We describe an unusual case of a 50-year-old female patient developing two primary cancers with neuroendocrine features. Initially the patient underwent surgery for an entero-pancreatic neuroendocrine carcinoma. During the subsequent follow-up she experienced some episodes of vaginal bleeding with negative PET scanning with the tracer fluorine-18 (F-18) fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG). A Papanicolaou ...

Decreased nitric oxide (NO) availability due to obesity and endothelial dysfunction might be causally related to the development of lifestyle-related diseases such as insulin resistance, ischemic heart disease, and hypertension. In such situations, instead of impaired NO synthase (NOS)-dependent NO generation, the entero-salivary nitrate-nitrite-NO pathway might serve as a backup system for NO ...

On the basis of a comparative analysis of published sequences, models for the secondary structure of the 3'-terminal [poly(A)-preceding] untranslated region of the entero- and rhinovirus RNAs were worked out. The models for all these viruses share a common core element, but there are an extra enterovirus-specific element and still an additional element characteristic of a subset of enterovirus ...

CASE REPORT A 75-year-old female patient presented with painless haematuria. IVP was normal and at cystoscopy a globular swelling found at the fundus of the bladder was resected. Histology revealed pan-mural inflammation with abundant submucosal oedema. The urothelium showed no evidence of dysplasia or malignancy. Two months later in the out patient clinic a periumbilical fistulous tract opened...

p. 2, l. 23-25): “Our results suggest that this condition could be the result of a disbiotic process where some of the bacterial species usually present in human milk outgrow (staphylococci) while others disappear (lactobacilli or lactococci)”. Conclusions (p. 12, l. 14-18): “This work confirms that staphylococci are among the main etiological agents of human lactational mastitis. In addition, ...