Ischemia is implicated in periventricular white matter injury (PWMI), a lesion associated with
cerebral palsy. PWMI features selective damage to early cells of the oligodendrocyte lineage…

Intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) remains a major cause of white matter injury in preterm
infants with no viable therapeutic strategy to restore myelination. Maturation of …

We previously reported that mast cells (MCs) serve as a source of basic fibroblast growth
factor (bFGF), a potent angiogenic and mitogenic polypeptide, suggesting that bFGF may …

Gene expression profiling is a widely used technique with data from the majority of
published microarray studies being publicly available. These data are being used for meta-analyses …

Intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) results in neural cell death and white matter injury in
premature infants. No therapeutic strategy is currently available against this disorder. Bone …

The effect of age on the number and morphology of optic nerve axons in adult Brown Norway
rats (5–31 months old) (n=29) was examined using transmission electron microscopy (TEM…

Several widely used aromatic hydrocarbon solvents reportedly induce blue-green discoloration
of tissues and urine in animals and humans. The chomophore has been proposed to …

Konzo is a self-limiting central motor-system disease associated with food dependency on
cassava and low dietary intake of sulfur amino acids (SAA). Under conditions of SAA-…

Five new species of Monogenoidea (Dactylogyridae: Ancyrocephalinae) are described from
the gills of freshwater fishes of South America: Jainus amazonensis sp. n., Tereancistrum …

The chromogenic and neurotoxic γ-diketone 1,2–diacetylbenzene (1,2-DAB), but not its
isomer 1,3-DAB, induces blue discoloration of tissues and urine, clustering of axonal …