The use of diffusion tensor imaging in spinal pathology: a comprehensive literature review.

Study Design: We reviewed the available literature systematically without meta-analysis following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines.

Objective: To evaluate contemporary literature on use of spinal diffusion tensor imaging(sDTI) in spinal pathology.

Background: sDTI reveals the location and functional state of critical long tracts and is a potentially useful adjunct in disease management.

Neurosurgery and spinal adaptations in spaceflight: A literature review.

Background: Spaceflight places astronauts in multiple environments capable of inducing pathological changes. Alterations in the spine have a significant impact on astronauts' health during and after spaceflight. Low back pain is an established and common intra-flight complaint.

Characterization of 475 Novel, Putative Small RNAs (sRNAs) in Carbon-Starved Serovar Typhimurium.

An increasingly apparent role of noncoding RNA (ncRNAs) is to coordinate gene expression during environmental stress. A mounting body of evidence implicates small RNAs (sRNAs) as key drivers of stress survival. Generally thought to be 50-500 nucleotides in length and to occur in intergenic regions, sRNAs typically regulate protein expression through base pairing with mRNA targets.