HIV testing in TB clinics: a problem in practice?
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D Alder
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Multiple stress fractures of the tibia in a healthy adult.
Multiple stress fractures in the same bone are a rare occurrence. This paper presents an unusual case of a 19-year-old, healthy man who sustained a pathologic fracture of the proximal tibia through a stress-fracture site. The radiographic examination of the tibia also revealed multiple stress fractures inferior to the pathologic fracture. Magnetic resonance imaging can be used to rule out neoplasm and to confirm the stress-fracture diagnosis. Multiple stress fractures in the same bone can be treated with cast immobilization.
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Diet and dental caries among later stone age inhabitants of the Cape Province, South Africa.
Stable carbon isotope measurements and incidences of dental caries are presented for three groups of prehistoric human skeletons from different regions of the Cape Province, South Africa. The isotopic analyses of bone collagen demonstrate the importance of marine foods in the diet and vary through time, across space, and according to sex. The incidence of dental caries ranges from 0% among heavily marine-dependent individuals from the south-western Cape coast, to 17.7% among skeletons from an archaeological site on the south coast. The extremely high incidence of caries in a hunter-gatherer population may be related to lack of fluoride in the water.
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Electrophoretic analysis of liver and testis histones of the frog Rana pipiens.
Histones were extracted from frog livers and testes and analyzed by electrophoresis on long polyacrylamide gels and on sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS)-containing polyacrylamide gels. Frog histones were found to be similar to those of calf thymus except that frog histone fraction F2A2 showed a marked dependence on the temperature at which the long gels were run, and frog histone fraction F3 could be separated from frog F2B on SDS-containing gels. Comparisons between frog liver and frog testis histones indicated that the testis contains as its major F1 component a fast migrating species not found in liver. Testis histones also showed less microheterogeneity of fractions F3 and F2A1 than liver histones. These were the only differences observed between liver and testis histones, even when testis histones were prepared from sperm suspensions that were rich in cells in the late stages of spermiogenesis. Thus it seems that, in Rana, the electrophoretic properties of the basic proteins of sperm differ from those of somatic cells only in the nature of histone F1 and in the degree of microheterogeneity of fractions F2A1 and F3.
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