furthermore, on exposure to CH2Cl2 at room temperature, a...

The increasingly used real time quantitative reverse transcription-PCR (qRT-PCR) method for gene expression analysis requires one or several reference gene(s) acting as normalization factor(s). In order to facilitate gene expression studies in sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum), a non-model plant with limited genome information, the stability of 13 candidate reference genes was evaluated. The ge...

The ubiquitin-proteolytic system controls the stability of proteins in space and time. In this study, using a temperature-sensitive mutant allele of the cul-2 gene, we show that CRL2(LRR-1) (CUL-2 RING E3 ubiquitin-ligase and the Leucine Rich Repeat 1 substrate recognition subunit) acts at multiple levels to control germline development. CRL2(LRR-1) promotes germ cell proliferation by counterac...

The reactions of four-coordinated transition metal macrocyclic complexes [ML](ClO(4))(2) (L = 5,5,7,12,12,14-hexamethyl-1,4,8,11-tetraazacyclotetradecane, M = Ni, Cu) with NH4VO3 under different conditions gave four coordination polymers of {[(CuL)(0.5)(H2L)(1.5)][H2V10O2)] x 6H(2)O}(n) (1x6H(2)O), {[NiL](3)[V16O38(H2O)] x 6H(2)O}(n) (2 x 6H(2)O), {[NiL][VO(3)](2) x 0.33H2O}(n) (3.0.33H(2)O), a...