Neoplastic and Non-neoplastic Bone Lesions of the Knee.

Numerous anatomical variants are described around the knee, many of which look like bony lesions, so it is important to know them to avoid unnecessary complementary tests and inadequate management. Likewise, several alterations in relation to normal development can also simulate bone lesions.However, numerous pathologic processes frequently affect the knee, including traumatic, inflammatory, infectious, and tumor pathology.

Bio-guided isolation of aromatic abietane diterpenoids from Salvia canariensis as biopesticides in the control of phytopathogenic fungi.

Background: Biofungicides arise as a promising alternative to the indiscriminate use of harmful synthetic fungicides in crop management.

Results: The present study reports the bio-guided fractionation of an endemic plant from the Canary Islands, Salvia canariensis against the phytopathogens, Alternaria alternata, Botrytis cinerea, and Fusarium oxysporum. This procedure allowed identifying a series of diterpenoids with an abietane skeleton (1-5), which exhibited remarkable activity against the phytopathogenic fungi assayed.

Tools for Nutrition Assessment of Adults with Cerebral Palsy: Development of a Gold Standard.

Purpose Of Review: Cerebral palsy (CP) is a group of disorders caused by non-stabilized cerebral lesions. Individuals with this disorder are at a higher risk of suffering from malnutrition and other related detrimental effects to their quality of life. For this reason, accurate methods of nutritional assessment are vital for people suffering from this condition.

Polarimetric calibration of a spectropolarimeter instrument with high precision: Sunrise chromospheric infrared spectropolarimeter (SCIP) for the sunrise iii balloon telescope.

The Sunrise chromospheric infrared spectropolarimeter (SCIP) installed in the international balloon experiment sunrise iii will perform spectropolarimetric observations in the near-infrared band to measure solar photospheric and chromospheric magnetic fields simultaneously. The main components of SCIP for polarization measurements are a rotating wave plate, polarization beam splitters, and CMOS imaging sensors. In each of the sensors, SCIP records the orthogonal linearly polarized components of light.

MGDB: crossing the marker genes of a user microarray with a database of public-microarrays marker genes.

Summary: The microarrays performed by scientific teams grow exponentially. These microarray data could be useful for researchers around the world, but unfortunately they are underused. To fully exploit these data, it is necessary (i) to extract these data from a repository of the high-throughput gene expression data like Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) and (ii) to make the data from different microarrays comparable with tools easy to use for scientists.