Publications by authors named "E Blair"
Objective: To describe the prevalence, clinical findings, lesions, and risk factors associated with chlamydial infections in free-ranging raptors presented to a university veterinary medical teaching hospital.
Methods: Medical records retrospectively searched for raptors admitted from January 1993 through April 2022 were tested for Chlamydia spp infections using quantitative PCR (qPCR), immunohistochemistry, culture, and sequencing. Findings were collected and analyzed.
RICTOR is a key component of the mTORC2 signaling complex which is involved in the regulation of cell growth, proliferation and survival. RICTOR is highly expressed in neurons and is necessary for brain development. Here, we report eight unrelated patients presenting with intellectual disability and/or development delay and carrying variants in the RICTOR gene.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMacroglossia can be seen in multiple conditions, but its evaluation becomes more challenging when approached as an isolated presenting symptom. This is a case of a 65-year-old patient with isolated progressive tongue hypertrophy of unclear etiology for 5 years. We navigate the causes of macroglossia and discuss the clinical and diagnostic procedures that helped us narrow the differential diagnoses for our patient.
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- * These sites reveal some of the earliest year-round Native American villages in the Eastern Woodlands of North America, containing artifacts like pottery and faunal remains along with the shells.
- * Research shows that these communities thrived for over 1000 years, adapting to changing sea levels that influenced their fishing practices, particularly targeting oyster reefs.
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- Adenoid cystic carcinoma is a rare type of cancer that can happen in the outer ear canal.
- Sometimes, it can look like another type of skin cancer called sebaceous carcinoma, which makes it even rarer.
- In this case, doctors used images and tests to confirm the diagnosis, showing it had special features that were unusual for this kind of cancer.