This biographical sketch on John Albert Key corresponds to the historic text, The Classic: Sulfonamides in the Treatment of Chronic Osteomyelitis, available at DOI 10.1007/s11999-009-0797-7.

OBJECTIVE To establish whether nimodipine, a calcium channel blocker, accelerates or otherwise improves functional recovery of whisking after facial nerve crush injury in the rat. METHODS Thirty rats underwent exposure of the left main trunk of the facial nerve followed by a standard crush injury and subsequent quantitative facial movement testing. Animals were randomized into an experimental...

I report the discovery of a prominent broad and asymmetrical feature near 6.4 keV in the Seyfert 1 MCG-02-14-009 (z=0.028) with XMM-Newton/EPIC. The present short X-ray observation (PN net exposure time ∼5 ks) is the first one above 2 keV for MCG-02-14-009. The feature can be explained by either a relativistic iron line around either a Schwarzschild (non-rotating) or a Kerr (rotating) black hol...

BACKGROUND 3-hydroxy-3-methyl-glutaryl coenzyme A (HMG-CoA) reductase inhibitors have several pleiotropic effects, including anti-inflammatory properties, and are reported to improve endothelial functions. Pathophysiologically, acute lung injury (ALI) is caused by a severe inflammatory response and endothelial dysfunction. OBJECTIVE To investigate the effects of simvastatin (an HMG-CoA reduct...

This biographical sketch on Henry Chase Marble corresponds to the historic text, The Classic: Application of Curative Therapy in the Ward, available at DOI 10.1007/s11999-009-0790-1 .

This document describes the results of the first tests on the performance of MSC using simulated Cycle 5 spectra of binary stars. CU8 GAIA-C8-TN-MPIA-PAT-009-1

A prospective, open, randomized, comparative treatment trial was conducted to compare the therapeutic efficacy of the conventional four-drug combination (chloramphenicol, trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, and doxycycline) with that of doxycycline alone in oral maintenance treatment of melioidosis. Adult Thai patients with culture-confirmed melioidosis were randomized to receive treatment with eith...

The tree-layout problem is to compute the coordinates of nodes of a tree so that the tree, when drawn on a piece of paper, appeals to human understanding. The tree-layout problem, which seems inherently sequential at the first glance, can be solved by a data-parallel algorithm. It takes O (height * log width ) time on width pro33333333333333333333333333333 This work was supported in part by Nat...

Mesothelin (MSLN) is considered a promising target for cancer therapy. Originally extracted in 1992 after the immunization of mice with a human ovarian cancer (OC) cell line and cloned in 1996, MSLN seems to be involved in cell adhesion and metastasis. MSLN is prevalent in mesothelia tissues but is expressed in several human cancers, such as OC, pancreatic cancer, mesothelioma, and lung cancer....