Infectious Brachial Plexopathy and Septic Arthritis of the Shoulder due to Lemierre's Syndrome: A Case Report and Literature Review.

Case: We present a 20-year-old female with Lemierre's syndrome and an associated infectious brachial plexopathy and missed septic shoulder arthritis. She subsequently presented with advanced post-infectious glenohumeral joint arthritis. At the final 12-month follow-up, substantial shoulder pain and dysfunction persisted.

Platelet-Rich Plasma in Patients With Partial-Thickness Rotator Cuff Tears or Tendinopathy Leads to Significantly Improved Short-Term Pain Relief and Function Compared With Corticosteroid Injection: A Double-Blind Randomized Controlled Trial.

Purpose: To perform a randomized controlled trial comparing platelet-rich plasma (PRP) with standard corticosteroid (CS) injection in providing pain relief and improved function in patients with rotator cuff tendinopathy and partial-thickness rotator cuff tears (PTRCTs).

Methods: This double-blind randomized controlled trial enrolled patients with ultrasound-proven or magnetic resonance imaging-proven PTRCTs who received either an ultrasound-guided PRP or CS injection. Patients completed patient-reported outcome assessments at baseline and at 6 weeks, 3 months, and 12 months after injection.

Digesting the Contents: an Analysis of Online Colorectal Cancer Education Websites.

Online educational resources have an impact on patient understanding, opinion, and behavior. More colorectal cancer patients are being diagnosed and using the internet to search for information. This study aims to provide the most in-depth and comprehensive examination of online colorectal resources to date.

Measuring microtubule growth and gliding in Caenorhabditis elegans embryos.

Microtubule plus-tip tracking is a powerful method to measure microtubule growth dynamics in vivo. Here we outline an approach that exploits live confocal microscopy of a GFP-tagged EB1-like protein to measure microtubule growth behavior and minus-end-directed microtubule motor activity at the cortex of Caenorhabditis elegans embryos. The EB1 velocity assay (EVA) provides a method to reproducibly monitor motor- and non-motor-assisted microtubule movements.

Visualization of dynein-dependent microtubule gliding at the cell cortex: implications for spindle positioning.

Dynein motors move along the microtubule (MT) lattice in a processive "walking" manner. In the one-cell Caenorhabditis elegans embryo, dynein is required for spindle-pulling forces during mitosis. Posteriorly directed spindle-pulling forces are higher than anteriorly directed forces, and this imbalance results in posterior spindle displacement during anaphase and an asymmetric division.