Biomedical subjects
E Banks
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A malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor in association with a paratesticular ganglioneuroma.
A malignant peripheral nerve sheath (PNS) tumor and a benign ganglioneuroma were present as a composite tumor in the paratesticular area of a 15-year-old boy. The pathologic diagnosis was made by characteristic histologic and ultrastructural features and was supported by the demonstration of neuron-specific enolase (NSE)-positive ganglion cells and S-100-protein-positive spindle cells consistent with schwannian cells. The patient has remained disease-free for 3 years since the orchiectomy and the retroperitoneal lymph node dissection, which was followed by combination chemotherapy.
Temperament and individuality: a study of Malay children.
Malay parents of 40 infants and preschool children were interviewed using translations of temperament questionnaires by Thomas and Chess, and by Carey. Similarities and differences between Malay children and previously studied American children are discussed, and relationships suggested among temperament ratings and Malay child-rearing practices and values.
Clostridium septicum: spontaneous myonecrosis.
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Limitation of joint mobility (cheiroarthropathy) in adult noninsulin-dependent diabetic patients.
Joint mobility was assessed in 80 consecutive adult noninsulin-dependent diabetic (NIDD) patients and 47 nondiabetic controls matched for age and sex. Impairment of mobility was observed in 36 NIDD patients but only 7 controls (p less than 0.01). There was no significant differences between diabetic patients with and without impaired mobility with regards to age, duration of diabetes, mean daily insulin dose, or overall diabetic control as assessed by the measurement of glycosylated haemoglobin (HbA1C). However, NIDD patients with impaired joint mobility had a significantly increased frequency of microvascular disease, as shown by retinopathy and/or nephropathy (42% versus 22%, p less than 0.05), were more often on insulin treatment (86% versus 63%, p less than 0.05) and more frequently had additional rheumatic disorders such as Dupuytren's contracture and osteoarthritis (36% versus 18%, p less than 0.05). In addition tight waxy skin over the phalanges was commonly associated with impaired mobility (58% versus 22%, p less than 0.01). Limitation of joint mobility was most prominent in the hands but caused no functional impairment. This finding may be an additional marker of microvascular disease in the adult diabetic patient.
Attitudes and background factors related to alcohol use among college students.
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Fibrous apatite grown on modified collagen.
Fibrous apatite has been grown by the enzymatic hydrolysis of calcium beta-glycerophosphate on reconstituted calfskin collagen tapes which had been modified by the addition of a phosphoprotein, phosvitin, in the presence of a cross-linking agent, dimethylsuberimidate. The deposits were identified as a carbonate-bearing hydroxyapatite by x-ray diffraction, and scanning electron micrographs confirmed their fibrous character.
A dictionary-based approach for gene annotation.
This paper describes a fast and fully automated dictionary-based approach to gene annotation and exon prediction. Two dictionaries are constructed, one from the nonredundant protein OWL database and the other from the dbEST database. These dictionaries are used to obtain O (1) time lookups of tuples in the dictionaries (4 tuples for the OWL database and 11 tuples for the dbEST database). These tuples can be used to rapidly find the longest matches at every position in an input sequence to the database sequences. Such matches provide very useful information pertaining to locating common segments between exons, alternative splice sites, and frequency data of long tuples for statistical purposes. These dictionaries also provide the basis for both homology determination, and statistical approaches to exon prediction.