Introduction: Active inflammation in acute colitis may resolve with medical therapy, whilst failure to respond often necessitates surgery with removal of the large bowel. Currently, assessment of response to drug treatment is based on a combination of clinical (e.g. stool frequency, temperature) and biochemical markers (C-reactive protein [CRP]) of inflammation, imaging (abdominal radiograph, c...

Pericytes, the mural cells of blood microvessels, regulate microvascular development and function and have been implicated in many brain diseases. However, due to a paucity of defining markers, pericyte identification and functional characterization remain ambiguous and data interpretation problematic. In mice carrying two transgenic reporters, Pdgfrb-eGFP and NG2-DsRed, we found that double-po...

OBJECTIVE We wanted to evaluate the mural changes by CT on the follow-up examination of patients with active Takayasu arteritis. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study included 18 patients, (4 males and 14 females), with active Takayasu arteritis. A total of 44 CT examinations were done during the follow-up period (mean: 55.6 months). At the time of the last follow-up CT, the disease, on the basis o...

Increase in cell number has been compared with mitotic activity in the polar and mural trophectoderm and in the inner cell mass (ICM) of mouse blastocysts. The results indicate that whereas ICM cells divide at a rate which is compatible with the rate of increase of ICM cell number, polar trophectoderm cells divide faster and mural trophectoderm cells slower than can account for their own rates ...

Peng Xi county, Sichuan province, the Bao Fan temple mural digitization survey mapping project: we use three-dimensional laserscanning, multi-baseline definition digital photography, multi-spectral digital image acquisition and other technologies for digital survey mapping. The purpose of this project is to use modern mathematical reconnaissance mapping means to obtain accurate mural shape, col...

The two principal functions of ovarian follicles are developmental and endocrine. The cumulus cells surrounding the oocyte are specialized to serve the development of the oocyte and steroidogenesis is a principal role of mural granulosa cells that line the follicle wall. The findings in this report demonstrate that oocytectomy or treatment with an inhibitor of SMAD2/3 activation results in decr...

existed with the pulmonary venous anomaly was considered. Resection of the left lower lobe was contemplated. Based upon careful palpation of the entire lung and presumptive evidence that the preoperative roentgenogram and the operative findings coincided, the decision not to resect was made. Delayed postoperative pulmonary angiography (Fig 2) confirmed the validity of this decision. Anomalies o...

Qiuci was one of the great western states China in ancient times, centered present-day Kucha, and at its height had a vast territory, developed economy, continuous flow culture art. The Kizil Grottoes are located territory qiuci Kingdom, an important area along northern route Taklamakan Desert Xinjiang section Silk Road, from which religious art first entered China, unique geographical location...