Following EA treatment a significant increase occurred in the L-6 DRG at 14 days post-operation (dpo)

as well as the L-6 cord segment at 7 and 14 dpo. These findings pointed to a possible association between NT-4 expression and EA promoted spinal cord plasticity in adult cats subjected to partial ganglionectomy. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.”
“A 43-year-old woman with a type B aortic dissection underwent insertion of a Zenith stent graft (Cook Inc, Bloomington, Ind). Chest pain developed 36 hours after the procedure. A computed tomography scan showed reopening of the false proximal lumen and almost complete device collapse. Because of hemodynamic stability and absence of signs of malperfusion, the patient was treated conservatively. A control computed tomography scan 7 days later showed full re-expansion of the endoprosthesis. This case illustrates that in extremely rare cases, spontaneous reexpansion of a collapsed selleckchem thoracic endoprosthesis can occur after conservative management. (J Vasc Surg 2008;48:1585-8.)”
“Translocated in liposarcoma (TLS or FUS) is a multifunctional protein www.selleckchem.com/products/tpca-1.html component of the heterogenous ribonuclear complex involved in the splicing of pre-mRNA and the export of fully processed mRNA from the nucleus to the cytoplasm. As we determined that TLS was substantially expressed in the adult retina, we investigated the functions of

TLS in a rat retinal ganglion cell (RGC) line RGC-5. TLS was found to be associated

with N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor 1 (NR1) and myosinVa (MyoVa) in a calcium-dependent manner. We demonstrated that TLS-associated NR1 could be one of the NR1 alternative splice variants, NR1-4, which was predominantly expressed in RGC-5. The degree of colocalization between TLS and NR1 was significantly decreased by depolarization of RGC-5 cells, indicating that the depolarization-induced Ca(2+)-influx triggered a redistribution of NR1 from the TLS-protein complex. These results suggested that TLS might be involved in a calcium-dependent trafficking of specific NR1 splice variants AZD1080 order in RGCs. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.”
“Fibromuscular dysplasia represents one of the more common types of arterial fibrodysplasia, a heterogeneous group of nonatherosclerotic vascular occlusive and aneurysmal diseases. This disorder mainly affects renal and cerebral arteries, and less frequently, arm, leg, and visceral arteries. Exceptionally, it has been described in the abdominal aorta. Aortic hypoplasia is a tubular narrowing of a long segment of the aorta and is a rare congenital defect, different from coarctation, which is a focal stricture. We present the first case, to our knowledge, of an elderly man with infrarenal aortic fibromuscular dysplasia associated with aortic hypoplasia, without involvement of renal arteries, and contiguous aortoiliac aneurysm. (J Vasc Surg 2008;48:1589-92.