Coronary artery plaque imaging: Comparison of black-blood MRI and 64-multidetector computed tomography.

Objective: To comparatively evaluate black-blood coronary arterial wall MRI and 64-multidetector computed tomography (64-MDCT) for detection and classification of coronary artery plaques.

Methods: We included 15 patients with confirmed coronary artery plaques in the proximal or middle segments of coronary arteries by 64-MDCT, who underwent black-blood coronary wall MRI at 1.5 T within 10 days.

Plague in China 2014-All sporadic case report of pneumonic plague.

Background: Yersinia pestis is the pathogen of the plague and caused three pandemics worldwide. Pneumonic plague is rarer than bubonic and septicemic plague. We report detailed clinical and pathogenic data for all the three sporadic cases of pneumonic plagues in China in 2014.

[Impact of the hCG on epidermal growth factor in the phallic tissues of hypospadiac mice].

Objective: To investigate the impact of hCG on the epidermal growth factor (EGF) in the phallic tissues of hypospadiac mice.

Methods: The Kunming mouse model of congenital hypospadias was established. As controls, 10 three-week-old normal male mice and 10 3-week-old congenital hypospadiac mice were injected with isometric sodium chloride intraperitoneally.